The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, April 6, 1916, Page 2

e o L THE NONPARTISAN LEADER e ~ Another April J oke'-?-The'Best of All. DIGGING PO THE GRAVE FOR "THE FARMERS LEAGUE THE ONLY WE WILL |JWE'LL BURY THAT WAY 1S TO/ (GIT RID OF(}RUBE MOYEMENT SO DIGg I1T'S THE. NON~ ((DEEP IT WON'T RISE POLITICAL PARTISAN 1"LL SHOW:'EM THAT- - A1M A PRETTY LIVELY corpsE e g e Ly o 8 WE WOULD HAVE B HAD AN AWF UL & TIME TRYING TO ( BURY THAT! “The Nonpartisan League is @ead—or at least it’s dying,” said the politicians and the gang newspapers a week or two ago. “Let’s get together #ind dig its grave.” S Rl Sothey delved in the muck ‘#nd slithe o make a burying place for the farmers’ organization. 1I‘hey proclaimed £l over the state the end of the Toolish anibition of the farmers to‘¢laim political liberty. “They hooted the idea that the otgamzation the farmers had built.could show ‘any more life, ; & ; : Bt here’s the joke—on Maich 81 at Fargo they got the ghock of their lives and the next day was the saf@dest @All Fool's:@ay they ever saw and the igladdest for the farmer. ¢ ; T - 3 The kept press of stste, faithTul to the interests of the gang, talked about “two or three hundred” at the farers’ medting. The Leader doesn’t have to gnswer that. It presents to those members ot the League who were not at Far- i#o the "ctual photographs of a few of the crowds. Iiet-anyone who likes to estimate numbers count these in fhe Audi- toitiih flashlight, for instance, and then remember that never were all who attended the massmeetings together ‘at ‘one ftirhe @ndl one place, : RIS gt : : o : ol ; o B, anyway, the League is ‘the liveliest ¢orpse you ever saw. If you were ‘at the ‘convernition you know it ‘diready. I you were not, jast iglance ‘thiough ‘this special niiridber of ‘the Leader. ; : Delegate: Find Leagne’s Fu The -¢tate ‘conivention “of the Non- partisan Leagife, consisting of ‘the ‘of ‘the ‘Equitdble Auditing ‘compiny of St. Paill compiled ‘the dtatéments "Po 'the ‘MAags ‘Convention of ‘the Non- grtigen League; the ‘Liedgue for ‘the economicsl id sand {got dut ‘the mecessary ‘reports for ‘the state delegates, which they Svént over carefully. ; 'Phe ‘state tonvention ‘then amed ‘a ffll?m’fflittlf; o ! h ‘8 ¥éport #d %ge; gt e Sgebon S i delegdtes repularly eledtsd by the Tiegptie ‘membership in 44 of the legis- igtwe “districts of ‘the state, made.a coimpléte examination of the Liedghiels %60ks, ‘atcounts and records While lih ‘géssion 'in Faxgo and .-rggfirtell. i o tHe de b i s opén ‘hissmectings ‘Of ithe meriber- - i wmitle ‘undl Hoestitéd on 'SH ey toumd. - : Weevuritaries Thdtdhtr wnid Warley massmeetings and Was ‘s Hollows: fudicious mantier iin which they have -dtninistered the financial ‘gitairs 'of the League. ' J. N. HAGAN of Deering, N. E. WHIPPLE of Siiititwood, G. PATTERSON ‘of Donnybrook, ~ HOWARD R, 'WOOD o Deeyine, Bt Deleguten, We, the istate delegsites Of e Non- ‘partisan League, wish to report that ;\fifi ‘Have carefullg;f e&m}i&?d théf l‘tfili; ! "_,gueaigflfimmjt‘sw B it e m‘,’“’%fi. fhast /il Tnds ‘of $he- mgm ife ‘e ipyoperly “accounted fov, Hitd We Highly commend the leaders of