Yet It is the common judgment of
Mr. Ford's business competitors that
he Is about as mentally deficient as i
SOIOMON was.
Commissioner Coi.kr of the Depart-,
ment of Public Welfare very prop
erly opposes the Knight bill, its
passage, he truly says, would mean |
that any person could be haled be- |
fore a magistrate and perhaps Bent
nway for observation as insane.
The bill smells like another efTort
on the part of the League to Regu
late Everybody and Everything.
Mr. Townley's New Project.
The founder of the Non-Partisan
League, Arthtr C. Townijsy, Is out
of Jail and in the field of radical
political endeavor onre more. Prior
to his collision with the laws of Min
nesota which resulted in his confine
ment In the Jackson county prlBon
for three months Mr. Towni.f.t was
the big boss of the Nonpartisan
League. Under his administration
its unsound financial and economic
theories were so effectively applied In
North Dakota that more than forty
hanks were forced to close their
doors, the State's credit was 1m
jiiured and thousands of farmers
. ere reduced from a dream of wealth
to indebtedness which was a back
breaking reality.
Mr. rowNucy has abandoned the
league. When the organization's
* ortfl Dakota conference last year
gave him only eleven votes, and
v ir.UAM Lockk of Fargo took charge,
v-NLEY became convinced that the
organization had outlived its useful
ness. But Locke failed as Townley
had failed. By a referendum vote
the electors of North Dakota re
moved from office Attorney-General
Loc ke, Commissioner of Labor J. N.
Hag ax and Governor Lynx J. Fra
zikk, thus establishing for North
Dakota the distinction of being the
first State in the Union to oust a
Governor by the recall.
