The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, February 24, 1916, Page 2

o O A SRR A SA A K Y SR AT PR Talkmg With Members of the Farmers’ League @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ @ SERVES AS A WARNING, @ 8 Editor Nonpartisan Leader: The exposure of the letters © from Geo. Smith at Plaza made ® 8 guite an impression in town of ® Ryder, as he is well known here. ® @ This serves as a warning to ® ©® League members and also to ©® @ self seeking politicians. Have © ©® handed several of the latest © © numbers of the Leader around ® @® with instructions to pass them © @ along and soon we will get ® © many more members around © @ this part—J. E. ERB. [} O] [CRONONONONONONONONONONONONONO! Uncovered Dishonesty The Nonpartisan Leader is a fine paper. It has uncovered a lot of graft and dishonesty. Keep the good work going.—E. E. TREASTER. Helps to Awaken I hope the Leader will have a big influence among the farmers and that it may help to awaken many of them. —WES. ATCHISON Never Spent $6 So Well I am a member of the League and like the Leader very good. It should be in every farm home in North Da- kota. I never spent $6 so well in my life as when I became a member.— 0. X. LARSON. Hits Big Fellows Right - I am a member of the League and think your paper hits the big fellow right. Wonder why Jorgenson did not see fit to tax the farmer’s chil- dren.—E. F. SCHNEIDER. All Have Been Shewn I find the Leader very interesting reading. You are deing your part well. It’s up to the farmers to back you up in this movement. If they do not get what is justly due them it will be their own fault, as we have all been shown.—R. L. CEAPPE. Leader Pleases Him I have been reading the Leader since early last fall and I am especial- ly well pleased with it. There is nothing better for: the farmers to read and a good many in this neigh-- borhood are getting intensely inter- ested in it—CLINT ROGERS. * Got Gang on Run I think the Leader:is fine. I gue we got the gang on the run—& KLEIN. Shows Up Grafters We are very much interested in the League and its effort to better com- ditions of the North Dakota farmers.- It is the only way to get and hold them together. The Leader is fine. - Like the way it shows up those graft- ers. 1 will do my part as a member of the League as far as I knuwhcw— PETER CLACY. League and Leader All Right I have been reading -the Leader every week and think the Leader and - League are all right. I would not miss the Leader for anything, and all the members around here think it’s all right.—ALBERT PETERSON. Rocking Crafty’s Boat Am glad to see that Bill Crafty’s boat is beginningto rock. Let us all keep a pushing untxl we tip her over. —W. R. WILSON @@@@@U@@@@@@@@@ © - BANKER HOLDS MONEY @ @ Editor Nonpartisan Leader: ® © I am a $6 -sucker and I want @ - © my check paid:at once. I © had money in the -bank @ time, I phoned to. the @© yesterday and asked: them © they had paid it and they @© “no,” but was holding it for @© lecting. - What do. yeu © about that? I told them to pay © @© it at once, and they said all.® @ right if I wanted it paid they ®- © would do it. -That is some ® © banker. He had the money there ® @© all the time and then I had to ® @ tell them to pay it. This is the ® @ First National Bank of Rolette, ® @®© N. D. I don't care who knows ® @ this. You see how bad they ® @ hate to see the farmers get to- © © gether. @ E e Es- . ® Thanking you for the good © © you have domne-and hoping you: © @© continue the hot stuff, The ® @ Leader is'‘the ondy paper that ®- @ is worth taking.—A. W. AR- @ @© THUR. S O) @ ® G ROROMORCHCHOROHORORORORORCNOR E.f @Q@@@@@ THE NONPARTISAN LEADER Tuesday Was the Big Day and People of the Whole State Are Watching and Hopefully Waiting to See How Farmers Peformed Their Duty--Victory to be for a Producers’ Administration of the State Tuesday was the big day. Washington’s birthday, February 22, marked the beginning of a new era for North Dakota. - The eyes of all the people are upon you members of the League. Anxiously they wait to see how well you performed the task you set for yourselves—and hopefully they wait. Every liberty loving citizen gladly views your coming to take charge of the government of a state in which you produce all the wealth. All good citizens greet hopefully your determination to change a banker’s “business administration” to a farmers’ “PRODUCERS’ ADMINISTRATION.” None but politicians and other tools of organized greed will Extra! Extra! By 3 o’clock Tuesday afternoon—day of the precinct meet- ings—the Leader began to get news of the results, so it was decided to delay going to press till Wednesday noon. Already this morning, February 23d, at 9 o’clock, more -than fifty reperts of precinct meetings have been received at League headquarters. ALTHOUGH IT IS LESS THAN 20 HOURS SINCE YOU CLOSED YOUR MEETINGS HALF A HUNDRED DELEGATE CERTIFICATES HAVE ALREADY ARRIVED. These reports show that as high as fifty members were present at many metings. ; WHAT WILL THE MORROW BRING? i find fault with your leaders, your program, or the men you sehct te carry out that program. s Your first and strongest opposition will come from the dis- appointed office seeker. - The man who fights you openly and dlrectly is not much to be feared. BUT WATCH FOR THE WOLF IN SHEEP’S CLOTHING! Your most dangerous enemy is the office seeker, especially he whe has been beoosting your organization for selfish purposes—ito get your indorsement—but whom you know you must disappoint. These self-seekers will prove their insincerity and unworthi- - ness by doing all in their power to discredit and make you dissat- isfied with your leaders and the worthy men you de select to make your Iaws. Already you have seen evidence of this But never fear them. WEED THEM OUT. ELECT THEM TG STAY AT HOME AND EARN AN HONEST LIVING. Then theywillbecoxlehmestmenandtheywfllleamtobetterrespect you and yeur organization. K you would carry out your program and establish the best and cleanest state government for all the people your delegates must seleet for law makers and state officers the best mnzens among you—and these are not self-seekers and politicians. They are just pliin, commen, industrious, -whole-souled, kib- - erty-loving neighbors of yours. Men who make a living the same way you do—by digging it out of the soil. Middlemen make their money by digging it out of the farmers. H you send middiemen or THEIR TOOLS to make yo\n' LAWS, THE LAWS WILL BE SO MADE THAT MIDDLEMEN CAN MORE EASILY DIG THEIR MONEY OUT OF THE FARMERS. If you send earnest, seber, mtelhgent farmers, WHO CAN NOT : BE INFLUENCED BY MIDDLEMEN, these farmers WILL MAKE LAWS AND CARRY ON THE BUSINESS OF THE STATE, SO THAT YOU CAN BETAIN A MORE JUST SHARE OF WHAT YOU PRODUCE AND WHAT BELONGS TO YOU. If you have selected the right kind of delegates they will in- dorse the right kind of farmers to guard your state, and all good ‘arid progressive citizens will rejoice. : The progressive people of this state rest in full confidence that you will establish a PRODUCERS’ ADMINISTRATION that will be much ‘cleaner and better for all the people than the present ¢ “business administration.” You have everything to gain, as you could not do worse than has beew &one in the past. BUT BE ON GUARD! “ETERNAL VIGILANCE IS THE PRICE OF LIBERTY.” @@9@@@©@@@@@©©©©@@@Q@Q@@@@@‘@@@@@@@@@@@@ [CXCRORONORORONCRORONORORORC) O] @ ® @ WILLING TO GIVE $25. O] ® “Editor Nonpartisan Leader: ® @© As our four of us' members were © @© talking I made the remark and © @© said, ‘“how do you do you $6 ® @© sucker and Brother.” J. J. Al- ® @© len said he was proud of it; said ©® © he was willing to give $25 to ® @© see it go through and we all said ® © we all feel the same. Let the ® © good work go on~—T. . @ ® CAMPBELL. O] O @® O] [OCRONONONONONONONORONORONONO] Enjoys the Leader I enjoy the Leader. It’s fine.—I. R. STEWART. Eve rybody Likes It Everybody that reads the Leader likes it.—O. A. JOHNSON. Old Gang Got to Go The Leader is good. Go to them. The old gang has got to go.—GEO. WEAD. Bound to Win The Leader is fine. Continue as you have started and we are bound to win.—N. O. SEBY. Wouldn’t Miss the Leader We want every farmer to get the Leader, for no one ought to be with- out it. We wouldn’t miss a copy for any money.—ANG. RINCKER. Getting Eyes Open The Leader is O. K. and hope it will continue. We farmers are some- thing like the Dutchman’s pup—we get our eyes open after our brains are knocked out.—D. C. FULLER. Reads From Cover to Cover Read the Leader with much satis- faction. Out of 15 papers that come to us each week the Leader is the only one that is read from cover to. cover—J. H. HEBIG. Every Farmer Should Join I have been getting the Leader since the paper was first printed and I wouldn’t miss it for anything. I wish you good success and hope you * will get every farmer in the state to - join our League. It is only thing for the farmers to do.—CHAS. SERR. Carfoons Are Great I am well pleased with the Leader and h the farmers will organize and stick together. The Leader and- Pearson’s Magazine should be read by all sound—mmded people. The car-’ issue of the Leader;——ED Tflofi @@@@@@@@@@@_@@@@ 19 ; @ © THE “SUCK'EBS” STAYING 8" @® Editor Nonpartfsan Leader:. = ® The Leader is a paper worthy ® @© of the cause that it advocates. ©® @ It is the medium by wkich the ® © farmers can be informed of the @ @ proceedings of the League. And © © therefore, they can act with in- ® @ telligence and understanding, © @© causing a united effort which ® @© will eventually bring the desired ©® @© results. ¥armers are widely ® O] distrlhnwd, therefore making @ @ it difficult for them to organize. @ But by means of a good paper © like the Leader this dflflculty is @ partly overcome. The members @ how to proceed, and if they ® are awake to their ewn inter- ® eststheywmtake advantage © ean, -I am su e they. . would & is my opinion that these that @ " being hoodwinked. cinct delegates on the birthday © liberty, and on that ‘make a stroke for our own ju- ® BAHR, O @@@@@@@@@@@@@@ ‘of this one grandopportunlty@ “them. @ ' cause would @ - become -a great deal more en-.© - thusiastic and would go a'long @ ' wayontotthelrroadtpserve ®~ the ‘The $6 invested is but a drop @E At in the bucket when the vast.pos- @ : . . sible results are considered, It © : gave their checks for six dollars ® - to the organizer last summer ® were not the “suckers”, but @ : those that failed to do so and ® listened to the talk of the bank- @ . ers and local politicians are the ©® suckers and the ones which are ©® - . @ ¥t plezsed me to learn tlmt@; we.are having election day pre- ® of our greatest statesman—a © . man who stood for justice and @ 7 'we will’ O_ p stice and lberty—GROVER @ °