The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, January 13, 1916, Page 7

v - = ical moment, of course, these candi- - _ thing. sand ask me to come again. Herq goes, -are straight. ‘ "kata. the market ruled - .~ eastern points‘-whfla “ruled steady to’ 10: lower. With the presidential pnmaries less than three months and the gen- eral - primaries less than six months away, North Dakota is: getting into " the ‘prelintinaries- of - the actual cam- psigmng that will last till thb gen: _eral election next November: Already several well defined ‘move- ments are under way, the Demo- cratic state central committee has met and once again the “dear’ pée- pul” have become objects of gr consideration by the poh:t their little brothers. “ Lately the voters: have T)een treat- " ed with spectacles of the usual early attempts to make it appear a spon- tameous hoom ‘has been started. for this or that man for, this or, that-of- fice, the man ment;gneg, not seeking the nfiice but being _ urged, by the “msxstent demands of his friends, etec.” At the pfiychplng dates will annougce reluctaptly that the “appeal of ¥riends and seeming’ general desire of the people” that they seek election has at last deter- -mined them to risk their chances as candidates. " State Primaries on June 28. ~ Dates For Presidential and State Primaries ~=Presidential Primaries Less Than Three Months Away --State Primaries in June' Will See Many Candi- ,E[ectwn Dates and. Daia:a dates Out and Race Will be Interesting--Other- .of course,, tauthe respective national party econ- party nominations for United States ventions; will indieate their choice senator, members of comgress, state for mational party nominees for pres- officers and judges open 60 days he- ident. and vice -president, will ‘choose. fore the primary, giving' 30 days: dur- ;party candidates for presxdentml ing which these petitions can be and. electors: to east the state’s vete for filed. president in the electoral collsge For persens desiring to run for after the general election “next~No- the party nominations for the yember and will choose committee- above offices petitions containing men- from each party to represent names equaling in number 3 per the; SP‘” in the national ecommit- eent’.of “the: aspirant’s party vete t“fl of the parties. ‘ cast for the party he represents. for . @ity Elections on March 2T the same job: at the Iast eleetien, are A feature of the election laws required, provided that no aspirant effective in 1916 is the setting for- need obtain more than 300 names to ward of all city elections in the get on the ballot. state which would otherwise be held In the case of all county and, dis- -ih -April. The law provides that in trict offices -official “filings:"of peti- presidential election years eity elec- tions of candidates take place not tions coming in that year shall be more than 40 days or less than 30 held at the time of the presidential days before. the primary election, primary election, March 21. .. % giving the period from May 19 to 29 Ninety days prior to the general to file these petitions. For these of- And so it will centinpe until fl. Primary election the law permits the fices: petxtmns are. required. contain- ings for the general state pmmn.rle= which fall on the last Wednesday in: June. This will be June 28. The presidential primaries come the third Tuesday in March, which will March 21, but long before these dates the campaign will have warm- ed up in great shape. At the presidential primary elec- pe 1 securing of signatures of voters on petitions-te. place the names-of as-_ pirants the primary ballots of the varions parties. Thus about April the ‘petition pushers will get busy. Signatures secured befere that time can:xot be counted under the SE e - Time for Filing Pefifiofis. ing-names of 5 per cent of the vote cast in the party the aspirant repre- sents at the last election for the of- fice sought, provided no candidate need obtain more than 200 names to get on, the ballot. Registering Voters. Listing of party voters. in every " precinct in the state eligible to vote tien voters in the various. parties -: Official filings of petitions to place at the general state primary election widl select delegates: from’ the state persons K n the primary baHot for will commence April 1 and continue, . We Let the cher Fellqw Make the Rules of ‘By ERIC MOEN . My neighbors say 1 am a scold. Since my articles began, -to appear in the LEADER several. League mem- e exovicis bers have written saying-the- *same~hot.sun during vaeation they go. to. mak\e all the rules. It’s a cinch Yet they all seem to like it then, and l’m going to scold some mere. The fact is we farmers need a scold- ing. I am willing to admit that I need it more than any other farmer _in Grand Forks county.- - - Here we have worked our heads off for years. We have gone eut fair weather and foul weather, sick or well, and produced all tke -wealth this state has got. = - And, outside of a llttle rige in the value of our land, what haye WE got? | Fve worked like a horse-for just thirty years in this county, mmself. T’ve raised good crops and F have rais- ed; bad crops. I have skimped and sawed and schemed. I have made sac- rifices, denied my fnmnly nnd . over- worked everybody on the place, = And what has it brought. m." A Bundh of Sminoth. Fellows. Fve got a fairly decent home and work some more. . : All this time there has been a : small bunch of smooth fellows: living in’ this state who never do- & tap. Their hands are soft. Their backs They feel fine, They look. hearty. - Their wives have: everyfihing ’they want, '.l’hexr clnld'rbn 20 to pnvi.te the lake and He im the shade. They don’t exist, they EIVE! X are not going to make them for YOU good, They make them fon THEM-~ One side, lots of work and. little "SELVES. w huury Qther side, lots of luxurx and little work. " Problem—WH¥? . * I know. It.teok a League organiz- er to answer that guestion. It cost me nine dollars’and his dinner, but it came cheap at that. - Here’s what be said.in his own. words and, believe me, these or- ganizers dor’t beat around the bush when they say snything: A Gamm; -fi Sovon-Up Say, Mr. Mnea “did you ever :play 8 game of cards'.' Well Supgese, you and I played a %me Yof sevenup.. Suppose T bet‘fihfi$otd against your best team. Then sgppose YOU LET ME MAKE ALL THE RULES. And “suppose I made you play exactly ac- “cording to.my rules. Where would. YBU be? : qf you were the best geven-up w . would you he? How long would it take me to get your team? = What chinée would you have of winning this Ford ear? “Play MY game: sccording' to MY rules and it's & cinch I'm not gomg to.be foolish enough to Tet you win mneh Do:you get me? ““Now what are yon. farmers doing. eré in North Dakota? You produce 16" w@ryth!ng but let t:he rot:hex- fe}laws St. Paul Jan. 10 --—Wlth 2700 : cattle on the market here to-day and hegvy receipts on eutern river mar- lowe! at - ‘this market Choice ‘to $8.25; feq steers, ,trom n:so, "good to choice, from $7.00.to $7.50; 0 good, !mm {6.50 to 87. 0' uqmd #4.25 _to - $4.50. Canaers ©'$8.60 to $4.00. " Shelly old cows, $38.00 or less. Bulls, 16 to 25 lower to-day. Butcher balls, from $5:00 to $5.50. Bolognas, $4.75 to $5.00. Comqu ught ‘bulls fmm ;4.00 to. 34.5& B “Veal ca.lves held steady, $6.50 culls. - ‘Weiners trom $4.00 to 2 54‘50. : e stocker _and teeder market ] bont steady with last weeks with .- $9.50. top; $7.75 seconds; $6.00: to. “And what’s the result?: Lmv -prices on everything you have fo sell, high prices en everything yeu have to buy, and'ne less than sixteen hun~ dred laws on ‘the statmte bwoks of ‘North Dakota for the purrose of res straining you every time ynu iy tD .get something better! “That’s the reason for flw Farmerns Nonpartisan League.” . That’s it, exactly. We get the skimmed milk -and the work—-becaus- we haven’t “had sense;‘enough: to, get. together and have something to say about making the rules, Short on Represeniation We farmers are over three-fourths of the people of the state and have about one guarter of the representas ticn in the state legislature. If that isn’t taxation without mpresbntatxou what is? 'a little land and. anm opportunity to player in the entire world, where A little group of perhnps 'ten per cent of the people have all' the rest: They are short in numbers But long in ‘organization. They maintain & majority in our lawmsking bodies. Majority means all- becnuse ma;:on'ty rules. Therefore this: little group,” ‘by con* troling the legislature, thakes' all thd laws— the rules—under = which the rest. of us must live and work and do: bnsmess. : 3 i Select feeders, $6.25° to $6.76; good to elipice . feeders, . $5.75 to $6.26; fair to good, $5.25 to $5.75. Good to choice yearlings and calves, $5.75 to $6.25; fair to good. $5.25 to. $5,75, common to.. tair 84,50 to. - Stock heifers good to cholce. $5.25 10, $5.50; fair to good, . $4.75 to $5.25; feeding cows from $4.00 to $4.50. Stock bulls from. $4.50 to $5.00. : Dairy. _cqwé ~slow. t0 move, as provided by law, till within 30: days of the primary. This work is officially done by the various assess+ ors ‘of the state, the voters’ names ‘being taken at the time the assesg« - ors are making-up their assessment lists. ~The assessor gets 10 cents for every party voter ke lists, On the resmitt of this canvass, which -will ‘show +party strength in the-various-eounties and the state at large, much political chatter will _eenter. ' Tt owillhe .&*W&t time for .the dopesters. . . Attack on Prfinry Law. There- kave been rnmblings the last. week or so that *ndicate an attack . will develop during ‘the campaign on ;. - the ‘direet. primary !aw. "Where it : will come from or ;im will be bold enough to step out.and,oppose the::x - people’s primary:whieh has snp,planth ed the logrolling- paxty conventlons in this state has not. ’been. md:cated.. But the papers have carmed articles passing for news in which “general dissatisfaction” with the present law: is mentioned as a fact .and intimat- ing .that “streng criticism” of the law has developed among former - supporters of it. A modified con« vention plan is.suggested but nobody; is quoted and no names are mention-- ed: Nobody, probahly, would “hesi< “tate to say the primary law can not: be amended successfully = to alter some unfair and objectionable feat- ures. But who will step out and father a movement for the old._cons 4 vention plan? i ot the Game Naturally they are not going to- make the rules to favor US. They are going to be for the men who make thém. JFbat means we lose and they' control the game, holik all the trumps,." place accerding to these rules. They control $he.game,;hold all the trumps,. thave every eudmanhed. old an ex- tra deck or so in xeserve and then have the brass to telt us to play the-’ game. 2 Th‘ Reason ¥ Signed Up That’s the reason ¥ signed up and then spent four days in that Ford belping ‘td* get'my meighbors to sign R up. | It’s got to be done and we farmers- have got to.doit, This League must | be built and right NOW. We have wasted' too much time already: = 7 We have warked “our -backs long: " enough. Heveafter we:leave that part toitHe herses. From mow on we are going to work our heads. LET'S ;GET CONTROL OF OUR OWN LEG!SLATUE. We do the wark, take the risk, do- the planning an® then take the smal- | lest end, mnd all because the othen fellow's rules say we have to. Next time WELL:make the rules.. Then we swill have a show for our money. The purpose of the Nonpartisan:~ « League is to make it possible forr three-founths of the people to have: three-fourths.of the wepresentation in: our legislature. No same man can ofi]ect to this. 'Sp, let’s all fall to and” BOOST. seales only. Good to choice cows, $55 to $70; fair to.. good from $40- to $55- ° The hog market &o—day ruled 26; lower, the heaviest: run on record; 44,000 hogs here -to-day; 87,000 in- Chicago’s-market. The sheep rates alout steady. Top- bringing up to $9.76; seconds,. around $8.00; top ewes, $5.50 to- $6.26; culls from $8.00” to $4.00; $9.00; lambs, some choice westerns- Sales range from: .©$6.25 to $6.45; bulk $6.35 to $6.456. % e i