The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, March 23, 1916, Page 7

s T HONORS FOR A LOYAL WORKER Py i ional Council of Insurance Federations at White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., September 11, 1916. . The person referred to, no doubt, is John H. Fraine of Grafton, Who at the present time holds the office of lieutenant governor of North Dakota and who has announced that he will be a candidate for governor on the republican ticket at the primary election this summer. : : ) ',’I_‘htus it will be seen that the inswrance men have chosen a prominent and influential man to be their representative back among the big bugs of the insurance world who will gather at White Sulphur. - . : " Colonel Fraine, too, is a man who may be expected, whether In public office or merely on a summer vacation jaunt, to be faith- ful to the interests of the insurance men. No one can doubt this who remembers what happened in: the senate of the 1915 legislature. . . oy State ,I_n,surarice, Commissioner’ Taylor had introduced a group of bills modeled on legislation already in- effect. in other ‘ states,” - The farmers of 1916 have the hay seeds pretty well cleaned out of their . providing for regulation of the insurance business in North Dakota. Just one of them was allowed to come to a vete and when the roll was called the vote on it was found to be a tie. . Right here was where Colonel John, prominent insuranee man and as lieutenant governor presiding officer of the senate, was Johnny on the spot, so to speak. It was his privilege and duty to cast the deciding vote, and he did so—against the bill—thus kneck- ing out state regulation of the-insurance business for anether two years, at least. ; ; It is seldom that a public official can in this way perform a saered duty which at the same time is a private pleasure. Colonel Fraine lately has been sending out letters asking aid in circulating his nomination petitions. Some of these letters have been sent to members of the Nonpartisan League. League members who receive these letters should fix clearly in ‘their minds the fact that the man who sends them out is a prominent member of the organization which has been formed to fight the League and its program and that in the past he has shown himself hostile to an attempt on the part of the people of the state to curb or regulate Big Business.. i VOICES OF OUR READERS THE FARMERS' TURN One Thing 1o do is to Stick Together, paid.-Now. if he did that with my check, I will do business with some : You leok this. up and — THE NONPARTISAN LEADER OLONEL John Fraine of Grafton, aceording to a daily news- Paper account, has been chosen to represent the North Dakota Insurance Federation at the meeting of the Nat- Says Oleson Editer Nonpartisan Leader: This is the first. time the farmers of this state of North Dakota have ever'had selves. - Isn't it- grand to think we hawe our organization of this kind, and can call it our owm. 'And this we have. got for the small sum of six dollays. let. ‘me. know ANOTHER POSITION - soon.—OSCAR F. Heart, o graduate of Buiton’s Busi- 9 Granite Falls last Friday where state which God intended s Amanda Collin . of S acred : i Let us: all put our showlder to' the wheel, and push (not pull) for cleaner ~we will do our duty and be loyal to ' than that the Leaghe is a heap more “than a mere myth—which “she has accepted a pesition with Nel- WM ‘son & Osmugndson.. Granite. Falls is 'méré.iifi?'m‘ : [ the eombine The leaders of this mo given. us the.hest of. brother mem : up to us to show ourf-fl‘ey% our leaders and to ourselves. Stick to- gether, that is all we have to de:i Now we have elected .our delegates, there is no question in my mind but - what the delegates will nominate men whoe will. sexve $he peorhai&h& state, and not' the so-called political gang that has dominated and run this state of ouxs all these years. : Just let us take a turn at the wheel. The other fellow has turned the wheel long enough. Therefore I plead with you, brother members and | farmers, to.uphold and support those men nominated by our delegates. progress- iveness of | who i near Fargo | the benefits our organization, we will land, our men where we want them, and the gapg politicians: will land their men - |: where they don’t want them. . £ Should we let the smooth politicians * step in and corrupt or get control of this organization of ours? No. We can not. and will not do that.. Remember the men at the hea of ahis organization have worked har angl are laboring every day to-do a goed deed, and give the people a fair and square .ldleal'. If we stmk to- ther, we will win. = ; i ge?h “‘W. H. OLESON. LEAGUE BEARS UP WELL The Nonpartisan League appears to be’ bearing up pretty well—in spite of {the Normanden, the Grand Forks - Herald and ‘the Fargo Courier-News. The much-paraded ‘“expose” seems not. to have exposed anything more . our office at 24 S. Bdwy. when ' in town -~ om March 31st and judge for yourself the:efficiency of our Silo compared. -F-with others, . . Chiropractic (KI-RO-PRAK-TIK) . The Scnanee that e nighes little consolation for republican | angsters and their tin-whistlers— - {g:e{[oumal.. E A DI o . BANKER MAY LOSE or . Nonpartisan = Leader: I 2 few lines to ask where is movmmEs) ||| Announcement |- To Newspapers and Printing Trades i and - knows § YouNedNotBesik | The League and Its Enemies Straight Talk by a Farmer to Those Who Are Attacking the Organization " Attacks on the League by newspapers and others are being most effective- ly answered by the words and the actions of the members themselves. It is impossible: for the Leader to print all the good letiers received indignantly denouncing the editors who have lent their columus to the enemies of good government in the state. Below, however, is one which deserves space fully as much as any editorial statement: ... Editor Nonpartisan Leader: While on a visit t» my neighbor across the hill a<few days ago, we were talking League. He asked me if I had read the latest scandal. I said no, so he handed me that famous (?) paper Normanden with the remark that he had never before in his life seen any thing in so large type in that paper. 4 He told me to read the advice to farmers on the front page. I did, and say, of all the infernal, impudent, insignificant, insane gush ever handed out to the people of our state, that took the cake. Therefore when in the course of human events it becomes necessary for the fool killer to perform his painful duty I wish to. g0 on record as being ‘one - of his assistants. Am here to inform you all that.no member in our com- munity believes a single word of it, and we are all Norwegians too, but we ;smay not read Normanden next year. ; : hair, and generally know- facts from fiction,-and the newspaper man who keéps the cobwebs brushed off his brain knows it. Of course I appreciate the fact that it is hard to clean a brain that “is nix”. Now as to what I think of our League. When the organizer came to me for my six dellars last spring, I believed it to be a graft. The organizer I thought might be a crook, but seeing that most of my neighbors already had - come across, I thought to myself like this: If this League propesition is on the square, and T remain on the outside, all my neighbors will laugh at me. If it turns out to be a graft they will think I am laughing at them. : - I didn’t want either one of these things to happen, so there you are. If a man asks me today what I think about the League; I tell him: I be- lieve it to be the greatest roganization ever waorked up in our state for the benefit of all the people, not only for the. farmer, but also for the business man, the professional man, the women. Yes, even the old gang politicians may get on the straight and narrow track, and get salvation. I know of one who has already bought a farm, and who ever heard of a farmer who wasn’t honest? Now s to' why our affairs are kept secret, that’s our business. Did you ever hear of a business man who. told the farmers what he was planning to do just before pulling off a big deal? et : As to whether the officers of our League are on the square oz not, I can’t say, as I don’t know them personally, and it really makes very little difference to us. Our delegates will see to that. But it will make a very large difference to the officers themselves. If they are on the square, and do their best to eomplete the great work they have commenced, they will be remembered by the: farmers of this great state of ours as long as they live. 3 If they are mot on the square, but are working for their own interests, as Nbormanden wishes to make us believe,.they will be remembered not only as long as they live, but also for some time after they are dead. ) There you are, Mr. Normanden. We farmers don’t care for any mud-sling- ~ing so kindly keep your trap shut unless you have the absolute proof to back your statements. If you have this, say so and let us see it. ; I sometimes feel funny, but I don’t feel that way when I say this. 4 We'll show ’em we'll stick together and next time “Who’s Who in Ameri- ca” comes out there may be a farmer in it. . As a final remark: Here is to the League! | May it complete house clean- ?g next fall ~tto ghhi sptisfaction 1.'_;:{1'195 %elslr cent of our people. Let the other per-cent ge to devil, they will go there.anyway. , May: the politieal grafter be 2 relic of -the past like the buffalo and: all ather wild ani may oux state continge to be the great agricultural it to ke ment and laws that » understand.. Yours for success: mfmmm s el { 'ig all things, <3 G. A. 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