The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, October 30, 1922, Page 2

' ada is 163 per cent of the 1921 crop| INSOLVENT: IS CLAIM URGED ‘Appointment of Receiver Is Asked in Fargo District Court Fargo, N. D., Oct. 30.—Declaring that the Publishers National Ser- vice bureau, a Nonpartisan league corporation was organized for the) purpose of “injuring the public’ and that it is now insolvent, Ed Ny-; gaard has filed a petition in the Cass county district court for an order to appoint a receiver to take} charge of all assets, and for the dis- solution of the company. The de- fendant was ordered to show cause “why: a receiver should not be ap- pointed.” The filing of an affidavit of prejudice by Attorney Claire Brickner precluded a hearing on the order Saturday. . The supreme court, has designat- ed Judge Cooley to hear the case on its merits but stated that this should not prevent Judge Cole from hearing the injunction matter, At 2-p. m, Friday, the time set for showing cause, 12 creditors with claims aggregating $25,000 appear- ed in court with counsel. These éreditors and the amount of their claim are: Martin Johnson, $2,000; Anton-Solberg, $1,000; John Solberg, $1,000; Alfred Munter, $8,500; K. 0. Brokke, $3,500, and Peter Berg, $2,-| 000, all of Hillsboro; John Larson, $2,500; J. C. Leum, $200; Osmond Skarperud, $2,500, and the First | National Bank of Mayville, $2,000; Simon Thompson, $2,500, and Ed Nygar, $2,500, of Kindred. The list of ereditors totals more than 70; and the amount of. their claims is approximately $170,000. In his complaint, Mr. Nygard de- clares that on Nov. 11, 1920, ‘the Publishers National Service bureau gave him a promissory note for $2,- 500, payable in 90 days with interest at 10 percent and that neither the principal nor the interest has been paid. The complaint also sets forth that the service bureau has obliga- tions amounting to ‘over $168,000 with assets of about $123,000, much of which is represented in post- dated checks, and that because of this condition and because none of the assets is in cash the company is insolvent and has been so for more than a year. Mr. Nygard alleges that the com- pany has not been in operation for ebout two years, NEW ENGLAND GIVES THANKS .. FOR BOUNTY Entire Village Joins in Thanksgiving for: Recent y Bumper Crops (By the Associated Press) New England, N. D., Oct. 30.—The wheels of time turned backward three hundred years here yesterday, when an entire village forgot the dizzy pace of the modern world and knelt as did their Puritan fathers to fjive thanks to the divine favor that granted them a bountiful har- vest. For four years farmers of this| community watched their crops wi- ther and die. Last spring the com- munity joined in a common prayer for a more successful season. Yes-|' terday the people gathered again to give thanks to the divinity who, they believe, heard and granted their prayer, = Pastors of the Catholic, Congre- gational and Lutheran churches led ‘the thanksgiving service in the large gymnasiums of New England’s public schools, when six hundred farmers and their households who are not “too busy to believe in mo- dern day miracles” turned their fa- ces.upward in the old hymn of har- yest and thanksgiving “Come Ye Thankful People.” “Phe harvest of the last season has been the most bountiful in the his- tory of this community. Z RYE, BARLEY, POTATO YIELD _ HITS RECORD Washington, Oct. 30.—Production | of rye, barley and potatoes for all countries reporting is larger than for the same countries last year the department of agriculture announced{ today. Rye production for 16 coun-} tries is placed at 101 per cent of production for the same countries in| 1921, but only 91 per cent of the average yield for 1909-1913. Produc-| tion in the United States and Can-i while production in Europe—and} copuntries is only 93 per cent. Production of barley this year in; 24 “countries is placed at 104 per) cent of the 1921 harvest, but only 96 per cent of the average yield for 1900-13. The barley crop of the United States and Canada this year is 129 per cent of the 1921 crop, and for 15 countries it is 103 per cent. The potato crop is reported largely in nearly all countries, total produc- tion, being placed at 128 per cent of that for the same countries in 1921, and 101 per cent of the 1909-13 aver- age, f ‘Wheat production in 1922, accord-| ing to the latest estimates, is 99 per} cent of the 1921 yield, being 109 per ceut in.109 per cent in North Amer- HOPE TO COAX | COUNTRY BACK TO OLD POLICY London, Oct. 30.—Arrangements between: Conservatives and Coali. tion Liberals not to oppose one an- others candidates in certain -con- stituences are given prominence. in today’s Anti-Coalition newspapers. | As they have it, the arrangements for cooperation or mutual non-op- sition are spreading with an ob- vious drift toward reinstating Coali- tion in the government, It is the contention of Free Liber- | als that this situation reveals that the country is being shepherded | buck to its old policy, the only. dif- | ference being that it is in new hands.. On the Thory side the ex-| treme die hards are clearly restive over=this supposed tendency. BURNS DENIES WIFE KILLING; MONEY GONE! Pp Secret Hoard of $2,700 in|, Home Now Missing Say Authorities Cleveland, Oct.. 30.—A_ secret hoard. of $2,700, missing. from his home here where Henry Burns told police ‘authorities he cached it, pro- vided Lake county authorities with a new lead today in their-attempt to solve the murder of Burns’ wife, whose body was fouhd late Wednes- day after the woman had_ been beaten into. unconsciousness and buried alive in a shallow grave near Painesville. . Prosecutor .Os- trander and Deputy Sheriff Ras- mussen. of Lake county spent sever- al hours last night searching for the money in the Burns home and in talking to neighbors. The money, Burns had told the Lake county officials, had been hidden benéath a rug in his home. The officials -made a thorough search but failed to find the money. At the same time witnesses were found who say they saw a man and a woman they believed to be Burns and Mrs. Burns leave their home in an automobile Jate Tuesday night, according to Deputy Sheriff Ras- mussen. ‘This, tha deputy sheriff said, added an important link to the chain of circumstancal evi- dence in the case. The man and woman, the witness told the Lake county officials, en- tered a car similar to that used by Burns. The woman then returned to the house, changed her light coat for a fur coat and returned, carrying a flashlight. A fur coat, torn and bloody was found near the spot where Mrs. Burns’ body was discovered and a flashlight, on which were blood- stains was found in Burns’ summe! home near Painesville. i Burns, held in the Lake county jail at Painesville on a first degree murder charge was sent back tohis cell early today after three hours of severe grilling, which will be re- sumed late today. Tho prisoner has come through an almost continuous three day seige of all kinds of grilling still adamant in his denial. MASONS WILL HEAR SPEAKERS Hutcheson’ and Mr. Stockwell to Address Meeting Rev. A large attendance of Mandan and Bismarck Masons is expected here Tuesday night when Rev. W. J. Hut- cheson, field secretary for the Ma- sonic Service Association and Grand Secretary Stockwell, will deliver ad- dresses, The meeting will be cailed at 8 p. m. in the Temple here. There will be no work, but the speakers will explain the aims of the service association and discuss general work of the lodge. There will be a regional confér- ence at 4:30 in: the afternoon when the visitors will. discuss the prograin for the coming, year with the repre- sentatives of lodges in this section. For Spring Valley Lignite Coal. Phone 164. - - -.. —=—=—— Mrs. Mary Corey ‘Perk Up And Smile Blues and Backache Vanish Austin, Minn—“As a tonic and nervine I can highly recommend | paign Committee” is literature throughout the _athte bearing. likenesses of Judge L. \ EB. Birdzell, Judge W. L. Nuessle and Attorney-General Sveinbjorn John- The Burleigh county campaign continues all week. F. E. McCurdy left for the northern part of the county to remain until election county, have been “loaned” to the state committee for work west of the river. Among those who. will enter or re-enter the speaking campaign this week are C. L. Young, E: J. Taylor, Scott Cameron, I. C. Davies. J; W. Deemy and Miss Aldyth Ward. are scheduled for league meetings during the week. F. 0." Hellstrom of Bismarck spoke son, endorsed by the -Independents, {for the supreme court. in Fargo Saturday night in the in- J. A. H. Hopkins, chairman of the national executive committee of the Liberal party, which grew out of the activities of the Committee oF 48, issued a statement in New York saying that the party candidates. had chances in seven states, includ- ing North Dakota. J. W. Deemy, candidate for Congress inthe Second district, is considered tha time. Lewis Crawford and Theodore | representative of the new: party and Koffel, Independent speakers in the| his supporters hope his vote will put the party on the national ballot in North Dakota in 1924. ee ee A meeting of Independent women of Fargo was held Saturday after- noon in Fargo with view _Jof or- ganizing in each precinct; The vote in Fargo was light in the last pri- mary election and campaign workers are going to get all the voters out, THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE tical Whirl: The “Independent Judiciary Cam- | spreading | terest of the Jeague ticket, eee ents also are organizing in each pre- cinct. a ee \ J. F. T. O'Connor will close his campaign at Grand Forks, his home city, next Monday night. Governor estos will speak at Kenmare next Saturday night. | A report from Sheridan county gays that William :Lemke’s’ name was left off the. Nonpartisan league tikket sent out in that county. On the other hand, Nonpartisans here claim that Lemke has made wonderful gains in the last week, and that the league chances for victory are im- measurably brighter. z In Ward county Independents gre making an especially strong drive for the legislature, with the pro- mise that since Ward county is Governor Nestos’ home town the county has a responsibility § in giving him legislators with whom he can work. : The Independent can- didates are John Burns and Einar Muus in the Republican column and Nellie Daugherty and John Ehr in the Democratic column. Tomorrow, October 31, is the last chance to register. You may do so at the polling places in Bismarck. OTE U NIC aan ) Gov. R. A. Nestos when in Minot this week told a humorous story which a chairman of a meeting down in Richland county recently used in introducing the governor as the principal speaker of the day. The chairman was a tonsorial parlor proprietor, and’ active in politics in his local» community. As he was shaving a customer, an Irishman, their conversation in- cidentally..turned to politics, and it was revealed that: the son/of Erin had not been in the state very long. Nevertheless he was anxious to get “lined up” “on politics, he declared, and said that of late he had been doing some investigating regarding “This Irish governor whd is a can- didate for re-election.” “Irish governor,” exclaimed the barber. “Where such idea as that.” “Well his name is Nestos O’Con- nor, isn’t it?” was the newcomer’s que It is needless to say that the. bar- ber set. his customer right on “poli- ties” and explaine@ that Mr. O’Com ‘tor ig a.separate entity. did you get any@ MONDAY, J, P, HARDY HEADS RED CROSS DRIVE (By the Associated Press) Chicago, Oct. 30.—=J. postmaster at Fargo, N. D., has been appointed by the American Red Cross as state director in charge of the sixth annual roll call, beginning Armistice Day, Nov. 11, and ending Thanksgiving day. Mr. Hardy will direct all the ar- rangements for the roll call cam- paign through the 53 Red Cross chapters in the state and will be as- sisted by Mr. B. P. Krick, chief of Red Cross service at the United States veterans’ bureau, who will be in charge of the roll: call. office lo- cated at Fargo. LONDON MONEY. (By the Associated Press) P. Hardy,| OCTOBER 30, 1922 Discount rates, short 2 3-16 @ 4 per cent; three months 2% @_ 7-16. Urge Red River Valley Growers to Store Potatoes St. Paul, Minn., Oct. 30—Minnesota potato growers in the Red River Val- ley district will be informed relative to the needs of jstoring their crops, and the most satisfactory manner of, handling by 0. P. B, Jacobson, chair- «> man state railroad and warehouse commission and N. J. Holmberg, state commissioner of agriculture, who will make an extended tour of that dis- trict beginning Monday, it was an- nounced today. , Mr, Jacobson and Mr. Holmberg ex- pect to stoy at every principal. potato shipping community in the Red River Valley district and give a detailed talk on the car shortage situation, + the reduced storage rates which were, obtained by these officials several days ago and the need of immediate Kaction in getting their potatoes “un- der cover.” Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription for women. I have also taken Doctor | Pierce’s Anurie Tablets for kidney | and bladder trouble and con recom-; mend them just as highly.”—Mrs. | Mary: Corey, 407 E. Alleghany Street. | Step into any drug store and ask for a 65c package of Anuric, which | is many times more potent than lith- ia. A short trial will convince you. Write Dr. Pierce, President Inva- lids’ Hotel if Buffalo, N. Y., for free medical advice, or send 10 cents for ica ‘and 81 per cent in Europe, : trial package of any of his remedies. | if-possible. Stark county’ Independ- ‘GOOD CITIZENS CANNOT VOTE FOR LYNN J. FRAZIER FOR U.S ; "~ AND LOVAL TO THEIR STATE AND NATION SENATOR IF THEY WA London, Oct. 30—Bar silver 34 1-16 { pence per ounce. Money 1% percent. NT TO BE HONEST WITH THEMSELVES The Following Compilation of Facts and Recitation of Specific Acts and Instances in the Public Record of Ex-Governor Lynn J. Frazier Establishes Beyond a, Doubt or Possibility of Dispute That He Is Gulity of All the Charges made Against Him in the Statement That Was Published in The Tribune Saturday. Read This Carefully, and Judge for Yourself. Conspired to Destroy Our Constitution. As governor he consipred with.A, C. Townley and his inner group of socialists in. secretly framing the “Socialist Constitution” for adop- tion ag North Dakota’s socialist government charter, and appeared before a joint session of ‘the Legislature, when this document was brought out of secret caucuas and introduced as House Bill 44, urging its adoption and plac-—~ ing all the power of the office of Governor be- hind it. This bill removed all restrictions up- on governmental functions and authorized the State to engage in any kind of business, not even excepting the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors—all at the tax payers’ expense; it made the sacred School Fund avail- able for financing the. socialistic program, and make the sky the limit of the debt that could be incurred in carrying out this program. In the attempted enactment of House. Bill 44 the Constitutional provisions. prescribing the steps necessary in amending the Constitution were deliberately disregarded. The iniquitous char- acter of this monstrous piece. of legislation was exposed to the people of the State by the able ar] courageous. fight made against it by the ‘small group of House members who were anti- socialists, and later the bill met its death in the Senate at the hands of a'bare majority of that body, Polluted Our Schools He attempted, with partial success, to place our common schools and our higher education- al institutions under socialist control, with the énd in view of having socialist teachers and instructors instill into the receptive minds, of the young and immature socialistic and other radical-doctrines. When this encountered op- position on the part of the State Superintend- ent of Public Instruction, she was deprived of ~ most of her powers. Public indignation and the adoption at .the November, 1920, -election of the law initiate by the Independent. Voters Association, restored to Superintendent. Niel- son the powers which had been taken from her, (See Session Laws 1921, page 257), defeated ‘their purpose: and renioved’ this menace, Attempted to Exterminae Independent Press He aided in the attempt to. control, suppress or destroy the independent newspapers of the State by establshing “League: newspapers” in each county, to disseminate. socialistic doc- trines, and subsidizing them through the news- paper act (Chapters 187 and 188, Laws of 1919), which purpose wag defeated ‘by a law initiated ‘by the I. V. A, and approved by the voters at the election om November 2d, 1920 (See Session , Laws of 192, page 256). \ Poisoned: Our Library With his. approval the State Library Com- mission was placed under socialistic control. The importation and appointmen of the radical socialist Stangeland fig ‘seoretary was annulled, and the attempt to use the circulating library for the purpose of distributing socialist and free love literature: thoughout the State, was defeated. by the exposure in the Legislature and the public indignation which followed it. Seized Coal Mines : “During, the coal miners’ strike of 1919 Gov- erhor Frazier sent, a demand to the coal opera- tors in-this State, where there was no strike, * that they fcrease the miners‘ wages and, spe- eified that this increase was not to be paid to the miners in this State but was to be collected as a fund and transmitted to the striking miners in Montana, a demand probably. with- Out a paravel in any country at any time. When the coal operators refused to comply with this outrageous demand, the Governor prdclaimed martial law, called out the National Guard, and seized the mines, in violation of the Constitution and of his oath of office. The couragedus action of Judge Nuessle blocked this attempted, confiscation for the benefit of striking miners, in another state. Judge Nuessle was upheld by the Supreme. Court of the State although a majority of that Court had been elected as Nonpattisans, Sought to Control Courts He has. given his assistance to the League leaders im their attempt to secure control of the courts of the State in order to. be certain of judicial sanction for their illegal and un- constitutional acts, Tried to Bring About ‘Public Ownership of: Land by Single Tax Method With his assistance and approval laws have been passed changing the ‘basis of taxation, As a result of which farm land which in 1918 paid less than 55 per cent of. the general property taxes paid in 1919 more than 70 per centi was effected by increasing the assessed valua- tion of farm lands 384 per cent, while the as- sessed valuation of personal property, for in- stance, was increased 110 per cent. In 1918 the farmers paid approximately 64 per ceht of the property taxes, while in 1919 they paid more than 73 per cent The action im regard to taxation was taken by the socialistic. Non: partisan leadets as a step toward the com- plete adoption of the single tax, by means of which socialists intended to: bring about nationalization (public. ownership) of all land. An amendment, to. the Constitution, the: adop- tion of which was urged by Frazier, provides that, “The legislature may by law exempt ‘any or all classes of personal property from taxa- tion and within the meaning of this section, This, ~ fixtures, butldings and improvements of every character;, whatsoever, upon ‘land stiall be deemed -personal property.” Thig leaves the way open for the adoption of the single tax by legislative enactment any time that the League leaders believe the farmers are sufficiently” docile to accept it. Doubled Cost of Government With Governor Frazier’s assistance and ap- prov4l laws were passed authorizing. the cre- ~ ation of numerous new positions and State of- fices. In very many cases the fixing of the . ° galaries was left to the discretion, of some ex- ecutive body, such as the Mhdustrial Commis- sion ,with the result that auch salaries and compensations were often fixed at exorbitant figures.. The result was’ an: immense increase in taxes. The appropriations for State pur- poses. doubled in a single year, and in addi- tion several millions were spent by the Mill and Elevator Association and other State enter- prises, the funds for which were not obtainéd from taxes but by means of loans and trans- fers from other funds on deposit with the State Bank. In order'to raise the funds re- quired, new and onerous taxes were imposed on the people of North Dakota, Used State Government for Spreading of De structive Propaganda c3 Governor Frazier and the various State de- partments under Nonpartisan control filled the State offices and other positions with virulent Nonpartisans and socialists, without regard to their fitness for the positions; the man quali- fication required was the ability and willing- » Bess to spread Nonpartisan and_ socialistic propaganda. For this purpose hordes of so- cialists and I. W. W.s, most. of them of the most extreme type, were imported from other states and placed in some of the most. import- ant positions. Untold sums collected from the people ‘of the State im the form of taxes were used. in paying the salaries and traveling ex- nenses df; men and women, whose principal occupation—and often the sole one—was the fading of socialistic and other radical doc- mt wement and Favoritism in Bank Ad- ministration ‘ > He and other members of the Industrial Com- mission permitted the mismanagement of the Bank of North Dakota, by which specially fav- ored banks were given huge sums in the form of loans and ‘redeposits, as illustrated by the fact, that the 36 League banks in the state re- ceived such ‘loans and redeposits im the aver- age sum of over $50,000 each, while the 700 other ‘banks in the state received on an average’ about $5,000 each. . , He and the other members of ‘the ‘Indus- trial Commission permitted the Bank of North Dakota to loan and transfer to the various state enterprises moneys from various other funds, thus making them unavailable for the purposes for which they were collected, re- sulting in the Bank failing to pay checks drawn upon it by the State Treasurer, al- though the State Treasurer at the time had three million dollars on deposit with the Bank. “Mismanagement and Favoritism in Farm Loan Business He and the other members of the Indus- trial Commission permitted the mismanage- ment of the Farm Loans Department of the Bank, whereby large sums were lent in fav- ored counties while other counties received no loans, large loans: were~ made to persons who were not farmers and who weré not resi- . dents of the state, ‘nd in many instances ex- cessive loans wete made with the result that the owner of the land will abandon it, and in some cages has done 80 already, leaving for the Bank as-its security land worth much~ les. than .the loan. made against it. Responsible for (Scandinavian Am€rican Bank Scandal , He is jointly responsible with others for the Scandinavian-American scandal, us- ing his, influence to have it reopened after it had been ¢losed by the Banking Board as un- safe and insolvent, which resulted in addi- tional losses to the bank’s depositors; he is jointly responsible with others for the loans and redeposits of large amounts of public funds in the Scandinavian-American _ Bank, which bank in turn lent it to the League leaders, and when this bank was finally clos- ed it owed the State Bank, in the form of loans and redeposits, more than $400,000; he is responsible for. the acts of former Bank Examiner 0. E. Lofthus, who was instrumen- tal in getting the bank reopened, and who was reappointed by Governor Frazier though he was $fily’ cognizapt. of Lofthus’ connection with this: affair, ¥ Responsible for Loss in Homebuilders Asso- ciation and Other Industries He and the other members of the Indus- trial Commission are tesponsible for the mis- management jaf the Home Builders Associa- tion,-resulting-in a. loss to the State estimated at. more than $300,000. He and the other members of the Indus- trial Commission are. responsible for the mis- management of the other state enterprises, -which according to the best estimates will re- sult ina final loss of from two to three mil- lion dollars, 4 ‘ Opposed Law Prot€cting Our Flag He strenv@fis and successfully opposed in 1919 the\ passage by the League controlled - Legislature of any anti-red flag law, and op- posed the anti-red flag and anti-black: flag law which was ifitiated by the I. V. A, and approved’ by the voters on June 30th, 1920. (See Session. Laws of 1921, page 253). Sought Unheard of Autocratic Power He has assisted in the enactment of, and has approved laws creating a dangerous cen- tralization of power in the hands of state of- ficers, and placing absolute power in the hands of state officers responsible to no one, 4s in the case of the. Industrial Commission. He attempted to secure autocratic power over all sheriffs and deputies in the state by fathering and approving the state constabu- lary law (Chapter 56, Spec‘al Session of 1919), which was held up by the I. V. A. Ref- erendum and defeated by the voters on June ach 1920, (See Session Laws 1921, page He ‘attempted to intimidate and prevent all persons from criticizing or opposing all existing and contemplated socialist ventures by the passage and approval of Chapter 41, Special Session of 1919, with its appropriation of $27,000 of -the tax payers’ money to be us- ed by them for harassing purposes, all of which was held up by the I. V. A. referendum and was defeated by the voters on June 30, 1920. .(See Session Laws 1921, page 252). Tried to Destroy Secret Ballot a He attempted to destroy the secrecy of our Australian ballot law, under pretense of amending the absent voters’ ballot law, which was held up by the I. V. A. referendum and , defeated by the voters on June 30, 1920. (See Session Laws 1921, page: 152). Removed Protection for Farmers He assisted in‘ framing and approved Chapter 171, Session Laws of 1999, the anti- injunction law, legalizing strikes and pro- -tecting I. W. W. and other radical organiza- tions in their forcible and lawless interfer- ence with our farm operations and deprived the farmers of this state and others of the only effective remedy against their lawless-. ness, \ Protected and Encouraged Disloyalty _ ..His sympathies were with the radical so- jcialist, Kate Richards O’Hare, when she was being prosecuted in federal court for dis- loyalty, because of asserting in substance in her lectures that our boys who voluntarily went into the service of their country were only fit to fertilize the fields of France, and their mothers who permitted them to go were no. better than brood sows, and affer convic- tion he made an official appeal to President Wilson fer her pardon. ~ He exterided an official invitation in Au- gust, 1917, to the infamous Socialist “peace council,” composed of Max Eastman, Thomas Van Lear and other well known socialists, outlawed in other states, to hold their meet- ings in. North Dakota, and guaranteed them thg protection of his office in such meeting. Encouraged I. W.. W.s. He gave public and official’ assurance of protection: to. the I. W. W.’s who. were invad- ° ing our state, through his warning to all peace officers against interfering with them, which as: ince of. sympathetic protection this lawless element recognized by_holding their national convention at New Rockford While he was governor. Opposed Inspection of Public Records He-opposed and attempt to defeat the initiated I. V. A; law providing for the ex- amination of the accounts and records of the various industries which he and his _asso- ciates had established, which law was adopted over his protest by the voters on “November 2, 1920. (See Session Laws 1921, page 254). Concealment of Facts About Public Business He persistently failed and refused to in- form the tax payers of the state and even the legislative assembly of the financial condi- tion. of the enterprises into which he and his associates had caused the state ‘to enter; he attempted to defeat legislative investigation by issuing an order as Governor and as mem- ber of the Industrial Commission directing the persons having the records of such enterprises in charge not to deliver them to the Legisla- tive Committee appointed to investigate such enterprises; he continually represented that each of said enterprises, was sound and suc- cessful and well managed, whereas in fact each of them was rotten with the graft of his subordinates and was operated at a great loss to the tax payers. We enumerate some o his concealments: * (a) The financial loss and graft in the Werner creamery. (b) The gross mismanagement and loss- es at the Drake mill. rans (c). The gross mismanagement. and losses in the Bank of North Dakota. (d) .The inefficient management. of the Mill and Elevator Association. (e) The indefensible condition of the Home Builders Association, with its shameful record of graft and incompetence and a loss of hundreds of thousands of dollars of the tax payers’ money. (f) The transfer, with his ‘active parti- cipation, of the tax payers’ money from the Bank of North Dakota to the Scandinavian- American Bank to finance League enterprises, when he knew it was hopelessly , insolvent, with a consequent loss to the’ tax’ payers of hundreds. of thousands of dollars. " (g) The actual condition of the Scandin- avian-American Bank, which he insisted on reopening after it had been closed by the Banking Department, falsely representing it as solvent, with a consequent loss of large sums of money to the depositors a wel] as to the state. fi Cendoned and Acquiesced in Fraud He failed to prevent and expose, and ac- tually acquiesced in, the fraudulent opera- tions of A. C. Townley and-his associates through which they swindled the farmers of the state of large.sums of money through League enterprises, to-wit: 7 (a) The Consumers. Stores. (b) The ‘League banks. (c) - The League newspapers. Counseled Revolution P He has counseled revolution if h's faction could not obtain what they wanted with-the ballot. This can only mean that if tty found themselves in -the minority they were to at- tempt to override the wishes of the majority by force. It is a direct attack on the princi-- ' ple of government by the people. He has acquiesced in and encouraged the collecting of huge sums from the farmers of this state by an irresponsible organization, whose real leaders are almost without excep- tion socialists, under the pretence that of de- veloping a better marketing system, while as a matter of fact the, money collected has been used for the spreading of socialistic pro- paganda and for poljtical purposes, and he has himself been the beneficiary of the ac- tivities made possible by the collection of such sums. Candidate Under False Colors : In order to secure votes and mislead vot- ers he and other League leaders have posed as Republicans, while neither accepting Re- publican ‘principles, upholding . Republican policies, nor supporting Republican candi- dates. In a special election in the First Con- gressional District in 1917 he’ supported a Democrat as against the Republican candidate. In 1918 he supported Democrats running in the Republican primaries, in the First and Third Congressional Districts. He pursued the same course in 1920 in both districts, and * ‘in 1922 in the Third Ditrict. In 1916 he sup- ported a Democratic nominee for State Trea- surer_as against the Republican nomince. In 1920 he opposed a number of Republican can- didates regularly nominated, and js pursuing the same course this year. In 4920 he en- tered the campaign in Montana, opposing the Republican candidates regularly nomiiated, both state and national, and urging the elec- tion cf Democrats. The same year he cam- paigned in Minnesota, opposing the nominees of the Republican party and urging the elec- tion of the candidates of the Farmer-Labor party. This year he has campaigned in South Dakota, opposing the candidates which the Republican voters iy that state ‘had selected as their nominees. He has in public speeches and otherwise assisted. in creating discord, occupational pre- judice, and class hatred and mutual suspi- cions among the citizens of this state, which is the means by which socialists and other radi- cal organization hope to obtain control of governments, and is the means adopted”by the Nonpartisan leaders to obtain control of. the governmert cf this and other states. Folks who have been friendly neighbors for forty years arg not now cn speaking terms. Inefficient, Undeserving and Damaging The record of ex-Governor Lynn J. Fra- zier as gdvernor of this state is evidence that he is lacking in the qualifications required of- a candidate for United States Senator. As a member o° the Industrial Commission he had, because of -being governor, power to pre- vent all of the misdeeds that the commiss‘on committed while he was its chairman. His political record is evidence that he is not a Republican either in principle or practice; there is no evidence that he ever took a stand for Republican principles or supported Re- publican policies, or that he has ever hereto- fore appealed for the suffrage-of the citizens of this state on the ground that he was a Re- publican and a believer in Republican prin- ciples; in his public addresses he has always advanced socialistic doctrines and his asso- ciates and co}workers have almost ‘without exception been socialists and other radicals. His record both as a state official and as a citizen show that he is unworthy of . public confidence and undeserving of public trust. Every voter who will be fair and exercise good judgment will concede that North Da- kota’s good name and credit can not be re- stored if its voters voice approval 07 such conduct, on the part of its public officials, as is recited from the record of ex-Governor Lynn J. Frazier in the foregoing pages. To elect him to represent our state in the U. S. Senate for six years in the face of his record would ~ seriously injure North Dakota for many more years than the term of his office. Every fair minded voter who reads the foregoing will'admit that every charge that has been niade against Frazier, as reasons for not voting for him for United States Senator, has been established so positively that there is no room for doubt or dispute as to-his guilt. The only question that now remains is whether or not you, as a voter and geod citizen, can afford to encourage such misconduct on the part of public officials by voting for the guilty one for the highest office within the gift of the people of North Dakota in face of the record he made fot himself ‘as governor of this state. Can North Dakota afford to serid'a man with such a récord to the United States Senate or any place else in the world?’ Can we rightfully expect to be either of public confidence as Mr. Frazier is guilty of? Mr: Fraziér has made'no effort to either answer or expla man of unquestioned integrity. respected. or trusted by the people of other states if we voice approval of such misconduct of public affairs and abuse in these charges. There can be no other answer in North Dakota than the election of O’Connor, a clean and capable (Political Advertisement.)