The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, January 27, 1916, Page 1

~ —_— et VOL. 2, NO. 4. A FARGO, NORTH DAKOTA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 27, 1916 ~economic freedom of the citizens of ‘the state.’ . Official Paper of the Farmers’ Nonpartisan Political League of North Dakota On the front page of its issue of Monday, Jan. 24 ~ The Fargo Forum Says: % The Nonpartisan League-- “, b What Is it? The Farmers In Revolt ’The Greatest Political Power in North Dakota Today Is the Farmers Nonpartisan League - Movement Has Swept the State----It is Planned To Have a Great State Convention and at That : : Convention History Will Be Made---Fargo Should Invite Farmers. ‘ ¢ o The Nonpartisan league—what is it? & : The question has been asked a good many times the past year. Who is back of it, what do they want and what they intend to do? Are some of the many questions that have been asked regarding it. -Some of these qgeries have been asked of The Forum, and it must be confessed that until recently The Forum knew little about it. S Today, however, The Forum can answer the first question. farmers of North Dakota ALMOST TO A MAN. 2 . . Perhaps that was not the aim of the men who originated the name and who launched the movement. Un- doubtedly this movement has gone far beyond the wildest ‘expectations of those, who set it going. But it has spread like wildfire and has swept the state of North Dakota. Today it is the dominant power in political affairs of the state. Don’t make any mistake about that. The Nonpartisan league is going to make a housecleaning in North Dakota politics or The Forum is greatly mistaken. : 3 The Forum does not know who the leaders of this organization are, but it does know who the rank and file are and.in them this paper has the utmost confidence and for them it has the greatest respect. The rank and file of the Nonpartisan league are the farmers of North Dakota. From the Red river valley to the far Missouri slope, from South Dakota to the Canadian boundary, like the minute men of the revolution they are ready for revolt. And they are in deadly earnest. They are out for a purpose and they do not pro- pose to be sidetracked. ' " The farmers propose to form a great organization. In every county there is to be a county convention. That The Nonpartisan league 'is an uprising of the ‘convention will be made up of delegates elected from the hundreds of:loeal organizations of the Nonpartisan league. Each county convention will elect delegates to a state convention and these delegates will be pledged to a certain program of action. - This state convention promises .to be the most representative gathering of farmers ever held in the state of North Dakota. : : % ; ; , . These men will not be radicals, or socialists or anarchists as some people seem to believe. They will be the farmers of the state in convention assembled. ' Any city in North Dakota ought to be proud and happy to entertain such a gatherin that is going to make history. It will map out a definite program, the object of which wi independent of the grain speculator; of the “loan-shark” banker who flourishe the state; of the meat trust that dominates the live stock industry and of the uses_his office to build his own political foutunes instead of working in the i 3 11 be to make the farmer s In some of the newer sections of cheap, petty grafting politician who nterest of his constituents. he Forum believes that great things may come out of this movement for the state of North Dakota and that the city of Fargo should extend to the farmers of the state a cordial vention, promising them not only a cordial welcome and the best entertain hearty sympathy and the active cooperation of the citizens of Fargo, invitation to come here for their-con- tainment the city affords, but also the in this-effort to secure the political and £ WHOLE NO. 19 g It will‘be a gathering : i If HPUREER RS S e e