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ji -1 -r.\ J* K$ 4i k-* ffli* A Le Sueur more than two years ago broke with the leaders of the League, although he is just as favorable to the original program as ever. For more than an hour he held his audience spellbound and save a very carefully thought-out address. He flayed Townley, Lemke and other League leaders for taking advantage of the rank and ftle of the organiza tion and starting our state well along the road to ruin for their personal benefit. Le Sueur has been on the in side of the transactions of the league leaders and remained with them only until he saw that their program as carried out would lead to most certain ruin. He told of a conversation A. C. Townley had with him shortly after the war broke out. Townley sent for Le Sueur and remarked that during war time it was almost impossible to stop a conviction on a charge of dis loyalty. "I want to make a deal with you to keep us oat of jail," Townley told Le Sueur. Le Sueur said he un dertook the job and managed to keep Townley and several others out of jail. Townley asked Le Sueur to take charge of the preliminary legislation at Bismarck. Le Sueur framed the famous bank bill, but not as it was passed. The way he drew the bill the money would have been safeguarded. The bill as enacted permitted the league leaders to get their hands on the funds for personal use, which has been done to the extent of hundreds of thousands of dollars, he said. Le Sueur ^did-not want a bank bill enacted at tHat session of the legislature, pre ferring to try out the regular league Ee t. rogram, but Townley insisted on it. Sueur told of a conference between himself and Townley and one or two others in the McKenzie hotel in Bis marck which lasted until four o'clock one morning. Le Sueur tried to dis courage the bank plan, but finally Townley remarked: "We might just as well end the. conference. I would rather wreck the state than see the control of the bank out of my hands." Le Sueur told Townley he was drunk with power. He stated he worked so hard to see that the original league program was put across that his health was wrecked. He wrote Town ley a letter setting forth his objec tions and pointing out just what would happen, and it has come out just as Le Sueur predicted. ox »^\^r£uTpTonairiart' men who were former league leaders have left the organization. They havfe been branded as liars, traitors and crooks. He branded Townley as a man with a small mind and ambitious spirit. Le Sueur told of Lemke's being con nected with 38 corporations although Lemke had sworn that he was inter ested in but three, and at that he said he did not have the controlling inter est. Le Sueur charged that instead Lemke held a controlling interest in the 38 corporations. "In the rotten est of them all, the Consumers Unit ed Stores Co., he held 70 per cent of the stock,"* Le Sueur declared. He told of Brinton's arrest on an embezzlement charge and how he was discharged, even with four good league men on the jury. Brinton had charg ed the league leaders with embezzling 1250,000 and Le Sueur says that an investigation of the records show that the amount was $437,000. Le Sueur estimates that not less than $2,000,000 was taken and squan dered. "What they did will bring its own punishment. They will reap what they have sown. Townlpy's harvest is now about half in," he said. Le Sueur said he pleaded guilty be fore his old Minot friends for the part he had taken in the league. It was hard to part company with the men he had considered were his friends, but they became too "strong" for him. Le Sneur evidently was holding no brief for the bankers and other busi nessmen. He said the reason the farmer followed Townley was becrffse the business interests had treated the farmer just like the leaders of the league are How treating the farmer. He criticized the opponents of the league for calling the farmers "six dollar suckers" and for referring to the league members as anarchists, outlaws and free-lovers. They haa no other place to go—they had to go into the camp of the opposition, the speaker said. "You planted the spirit of hatred when you ought to nave been sympathetic. Le Sueur stated that he had liot only been an $18 suck er, but an $1,800 sucker multiplied several times.. "I was at the very headwaters of the sucker list." Le Suenr's address was very well received. He was frequently applaud ed and he impresseaniB audience as being very sincere in his efforts to bring about a change for the better. Le Sueur spoke at Odd Fellows hall in this city-Saturday night before a fair used audience. Mr. Le Sueur was introduced by his former law. partner, B. H. Bradford, who Mid the.speaker very high compliment* in that he was a man whose word was never doubted by Imw y.} ARTHUR Li SUEUR, FORMER MINOT MAYOR, FLAYS LEAGUE LEADERS BEFORE BIG CROWD Arthur Le Sueur, former mayor of Minot, who for yetfrs worked in the interests of the Nonpartisan League, gave a wonderful address at the high school auditorium Monday evening to a crowd of nearly 1500 people, a large number of Nonpartisans being in the audience. «j#' 1tr PETITION SIGNERS MAY VOTE FRIDAY Fargo, N. D., Oct. 26.—Having fail ed in their effort to exile the voters with ghosts of various kinds and thus get a following the league leaders are now endeavoring to keep the Inde- Sy endent voters away from the polls threatening to bar those from vot ing who have signed recall petitions prior to the Devils Lake convention. Inform all workers that every citizen has a right to vote. Any" voter that is challenged can take the ordinary voter's oath and the election o__cials must under the laws of the state per mit such party to vote. If any voter is refused the ballot, the attention of all who are in the polling place at the time should be called to the fact so that they may be witnesses in later court action. Instruct workers to keep careful record-of all who are chal lenged or denied ballots. Inadvertent signing of two recall petitions bars no one from voting. Use telephone to inform workers. Joint Campaign Committee. Ncrro* jonnson kitcmcn Miss Gertrude Seversen Injured By Auto Miss Gertrude Seversen, daughter of Ole Seversen, a farmer residing 12 miles north of Minot, suffered 4 frac tured thigh bone, cuts on the head and bruises about the body when she was run over by an automobile, driven by Dr. J. R. Pence, in Eastwood Park, Saturday evening. Dr. Pence was driving at an ordinary rate of speed when Miss Seversen stepped out from behind another car and before the doctor could stop his machine, one of the front wheels had passed over her The young woman's injuries undoubt edly would not have been so serious but for the fact that a grocery truck traveling closely behind the Pence-car struck the car and forced the hind wheel over the girl's body. Dr. Pence took the young woman to the hospital and has been doing every thing in his power for her. She, is recovering nicely and it is expected that she will eventually recover com pletely. Miss Seversen has been living at the home of Dr. J. C. Jackman and at tending school. Dr. Pence is held blameless for the accident, it "being one of those regretable occurrences that could not possibly have been a voided under, the circumstances. •——VOTC TCN TIMC9 Wednesday Was Minot's Best Dollar Day Wednesday was Minot's biggest and best Dollar Day, thousands of shop pers from various sections %f the Northwest coming here to secure their share of bargains offered by our mer chants. The people of the Northwest deliver the goods just as tliey ad vertise and the Independent, inter viewing many of the stores hears the same story everywhere—the very best dollar day they have ever en joyed. One merchant up to noon to day still had four more truck loads of groceries to deliver, as he was unable to complete all of Wednesday's tran sactions in one day. vo-rc 4,vcs*' TEN TIMtTS "Woman" Juror Is Man "There ain't no such woman as Ju lia Shultz at Foxholm, N. D.," said Julius Schultz, who appeared before Judge Lowe when the Grand Jury convened. Considerable excitement was caused when a woman's name— Julia Schultz—was drawn to sit on the Grand Jury. The subpoena was sent to the "woman," but Julius Schultz answered, asserting that his name had been mistaken for a wom an's VOTC "t«" TCW TIMS# Nearly 300 Cases In District Court A term of district court will open Nov. and the jury will report Nov. 2. The court calendar is still in the hands of the printer. It will contain a list of 233 civil actions and thirty criminal cases. Clerk of Court Henderson states that district court will be held almost continuously from now until March 1. —•-NBSTOS-JOHNMN KITCHCM Woman Moonshiner Jailed Mrs. Christian Fiest, living 14 miles northwest of Towner, was arrested charged with the manufacture of in toxicating liquor. She waived pre liminary examination and bond was fixed at $1,000. Fifty-five gallons of mash was found, thfe officers said, and also one and one half gallons of the finished product, which tfas se creted in a bed. pp? —WW TIM TIMM Jail Breaker Goes to Missouri Deputy Sheriffs Leo Athertch and A. Percell, of Maryville, Mo., arrived in Minot yesterday and took into cus tody Irvin Swearingeii, who has been held in the Ward County Jail on a charge, .of embezzlement. H£~ is wanted on a charge of jail breaking jail, grand larceny and robbery, JJie officers said. NC*T01 JOMNMN KITOHCN CANDO PIONEER DROPS DEAD Cando, N. D.—John Dungan, aged 60, pioneer resident of this commun ity, dropped dead in, the road while ling from his own home crossing from his own home to that of his aged mother, who had seen him' start from his home and sat waiting for him, When he did not arrive, .— ... ...— she went out aiid found him lying in thoM whe Mm. the road. *i% «"w:^ OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF WARD COUNTY AND THE CITY OF MINOT THE WARD COUNTY INDEPENDENT This Issue 12 Pages THE INDEPENDENTXHAS THE LARGEST CIRCULATION OF ANY WEEKLY IN THE STATE This Issue 12 Vol. 20 No. 29 Minot, Ward County, North Dakota, Thursday, October 27, 1921 Subscription $2.00 Per Annum Guard Honest Election Is Last Plea of Independents Fargo, N. D., Oct. 26.—The Independent State Headquarters this morning issued a last recall election message to the voters of the state, warning them against campaign roorbacks, wholesale election frauds contemplated by the administration forces, intimidation from the attorney general's office and other sources and the many and various siaular last hour tricks resorted to by unscrupulous politicians and their tools. The statement reads: "At the end of seven months of active campaigning every one of the charge? of official wrongdoing cited by the independents as reasons for invoking the recall against Gov. Frazier, Atty. Gen. Lemke and Commissioner Hagan, stand not only unanswered but confirmed, intensified and intensely augmented by later develop ments. Every conceivable thing, and many things that honorable men and women would not think of, Mve been done by Frazier, Lemke and Hagan and their supporters to get the people to think and talk about other topics than how the affairs of our state have been handled during the years that these men have had control of our state government. Lies Everywhere "They have persistently misrepresented and cold bloodedly lied about what the independent program provides for they have told the most unjust and damnable falsehoods about the independent candi dates and leaders they have threatened or petted citizens in every walk of life for the purpose of gaining ptolitical prestige they have used hundreds of public employes and thousands of Bank of North Dakota stamped envelopes, and imported more than a dozen men and women known thruout the United States to be advocates of common ownership of all property. All of this for the purpose of befuddling the voters and leading their minds away from the charges of graft, wastefulness and abuse of public confiaencc. "Failure to refute these charges puts North Dakota in the posi tion of having men in the highest public offices who have violated the laws they have undertaken to enforce and pilfered public prop erty which they were elected to guard. The Smoke Squad "It is be to regretted that the imported propagandists, who would like to live in luxury at the expense of tne taxpayers of this state, have been able to so excite thousands of our well meaning people over irrelevant matters that they are not able to see what is at stake in this election—for the state, for themselves and for posterity. There are thousands, however, who have paid so dearly for having be lieved the stories told them by the league leaders and their glib tongued organizers that the league bosses cannot possibly get a ma jority to vote in favor of continuing to keep North Dakota in the bad repute in which it now is, if those who have seen thru the scheme to loot the state and swindle the farmers out of their savings will do their duty again on election day. Look Out for Steals ''The only way that Frazier, Lemke and Hagan can get ap proval of their official acts Oct. 28, is to steal the election outright by means of dishonest judges or fraudulent counting and compilation of returns. An overwhelming majority of the voters are, however, inherently honest. They realize that we must have honest elections, or popular government cannot endure. Independents and Nonpar tisans alike will see to it .that we have a fair and square election regardless of the. efforts of the league leaders to encourage whole sale violation of the election laws, and to prevent honorable, law abiding citizens from voting. They will not be scared, stampeded or surprised by last minute lies, bluffs, or threats. "The one thing to remember on election day is that all persons over 21 years old have a right to vote whether they are registered or not, and every man and woman must insist upon exercising that right next Friday. Vote for Nestos "Vote for Nestos, Johnson and Kitchen, and vote "Yes" on the constitutional amendments and on the initiated laws. "If every man and woman will do their duty at the polls next Friday it will mean the routing of the grafters out of North Da kota, and the restoration of public and private credit, general con fidence and good will between men." NESTOS1 ELECTION PREDICTED BY 15,095 TO lO.fMOMMQRlTY-, FRAZIER STRENGTH DWINDLES In the general election! last Novem ber Ward, Renville, Burke, Divide, Bottineau and McHenry counties gave Gov. Lynn J. Frazier a majority of 4,656 over J. F. T. O'Connor, Indepen dent candidate, which was larger than Frtzier's majority of 4,642 in the state. An eleventh hour survey of the political situation in these same counties today reveals that Frazier's advantage will be cut to approximate ly 3,000. Political observers who en joy statistics contend that if 1,500 can be whittled from the Nonpartisan League advantage in the some 30,000 votes expected to be cast in the coun ties in question, greater inroads will be made in league strength in other sections of the state where radicalism is less general and R. A. Nestos, Inde pendent candidate for governor against Lynn J. Frazier tomorrow will be elected by a majority ranging be tween 15,000 and 20,000. Should the apparent apathetic interest in the election in many rural sections result in a small vote being cast, it is held very probable that Nestos' majority may reach 25,000. A gain of 1,500 for the Independents strength in Ward, Renville, Burke, Divide, Bottineau and McHenry coun ties, which seems conceded in many league centers, can be traced to two major causes. They are the pop ularity of R. A. Nestos in his home section and the damaging drive against the Nonpartisan League can didates made by Arthur LeSueur over the past week end. While better work ing organizations having charge of thie Independents campaign in this section and the failure of the Bank of North Dakota to function, coupled with the inability ef the league to Si erfect as efficient organizations as the past, will contribute to the gains made by the Independents, Nes tos' personal acquaintance- with thou sands of farmers in this vicinity and LeSueur's unanswered charges against the three members of the industrial commission and the league leaders have been of tremendous assistance in the effort to have the farmers "think things over". Minot ithd Ward county, as may be expected in view of Mr. Nestos being a resident of this city, will show a Kispite eater gain for the Independents. all efforts to discredit Mr. Nestos, the sturdy farmers who have known him for yean cannot be made to believe that he will not serve in their interests if elected. At times this campaign, featured by wild charges against the state's attorneys office with which he has been affili ated for a number of years, became so vituperative that saner members of the league brot pressure to bear on those responsible with the argument that it was causing members to quit the Nonpartisan League standard. In the general election last November J. F. T. O'Connor secured 2,752 votes in Minot as compared with 1,038 for Frazier, a majority of 1,714 for O' Connor. It is held altogether prob able that Nestos will have a majority of 2,000 or better in Minot tomorrow, In Ward county the majority went to the Independents, the first time since the league entered North Da kota politics. O'Connor led Frazier 5,331 to 4,891 in this county, a ma jority of 440 for the Independents. Langer lost Ward county by 151 in the primaries last year, the vote be ing Frazier 2,444 and Langer 2,293. When Arthur LeSueur stood before a Minot audience Monday night and, addressing himself to his old social ist colleagues in Minot, declared that he had come back to "tell the truth so I can sleep at nighty' he occasion ed assurance that the socialist vote in Minot will not be solid for the league tomorrow. To Minot socialists Ar thur LeSueur was their sage. They may not vote for the Independent ticket tomorrow but when LeSueur warned them against keeping Frazier Lemke and Hagan, it is more than likely that they will not go to the polls. .. In Renville county the Independents believe they will reduce Frazfer's ma jority of 1,011 last November to 750 or 775. The figures in November were Frazier 1,969 and O'Connor 958. The elements were favorable in a few sections of Renville county this year and with some of the farmers getting back on their feet financially they are not quite so susceptible to the argu ment that "Big Biz" is reBpom for lea. the several has had pri in Renville sjeagoe pi tjr rible The lean years. e.has had practically no organ le co panel I pi ization in Renville county tins year and tne league paper, tni Count: lie Renville Farmers Press, printed at Mohall, has not taken on the aggress- ive work have league /papers in other counties It is edited by" John R. Brinton, a brother of Job Wells Brinton. The Independents might n't' utei'iv v.jjif ^iM f! i-Y-WfS F: A. C. TOWNLEY MUST SERVE 9ft DAYS IN JAIL SUPREME COURT REFUSES TO REVIEW H&CASE have made greater inroads in the league strength in Renville county had they a working organization func tioning during the past six weeks. An organization was not perfected until the latter part of last week and it is now working overtime to make certain that every Independent vote goes to the polls. "We were a little late getting start ed but our organization is going now and we'll clip about 250 from the league's majority in this county," W. D. Keenan of Mohall said last night. Burke county has had so many political developments since the elec tion last November that it is probably the most uncertain county in the state. Almost every kind of a court action, both civil and criminal, have been started. Two Independent coun ty commissioners were ousted, the former county treasurer is facing a criminal charge of embezzlement be cause he refused to permit the coun ty's funds to go to the Bank of North Dakota and deposited them in local banks and every time E. R. Sinkler of Minot, the leaguers' favorite at torney, goes to Mohall further devel opments are expected. The I. W. W.'s had a clash with county officers and it has not helped the league cause any. Staale Hendrickson of Coteau claims the Independents will break about even with the league in that county but other Independents seem more conservative. In November Frazier secured 1,970 votes while O' Connor secured 1,272, a majority of 688 for Frazier. At the same time Independents running for county of ficers were close enough to league candidates to be declared winners when 21 votes were declared illegal in an election contest. George H. Phelps of Bowbells believes the Inde pendents will cut the league advantage from 688 to about 500. Minot men who have made business trips to parts of Burke county during the past month declare Nestos will come within 200 of carrying the county. Phelps' fig ures are considered when the claim is made that the league advantage in the counties named will be reduced by 1,500. In Divide county in November Fra zier received 2,134 and O'Connor 1,185, a majority of 1)39 for Frazier out of a total of 3,329 votes. In the primary election last year Frazier had a ma jority of 699 over William Langer when 1891 votes were cast. These figures would seem to indicate that the Independents are gradually reducing the league advantage and with splen did crops in most sections of Divide county, and the farmers accordingly more satisfied with their lot in life, political observers contend the league's majority will be cut at least 250 to morrow. One man who has helped somewhat of a bore in endeavoring to develop an acquaintance, he has a faculty for keeping the political war going on in Divide county 12 months in the year and many leaguers have been compelled to quit the organiza tion in disgust because of his connec tion with it. He has had several open breaks with more intelligent leaguers in Divide county and since then the men who clashed with him have not been considered "faithful bread line. Figures on the primary and general elections last year tfould seem to indicate that despite the per sonal following Bottineau men now on the state payroll have, the league is losing strength there. In the prim ary election 2,678 votes were cast and Frazier led Langer by 850. In the general elections when 5,465 votes were cast Frazier led O'Connor by 1,383. Many Independents claim the league's advantage in Bottineau coun ty will be cut down to 600 tomorrow because of the splendid work which has been done done by the Indepen dents during this campaign. In the writer's judgment Bottineau county will show a gain.of about 200 tomor row. McHenry county gave Frazier 3,259 and O'Connor 2,183 in November, a majority of 1,076 for Frazier. Fra zier's majority was 670 in the prim aries. D. J. O'Connell, Towner at torney, identified with the Indepen dents' cause, claims a gain of 500 for the Independents. He decarled the In sen func hojr re odncern- dependent organization has been tioning and Its work will suits. When the staetment ing the gain of 1,500 in thersix coun ties was decided upon, McHenry coun ty Independents are given credit for gaining 250. Pages A. C. Townley, president of the Na tional Nonpartisan league, today lost his "last ditch" fight against the jail sentence imposed on him in Jackson County, Minnesota, more than two years ago. The United States su preme court refused to review the case, according to a dispatch from Washington. "The refusal of the court to consi der the case was stated by Chief Jus tice William H. Taft, who gave no ex planation," the dispatch says. "It is one of the numerous cases in which the court today refused to permit an appeal." Will Begin Sentence Soon Mr. Townley will begin serving his 90 day sentence as soon as the ma chinery of the courts grind out the necessary commitment papers. He is in the Twin Cities, stopping at the Sherman hotel in St. Paul, but could not be reached after news of the su preme court action was received. "That is all there is to it," said Vince A. Day, one of his attorneys, on hearing the news. "Mr. Townley will begin serving his sentence prob ably within a month, according to the time it takes for the papers to get back to the district court." He had no other comment to make. It has been nearly three years and a half since Mr. Townley was indict ed for the offense, for which he now to serve the three months in jail at Jackson. Mr. Day and the other Townley attorneys, George Hoke of Minneapolis and George Nordlin of St. Paul have exhausted all legal rem edies. Backed by the financial re sources of the Nonpartisan league, Mr. Tdwnley has been able to keep out of jail for three years and six months. Committment Papers Waited Though the legal fight is lost and the sentence must be served, it waS pointed out, Mr. Townley cannot begin serving his sentence until the district court has issued commitment papers. That cannot be done until the papers in the case have been sent by the Uni ted States supreme court back to the state supreme court, and by the state supreme court to Judge E. C. Dean of the district court, who tried the case. Joseph A. Gilbert, former manager for the Nonpartisan league, is a co defendant in the case, and the action today applies to him. He- is- still serving a sentence of one year in the Goodhue County jail at Red Wing, under conviction for making a sedici ous speech at Kenyon. When he Ms finished the Goodhue County term next February the 90 day sentence at Jackson remains for him. VOTC TCM MILLION SAVING SEEN ON NEW WHEAT RATE the Independents altho on the league' payroll is R. W. Frazier, clerk of. Fargo, N. D., Oet.24.—While ap ^.vu£t. and managing editor of the: proximately CO per cent of the North league paper m~"Crosfey.,.. .Frazier is Dakota wheat crop has'been sold, an energetic and partly'edMtate^-^^ i't,000,000 bushels farmer who seems to appreciate the which will be affected bv the reducti sound of his own voice. He hit a financial snag organizing an ele- on vator at Crosby and is frank in a.l- terstate commerce commission, ae mitting that when the bankruptcy jn freight rates on wheat, hay and COarse grains, announced by the in- cording court completes-its consideration of North Dakota branch of the United the court he will be "cleaned While good natured to the extent of being to Usher L. Burdick of the States Grain Growers, Inc. Mr. Bur- dick says that if fa'rmers can hold their wheat until the order goes into effect, it will mean their saving of nearly $1,000,000 alone on wheat. The cut will mean a reduction of from 3 to cents per 100 from Nfcrth Dakota points to Minneapolis and Du luth, and an even greater saving to Chicago, farm and traffic experts say. VOTB VCS TEN TIMCa Severe Wind Storm Does Damage A sixty mile gale from the west leaguers". If the league suffers a blew all day Friday,, doing consider severe setback in Divide county to- able damage in the city and thruout morrow, Frazier will be blamed. The the country. Independents have an organization W. M. Smart reports about $400.00 which has not failed to take ad van- damage to his block in this city, from tage of the many opportunities Fra-! broken windows and doors and dam zier has given it. jage to roofs. Other windows in the Bottineau County' returns should 'city were broken. be watched with careful con-j In the country hay stack were scat sideration. Since LeSueur, You-|tered about the fields and roofs were mans, Durocher and other Minot so- taken from barns. Everett Cline ra cialists became separated from the! ports that a machine shed 16x30 feet league, Bottineau county has taken jWa§ picked up at his farm south ol Ward county's place as the main con- ithe city and blown clear over his tributor to the ranks of the state's! granary. Many plowed fields spf- fered damage, the dirt being blown to other fields. In some places the dust, in the air was so dense tb*t. auto driv ers had to put on their lights in the middle of the day. The housewives found their homes filled with dust af ter the storm. ——VOTC TEN TIN&E«~ Sanish Crops Were Good" Mrs. Mable Templeman writes from Velva that she has returned from Sanish where she was employed for 54 1/2 days by Peterson Bros., who had a crop of 1,000 acres. Their wheat graded No. 1 and averaged from 17 to 24 bushels. The crops around Sanish were better than a round Van Hook. The Sanish land is. rolling but soil good. Peterson Bros, operated a threshing outfit* do ing excellent work. NC9TM J6MNMN KITCHEN STOLE MOHALL MAN'S FORD FROM UNDER HIS NOSK Fred Nolting of Mohall was in Mi not Tuesday trying to get a trace of his Ford car which was stolen fioro Main street in Loraine. Nolting was standing ih a store not twenty feet from where his car was stolen. The thief must have pushed the car away first without starting it, for Nolting did not hear the engine running. lil p| S'l *»i 'f 1 I iti •4 |f Is