The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, March 16, 1916, Page 10

- TEN THE NONPARTISAN LEADER ’ Fargo Prepares to Welcome League Huge Gathering of State’s Farmers Expected; Five Hundred Dollars in Prizes for Bands About the biggest thing politically that ever happened in North Dakota is coming down the pike. It is due in Fargo Friday, March 31, and there is going to be things doing all that day and the next, Saturday, April 1. The good old state of North Dakota is going to see something the like of which it never saw before. It is going to see anyyhere from 5,000 to 10,000 members of the Farmers’ Nonpartisan political league in convention mass meetings assembled—a mighty gather- ing of the brawn and sinew of a great commonwealth, organized, determined . and as one in purpose. It's going to be the first time that a purely polit- ical gathering of farmers of this size ever happened. Get that! ALL MEMBERS INVITED From every corner of the state the members of the League have been in- vited to come to these convention mass meetings, whether regularly elected delegates or mot, and the League headquarters believes the call will surely bring 5,000 and more than likely 10,000 of the members of the organization which is the talk and sen- sation of the state at the present mo- ment. Four big mass meetings—two on March 31; two on April 1; afternoon and evening each day. } : The League is at present in nego- tiation with some of the best-known speakers in the United States to ad- dress these gatherings. The League’s own speakers, who have _entertained and instructed thousands of League members at the hundreds of meetings throughout the state, will be on the program. FARGO TO ENTERTAIN The Fargo Commercial club - will furnish some interesting entertain- ment. The city commissioners of Fargo have given the League the use of the splendid new Fargo auditorium. The merchants of the city will be staging their great “Dress-up Week,” simultaneously with other cities throughout the United States. There will be band music, other mu- sic—everything that goes with a big political meeting of this kind. g A big parade will conclude the doin’s Saturday nights The newspapers of Fargo have been full of announcements of the big meetings—Fargo looks for something new, something bigger amd mightier than she has ever seen before in the way of conventions and she is going to get it. TO INDORSE CANDIDATES Candidates for state offices will be indorsed at this time.. Don’t forget GREAT BAND CONTEST While the League program for the state convention meetings is big and sufficiently interesting to attract thousands of members of' the League to Fargo, the Leader is not satisfied to be left out in playing some part in making the gatherings intensely interesting. Therefore the Leader is going to provide band music and a street parade on a more magnificent scale than ever attempted in Fargo or any other city of the state. i To attract the bands from all the towns in the state to come to Fargo and help make the big jollification what it should be the Leader . is offering $500 cash in prizes for a band contest, open fo every band’ in the state except the professional bands of Bismarck, Fargo, Grand Forks and Minot. These latter and the Agricultural college band of Fargo are barred from contesting for the prizes. i 4 .THE FIVE BIG PRIZES ARE AS FOLLOWS: FIRST PRIZE—ONE HUNDRED FIFTY DOLLARS. SECOND PRIZE—ONE HUNDRED TWENTY-FIVE DOLLARS. THIRD PRIZE—ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS. FOURTH PRIZE—SEVENTY-FIVE DOLLARS. FIFTH PRIZE—FIFTY DOLLARS. Rules of the contest will be announced next week, but the prizes- will be given on music, number of men in band and appearance. There. is only one condition to this contest, and that is, six bands must participate or there will be no prizes; bands desiring to enter the contest must notify the Leader not later than noon, March 28, and then each band will be notified of the number of contestants and whether the prizes will be contested for. Now. band leaders, get ready, as this will be a great event for you. Let every. Commercial club in the state help its local band to be in Fargo Friday and Saturday, March 31 and April 1, as this will be the greatest opportunity they will have to boost their town and make known its opportunities among the largest gatherings ever held here. A]so let every member of the League get busy and see that the band in the town nearest his farm gets encouragement and assistance to be at the big event and have a chance to win one of the prizes. The winners will not only get the big cash prizes, but they will . have the honor of leading the big Saturday night parade in their order. This parade will be the biggest ever seen in North Dakota and it will have fireworks and other’ entertaining features never: before seen in this part of the country. So if you do not want to miss the greatest political gatherings and _take part in the best entertinment ever offered the farmers of this state, you must be astir and make arrangements to get to Fargo on these dates. Come one. Come all. And bring your membership certificates - with you. that. The district conventions through- out the state will have been held and the first announcements of the League’s indorsements for state of- fices, the house of representatives and state senate will be made. These an- nouncements—the League’s choice for all offices in which it is taking an in- terest—are going to be the big sensa- tion of the campaign. Every member of the League who can should be here for these two days. Bring your wives and families. Fargo is preparing to entertain a Names of Those Who Won Politician Contest Prizes Winners in the big prize contest on “What is a Politician ?” have been chosen and their names are given herewith, although lack of space for- bids the publication of their answers in this issue. These answers will be given next week, and it is probable that at a later date some of the re- maining excellent but not winning an- swers will be published. There were 372 letters to be work- ed over, besides many that came after the closing date of the contest. When the contest was originated it was thought that it would be pos- sible to pick complete winning letters. This proved impossible owing to the mass of correspondence, and the high class of the answers. Instead it was found that where one contestant had given the best answer to one ques- tion, he did not have the best an- swers to others, so that the winners had to be chosen on the basis of the ' best individual answers. PRIZES ARE DIVIDED In order to give the tip-top ques- tions a chance, the mass of letters was read and re-read. After the first reading, which was a careful one, 132 of the best letters- were saved for the semi-finals. It was even more difficult to’ handle this 132 than it was the 872, because the competi- tion was keener. Many hours were spent in going over these, and it be- came doubly apparent that no single letter could win. 4 For instance, James A. McCulloch had the best answer to the first ques- - tion, but Clarence Messner had the best answer to the second, and so it went through the wh: - list, and when the best answers had been decided upon, and reference was made to the key that had been prepared, it was found that Mrs. Krueger of Makoti, had got two winning answers. There were thus 19 prize winners instead of five as the Leader at first supposed there would be, and' the prize money was therefore divided a- mong them equally, the $10 for first . prize being divided among the five who had "given the best answers to each question,” making $2 each; -the five who had. given the second best answers getting the $7 prize divided among them, or $1.40° each, and so on down to the fifth place. - : Here are the Winners: FIRST PRIZE James A. McCulloch, Jessie. Clarence Messner, Pekin. Chris Bahr, Almont. Andreas Fadness, Church’s Ferry. C. B. Joos, Pingree. SECOND PRIZE H. R. Fogerty, Maza. George Lytle, Voltaire. Milton K. Higgins, Banks. Mrs. Herbert E. Thomas, Marion. R. E. Osberg, Palermo, _ 'THIRD PRIZE L. B. Stanton, Antler. ‘. - John E; Fleckten, Kenmare, .. . Martin Salheim, Tuttle. T. C. Peterson, Streeter. Mrs. Theo. Krueger, Makoti, FOURTH PRIZE D. P. Madson, Devils Lake. R ~Mrs. Theo. Krueger, Makoti. = - J. G. Ware, Ryder, . .. . . “I1da ‘DeLange, Tower City. Ed Slama, Osnabrook. horde of farmers. Members of the League who expect to attend should engage accommodations beforehand, watching for the advertisements of the hotels in the Leader, for the little old town of Fargo is going to be filled to overflowing. It undoubtedly is go- ing to be necessary to engage accom- modations in private homes and room- ing houses, as the hotels will be filled. speakers, etc. people and institutions. - can be had anywhere. Box 919 Announcement To Newspapers and Printing Trades THE LEADER HAS INSTALLED AN : Engraving Department | fully equipped to do all kinds of zinc and copper cuts, half-tones, etchings, etc., which is now READY FOR BUSINESS The Engraving Plant is one of the most ~to- A dafie a::dlfulg i oted o ey ost complete and up-to and cut line for newspapers, printing offic t: i i for architects, tracings, ma’pls’, ebc.g e ] dravines Cuts of all kinds made for Candidafes for public office, public: Cuts of horses, cattle and animals of all kinds. Our Engraving Plant is the only one in the state of 3 Dakota, and it is established for tge service of sb?ort}? Dr:‘lgtr)g‘ ‘OUR ?RICES FOR ENGRAVING WORK WILL BE AS LOW . AS THE LOWEST FOR FIRST CLASS WORK H : ? - and the Y QUICKEST AND BEST OF SERVICE GUARANTEED; There is no excuse for any publish paper or i - Thee e mo exeusd for di,{'gpu isher or newspaper or other = | - Work, when they can have it done here at home at Prices as Low . as others charge and where Service is Quicker and as good as But there will be a bureau taking care of this, so that every League member will be provided for. SEE LEAGUE’S OFFICES Here is some big stuff: Every member of the League should see the League headquarters and the plant of the League’s paper, the Leader. The League headquarters is a busy and interesting place. It is a clearing house for activities connected with the biggest political organization of farmers in the United States. The Leader plant is probably as complete as exists in the state. ‘See how your League and Leader are run—this is your opportunity. There has been some question—not from members of the League but from those who fear the League and its ' paper—about how your money has been spent. Come and see for your- selves, : The League management hoped to make definite announcement in this is- ° sue of the Leader of the speakers who have been obtained for the two days of the meetings. Also of other features of the program. But this will have to be delayed s week. Watch next week for it. AGRICULTURE DECLINING Kansas, prosperous Kansas, is pas- sing through the stage all agricultural regions are sustaining. There are fewer farmers in the state than ten - years ago. There will be even a smal- _ ler number ten years from now. The absence of an adequate means of rural credits is the cause. The farmers who have made money in their business, partly through their own efforts and partly through inher- itances, are trying a plan that is not feasible. Crop sharing is in no sense -a success, except for isolated instan- ces. It does not offer an ambitious young farmer the sort of permanence he craves. He has the inordinate hu- man longing for land.that is instinct- ive in the human breast. The crop sharing plan yields this only in the® exceptional instance. Agriculture will continue to lang- uish until the politicians at Washing- ton learn that the economic well being of the people as a whole is tied up completely with the good fortune of farmers. They should see that it is as desirable for the government to finance farmers as- bankers in times of stress.—Kansas City Post. ; kind of work in the engraving out of the state for S0 SEND US YOUR ORDERS AND GET OUR PRICES. || Nonpartisan Leader - Farg N. QT