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

. ° © - THE NONPARTISAN LEADER League Rank and File Answer Unfair Attack Members of the Nonpartisan league have been quick to resent a story printed in the Normanden, a Norweg- ian publication of Grand Forks, which misrepresented and unfairly attacked the League and its officers, and which has been echoed by other newspapers which have chosen to be hostile to the League. 3 Upon the insistence of the publish- ers of daily newspapers President Townley last week gave out an inter- view in which he categorically denied the untrue statements in the Nor- manden and frankly explained the real purposes and plans of the League. It was not necessary for officers of the League to waste much time nor energy in combatting the Normanden’s falsehoods, as events proved. The rank and file of the League have shown themselves amply able and will- ing to care for their own interests. LETTERS IN FLOODS Letters answering the Normanden charges have been pouring in on all daily and weekly papers in the state ever since the original story got abroad. The Leader has received its share of the letters, many more than it is able to print or the importance of the source of attack justifies. Among the communications receiv- ed are a number of resolutions con- demning papers which show a hostile attitude toward the League. These were passed by district conventions of League members or at impromptu in- dignation meetings. A few of these resolutions are reprinted herewith. The Leader also reprints a letter from Erich Bowman, a director of the League, who was represented by the + Normanden as wavering in his support to the League. After reading Mr. Bow- man’s letter, if the editor of the Nor- manden , does not correct his state- ments it will be because he does not wish to be fair either to Mr. Bowman or the League. Following are the resolutions: CONVENTION ACTS. RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED BY THE « LEGISLATIVE CONVENTION OF THE NONPARTISAN POLITICAL LEAGUE: Whereas, the farmers of North Da- kota have during the past year built an organization for the purpose.of se- curing for the farmers of this state political justice that has long been denied, And whereas, this organization has become so powerful in this state that the politicians who have ‘for years been feeding at the public trough are fearful that their days of free feast- ing are about numbered, . And whereas, it appears that these interests are determined to control all papers in the state which are willing to sell their birthright for a mess of pottage, And whereas, one paper in particu- lar, “The Normanden,” published in Grand Forks, North Dakota, has re- cently published in its columns a vi- cious and untrue article slandering this farmers’ organization' known as the Farmers’ Nonpartisan Political League, And whereas, this paper and others of its kind depend for their existence upon the very farmers whom they seem so willing to slander and mis- represent, 'I'herefore, be it resolved by the de- legates to the district convention of the Nonpartisan League, at James- town, North Dakota, on the ninth day of March, 1916, that it is the duty of all farmers in North Dakota to re- member as unfavorable to the farmers’ cause, those papers which oppose the efforts of the farmers to organize for their own protection. And be it furtner resolved that a copy of these resolutions be printed in the Nonpartisan Leader and sent to the Normanden. And be it further resolved, that we call upon the Grand Forks Herald to publish these resolutions, as it was the first to give publicity in fhe English language to the above-mentioned slan- der s er. A. B. Lawrence, Eldridge, N. D.; G. E. W. Johnson, Millarton, N. D.; E. G. Schilling, Ypsilanti, N. D.; John Vanvick, Spiritwood, N. D.; Earl Nolt- imier, Montpelier, N. D.; Frank Kel- ley, Marstonmoor, N. D.; A. M. Clind- ley, Courtenay, N. D.; W. H. Bing- ham, Kensal, N. D.; Emil Youngberg, Woodworth N. D.; Albert L. Benson, Woodworth, N. D.; S. T. Ferguson, ‘Woodworth, N. D.; John W. Person, Edmunds, N. D.; Stephen Hamilton, Courtenay, N. D.; C. A. Bell, Medina, N. D.; Richard Pendray, Jamestown, N. D.; O. J. Isenberger, Jamestown, N. D.; Fred Flohr, Wimbledon, N. D.; M. E. Whipple, Spiritwood, .N. D.; Fred Carlson, Wimbledon, N. D.; J. C. 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His letter deals with the article first printed by the Norwegian Nor- manden and caried in translation by the Herald, and is as follows: Editor Nonpartisan Leader: Yesterday my attention was called to an article which recently ap- peared in the Norwegian paper Normanden, of Grand Forks, which was translated into English and reprinted in the March 4 issue of the Grand Forks Herald. These two papers seem to have fits and convulsions on account of the Nonpartisan League, and when I read the articles my mind went back to events which happened about a year ago in Bismarck, when the Twitchell-Divet-McKenzie bunch was running things at the legislature, and when the decree went forth that the legislature should not heed the 83 per cent referendum vote of the people of the state to build terminal elevators, but should instead pass such laws as the proposed one-man tax commission, and the infamous immigration bill, and others of like" character. -Well do I remember how zealous these papers were to laud the mem- bers who looked after the interests of Big Business so wonderfully well. I remember that the Herald almost got a fit then, too, because the farm- ers had the effrontery to march up to the capitol and demand of their legislature that it should enact into law the terminal elevator bill, which had 'already received such an overwhelming referendum vote at the previous election. The kept press of the state, including the Normanden and the Herald, thought to down the farmers’ organization by attacking its lead- er, a man very highly esteemed by tne farmers of the entire INorihwesi, ‘one who has done more than any one man to better farm conditions, ramely George S. Loftus. These papers try now in the very same way to down a farmers’ organization by making scurrilous attacks upon its leaders, calling them socialists, political bosses, etc., etc. : They also mention my name, saying as much as that T am the only decent fellow in. the bunch, and that on account of having discovered what bad company I have got into, I am going to resign my job and leave them—even perhaps jump the fence and come over to the side of the Herald, the Normanden, ct al. I want to say right here and very emphatically, too, that I deem it a great honor to be a director of the Nonpartisan Political League, a political organization which bids fair to put on the statute books more real reform measures in one year than have been squeezed through a McKenzie-Twitchell bossed legislature in 20 years. Yours for the Nen- partisan League, SCORE SIGN PROTEST Be it resolved, that we, the dele- gates of the Nonpartisan League of the thirty-fourth legislative district wish' to make known to the people of North Dakota ‘that we resent the “false statements and the insinuations made by the Normanden. and the Grand Forks Herald and other gang” papers of the state, to the effect that the Nonpartisan League is in any way connected with the Personal. Lib- erty league, or in favor of resubmis— sion of the liquor question, and we hereby go on record as being irrevoc- ably in favor of this proposition. Be it further resolved, that we have the most absolute confidence in our leaders and that any attack upon them by the press of Big Business will but strengthen our confidences in them. Wm. J. Murphy, Deering; Jacob Mietenberger, Berwick; Albert Hay, Granville; C. H. Miller, Granville; Wil- liam Mejie, Norwich;. Ole A. Folden, Berwick; J. A. Seifert, Towner; D. W. Green, box 94, Towner: H. C. 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WILL REMEMBER FOES Whereas certain papers in this state have thrown their news columns open to prejudice the people of the state against the Farmers’ Nonpartisan e. i . 'And whereas one paper in particular in a recent issue has published an untrue and vicious slander against this organization, And whereas, if the farmers’ su ort were withdrawn from these pug: ications they could not exist, thus proving that these papers are willing and even anxious to slander those who make their existence possible, Therefore be it resolved by the farmers of Emmons and Kidder coun- ties that all farmers in North Dakota should remember as unfavorable to our cause; these papers which use their influence to render more difficult the efforts of the farmers to organize to secure those rights, and that justice Whl:h have been denied them in the past. 4 Chas. Clark, Livona; Ole A. Sjenlee, Braddock; H. F. Bibelheimer, Brad. dock; J. M. Eastwood, Glencoe; J. B. Becker, Braddock; C. A. Ward; T. H.. G. 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