The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, March 30, 1916, Page 9

" A BIG DRI If any farmer ever dr state was going to lay down, A terrific drive will soon be | directed at thé head of the f Inf?l'mation to this effect was received by the Leader just be- fore going to press. It revealed the fact that the bosses at Bis- _marck are planning the most gigantic attack yet made on this farm- ers’ organization. It is beitg organized right in the headquarters of the old gang. It is being the Dodgers and their backers planned by the Craftys, the Sliprys, This attack will not be directed at the rank and file of the farmers’ organization BUT AT SOME OF ITS OFFICIALS-- probably at only one of them. It will be a personal attack—not an attack on the fundainental principles of organization. It will dis- tort, magnify and twist any shred of fact that may exist and if a fact does not exist it will manufacture some for its purpose. tions. It will be built upon a tissue of fabrications and félsifications. It will seek to blacken the character of a man—a man who has done more to free the farmers of this state from the clutch of organized greed and political skullduggery than any man the state has known. - He has done more to cause the farmers to feel, realize and appreci- ate their strength and power than any other man. It is this man who will be the object of attack by the bosses and highbinders that hold the North Dakota farmers By the throat. A great battle is pending—the greatest battle you farmers have ever gone up against. It's a battle of organized Greed against organized Right. If you stick you will win and your victory will be complete and a better day will dawn. If you fail to stick you will lose and if you lose you are down and out for the next fifty years. You and your children will continue to be the pawns on the political chess board of this state for the next half century. This battle will open soon—maybe before this paper reaches you it will have started. 'The trenches have been dug, the wires have been laid, the firancial ammunition has been piled high and The attack will reek with calumnies, lies and misrepresenta- ‘, : the organization which it has taken Crafty and his gang-30 years to build is in perfect working order. The best lawyers that monéy can buy—and it can buy the best there are, have been engaged. PROGR Here Are the Features of Rousing State-Wide Celebration of Nonpartisan League at Fargo abounding in entertainment and educational features, has been prepared for the grand convention massmeetings of the Farmers’ Non- partisan Political league in Fargo March 31 and April 1. Politics will be in the limelight as never before in a convention of farmers. The con- vention will have indorsed a candidate for governor before the meetings are over and he will address the assem- blage Saturday evening. Candidates indorsed by the League for state of- fice will also talk. WELCOME BY MAYOR. League headquarters has completed the program. The farmers will be welcomed by Mayor Emery of Fargo. Prominent on the program will be agnus Johnson, known all over the state as an Equity booster. Ex-pre- sident John. H. Worst of the Agri- A PROGRAM of unusual interest, cultural college will talk, as will Pre- sident E. F. Ladd of the college, the man whose investigations have shown the unfairness of wheat grading rules and who has led the fight for reform in the rules. Professor John M, Gillette, dean of sociology at the state university, will present an address, and Ex-senator R. F. Pettigrew of South Dakota is-on the program. s ALL ARE INVITED. Every member of the League and his family is invited to the big meet- ings and Fargo expects to be crowded with farmers from all parts of the state. The big political parade with torches and fireworks will take place Saturday evening. Band music by many ‘bands promises to be one of the best entertaining features. The meetings will be held in the big Fargo auditorium. Wants Light on A. C Affairs Nonpartisan Leader: At about the same time the board of ‘trustees of the Agricultural college took over the affairs and work of the Better Farm- ing association and by underhand work (which resulted in some of them re- signing tried to oust President Wgo'!;;t‘;.g ) Mr. Hellstrom published a Jetter in which he stated that with the . affairs of the Better Farming associa- tion, a debt of $40,000 had been turned over to the A. C. and that the state was expected to pay it. The Grand Forks Herald in reply to this letter gave Mr. Hellstrom the lie, and said that the state had not taken over the debt and would not have to pay it, thus obscuring the fact that it was to be paid out of the funds of the college. The ludicrous part of that transac- tion is that this $40,000 debt repre- sents money that boards of trade, banks, and other business organiza- tions paid out to teach the dear, ig- norant farmers of North Dakota bet- ter farming’ methods, and we- were made to believe that this money was freely given that the state of North Dakota might have intelligent farm- ers. The Grand Forks Herald told us that this deal was put over in the interest of correlation of work. Well, now they have fired President Worst, and the board of regents and the Herald again assure us that it has been done in the interast of correla- tion of work and reducing expenses. Funny tow they. correlate ‘things, isn’t it? Mr. Editor, is it asking too much to ask the Leader to make an inves- tigation into the causes of tahe trouble between the management of the A. C. and President Worst? Let your read- ers know ‘all there is to know abovt it. Give us Worst’s side -of it, also the -board of regents’ side of it. The A. C. is one educational ‘institution of rectly interes and 1t 1S our ri to know why theve is all this fn‘ct%on in its management. g Respectfully W. HILLIER, wz;tlaafiig, N.D. ) THE NONPARTISAN LEADER NINB VE TO START SOON eamed that the political gang of this it is time to awaken from that dream. aunched—starting from Bismareck and armers’ organization. The courts will be appealed to. A few newspapers will reek with . vile calumnies and slanders. It will be a time of political strife the like of which has never been known in this state, The gang, and the interests that it represents are fighting for their lives. It wfl} be no fake fight. It will be g fight to the death. It will be a slaughter, a massacre. As to which side is slaughtered depends upon how you farmers stand up under the storm of shot and shell. If, like the farmers who fired the shot that was “heard around the world,” -you stand firm, the gang will be slaughtered. If you grow faint of heart and weak of knees, then your organiza- tion, the idol of your heart and the inspiration of your dreams, will be slaughtered and massacred. The great and burning question at this moment is, what will you farmers do? Will you stand firm, with a steadfast confidence in your fellow farmers or will you believe the lies and slanders cir- culated by your political enemies? ; " This is the supreme moment in this great fight. If you come out of this battle creditably then the future will be comparatively easy. If you surrender, then the magnificent work of the past year will come to naught and the last state of affairs will be worse than the first. Remember how the politicians have treated you in the past. Remember how they have promised good things and straightway forgotten them. Remember how they have Jjollied you into voting for them and then turned around and served those who paid their campaign bills. : Remember, also, that these are the same men and the same interests that are now declaring that they are your eternal and everlasting friends. These are the same men who are now piling up corruption funds to bribe the papers to slander and misrepresent your organization. Remember them. Remember their past betray- als of your confidence. Remember their deceptions. Then decide whether you want to believe what they say or not. YOUR FELLOW FARMERS, YOUR FAMILIES AND THE FUTURE GENERATIONS ARE WATCHING YOU AND THEY EXPECT EVERY FARMER TO DO ‘HIS - DUTY—HIS DUTY TO HIMSELF, TO HIS FAMILY AND TAE FUTURE GEN- ERATIONS. _STAND FIRM WHILE THE BATTLE RAGES. Official Program Friday, March 31, 10:00 a. m. MUSIC . CALLED TO ORDER BY CHAIRMAN Welcome Address Mayor E. F. Entery of Fargo Edward Wood, “The Farmers’ Nonpartisan League” . E. Behvens . Randall, “The Spirit of the New Political Freedom” Friday, 70 p. m. MUSIC R. B. Martin, “The Farmers’ Best Crop” son, “Why Business Men and Farmers hould ‘Ceoperate” Address. Dr. John H. Worst, “Cooperation in Business and Politics” Address......... J. W. Brinton, “The Newspapers, Politics and Legislation” Ten Minute Talks : By Legislative Candidates Saturday, April 1, 10:00 a. m. MUSIC J. 'G. Crites, *“Terminal Elevators and the Grain Gamblers” Magnus Johnson, “My Experience as a Lepislator” Farmers’ “Chalk Talk” ....Ray McKaig, “A Clean "Legislature” Prof. John M. Gillette, Dean of Sociology State University “The Schools in the Service of the Farmers” Saturday, April 1, 2:00 p. m. MUSIC Ten Minute Talks : Address. By Legislative Candidates President E. ¥, Ladd ‘of Agricultaral College “Wheat Studies at the Agricultural College” E. Bowen, “Rural Credits.” : Pettigrew of South Dakota Saturday Evening Grand Perade ‘and Fireworks..............ooooooi 7:80 p. m. MUSIC Ry Address....._... F. B. Wood, Vice Presf?:li%ut Farmers’ Nonpartisan League M Address. President A. C, 'i})gg%%y, Farmers’ Nonpartisan League By League’s Candidate for Govermor By Candidates for State Officers PARADE LINE OF MARCH All members of the League will gather at Broadway and Front Btreets, near Auditorium, promptly at 7:30 to participate in the Grand Parade. Each member will be supplied with tor: and electrical sparkers, Roman candles, etc., for use on the march. PLENTY OF BAND MUSIC | Head of parade will move -uth on Broadway promptly at 7:30 p. m. The parade roiite will be from Broadway and Front streets, uth on Broadway to ‘G. N. tracks and then countermarch oh Bioadway to the * Auditorium theatre, ] : ; SR .? | |