The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, October 21, 1915, Page 5

THE NONPARTISAN LEADER " PAGE FIVE Pchtwal Gossip Around the State Capltol ] A : Blsmarck N. D,, Oct. 26.—Bi therefore his election is assured.’ Q.| defeated for a second term as attor- [ant-Governorship. There seems to be has been the Mecca of politicians | E. D. ney general on his record would be|but one cloud in Hanson’s political 2 since- the opening of the Exposition Paul Won’t Run. {8 crushing blow, but to ‘be pushed |#ky and ‘that is the emmity of the last week. Political “Barkises” have Senator Paul Kretschmar, who was | into. ‘the gubernatorial race by his|Society of Equity. He appomted as been here comparing notes with other Treadwell Twichell’s retriever during | friends would be an easy let down.|a committee of conference on the ter- ~ political ‘Barkises” and endeavoring the session. of the late lamented Fif-|There can be no question but that|minal elevator mill tax, Dlvet Twi~ to ascertain just what demand might teenth Legislative Assembly, was also | both McKenzie and Hanna are serious- be manufactared for their respective |, Bismarck visitor during the week. |y considering such a move. candidates for office. Last winter it was all arranged that Langer Looming Large, ) Paul was to ‘become a cardidate for| The shadow of “Bill” Langer, the] state auditor. Since the legislature has adjourned and Paul has been mney of Morton county, is causing scouting among his German friends,|Linde and the organization no little for some unexplainable reason, he has | unea-iness. changed his mind. Either his can- didacy has not met with very cordial | the anti-machine forces in all parts reception or ‘else ‘the Hanna machine | of the state as the man to beat Linde has found other uses for the candid-| for acy of this particular position. Paul announces emphatically and finally|it is believed by his close frierds that he is not a candidate. that if sufficient pressure is brought Linde May Be “It.” to bear upon him he will get into the There “has been considerable talk |field, although it will be with great. Beef. Trust Wants Pay. about the capitol for some weeks that | 'eluctance. In the four years he has| A letter writtento the S'ta'te ‘Treas- Attorney ‘General Linde will not be|been in Mandan he has built up a |urer by Swift & Company. irdicates a candidate for re-election, but in-|Splendid business which is increasing | the financial straits of ‘the state. stead will be the stalwart candidate|Very Tapidly and it is conceded by |The beard of confrol parchases meat for governor instead of Colonel|his worst enemies that he cannot be |O0f them.for the institution 'for ‘the Fraine of Grafton. Alex McKenzie|defeated for state’s attorney. He has feeblfe minded at-‘Grafton. This letter has been in the city for some time|done much toward cleaningu up il | manincthe shage.of i I mtodex that and it is"said on excellent authority | C0UNtY, but he has just indugurated |the April meat bill for that institu- that Alex does not look upon the can-|2 War on the grafters of the pubs|tion had not been paid. The corpor- |lic treasury by a suit to recover|ation points out that they sold ‘the money illegally secured by a member [meat on a very small margin to the of the board of county commissioners. | state and that they could not afford. Morton county has been notoriously [to borrow money at 6 per cent and infested with grafting officials for |carry the state forever. ~There are years and this is Langer’s beginning |hundreds of thousands of such obli- to rid the county of them and to |gations of the state outstanding. recover back into the treasury large | . Alex Mounts the Hill. sums of money which have been ille- Considerable excitement was occas- gally expended. This campaign will|ioned on Friday of this week by the not lessen his political shadow which/|@ppearance in the state capitol of now falls wthwart the -councils of |Alexander McKenzie. It has been co Jong since Alexander actually visited the state capitol in person “that “the last occasion has been forgotten by even the old timers. It is said that it has been fifteen or twgnty years since he actually mounted the hill and .visited the state officials. He has spent :a considerable portion of the last two months in. (Bismarck, and the occasion of his v1sxt to the capitol was as an-escort to the Minne- apolis and St. Paul bankers and the officials - of railroads’ op:rating through North Dakota. chell, and Hendrickson, all opponents of the terminal elevator. Hanson ad- mits that the committee was a bad one, but. defends his action upon the ground that it slipped his mind for the moment that, Divet was opposed to the terminal elevator and that Hendrickson flopred after his ap- pointment. He says that in yiew of the fact that he appointed more than seventy conference committees that ~ day that he had ought to be excused. He voted for the bill himself -and ‘de- clares that he was friendly to, the ‘Equity, as the rest of his record dur- ing the session will show. _ . Warren Some Traveler R. A. Neston was ‘before the su- preme ‘court ‘this ‘week telling them how Ex-County Superintendent of Schools Warren of Ward county had collected more than seventeen thou- sand dollars for mileage actually traveled in twenty-nine months of)| his encumbency. It appears from the argument of State’s Attorney Nestos that Mr. Warren ‘habitually ‘charged | more for mileage for every month 3 during the twenty-nine months than any superintendent of Morton coun- aggressive and radical state’s attor- Langer has been select- ed, seemingly by common consent, by re-election. While Langer has not consented to become a candidate, 4 > ty had -ever charged for ‘the entire +f - . vear, ‘although Morten county has fif-] ty-three more schools than Ward county. It appears from the argu- ment that either Mr. Warren was the 1 champion ‘traveler of the world, hav- i ing traveled far enough to'have gone ' R around the world more than four times in twenty-nine months, or ‘else’ it ‘has ‘been exceedingly easy to sep- * arate the people if Ward county from 3 their money. i - A Willing Sacrifice. The fact that ‘Nestos was here try- ing %o interest the Supreme court in recovering ‘back .the money of the people of Ward county which unlaw- | fully found its way into the coffers R B of the county superintendent of schools, was not the most interesting fact in conection with his visit. In f strict ‘confidence ‘he imparted the sec- : ~ret to many of his friends that he . was willing to ‘be 'sacrificed on the % . alter of public welfare .as a candi~ . date for the United 'States senate. ‘ He ‘believes ‘that he is the one per- didacy of ‘Colonel Fraine with com-| placency. Alex ‘thinks the Colonel; would be useful and all right, but| that he would make such a consumate mule of himself before the public that the result would be wery :dan- igerous to the machine which he is | helping Hanna to tinker up. More-. over, without opposition and with the most thorough and painstaking personal campaign at the last elec- tion, Fraine run ten thousand be- hind the other Republican candidates for Lieutenant Governor. This indi-| cates that he is a weak man and could not ppossibly beat Burdjck. The purpose of Linde’s candidacy, if it should develop, is said to ‘be two-fold. First. That Linde is streng with the Scandinavians of the state, especially with the Lutheran clergymen, and the Hanna-McKenzie machine and ‘be- clouds their deliberations. Hanson Afraid of of Equity. A. P. Hanson, sppeaker of the House of Representatives, was an Exposition visitor during the week. Hanson will bacome a candidate for Lieutenant Governor if Kraable does not decide to enter the race. It is said that if Linde is net very fond to be the] machine’s candidate for .governor, | that Fraine will be a -candidate for re-election as Lieutenant Governor. In this event, Hanson appears to de- sire no better pastime than to try conclusions with Fraine for Lieuten- . : son ordained by fate to rid the state A of both :Hanna and McCumber, at one stroke. He believes that the strength | would ‘be useful to the Hanna Me- of Hanna and McCumber is very even- | Kenzie machine. Second. Linde has ly-balanced and that the progressives served well during his short term of of the state mumber considersbly |office, especially in the Equity suit, more than one-third of its entire|and that he shodtld be relieved from strength. "The progressives of the|the defeat which seems to stare him state will wote for him en mass, |in the face for re-election. To be MORE BIG THIEVES. A"* New York, -Oct. 20.—The federal grand jury has ‘returned -an indict- ment, under the. Elkins amendment to - the Interstate commerce law, @ charging “the D:laware, Lackawanna 4 and Western Railroad with failing to ¢harge the Deleware, Lackawanaa and- > Western Coal - Company .the full i amount due under-the federal ‘tar- iffs ‘for shipments -of coal ‘made by the -coal -company -over the Lacka- 5 wanna lines. ¥ - Twenty ‘specific occasicns in-wrich i ‘the Tailroad failed ‘to-colect demur- S rage,-which shouald have -been charged - Jfor . delay in skipment .of ‘the an- thracite, caused by-the toldirg up: of barges at the Lackawatinia piers in : %’ L | Hoboken, ave wited. : S “According - to Assigtant United , b States *Attorney Knox, who drew up : o|'the; indictment, the railrcad has. in_ 4 “|phis:way ‘been discriniinating in favor % ; “{’of the coal company, which is allow- «ed ‘to tbring coal into the Lackawanna “fterovinal ;and hold it at -the piers.until | “purchaser is obtained “without pay- |ing’ demurrage ichanges: reqmred by g G2 Z : “B” L 2 | thelaw. A .~ Manager Farmers’ Elevator at : Farmers’ Elevator at Baldwn', N.'D. ' ‘Baldwin. ; Company Elevator at Baldwin, N. D. s, according to Mr Knox, gave the «coal: company n advantage -over {4ts rivals not -only by the reduction ||of ®xpenses; but’ by the expedition . {.on sthe delivery from: txme ‘of plac- - |ing ‘the order. 4 - e shipments o whwh the.govern- ment objects were made. ,bdt,ween Qe /| ‘taber, 1912, and 'Oc'toher, 1934, and 1invelve an uncharged: demumage ag- - * these farmers jpersisted in using their own elevator. They semesl the drick. | gregating about $298. ‘Under the ih- Y g itide”: turned the. Company Elex’ator avould ‘cut arnder.” ; || ictment the. lackawanna ias @ :cor- »flm hrmems stick together? : porstion would ibe amenable to a fine . 3 Baldwin, Burleigh County, N Dak. of $20,000 if found guilty, ; Elevator ‘A" is the Farmers’ elevator ut Baldwin, N. Dak. Elevater “B” is a Company -elevator. Nr- ‘prs 48 manager of the Farmers’ elevator and a farmer. : .. . . Here is the record of the two elevators for thnae days: . - ‘ ' . -On ‘Sertember 22, 1915, elevater ‘A took in one hundred amd eleven !wagon loads of grain. :On the same day ‘the ‘Company ielevater took in three wagon loads -of grain.. On Beptember 23, elevator A took .in sixty-three loads, while elevator B uook in five loads. - e . 'On September 24, elevator A took in seventy-four loads, while elevator B ‘took in eighteen ‘loads. ; +On each ‘the days. mentioned, elevator B (Comrany Eleva:tor), offered 1 to 4 -cents more - per . bushel ‘th&n “did velevntor A, -And sti s S R B