The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, May 25, 1916, Page 16

1 ] | ] 1 ; T R EROFO B O L AN * schedule. HE county auditors of North Dakota held their annual convention in Fargo last week. The new per- sonal property schedule drawn up by State Auditor Jorgenson and approved by the state board of equalization was not discussed on the floor, though it was " the chief topic of private conversation among the delegates. The only refer- ence to it in formal talks was by Mr. Jorgenson, who was one of the speakers and who gave a lengthy defense of the He also passed around one of his campaign documents in which he attacks the state tax commission, claim- ing the commission tried to have as bad & schedule as the present one adopted. The commission has steadfastly opposed the Jorgenson schedule, Harry Harding, auditor of Wells county, had the following to say to a Leader representative regarding the new schedule: “The farmers in my county are up in arms over the schedule and nothing will vonvince them that it is not a plain effort to soak them. Personally I think the new schedule a mistake. It should have been simplified, instead of being made more complex by the addition of a lot more columns for the taxation of prop- erty. AssessorS made all kinds of mis- . takes under the old schedule and it was hard for the auditor to straighten them out. I fear to see the result of the as- County audltors photographed on Cass county courthouse steps by Leader staif photographer. sessment under the present schedule. Both the assessors_and the farmers have been complaining . about it in my county.” Auditor Nels O. Lindaas of Traill county, one of the auditors who protest- ed against the schedule at the start and helped to smooth over some of its worst places at’ the meeting with the state board of equalization last. winter, was forced to work out a new plan in his county to get by with the new schedule. He told the Leader reporter about it. “The new schedule being so lengthy and' complex,” he said, “I realized the assessors would have a terrible time with it and that the assessment of our coun- ty would be pretty much mixed up. So-I made an offer to all our assessors that I would transfer their assessment field blanks to the books myself for $2 per township, the assessors to pay me this if the county commissioners would not make an appropriation - for it. This will just about cover the cost. . Most of the assessors have agreed to it. “So this year they will simply turn in - their field blanks to me and I will see to having the assessments posted in the tax books. The assessors always made a lot of mistakes under the old schedule : and I feared our assessment would be too mixed up to ever straighten out un- - dex this new complex plan, unless I took over the posting. The schedule should :.............................0.......'.......Q........... § Aandahl Made No Promises Editor Nonpartisan Leader: - Replying to your letter of the 10th inst., in regard to how I o obtained the indorsement for railroad commissioner, will say that so ¢ far as I have learned my name was proposed by Mr. C. J. Lee and e Mr, Chas. Noltimier, who-were the Barnes county delegates. Mr." Lee told me some time previous to the convention that he intended e to propose my name for consideration to the delegates when the ® convention convened, to which I replied that I was not a candidate for any office, but would consider it a great honor if the convention I never requested any officer of the League or any delegate or any one else to indorse me for any office, and the indorsement came to me absolutely without any solicitation should see fit to indorse me. on my part. Townley or any one else connected directly or mdlrectly with the League have never exacted any pledge from me and I feel responsible only to the :farmers who indorsed me. If nominated and elected I shall do my duty as I see it. I shall y ability serve the common people, the great - masses of producers of our state, and do justice to all the peaple. to the utmost of my lechvflle, N. D., May 15. [ [ d [ [ [ ® [ J o [ [ J e [ ] [l [ ] [ [ ] [ J [ [ ] H [J [ ] - . e ON THE SQUAR i ° News that’s not tainted, graphic’ly painted; 3 : - Only one of its kind in the state; 3 \ H Never found sleeping, ever cleamng and sweepmg—- : ° Political grafters have incurred its hate. : ~ + -Always fights on for-the cause of the farmer; o Raises cain with the grafters early and late; x ® Throws stones in the wheels of the old gang a.larmer' 4 Infuses with spirit—its fight ne’er abates. ® Stand by it you hayseeds, you Reubens and. &ackerg, ° And stand by your League till your last man’ ° Nor leave it \mtll those real progress buck [ J [ d [ 3 ° [ 4 ® ® [ d [ J ° [ J [ J ° Lie panting and vanquished, regretted by none-—- 2 Employs not the tactics of old rotten gang she Answers their charges with naught but the Dares to expose the political dead beats; - Ends forever the reign of those despots who'I Rends the big business network with nail and: w1th too v T . 4 ...........0....00.......O..0...OOOOCOOOOQOQQOODOOQQQQQ. . . e i ee —LOUIS P, LARSON’ PAGE T A e AR Ty i v have been simplified by the state board - of equahzatlon instead of made larger and more in detail.” In his defense of the schedule to the auditors Mr. Jorgenson admitted that one of the biggest protests ever heard had gone up from all parts of the state regarding the schedule, but he said the protest was due ‘to misrepresentation and szu.uderstandmg. His argument .was that all property’ was taxable under the law and that he could léave nothing out legally and hetice had added the pro- SEED COR ; S dlor renson m cter- visions for the taxation of dogs, fences, stock under one year and poultry, as well as _other new items.™He said other states: assessed even more than that and in their new 'schedules went into even more detail than his schedule did. The auditors elected Walter F. Kelley, of Hettinger county as their new presiw dent; F. F. Vaughan of Towner county as vice president; Ole J. Eide of Cava« lier county - as secretary-treasurer. Wahpeton was selected as the meeting place next year, ngh test, lugh grade, northern grown 1914 seed corn. Minnesota N, 13, Minnesota No. 23 and White Dent @ $5 per “biishél. "Only “a limited amount of this-good seed .on hand, so order today.:~We want.clover and timothy seed. ; AN 1 OLSEN COMPANY MOORHEAD, DAKOTA PHCTQ ENGRAVING CQ 631 NP AVE» S POBOX‘94| FARGO, N. DAK. 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