The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, April 6, 1916, Page 3

; THE NONPARTISAN LEADER THREE Lt Two Thousand Farmers in the Big Fargo Auditorium —Photo by McCracken This flashlight picture, taken Saturday night, April 1, in the final gathering of the convention massmeetings, gives an impressive idea of the size of the crowds who attended the conv‘entlon meetings at- Fargo which formally opened the campaign of the Farmers’ Nonpartisan League. It shows the great - Fargo auditorium filled ngnrly to capacity with more than 2,000 farmers from all over the state. Here Are Your Candidates The Men Indorsed for High State Offices and What Delegates Say of Way einflWhich They Were Chosen INDORSED BY LEAGUE DELEGATES For Governor—LYNN J. FRAZIER of Hoople, graduate of North Dakota state university, a farmer; will run for nomination in the Republican party state primaries. : For Lieutenant Governor—ALBERT STENMO of Merrifield, Grand Forks couhty, graduate of North Dakota state university, farmer; will run in the Republican party state primaries. For Secretary of State—THOMAS HALL, present secretary of state; will run in the Republican party state primaries. For State Auditor—CARL R. KOSITZKY of Bismarck, secretary of the state tax commission and one of Burleigh county’s commissicners; will run in the Republican state primaries. will run in the Democratic party state primaries. state primaries. primaries. state primaries. of the Nebraska Agricultural The state convention of the Nonpartisan League, consisting of the regularly elected delegates from the 49 legislative districts of the state, met at Fargo . March 29 and 30, preceding the grand convention massmeetings of the membership in Fargo. This con- vention indorsed the accompanying list of candidates for governor and state offices. : = A farmer for governor of North Dakota! This was not the ‘only innovation of this remarkable gathering of the chosen dele- . gates of the people of a great commonwealth. Its work marks a -new era in North Dakotfa politics. - Never were men indorsed for For State Treasurer—P. M. CASEY of Lisbon, vice president of the North Dakota union, American Society of Equity, farmer; For Attorney General—WILLIAM LANGER of‘ Mandan, state’s attorney of Morton county; will run in the Republican party ) For Superintendent of Public Instruction—N. C. MACDONALD of Valley City, graduate state university, now state inspector for consolidated rural schools; will run on the official Nonpartisan school ballot at the state primaries. For Commissioner of Insurance—S. A. OLSNESS of Sheyenne, Eddy county, farmer; will run in the Republican party state For Commissioner of Agriculture—JOHN N. HAGAN of Deering, graduate of Valparaiso upniversity, Indiana; 11 years super- visor of Deering township, McHenry county, farmer; will run in Republican party state primaries. For Judges of the Supreme Court—LUTHER BIRDZELL, former state tax commissioner, professor in school of law, State university; J. E. ROBINSON, lawyer, Fargo; R. H. GRACE, lawyer, Mohall; all three will run on the Nonpartisan ballot at official ‘For Railroad Commissioi:érs—CH’ARLES- BLEICK of Elgin, Morton county, active Equity and Farmers’ union man, graduate college; M. P. JOHNSON of Tolley, Renville county, president of the North Dakota union, American Society of Equity, farmer; SAM: AANDALL of Litchville, Barnes county, farmer; all three will run in the Republican primaries. " free from selfishness, of bossism and the other evils that have al- < ) _Every delegate s . 'office more certain of election. Never was a political convention as ways been connected in the public mind with political conventions. The work of the delegates of the members of the Nonpartisan League was conducted in the following manner: Every delegate present was free to suggest as many men for the various state offices as he thought worthy of consideration by the convention. As the names were suggested they were written on a blackboard so everyone could see them. When all were through suggesting men for the office under consideration discussion was opened. ke his mind; he said what he pleased for or against the men whose names were written on the blackboard. The