The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, February 17, 1916, Page 1

R e ——ra Hg My onpartisan feader - Official Paper of the Farmers’ Nonpartisan Political League of North Dakota %“ = e e R R R RS "~ VOL. 2,'NO. 7. 3 FARGO, NORTH. DAKOTA, THURSDAY FEBRUARY 17; 1916 4 WHOLE NO. 22 RGN R DD ~Will You Answer Correctly? | 70 You TO WIN, - “or will it actually goon abq@t its avowed business of making a clean sweep in the state?” ~ this organization were on the square. | select for precinct delegate A MAN WHOM THE POLITICIANS AND MIDDLEMEN CAN NOT INFLUENCE— then ~ - you hay _ SWEEP SPATR: = o . . But, if you fail to ‘ai:t;,b'!f,""ifiygfi(pérmi_t the politician and the friends of the m - meetings and make their tools your delegates, then you have lost and nothing the Lg: ~ - Then will the League “go on about its avowed business of making a clean PEEEEELEEEE Asks the Devil's Lake Journal E3 > & Editorial in \%wils Lake Journal The average North Dakota politiciali\:fbht now is bothered by the thought of what is coming down the road as a result of the organizatiy ©of the Nonpartisan League. Privately the poli- ticians, or at least most of them, are sweatl = Jarge drops of their precious. political blood. They are scared, plumb, cold, stark scared. Th“fy' fear a whirlwind has been started in the state and cyclone cellars are appearing more inviting day by day. No one, of course, knows just what the influence of the Nonpartisan League will be in the politics of North Dakota in 1916. It is an organization which today is said to possess a member- ship of between thirty and forty thousand farmers. Its-afairs-thus far have been handled with rare judgment and business sense. :Somewhere in the affairs are brain® of an unusual order. The yuestion will be “Can -those brains’ which founded the league control its course in action ?” _ The answer to that question is the answer to the biggest question in North Dakota state politics today. Organizations of this kind have a faculty of being misled, of becoming disorgan- ized quickly, and of frittering away their strength on non-essentials. UNDOUBTEDLY TODAY HANNA AND McCUMBER AND Mc¢KENZIE HAVE THEIR AGENTS AT WORK . IN THE <4{ COUNCILS OF THE NONPARTISAN LEAGUE ATTEMPTING TO CONTROL A POLITICAL 5 FORCE WHICH THESE PRECIOUS REACTIONARIES HAVE FOUND DIFFICULT TO OPENLY FIGHT. WILL THE LEAGUE BE CAPTURED BY THE AGENTS OF THESE MEN, BROUGHT INTO THE CAMP OF HANNA OR McCUMBER, OR WILL IT ACTUALLY GO ON ABOUT ITS AVOWED BUSINESS OF MAKING A CLEAN SWEEP IN THE STATE? ~ We shall see. The Nonpartisan League is expected to hold a state meeting in March for the purpose of endorsing state officials who will put through a reform program at Bismark. The people of the state will await the action of the league with unusual interest. (% ERINEOHOHERRE e CRERER OILOROROKE TR That is the question—will the League be captured by the politicians and turned over to the enemies of all progress -The answer to this questii)‘g?RESTS WITH YOU MEMBERS OF THE LEAGUE. So far, you have taken no active part. Most of you have been watching closely to see if the nien at the head of < You have seen every pledge and promise so far fulfilled. NOW IT IS YOUR TURN TO ACT. = ; A ' Next Tuesday afternoon, February 22, at 2 o’clock, you make your first answer to that question. i If every member of the League is alive to this great opportunity—if you all gather at your voting place and then e answered “YES!” THE LEAGUE WILL GO ON ABOUT ITS AVOWED BUSINESS MAKING A CLEAN IN THE STATE. = ‘ T idlemen »tyo coifirbl‘ ~ BUT YOU WILL NOT LOSE—YOU CAN NOT—YOU ARE BOUND BY ‘We await your dfiswer. in full conflfienee that every man will do his part.