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LYNN J. FRAZIER Interesting Sketch of Newly Eheted Senator From North Dakota. LEARNED OF ELECTIONTHREE DAYS LATE Non-Partisan League Now Has Three Senators In Office?Farmer Vote Has Welded With "Workers." The recent election was three days past, candidates from Texas to Michigan and from New York to 'California had been showered with congratulations or condolences, and even the anti-Volstcad celebrants were beginning to get hack to normalcy, when a farmer in Pembina county, North Dakota, up near the Canadian line, in the Valley of a river that flows "the wrong way," -came in from the barnyard to put in a long distance call over the rural party line, writes Herbert Gas.on In the New York World. He talked to a newspaper 150 miles away at Fargo, inquiring the result of the election for United States senator. He had "been about the place" and had heard no news since election day. "Why, you've been elected, Governor," was the response, and the figures available up to the time were given to him. The incident illustrates not solely the imperturbability of Lynn J. Frarier, the new senator-elect from North Dakota, though that quality is among his most conspicuous traits. It illustrates also the way of election returns in the state where they grow princi pally hard northern spring wheat and that in greater quantity than in any other state in the Unl^n. North Dakota is no place for a nervous man to run for office. He may die of heart failure before they get the returns all brought in from the remote districts and countod. In that state the town vote, which is comparatively quickly checked up. is no index of what the farmers are going to do. particu1: rly since the "greaf revolt" which began in 1915, with the organization and first campaign of the Non-Partisan League. Many a candidate has had the satisfaction?rather hollow, perhaps?of being "elected" for a day or two, but defeated by the country returns. They came through this time for Frazier, but "it was three days after the polls closed before his election was certainly known. In the next congress there will be three senators who owe their election directly to the Non-Partisan League movement, although it undoubtedly influenced the election of others of tho insurgent group in tho west whose faces will be seen in Washington for the first time. The three will be Senators Frazier and Ladd from North Ddkota and Shipstead from Minnesota. It is interesting to note mat wnue the league movement was mainly to obtain greater representation for the farmer in public affairs, but one of these three is what is known in the west as p. "dirt farmer." This expression owes Its meaning to the fact that in a strictly rural community in a state whose economic interest is almost exclusively agriculture, nearly everybody is from the farm or owns a farm or has some interest in one. Every banker is a "farmer" and so is every lawyer. 'When they are running for office they admit it. But a "dirt farmer" is one who lives on and gets his living from the farm, who has no living unless he gets it from the soil. Fraaier is one such. Dr. Eadd is a scientist and educator, a food and agricultural chemist and former president of the North Dakota College of Agriculture. Shipstead is a dental specialist, an oral surgeon, who moved from a small community in Minnesota to Minneapolis in order to establish a more highly specialized practice. The two new senators from the adjoining states will offer a contrast in appearance and temperament. Shipstead is tall?well over six feet?slender and intense, a man capable of making an impassioned plea. He is a student of literature and or government, a man of senstive nature and artistic impulses. He is of the type one might expect a "radical" or a reform crusader to be. Frazicr is broad and heavy and sturdy?a rock of a man. He went to North Dakota university more than twenty years ago, and there he was the center rush for two years on the university's football team. He has ? centre rush physique. He is a silent man. but generally friendly. In offce as governor of North Dakota he was known as*an executive who likes to hear advice, but was a hard man to move, when he made up his mind. For nearly thirty years?he is 47 years old?Frazier has been a successful farmer. He owns close to 1,000 acres of fertile Red River valley land. It was not his own inability to make a success of farming that led him to take up with a movement which in a largo measure has. been a protest against conditions which have made it impossible for the average farmer to make a fair living in recent years. His situation has been a protest against condition on the average. Frazier is one of the comparatively few- boys of his generation of American birth and parentage and of American ambition who choose to stay on the farm. Hut in his case it was rather Fate that chose, for it had been the family agreement that he was to be a physician?the farm boys of those clays ran heavily to the professions. But a brother died aftei his father's death and he stayed to continue the task of the pioneers. He was living quietly on the farm, never having sought any office in his life and never having been elected to anything of wider scope than school directoi, when he was selected by the organizing scouts of the N'on-Partisan League in 1916 as a likely candidate for public office. Carried In by League. | He refused to grow excited. He took It good humoredlv. He developed into a quite effective, matter of fact, straight frcm the shoulder, unruffled campaign speaker. The league fight carried him into office and the an4ileague fight carried him out at a recall election last year, after he had twice been re-elected. Through it all he had been energetically in the fight, never very much agitated, never alarmed and always with a watchful eye on t^ie farm. This year he has enjoyed keenly a vacation from his five-year public responsibility, which he has spent at the congenial task of planting and harvesting a few hundred acres of grain and caring for hin livestock?horses and cattle. Dr. Shipstead, like former Governor Frazier, is a native American, but of Norwegian parentage and proud of his heritage in both lands. The double heritage gives him a background of history and he reads the literature of I the cold north as well as tne AngioSaxon. His parents were among the pioneers of Northern Minnesota?for this country was late in its development. Gold attracted the first adventurers. and then timber, and the purely agricultural regions of the Northwest waited for the coming of the land-hungry from northern Europe. In their early days in Minnesota, Dr. Shipstead's parents saw members of the tribe of Chippewa Indians more often than ^hey saw white neighbors. Worked Way Through School. Henrik Shipstead, one of the twelve children, saw little to hope for on the farm. Besides, he loved a book better than he did a plow. So he struggled away from the plow. He began to earn his living at 14. He put himself through a normal school and by waiting on table and the usual odd jobs, coupled with farm work in the summer vacations, he finished a course of training in the dental college of Northwestern University at Chicago. He has held two public offices. He was mayor of the town of Glenwood, Minnesota, in which he practised Kis profession until he moved to Minneapolis two years ago, and he served one term in the legislature. He was a candidate for congress in 1918 and was defeated, and in 1920 was the unsuccessful candidate for governor, both ; in the Republican primaries and as an \ independent in the fall election, of the Farmer-Labor forces. Living on a picturesque body of water in the heart of the lake region of Minnesota, Dr. Shipstead could scarcely escape being a fisherman. He is ! something of an expert at casting for bass, and one of his favorite annual outings is a hunt for big game in the northern woods of Minnesota. Welding of the Vote. The election of Frazier and Shipstead. particularly that of Shipstead, are witnesses to a unique feature of this year's political overturn in the west. That feature is a welding of | the farmer vote and what is ordinarily known as the "working class" vote. ! This is the most important effect brought about by the organization and I campaigns of the Non-Partisan League. | I In Minnesota these two groups at ! length have built tip a majority variI ously classed a3 "independents," "proj gressives" and "radicals." In North Dakota the labor vote is ; negligible. What there is of it usually j has been with the Non-Partisan Lea' gue. In Minnesota no candidate could | win on the farm vote alone. There ' ' nro t?-n nn1itie.il organizations, one ! j known cumbersomely as the Working j People's N"nn-Partisan Political League | and the other, the farmers' organization, simply as the Non-Partisan League. Their dual indorsements made 1 possible Shipstead's victory. The Rev. ; O. J. Kvale, the Lutheran minister, who defeated Volstead for congress, has twice been their candidate. The accomplished fact of this Farm- j (er-Labor alignment in the west is ! something that is giving genuine cause j for speculation on the future course of American political affairs. The 1 same alliance has been attempted and the attempt has failed in other states. \ In Minnesota and in the northwest | ] generally the soil has been deeply j i tilled. Politicians are likely to watch the j ; future of this development with a , great deal of interest. ?:? AGRICULTURAL CREDITS. . Farm Bloc Will Press ror Financial Relief. Favorable notion at the earliest op- 1 port unity is to be sought by the farm | bloc on legislation for more flexible | rural credits, as proposed in new bills , ' - - I J pending in senate and house. The Norris bill for creating the j farmers' and consumers' financing cor- \ poration, introduced in the senate Wednesday, was laid before the house j I Thursday by Representative Sinclair (Rep., X. D?) who announced that a| i hard fight would be made for it and . J that the special interests had been j helped enough. "Probably TO per cent, of the small i grain farmers are facing bankruptcy i 'and ruin," he declared. "Prom time to! | time congress has been called upon to j ! assist business interests and has pretty j generally responded. The railroads have been 'stabilized' by the passage of the Transportation Act and are licensed to charge a rate that will yield a 1 I fixed income on their investment. "Manufacturers have been 'stabiliz- 1 ed' also by the enactment of the highest tariff law in the history of the country. Financial institutions are taken care of through the Federal lte- ] serve Act. "Enactment of this legislation will do , much lo put farming back on a paying basis. Surplus products will be disj posed of immediately and unreason able profits by middlemen, speculators and handlers will be cut out. The effect will be to increase the price received by producers on the total crops . raised and to lessen tbe cost to con- I sumers." h - i a CANTONMENT GRAFTERS i Government Wants to Get Back v Twenty Million Dollars. Civil suits to recover more than $20,000,000 alleged by the government t to have been fraudulently expended in the construction of Camps Upton, r loolronn .CVirrman and Punston. were a instituted Friday by the department of j t justice against the contractors tfho ^ were In charge of each project. u The suits were said in official circles j, to be the initial step in a campaign at t war against war-time contractors who t are suspected, on the basis of auditor's j reports, to have gone beyond the intent n and purpose of the authority given t them by Federal departments. e Additional actions are In prospect, it g was said at the department of justice, g as soon as complete reports have been p made by the special force of audito-s ^ which has been engaged for 15 months in an analysis of construction records. s Whether criminal action would be s taken in any case, it was said, would c depend to a degree upon the results of e the civil suits. v Unofficial estimates place the totill d which might be expected to be rccov- j, ered from all the construction cases at between $70,000,000 and $80,000,000. In the cases filed Friday, the government alleged that the Hardaway Contracting ^ company spent an excess of $6,500,000 1 in building Camp Jackson, S. C.; the ^ Thompson-Starrett company, $6,000,000 at Camp Upton, N. Y.; A. Bentley and Sons company $5,000,000 at Camp s' T Sherman, Ohio, and George A. Fuller & Company $6,000 at Fort Riley, Kansas. The suits were filed at Charleston, ^ S. C.; Brooklyn, N. Y.; Columbus, O.; e and Topeka, Kansas, respectively. Identic bills of complaint were laid p in each case, the principal accusation p being that the contractor violated "a " direct and intimate relationship of trust and confidence" in executing this ? contract, while it was impossible, because of the existing war emergency, for the government to exercise normal T supervision and inspection of the work. As a result, it is alleged, the contractor stands indebted to the government *' for money in the sums set forth and K for great quantities of material, declared to have been purchased on government credit and misused. The bill filed against the Bentley n company at Columbus charges there h was "great and unconscionable waste" a of the material purchased for Camp ^ Sherman and that the contractor, "sold to and also purchased and resold to the defendant at a profit" much ma- n terial that was net needed in the pro- e' ject. Further charges were made titat "large amounts of useless and un- ^ necessary work was done * in CI such manner that construction was retarded" and that workmen "employed c< without referenceto skill, experience or other capacity" were paid the same scale of wages as skilled workmen and .. 01 artisans. As a result of delay in completion of Camp Sherman, the government alleged, the cost was not only enhanced but n "sickness and death of some soldiers F ensued." h Charges of mismanagement against tc this contractor included also accusa- h> tions that he "permitted continual loaf- hi ing, misdirection of effort and sabot- ti age ? ? permitted, advised and ai caused large quantities of lumber, F cement, hardware, tools and other ma- O terials and equipment to be destroyed, ti and that portions of the project were hi sublet to other parties and the cost w added to the bills submitted to the h government. ? Attorney General Daughcrty said >"? every means would be used to hasten the trial of the four suits. "The amounts sued for," he said, ^ "represent what those who have been a continuously engaged in the work of n investigation and preparation believe fP conservatively the government ought to recover. What should be recovered *1 will now be a matter for the courts to b determine. w "The suits filed Friday represent b work on the part of the department of Justice which was begun about 15 8 months ago. P "The work could not have been com- 81 pleted any earlier than it has been." P Mr. Daughcrty declined to discuss A the additional cases which were re- w ported to be in prospect. Study of war 0 contracts?of which there were several hundred thousand?will be carried b forward, he said, and action taken in ^ each case as the facts seem to war- ^ rant. b - P England's Bottomless Pit.?Far from I habitation on a hillside in the moors I \ji x/vi ujoitiic, iiii^iaiiu, nco a uicau- ^ lul chasm in the rock. The chasm is r< of no great width, but has a sheer de- tl scent of a tremendous depth. This is the bottomless pit of "Eldon Hole," regarded for centuries as unfathoma- c ble. The gap is surrounded by a low t; stone wall, and a projecting ledge at b one end enables the adventurous in- it vestigator to peer down into the tl gloomy depths. For ages the charm s was regarded as a terrible place, pop- I if ularly supposed to lead directly to in- ; tl fernal regions. A gruesome story re- j tl lates that 300 years ago a man was 1) lowered into the cleft to a depth of | 800 feet. When the unfortunate feltow ; was hauled up again he was a raving n maniac, and died eight days later. For j b centuries the place was regarded with : superstitious awe and no real attempt | 1" was made to find, the bottom until | f* 1700, when one writer stated that half M1 a mile of rope had failed to reach it. ! b As the whole district is honeycombed |a with holes and crevices, it is probable ^ that the chasm of "Elden Hole" leads tl to a maze of underground passages. Ie FARIES SENTENCED TO CHAIR (Continued From Page One.) '"arics had said that despite the fact io had reported the matter to the town uthorities they had done nothing. Farles told me," said Dr. McGill, "that r the authorities did nothing then "he ras going to do it." Little Girl Telle 8tory. Viola Deas, 14-year-old girl, testified hat she had the 4 year-old baby of Irs. Tom Perry on her lap In the Pcry home when she saw William Faries hoot Newton Taylor. At that time he Tnylor, boy was doing nothing, she estified. She saw no more shooting intil she saw Faries shoot Fred Tayjr. On cross examination she said hat she saw in the Taylor home at the ime of the shooting, Mrs. Taylor, lisses Dolly and Lola Taylor. f?ho deled she heard Claud Johnson, one of he four victims, use a vile epithet aftr Newton Taylor had been shot and ay: "Let me get hold of the gun." Ihe heard some one in the Taylor ouse make such a remark, but didn't now who said it. Miss Gertrude Taylor testified that he heard two shots before she was hot and slightly wOunded. She was anning fruit at the time of the trugdy. She saw her brother Newton fall rounded and saw Paries shoot her. She enied that there were any blue steel Jstols among members of her family. Magistrate Tells Story. R. E. Love, magistrate for King's fountain township, testified that Faies had come to him a short time becre the tragedy, complaining about he alleged conduct of the Taylor famly. Farles had complained that he aw some of the Taylors sitting on the 'aylor porch cleaning a blue steel plsal for him. Magistrate Love testified urther that Faries could furnish no vidence of threats against his life nd that he had therefore refused to lace any of the Taylor family under a eace bond. Before leaving, the witess said, that Faries had remarked: If there is no law for it I'll make one nd you need not be surprised at anyling you hear of me doing." Magistrate Love identified several uckshot taken from the door of the 'aylor residence and also two shells jaded with buckshot which he had iken from Faries' double-barreled un, the shells and shot being offered 1 evidence. Defense Witnesses. Mrs. William C. Faries, wife of the ccused man, was the first witness for er husband. She testified that about week before the killl.ig she had s^en lewton Taylor with a small rifle fn his ands. After a policeman had visited ne Taylor home at the request of Faes, she said that Mrs. Taylor had calld to her and dared her to come out, aying she would shoot if I did and lat she would put a ball through Mr. 'aries if he opened his mouth. On ross examination she admitted she did ot go to the door and therefore she auld not say whether Mrs. Taylor was rmed or not. She admitted further lat she did not know the exact nature f the children's quarrel. Faries Tells His Story. William C. Faries was the final witess to testify in his own behalf on riday afternoon, court adjourning an our earlier than usual, after he had )ld his story. He admitted killing the oy, Newton Taylor, and he said that o killed him and the other three vicms because all of the Taylors were rmed; and in defense of his own life, [e told his story in a calm manner, 'ceasionally he requested that quesons put to him be repeated. "If 1 ad been in possession of my senses I ould not have done it for the worTH," e said. "I thought my little boy had cen seriously hurt and the thought in me crazy." He said that he had gone to Mayor ;aac J. Campbell and to Policeman ohn Jackson with his compkiints gainst the Taylors and they had done othing to help him while "things kept ftting worse." On the day of the shooting, he said, lc Taylor children had thrown out a ucket of water he had drawn fronftTie ell. On the morning of the shooting e had seen Claud Johnson and Newjn Taylor in the nearby barn with a hot gun and a rifle and u short time reviously he said that Mr. Taylor had tood on his porch and threatened to ut a ball through him and his wife. ,t that time, he swore, Mrs. Taylor as armed with two blue steel pistols, ne in each hand. "Just before the shooting one of my oys came to me and told me that ohnny had been hit with a rock by fewt Taylor. Then I asked Newt what e meant by it. I saw Mrs. Taylor ecping through tho vines in her house. heard Claud Johnson say 'shoot,' and thought if there was any shooting to e done T might as well do it. I don't emember much what happened after te first shot." Changes Story. But. on cross examination the killer hanged his story. He described in detil to Solicitor Spears the shooting of is several victims. He even described 1 detail tho shooting of Fred Taylor. no sixm or nis victims arter he had topper, to get water when he had flnihed with five. He Insisted, however, hat all of the Taylors were nnnrd, alliough he admitted that none of them ad attempted, to shoot him. Two Witnesses Saturday. Two witnesses were heard Saturday tornjng and the testimony of each was rief. One was introduced by the de?nse and the other by the state. Mrs. 'annio Brackett, testifying for the demse, said she had known Paries all of or life. She told of .hearing a. quarrel etween Mrs. Taylor and Mrs. Paries bout ten days before the killings. Irs. Paries on that occasion saidsomefiing to Mrs. Taylor and then left aftr saying, "Oo back into your hottso < or I'll get my gun and put you back." Mrs. Taylor, the witness said, had replied: "I've got guns too." She said that on one occasion she had heard Mrs. Taylor call Mr. Faries a "cootcr hunting ." Overtures Made. John A. Jackson, police chief of Clover, testified that a short time before the killing, James M. Taylor had mado overtures of friendship to Faries. He did not testify whether or not those overtures were accepted. All the testimony in the case was in by 9:25 Sati urday morning and arguments were imma/liatoK* r? n tnrnrl Inf n tlmeo o rtril _ ments consuming exactly three and one-half hours. The Predatory Wasp.?A convict, who wanted more than the regular /prison fare, once made a complaint in rather ingenious terms. An inspector entered the man's cell and found it very hot nnd stuffy. "Why have you your ventilator closed?" he asked. The prisoner answered plaintively, "Well, inspector, the last time I had the ventilator open a wasp flew in, you see, and carried off my dinner while 'my back was turned." YORK EVIDENCE FOR YORK PEOPLE The statements of York residents are surely more reliable than those of utter strangers? Home testimony is real proof. Public statements of York people carry real weight. What a friend or neighbor says compels respect. The word of one whose home is far away invites doubts. Here's a York man's statement. 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