The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 19, 1934, Page 4

The Bismarck Tribune An Independent Newspaper THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) (oe rer | Published by The Bismarck Trib- ‘me Company, Bismarck, N. D., and entered at the postoffice at Bismarck 198 second class mail matter. GEORGE D. MANN President and Publisher oe | Subscription Rates Payable in Advance Daily by carrier, per year. Daily by mail, per year Wratt Daily by mail, per year (in state outside of Bismarck) Sf Daily by mail outside of North 6.00 20 Weekly by mail in state, three years . ‘Weekly b; Dakota, per year . Weekly by mail in Ci FORE oie... c 6.85. .5s Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation Member of The Associated Press ‘The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this newspaper and also the local news of Spontaneous origin published herein. All rights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. Who Can Be Believed? Happenings of the last week have @one much to clarify the situation ‘which the voters of the state will be called upon to decide at the Repub- lican primary election in June. It is clear that there will be two Nonpartisan tickets in the field be- cause the breach in the ranks now is so wide as to be beyond compro- mise. Governor Langer would be glad to call quits with many of those who have arrayed themselves against him, but they have rejected his over- tures and the fight is one to the fin- ash. Only the people can decide, The statement by the anti-Langer officials, repudiating his actions in office, coupled with Langer’s subse- quent attack upon them, made the division clear. ‘The speech of Senator W. E. Mat- thael and Langer’s answering retort indicated what the issues will be, There will be a thousand ramifi- cations and subsidiary arguments, but all of these may be incorporated in the one question, “Who has dem- onstrated the best right to public be- lief and to trust by the Republicans of the state, Governor Langer or those who are arrayed against him?” ‘That is the situation today and it will not be essentially changed by devel- opments between now and the June election. It was clear from the be- ginning that this would be the case. ‘This newspaper claims no prescience because it has predicted in the past that this would be the situation. * * * In deciding such a question the public at large will be forced to de- pend upon the records of the men involved, both in office and out of office. Individuals who can be in- fluenced by promises or who have Private axes to grind will not ap- proach the matter in this spirit. Their courses are and will be fixed by what they consider their own best interests. But to the average voter the matter stands on a different plane. He will continue to feel that his best inter- ests le with those who seem to promise the best, cleanest and most responsible government. Governor Langer’s record is well known, but if the issue is to be clear it must be stated again, even though briefly. In 1916, a young but very ambitious lawyer, he was elected attorney gen- eral as a Nonpartisan League candi- date. During his first term in office he brought himself prominently to notice by a number of spectacular moves, ‘among them his famous raid in the city of Minot, during which he took charge of the telepHone exchange and otherwise exceeded any authority placed in him by law. Another was his attempted arrest and prosecution of Thomas Hall, then also a Non- partisan, on the charge that he had embezzled funds of the motor vehicle registration department. Hall was secretary of state at the time. Subsequently came his break with A. C. Townley, William Lemke, Lynn WJ. Frazier and the League organiza- tion in general, and his manipula- tion of the IVA convention in 1920 to obtain the endorsement of that or- @anization as a candidate for gover- nor. In a recent address, the gover- nor sought to make it appear that he {was offered this endorsement spon- taneously, accepted it almost against 2.50 150 | meeting at Minot state very definite- dy that Langer literally Jammed him- self down the neck of young and relatively inexperienced organization. * * Then came the campaign of 1920, idea in speeches there. The gover- nor will not be able to adduce a single shred of competent evidence to prove that he resisted the recall. Then the governor dropped from sight politically, devoting himself to _THE BISMARCK his law practice. As a general prac- titioner he took whatever business he could get. Most of his clients were farmers, and in his dealings with them the governor acquired 7,000 acres of land. At the same time he managed to live well and provide for the needs of a growing family. It may have been a little hard on the farmer clients, but Attorney Langer did quite well by himself. In many cases representation of a client by Langer was closely followed by the transfer to Langer of the client's farm. At the same time, he accepted what business he could get from corpora- tions, even though he condemned cor- porations in his initial campaign ad- dress. Proof that he was a corpora- tion lawyer is offered by the recent suit of one James Buckley against the governor and others. Buckley claimed that the governor defrauded him of money. The case was fhrown out of court on the ground that Langer was attorney for an insur- ance company, a corporation, rather than for Buckley. * kx At the same time the governor re entered politics, trying to reinstate himself in the good graces of the Nonpartisan League. At first he was regarded much the same as a political leper, but time healed some of the wounds caused by the campaign of 1920 and the governor assiduously cul- tivated friendships in the League. By 1928 he was sufficiently reestablished to become the candidate for attorney general. He was defeated by s nar- row margin, largely because many in the League refused to support him at the polls. He was not an aspirant for office in 1930, but in 1932 was endorsed as the Nonpartisan candidate for gov- ernor in a convention unparalleled for the devious methods by which the gathering was coerced. He was en- dorsed by a margin of one vote and it has since been definitely shown that the man who cast the deciding ballot had no more business in that convention as a delegate than if he lived in Timbuctoo. The delegate in question claimed to be from the Fargo Trades and Labor Assembly. Union men claim he never was designated by them and never held a union card in his life, He was produced in that convention in much the same man- ner that a magician takes a rabbit out of a hat, but he won the day for Langer. The spring campaign was success- ful, though Langer fell far behind the rest of the Nonpartisan ticket, another evidence that the people at large had little faith in him, He won out by a narrow margin in the fall, largely because his fellow Republican candidates gave him their loyal sup- port. They won by large majorities. ‘What has happened since his in- duction into office is history which has not yet cooled. It constitutes the most lurid chapter of skullduggery in the history of North Dakota. It reeks with corruption and the effort to pro- mote his own interests at the expense of the public and of the party which elected him, * * * Now consider, briefly, the men who have condemned him as a political fakir and charlatan, as a man unre- sponsive to the public interest and seeking only his own advancement. Lieutenant Governor Ole H. Olson is and always has been a farmer. For nearly 40 years he has lived and worked on the same piece of land in Eddy county. Politically he has been a@ Nonpartisan from the beginning of the League. Before that he was ac- tive in the Equity Association and other farm movements. He has never asked anything for himself, but has given generously of both his talent and money to advancement of every movement which he felt was in the farmers’ interest. His honesty has never been questioned, even by his bitterest enemy. His word is regarded as the equivalent of an iron-clad bond. He has been in every fight the Nonpartisan League has ever had, regardless of whether or not he was @ candidate for office. He, and others like him, formed the bulwark of the League during the years after Langer’s attack in 1920, which led up to the recall of 1921. He is an inde- pendent thinker and a believer in horse sense; has never compromised on a principle and would rather lose in a good cause than win in a poor eee Secretary of State Robert Byrne ‘was & member of the first Nonparti- san League legislature, having been elected from McKenzie county, where he was a fermer. He was drafted to “We have plowed the. farr (Courtcay Clecetand Plain ns) ; ‘ow and planted the good seed, ‘The hard beginning is over!" —President Roosevelt. battle when skies were grey as well ‘as when they were blue. xk Ok C. W. McDonnell also served in the first League legislature and was a leader there. He was @ farmer in Foster county and was called by the League for service as railroad com- missioner. Because he was elected in 1930 for a six-year term, despite the IVA landslide of that year, he will not be # candidate for office this year. But the foul actions of the Langer administration were too much for his strongly Nonpartisan stomach, He did not hesitate to sign the in- dictment of Langer. ek * Fay Harding also came to the rail- road commission after service in the legislature, having been a farmer in Emmons county. He, like McDonnell, possesses the same personal qualities of honesty and integrity which mark the other men who have indicted the governor. Because he deals with matters which involve vast amounts of money, @ crooked railroad commis- sioner could easily make himself rich, Both of these men have served the state for a long time. How honestly they have served may be judged from the fact that both of them still are Poor men. xe * John Husby, commissioner of agri- culture and labor, has been a fighter in the farmer's cause for many years. How unselfishly he has served may be judged from the fact that he pre- ferred dismissal as dairy commis- sioner under J. A. Kitchen, then com- missioner of agriculture and labor, to @ sacrifice of principle in a fight which he believed to be in the farm- ers’ interests. large creamery companies were cheat- ing the farmer. In his present post he has carried on the work of pro- moting dairying and @ better price for dairy products despite veto by the governor of all appropriations for that purpose. Husby, alone, among the men accusing the governor, is not a long-time adherent of the Nonparti- san League. ** * Alfred 8. Dale, like Husby, is a newcomer to elective state office. A veteran of the World war, he has fought for the Nonpartisan League in time of peace with the same spirit in which he offered his services to the nation durifg the war. An attempt to besmirch him in connection with an effort to give the state of North Dakota a decent beer bill failed dis- mally. He, like the others, has risked his political neck in defense of the) principles which he believes to be sound, ses These are the personalities in- volved as of this writing. The people will have to choose which group they will believe. Upon their decision will’ depend the future of good govern- ment in North Dakota, U. 8. government has formed an $11,000,000 bank to finance trade with Soviet Russia. There's a bank that may be a great success, and still be RRS 8 BRP Sleds Of tbe Rade: Most of Europe nowadays is like a road under construction— you travel over it at your own risk. (Copyright, 1934,.NEA Service, Inc.) As much can be accomplished with & poor charter and honest officials as | with a modern charter and bad admin- "| istration._Mayor LaGuardia of Ni PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE By William Brady, M. D. Signed letters pertaining to personal health and hygiene, not to disease diagnosis, or treatment, will be answered by Dr. Brady if a stamped, self-addressed envelope is enclosed. Letters should be brief and written in ink. No reply can be made to queries not conforming to instructions, Address Dr. William Brady, in care of this newspaper. TRIBUNE, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1934 s B efi He company for its defiance of the board’s attempt at an election to de- termine whether ferred. “substantial” number of employes de- mand it, has been attacked by lead- ers of the entire industry, who prom- to resist all & Gay for a week or two. (Copyright 1934, John F. Diile Co.) interest altogether ‘nd cut down on the payments, too. (Copyright, 1934, NEA Service, Ine.) 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