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

THE NONPARTISAN LEADER Here’s a man who has been doing his duty all his life. He’s willing to ‘serve the people, but not the interests, when he becomes Governor_ Lo e e e e T o O ST N take him through, he thought, with what he could earn in the summer. He had been a classmate at May- ville normal with N. C. Macdonald, who by a strange coincidence is also now running for state office and also with the indorsement of the Nonpar- tisan League. Frazier and Macdon- ald had a room together and “batch- ed” during their college carcer. PLAYING FOOTBALL HIS COLLEGE DIVERSION. They were not roisterers, but they were not altogcther “digs.” Frazier’s main diversion was football. He was a husky farmer’s boy and he had little difficulty making the university team. He was of the square blocky type, ideal for a center in those days of driving line rushés and he became the most important cog in an excellent football machine. In his junior year he was captain of the team, a team which the “old boys” say was the best the state university ever turned out. It was undefeated during its season and only six points were scored against it. He was re- elected captain for the senior year, an unusual honor in football history, for this position is usually passed around to a different player each year. Frazier graduated from the .uni- versity in 1901 with a brilliant scholarship record and practically all the honors his classmates could givé him. He felt that he was on the threshhold of a great career. But the death of the brother who had been in charge of the farm inter- fered. His mother wanted Lynn back More of the Men Who Made History for North Dakota Candidate for Lieutenant Governor Once Was Schoolteacher. Albert Stenmo of Merrifield, Grand I'erks county, -farmer and state uni- versit, graduate, the League’s candi- date for lieutenant governor, was born in Iowa in 1877 and moved to North Dakota, southern part of Grand Forks county, in 1883. Tater he at- tended and graduated {rom the uni- versity at Grand Forks and took post- gradusie work in other institutious. Mr. Stenmo, after his education, taught school for severar years and in 1908 settled on the farm eight miles south of Grand Forks, where he now is located. Mr. Stenmo before his indorsement by the state convention for state office had been indorsed by the League dis- trict convention for state senator. new man will therefore have to be selected to run for senator on the League ticket in that district, JOHN N. HAGAN Candidate for State Commissioner of Agriculture : J. N. Hagan of Deering was nomin- ated by his neighbors of the Nonpar- tisan League up in McHenry county to go to the legislature as the Lea- gue’s candidate, but the call to a larg- er duty spoiled this plan. The state convention of the League at Fargo, despite Mr..Hagan’s previous nomin- ation by the district convention, draft- ed him as a candidate for state com- : ' missioner of ~_agriculture, a real job : with her, Someone strong and capable must be back on the old place to take charge of it. She couldn’t think of giving it up. SACRIFICES CAREER TO STAY WITH HIS MOTHER. So Lynn, instead, gave up his ideas of a profession and turned to the pro- saic work of being a farmer. He has been at it ever since, and he has been a good and successful farmer, Yet the progress he has made has been against great obstacles, He has real- ized more forcibly every year the in- justice of the economic and political . obstacles which he and his brother farmers have had to meet. Fortune in many ways has smiled on him, but it has been a stiff game. He has realized keenly how others less favored by circumstance can quickly be ruined by present con- ditions. In his own neighborhood he with others has been feeling the way toward a better measure of coopera- tion and hoping for the day when some opening would present itself for more thorough reform.: Two years after his graduation from college Frazier was married to Migss Lottie Stafford, the daughter of a neighboring farmer. When twin girls were born to them a year later there was something of a celebration at the university, where Frazier was still a hero. Congratulations were sent to the farm north of Hoople and it was Mother Frazier’s idea to name the girls Eunie and Versie as tribute to the college. The girls arc now 11 years old and for a farmer and one that Mr. Hagan is especially fitted to fill. He will have to draw ‘out of the legislative race. Mr. Hagen farms 800 acres five miles east of Deering and went out in the League’s first automobile, a. borrowed one, to help get its first members signed up. Later he dug down in his jeans to help buy the first car actually owned by the League. If anybody says Mr. Hagan doesn’t believe that there is need for the League and its program or that the League is not carrying out its trust with the farmers to the letter they had better talk-it over with him, Mr. Hagan was born in 1873 at Ar- cola, Ind.,, and graduated from the University of Valparaiso in that state in 1900 with the degree bachelor of science. He also completed the nor- mal and. commercial courses at that school. He came to North 'Dakota immediately. after his schooling and became- principal of the graded schools at St. John, Rolette county, from which position he resigned in March 1903, and started farming at Deering. He married Miss - Rhea Smith of St. John ‘in 1904-and they have two sons. ; r. Hagan is a .member of the board of dirvectors of the Thursby “Butte school ' district, being elected last spring, and for 11 years he has béen one of the supervisors of Deer- ing township, where he lives. He came to Fargo as a delegate of the 34th legislative -district. s League’s state convention from the they have two brothers, Vernon, 9, and Willis, 6. NEVER IN POLITICS; NEVER AN OFFICE SEEKER. Lynn TFrazier never has been in politics aside from the calls his neigh- bors have made on him for service in his own community. He has never sought office. For a number of years he has been a member of the township board of Elora township and for three or four years past he has been its chairman. He is chairman of the board of directors of the rural con- solidated school district. He is secre- tary-treasurer of the Hoople Farmers’ Grain company and a director of the Crystal Home Improvement company, which operates rural telephone lires and four town telephone systems. He is a director of the Crystal Farm- ers’ Cooperative Mercantile company, which operates a general store at Hoople. He is the owner of three quarter sections of land and rents a fourth quarter owned by his niece and nephew, Locally Frazier is known as some- what of a prohibition crank, .as his father was before him. Never hav- ing tasted liquor himself he has seen something of its use, through periods when prohibition has been laxly en- forced in his neighborhood and he has Been a constant agitator for niore thorough methods of enforcement. MAN. IN OVERALLS HEARS CALL TO HONOR. At the final mass meeting of the League in Fargo following the con- P, M. CASEY That’s the way he signs it, but among his friends it’s no secret that his first name is the same as that of the patron saint of Ireland. Mr. Casey is the candidate for state trea- surer indorsed by the League. He is a farmer of Ransom county, is vice president of the North Dakota union of the American Society of Equity and president of the Lisbon farmers’ elevator. He was born in Wisconsin 36 years ago and never has been a candidate before for public office. He is married and has always voted the democratic ticket. He will run in the democratic primaries. N. C. MACDONALD The League candidate for state superintendent of public instruction is N. C. Macdonald, present supervisor of rural and consolidated schools. He is forty years old, was raised on a farm in North Dakota and is an edu- cator of national reputation, He'is a graduate of Mayville normal and of the state university and has done ex- tended post-graduate work, in the principal universities of the country. He was ten years a rural school teach- er, village principal, county superin- tendent in Cavalier ‘county, summer and normal school conductor and deputy state superintendent. He was . Seven years a city superintendent in Lidgerwood and Mandan. He has served as president of the ‘State Education - association and state director of the national gssocia- = E vention the new candidate for govern- or told something about the circum= stances of his being summoned to Fargo to receive the nomination. “I drove into town with the girls Wednesday and they sent word to me that I was wanted on the telephone. When I got to the phone they told me that it was League headquarters at ‘Fargo talking and asked me to come up here right away. I told them I couldn’t come that night, because I had my overalls on and no suitable clothing with me. . % “T went back to the farm and pack- 8d my grip and came up here and it was then I learned they wanted me to run for governor and that the League delegates in their convention had nominated me.” As President Townley said in intro- ducing Mr. Frazier to the audience of more than 2000 people, this is one of the rare occasions in the history of American states when the office actu- ally has sought the man as’it did in the case of George Washington in- stead of the man seeking the office. “This man is going to be elected governor of the state of North Da- kota,” said President = Townley. “Your votes and your influence will do the work. He is going to be the greatest governor this state has ever had and under his administration this state is going to become the best governed state in the union.” - The voters of North Dakota will de- gide whether this prophecy is to come rue. 3 . ” ? 3 —Photo by Leader Staff Photngrapher Friday’s Midday March to the Convention Hall Rounding the Corner by the Postoffice, First Avenue and Roberts Street. Something About Other State Candidates ALBERT STENMO tion. He has been honored by ap- pointment as special collaborator of the United States bureau of education and as a member. of the National Ed- ucational Council. He was recently elected president of the National As- sociation of State Inspectors and - Supervisors of Rural and Consolidat- ed schools. . Under his tenure of his present po- sition the number of consolidated and classified schools has more than doub- led and the amount of state aid for these schools quadrupled. : “I stand for equality of oppor- tunity for all the children of the state to attend good schools,” is the one plank in the platform. The delegates to the Nonpartisan League convention unanimously ad- judged him the best fitted candidate. for the position he seeks, HOWARD R. WOOD. Howargl R. Wood, Deering, N. D., the candidate indorsed by the League for representative from the Twenty- ninth distriet, was born in Minnesota in 1887 and came to North Dakota in 1901 where he has farmed in Ward Miss Sarah McDonald in March; 1910, of age. Mr.. Wood attended high school in Minot. He was among the first men to . join the Nonpartisan League and has been an active and ‘untiring booster from the first, as well as a strong supporte ity ‘movement county ever since. Mr. Wood married . and they have one child, four years - 8 15