The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 9, 1920, Page 4

| i BISMARCK DAILY TRIBUNE THE BISMARCK..RIBUNE Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D. i Class Matter. GEORGE D. MANN as Second Editor | tween 20,000 and 25,000 votes. An analysis of vote in the state something. in thg neighborhood of 90,000 votes. # he i The normal Democratic vote is somewhere be- all these figures then shows conclusively that i Foreign Representatives Townley holds the balance of power between reg- G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY CHICAGO DETROIE ular Republicans and Democrats by means of a Marquette BIg ONE, BURNS AND gure Bldg.| solid block of 10,000 or 12,000 socialist votes. NEW YORK : : - - "Fifth Ave. Bldg.! Langer’s vote will run about 54,000. Just what ‘The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use| O’Connor will do is not known, but it is believed lication of all news credited to it or not otherwise published publication of special, dispatches herein are for credited in this paper and also the local news herein. All rights of also reserved, “MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Daily by carrier, pe} year... Daily, by mail, ear (in Bismarck) he will receive in the neighborhood of only 10,000 votes at primary. How then does it look to you; 54,000 regular Republicans and 10,000 or 15,000 regular Demo- crats? 5 Do you.want 10,000 or 12,000 socialist votes to Daily by mail, bs year (in state outside Bismarck) 5.00] dominate the state government? Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota..........+. 6.00 THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) ee LANGER AND THE SOCIALIST VOTE Hats off to “Bill” Langer. Unless some common ground of action is found, the minority socialist vote will dictate the poli- cies of the state and there is no escaping the rule of the soviet. It will avail little to abuse Townleyism and its evils. The weapon is within our grasp. We will have Townleyism as long as a division among the He made the good fight and lost—but he is} 4nti-Townleyites makes it possible for a socialist not defeated. North Dakota owes much to his courage and]tion in Republican primaries. minority to rule the state by immoral participa- They would as indefatigable energy in fighting the forces of so-] readily enter the Democratic primaries if success cialism in North Dakota. led by that route. Lynn J. Frazier is not the choice of the Repub- \ } | licans of North Dakota, but) William Langer is. That fact is driven home conclusively by the elec- Arthur C. Townley legally, not}in the nomination of Governor Cox of Ohio. tion returns. WILSON DYNASTY FALLS Both Bryan and Wilson have been eliminated morally, has captured the Republican primaries} Cox’s attitude upon the liquor issue alienated and nominated for the most important places sev-} Bryan and Wilson preferred McAdoo, Palmer or eral men through the support of avowed so-| Davis. McAdoo was regarded as the crown cialists, who, under our easy come and easy g0] prince of the Wilson dynasty, and Tammany com- election laws; were able to invade the Republican} bined with the Champ Clark machine to elimi- party. L nate the crowd that controlled the Baltimore and The Socialist party is a lost party. But its}St. Louis conventions. members, masquerading as’ Republicans, are able to dictate the nominations. The Democrats showed considerable political shrewdness in refusing to bow to the administra- Conservatively estimated’ there are 10,000 to} tion. Political expediency dictated the nomina- 12,000 Socialist votes' in the state. These went! tion of Cox. Ohio is going to be the battle. ground almost to a man for Governor Frazier and E. F.Jof the next presidential contest and whatever Ladd. happens the Buckeye state can chalk down one A majority of the Republican voters supported | more president among her illustrious sons, even . —- Langer and the other members on the Minot anti-| before the votes are cast. - Townley ballot. Efiminate the socialist vote from the Republican primaries and Mr. Townley’s can-| silent upon the liquor issue. Cox, however, is an didates would have been defeated by a greater} avowed “wet’) while Harding is not aligned with margin than they defeated the regular Republi-|that element. The nomination of the Ohio gov- ‘ can aspirants.’ 4, ernor doubtless is a sop to the “wet” element of The ‘socialist vote in North Dakota put on aj the east most vociferously represented at San Republican ‘mask. in 1916 when Lynn J. Frazier| Francisco by Tammany leaders. This action with| first ran for governor, In that election Oscar A.|the, women voting in: November may prove a Johnson, socialist candidate for governor, secured handicap. It can hardly help Cox in the West only 2,615 votes and°377 of them came from Wil-| or Middle West where the issue is a dead letter, liams county, which Frazier carried by 500 votes| most states having gohe dry before the federal at the recent’ primaries. ° In:the November election, 1916, ‘when the s0-! solid south, enactment. Neither can it help him with the| ganbotham, driver of the first stage because that.vote goes Democratic cialigts were quietly ‘sliding into the Republican| anyway and needed no special inducement to sup- party, Frazier secured “87,665 votes to 20,351 for) port the party of its faith. . j D. H. McArthur, Democrat. Mr. McArthur is}. . Cox has'made a good, official of Ohio, but na- now serving in Washington as John Baer’s secre-| tionally he is not as well known as. Harding. tary. The alliance with McArthur was formed by | Eastern papers, especially the New York Times, Baer when he was a Democrat in good standing. | classed Harding as a second rate politician devoid In the primary ‘election’ of ‘June 26, 1918, the|of any outstanding ability as a statesman. Ap- socialists only polled 77 votes for governor. Wil-| plying their own yardstick to Cox, he cannot liams county did not poll a single socialist vote at) measure up as well-as Senator Harding. If po- : the primary; they all went to Frazier. litical expediency dictated Harding’s nomination, The congressional contests were even more)the same factor was more potent in the selection significant. In the first district there.were only.| of Cox. | 13 socialist votes cast; in the second, 19 and in the third, 21. As between the two candidates, the Tribune be- lieves that Harding will make the greater appeal “No socialists were yoted for at the general|to the partisans as well as the politically inde- election in 1918. Townley had corraled the re-| pendent voters of the nation. maining corporal’s guard and they all voted the Republican ticket. . east Majorities: Wa Socialis? Frazier’s Perhaps it is the high price of print paper that For purposes of comparison, it is interesting to} keeps the profiteers from turning over a new leaf. note that at the genera] election in 1914 J. A. \ Williams, the socialist candidate for governor, polled 6,019 votes. It'is interesting to note just|but it requires no post-mostem examinations. what the socialist vote was at. this time in the counties which Mr. Frazier carried by such large Our system of choosing officials isn’t perfect, Perhaps a ouija board could bring sugar back from that higher land. fs aaa ; Vote Majority| Progress is the law/of life, man is not Man as = : 1914 1920 | yet.—Browning. = Mountrail .... Py shie'gc20B 714 : Williams ..... 496* zee mes 423 EDITORIAL. REVIEW = McKenzie 522 = MeLean ...... 328 |] not egiee ie ebntget the Rebun YS Be = Morton ......... 228 the prose of the days wT Se Mein Glnsussed 1 Rollette ............ ; 278 . ; _» SUBSTITUTE FOR CO’ N FOUND 2,169 2,989 From Japan comes news of the discovery of a *Incomplete. ate There are other. counties where as startling comparisons can be made. The socialist vote in}in great abundance around the Japanese coasts remarkable substitute for cotton, in the shape of a sea grass known as sugamo, which flourishes 1 , 1914 was hardly typical, for during that year H.|It is perhaps doubtful how profitable it will be socialist votes. WR $8 visite = W. and socialist votes out of Ward county. H. Aaker, running independent, captured 4,263|to attempt to substitute it entirely for cotton, votes for governor and among them were many | but it has been'fully demonstrated that for econ- omizing and‘strengthening cotton it is apparently It is reasonable to believe that four years of|invaluable. This sea grass, which can be had in the Townley regime have attracted many new/any quantities required for the simple gathering socialists to the state. This is especially truc in| of it, when properly treated and mixéd with raw Bottineau, Divide, McHenry, Renville and Oliver|cotton makes a thread strong and useful counties. In Ward county! the socialist vote is|chéapening the material which is so high in price, not as evident since Minot lost its Dewey Dorman] says K. Hashino, in the Japan magazine. It was and Art Leseuer faction. It is believed that the|first tried in making material for rough horse ruction there several years ago drove many I, W.|blankets, and was found so practicable that it for _| promises to come into very general use. Cotton _ It is necessary to go back to the primary elec- mixed with this fiber is far stronger than thread = tion contest of June 24, 1914, to get a line on the} made from raw cotton alone.~ Fishing nets made , number of simon pure Republican votes. At that|from material mixed with this fiber have been in primary the total Republican vote cast was 61,-| the sea water, for three months or more without 201. In 1920 primary it is believed that the| showing any sign of being affected by the water, vote cast for governor will reach 113,000. De-| which is more than pure cotton twine can stand. duct from this total the socialist, vote and allow-| It seems reasonable to suppose, too, that sugamo » ing for increase of population during the six year | might be utilized inthe’ making of certain grades * period and you will.get as thenormal:Republican| of :paper.—-Quebec Telegraph. Both Republican and Democratic platforms are| He knows storm clouds when he sees them. ONCE NOTED PONY EXPRESS RIDER Charlie Higganbotham, Pal of Buffalo Bill, Guardian as Mil- lions as Wells—Fargo Driver, and. Pioneer Miner, ' Cele- brates Eightieth Birthday Anniversary. / ; \ Butte, Mont., July :9.—Charlie. Hig+ ed States mail to Butte, prospectot ‘ho panned dirt where the business blocks of the city now stand; star stage coach driver at the Chicago expositi¢n; faro dealer-in | Mexico City, and pal of Buffalo Bill, | is celebrating his efghtieth’ birthday here. | Despite: his}wild\:career of more than five decades in the Montana mining districts, Higganbotham en- Joys good health. “I figure on work: ing ten or fifteen years more; then I’m going to quit and enjoy myself,” he explained. Higganbotham was born in Peoria, Il, October 24, 1840. ‘His parents lived on a farm.* The quiet country- side did not inspire him. As soon as he was able to get a job he prepared to strike out for the gold fields. Hig- ganbotham was a boy when he final-! ly got as far as Omaha, . Was Pony Express Rider. * His first employment was that of a pony express rider from Independ- ence Springs to ‘Pacific Springs, 114 miles through country infested with hostile Indians. Then he drove a four-horse stage jfrom Bennett's; Ferry, on the North Platte river, to Fort Hallock, at the foot of Elk Mountain, on the Salt Lake road. “I overestimated my capatity for hooch,” explained Higganbotham, } after stating that ‘he was replaced by another driver. “Charlie Slade then gave me a job on the Omaha-Denver route,” said Higganbotham. cloge to the Nebraska-Colorado line. Slade was a bad man when aroused. He caught a Frenchman named Jules rustling his horses. Promptly lasso- ing the thief, he dragged him into his corral and tied him to a post. “First he cut off the Frenchman's right ear and tucked it into the vic- tim’s right pocket. “Thee he cut off the left ear and put it into the left! pocket. “I ought to cut out your heart, but it is so black it wouldn’t keep,’ hissed the’ cattleman.”, —,, i Higganbotham declared: that Slade then beat the Frenchman to death and buried him just outside the cor- ral. Three months on that job was enough for the ‘boy, .He:treked to Texas and in 1864 he turndd up at Kansas City. . ~ 4 Takes Up Claim “Bob Galloway and I decided to take a little trip on a boat, but Bob was so d—d careless, he forgot to ask where the boat was going,” said the pioneer. “We landed at Fort. Benton, in June and liked the country so well we hiked.on to Helena. We made up our minds to get into the mining game and we took a claim at the junction of Missoula gulch and Gim- let gulch. We got about $700 out of it in ,six weeks and. decided it was easier to drive horses ‘than diz gold. . “J went to Ryan’s canyon where Barret is now located! and went to work for the Wells-Fargo. The first mail for Butte arrived at Ryan’s can- you on July 4, 1866. I-brought it ant the passengers through: “J. X. Bied- ler was my shotgun messenger. Lat- er I bought a hack and put it to work in Butte. lt was the first to operate in this city.” i ‘Again and again wanderlust seized Higganbotham. He traveled as far north as the Peace River country fu “I. drove. a. route}, TELLS OF EARLY DAYS ON PLAINS a étage ‘driving contest at;the world’s fair in Chicago. “I won the contest and got $1,000 Washington, July 9.—Speaking of red tape in government, I talked to a department head connected with the’ Federal Board for Vocational Training tite other day. He said he had become so disgusted with red tape and inefficiency as a re- sult of it ,he decided to get himself tnansferred to the Bureau of Effi- ciency. “I thought ‘that is the place for me,” he said. “ ‘I will be where I can speed up government work.’” But after trying for several days to | get connected with the Bureau of Ef- | ficiency, he found that it used more { red tape than the other bureaus it was trying to make efficient, so he gave up his worthy ambitions of trying to get where he could do “the most good” and decided to stay where he was. He compared the slowness of government activities to a nightmare. 8 fi = Uncle Sam isn’t such.a bad boss. He gives his employes a month’s vacation each year on pay, grants them a “| month’s sick leave a year on pay, the average employe works less than sev- on hours, and the word “work” is used advisedly—that is the number of hours they are on duty holding themselves in readiness to work. The girl war workers all have plenty of time tu keep their hair slicked up and their noses powdered. Very few of them get less than $100 a month, and many get more. The average government employe is satisfied. i * Washington, July 9.—Maybe, after all, it IS worth while for congress to distribute free garden and flower seeds, i Members of congress have been be- rated and criticized on every hand for spending the public money to send out these seeds, but if each member dispatched his allotment with the fin- esse shown by Congressman John H. Small of Washington, N. C., the har- vest of smiles would be ample return for the few hundred tnousan¢ dollars they cost annually. iy) There’s nothing so small about Small. He uses flower seeds to carry cheer and beauty to the womenfolk of his North Carolina district. What to diagnose your own condition. For} he wants is not a vote from the men, i this reason I am not telling you the] but a smile from the women. | signs of diabetes. You should be sure}. And the seeds themselves, and the eae 3 q | “4% / then my chest has a heavy feeling, but | I do not cough. I am not very strong Is it a sign of bronchitis? Do you know of any good blood tonic? A. You. are evidently attempting the ‘face. -The work-—size of type the’ eyes. ‘Neither should a person other organ of his body. * optically perfect, and pleasures. 1 Q. What makes ridge and full of white spots? condition, however, ing about it. cure for diabetes. [Do You Rek YG saved unnecessary strain, should work under the best conditions at all times. For instance, the light should always be sufficient, but never glary; and, as far as possible, it should, fall directly upon. the work ‘in hand and not upon example--should be such.as will not re- quire. unusual effort’ on. the part. of. erwork his eyes any more than any If a person's eyes have an uncorrect- ed optical defect, & given amount of use will tire them more than those such persons should govern their use accordingly. However, any evidence of eye-strain or imperfect vision should always be reason to consult a competent oculist. ; Never: neglect the eyes, for through them comes more than half of life's my finger nails _ A. It is impossiple to:say what the! cause of this condition may be. _The , in on them while they were digging on is; so. entirely harmless that you should stop: worry- Q. Please tell me if there is any What are. the signs OTHER GUESTS ASKE SA\D “OU. COULDN'T — “R-REM = wecr, You Don'T HAVE TO IPR-R-R-R-ROVE and an imitation gold medal,” Hig-; to go to a reputable physician, have] posies they may produce, may be giv- ganbotham asserted. “I -lost the|him give you a thorough examination| en their proper poetic setting in the medal in a fire at Silver City, N. M,| and see what is wrong. minds of North Carolina womenfolk but it wasn’t much of a Joss.” * Small sends with each package a letter & aa of greeting and good wishes. & — oa | PEOPLE’S FORUM | During. the early spring this year, | HEALTH ADVICE | pads i for instance, ihe Wwotien of his district > e Delphos, K: July 8,20, received the fol lowing letter, demon- ° . elphos, Kans., July 5; 20. | strating beyond cavill, that at last one CARE OF THE EYES pation The dribung. Ho congressman has his mind above the The normal eyes, in order’ to be e experiment of complete pro-| mundane things of government: hibition is a truly American achieve- ment. All European ‘nations have re- stricted: the’ sale of liquor in various ways especially since. the beginning of the great war, but they. still: permit the sale of the milder alcoholic poisons and usually some of the'stronger kinds as well.” I recently read the above significant lines _in a prominent ‘magazine, And I would add—Our country’s record is exemplary and it remains now that by our political platforms and practice we should correspond with what we have struggled so hard and long to obtain. Consistency at that point will contribute vastly to our influence among the nations. ~ Wishing you continued sucess, I re- main — Yours for Christian Reforms. KE. H. Parkinson, D. D. KIDDIES BURIED IN BEACH SANDS Atlantic City, N. J., July 9.—Buried under several tons of sand which caved “My Dear Madam: ‘As I glance through my office window, today, I see nO harbingers’ of springtime ,or flowers. The skies are. heavily over- cast. The chill air of winter lingers. Fog and dampness envelop the bare trees and obscure the buildings.’ Even the imposing dome of. the Capitol un- willingly emerges frpm the ‘humid gloom. / “But the witchery of hope enables me to beckon the gentle zephyrs and vaimy sunshine of May, ‘when Spring unlocks the flowers to paint the laugh- ing soil’ and ‘hangs her infant blos- soms on the trees.’ It is of you and that glad hour that I am thinking. for ov- man does—perhaps a tiny packet of seeds sent forward by mail may, under loving care, tempt a.smile more beauti- ful than its bloom. f “Very sincerely, “JOHN H. SMALL, “Pp, S—If this packet does not arrive within two weeks, a letter will start another to you.” INESCAPABLE BY EDMUND VANCE COOKE “Oh, poet!” I pleaded, “O, master of Art! Sing me a song for my wounded heart; the beach near Boston avenue this af- ternoon, Albert and Doris Huber, aged 14 and 12, of Kingston, N. Y., visiting here with their parents, were nearly suffocated before; being rescued by life guards. Both youngsters were un- of diabetes. I had the flu and pied conscious when dug out. O, sing me your. sweetst once again—” ~ But the poet put /in, EVERETT TRUE By Condo] “inten, 3" a8 Se novel | 4 OR; DONT Nou = ¢The qcest ot sugar is Past all 6 R-R=Re R-REMEMNBER I ai tying it now. in .quarter- ; j unds!” ‘ Se ALUCéE, “O, anchorite father- saint! . O, hermit, free of all fleshy taint! O, grant me part of your soul’s peace O, celibate now!” j But the hermit -replied, as he beat his brow, “Now how shall say how ‘to find relief ‘ From the wages of sin and the price of beef?” “O, lover, arouse you! ’tis spring! \ ’tis spring! Let the wine in your arteries dance and sing!. ~ - T ASO; WHEN HE YOU TO SING, You welt lost—” ~ But the lover-replied, in a voice of frost, \ “Cupid and Psyche have mournful news; Their banns are banned ‘by ,the price ‘of shees,” “O, modern Maecenas, I seek your shrine! Your home is a palace almost divine; O, here is a haven of solace and rest!—” But Maecenas remarked, chin in his chest, “You better stick ’round till we get you abite, ‘ But say- ain't the price of, potatoes A a fright!” with his Dart NEW FIRM STARTED Incorporations filed with the secre- tary of state include: Canada, and as far south as Mexico City. On July 17, 1893, he competed. in s Wahpeton Plumbing and Heating company, Wahpeton, ,capital stock $25,000; incorporators A. W. Hoppert, E. L. Hoppert, L. M. Hoppert, A. H. Miller, E. M. Engfer. ‘ Toledo—“Getaway” Espy, 32, with a record of more than 12 successful jail breaks, is back in the Michigan State itentiary.;;He was arrested here following an escape there. “If you love flowers—and every wo- / Let us .cast -off. care, with’ the world “d ora of 4 &