The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, April 20, 1916, Page 8

EIGHT B e e e b s S il RECRR 5~ /5l RO R N . Frazie THE NONPARTISAN LEADER r Receives Ovation Continuous Cheers for Farmer Candidate on Tour; Business Men Shown How League Worksv for Them attendance, and with an en- thusiasm that exceeded any- thing that had been seen at any of the previous meetings, the tour of Lynn J. Frazier, farmer and Nonpar- tisan League candidate for governor, came to a close at Bismarck April 11. The meeting was the climax of a series that included the principal cities of the state, and at which the candidates had been received with ap- proval by audiences e¢f 300 to 400. According to those who had attended all these gatherings, the one at the capital was the biggest and heartiest. The meeting was held in the aud- itorium, and the lower floor was com- pletely filled at the evening session. The afternoon meeting was also largely attended and equally en- thusiastic. The speakers were followed with close attention and were greeted with generous applause. The appearance of Frazier, a farmer of the farmers, as his manner indicated, appeared to please the audience, and it was re- marked afterward that “it was plain to see he is not a politician.” FTARMERS APPLAUD FRAZIER THE FARMERS’ CANDIDATE w ITH 800 farmers and others in With little of gesture, and nothing. ‘of oratorical ‘attempt, Mr. Frazier spoke plainly of some of the problems of the farm, and was several times met with handclappirg and laughter, as he sent heme some simple argu- ment for the farmers’ participation in state government. “Now it seems to me that the farm- ers of this great agricultural state have really organized to clean up its politics,” said Mr. Frazier. “They ... haye- organized to demand their rights. All our sister states are watching us, very closely and some of the politicians of this state are watching us too.” The farmers of those states have said that if North Dakota succeeds in this movement, if we can organize strong enough to control the state government, they will also be willing to organize. If we could get all the states to organize the problems of the farmers would be in a fair way to be solved to their advantage. “This League stands for good government, not only for the farmers, but all classes of people. We must admit that anything * that benefits the farmer must © benefit everyone.in the state. “If the farmers have poor crops, business suffers. The business men undoubtedly watch the farmers’ crops more than the farmers do themselves. Experts are sent out from the east and they estimate the crops very closely and tell us just about how many -bushels we ‘will produce. They know that the welfaré of the Cham- ber of Commerce depends upon the " farmers of North Dakota. ‘This movement will benefit- in- directly everyone of the state and I trust that all the farmers of the state will stand together as they have been standing together. It is their one great chance. I also- hope this whole ticket will be elected, and that we will have the best state govern- ment of any state in this union. FARMERS HAVE HAD LITTLE . REAL REPRESENTATION “While the farmers are 80 per cent of the population of the state, they have been getting very little repre- sentation in the making of the laws. But I feel that in this next legislature it will be different. It surely can not be worse.” g Touching upon the matter of co- operation, Mr. Frazier told of the effort in his district three_years ago, . successful after some" difficulties, to effect the consolidation of some school districts, saying in part: - “The ~one strong argument with nearly every farmer we met was that after the farm boy had reached: the eighth grade he would not remain on the farm, but we persevered. ahyway ' and secured the consolidated school. ‘We have now two- years high school - and 1 feel satisfied “with that con- solidated school." That'is one thing we need today to educate the -boys and girls on the farm as the cities’ children are. That school was se- _cured through cooperation.” The reception given Pre:sident ! | Candidate for State Treasurer state treasurer. Mr. ation in the primaries. Townley of the Nonpartisan League, was no less enthusiastic than that given the “next governor,” and.this was especially emphasized at Beach, Townley’s former home, where he met scores of his neighbors among ' the audience of 300 that filled the Beach opera house. w Several of the speakers had arrived on an earlier train and the evening session was in progress, when Mr. Toewnley arrived at the hall. As soon as he was seen, applause and cheering holders of the state capital. mercial club. = - This is P. M. Casey of Lisbon, indorsed by the Nonpartisan League for Casey is one of the active leaders of the Equity, being vice president of the North Dakota society and one of its most able advisers. He is a farmer of Ransom county, 36 years old and married. been a candidate before for public office. He has never He will seek the Democratic nomin- . began and the ovation lasted two or three minutes. -Among those who cheered the League’s president were business men of Beach as well as farmers. Commenting later upon the reception given Mr. Townley at Beach, Mr. Frazier said: “To me this was one of the most striking things of the entire tour. There was no question about Mr. Townley’s popularity in Beach and that neighborhood and the people’s confidence in him. It really was a : This is the splendid new Bismarck Auditorium, seating twelve hun- dred persons, where the League held rousing mass meetings on the after- * noon and evening of Tuesday, April 11, to introduce Lynn J. Frazier, the League’s candidate for governor. Nearly a thousand nersons were: present at- the-evening meeting, many of them business men and: office- The auditorium itself is a handsome and durable structure, a monument to the enterprise of the people of Bismarck and vicinity. Its use was donated to the League by the Bismarck com- 7 R wonderful demonstration of con- fidence in a man who has been as- sailed because of his record in that very neighborhood.” ; “KEEP MONEY IN STATE” ' IS SLOGAN OF LEAGUE In his address at Beach and in his later address at Bismarck Mr. Town- ley took up the slogan of the business men, “Keep the money in the state” and showed that it was an essential part of the program of the Nonpar- tisan League. “We firmly believe in this prin- ciple,” said President Townley. “It is a bad thing for the state to have the earnings of its farmers going out of it to support eastern mail order houses, but it is not the fault of the farmers. They have been compelled to patronize mail order houses to make their money go as far as pos- sible. They didn’t want to do it. They want to spend their money here over your counters. “We are proposing a plan that will give them more money to spend here in the state. We are proposing a plan that will furnish to the farmers money to be spent in the stores of North Dakota many times the amount ™ that is now spent. “Keep the money in the state. We believe in that. Let us keep the dol- lars in the state as well as the dimes. Join us in putting into effect our new plan of cooperation which will give the farmer a thousand dollars to spend here for every hundred he now spends. Join us in diverting to the ockets of the:farmers and the bus- iness men of North Dakota the mil- liions that are going out annually into the coffers; of big corporations of other states through thizs immense loss in the handling of their grain ) and the gurchase of the products they, < 4 -have to ¥We ‘¢an tell by the vote of the towns and the cities of the state in June and the vote at the fall election whether “or . not you business men really believe " in this principle of keeping the money in the state.. We are engaged on a project that means for every business man in the state many times the prosperity- he now enjoys. We want your help. We have been cooperating with you in the pag!;. We want you to cooperate with us.” . Others who addressed the audience at Beach were J. W. Brinton, mayor, who * gave the welcome address; Arthur J. Williams, R. B. Martin and 0. M. Thomason. - At Bismarck all the Beach speakers were on the pro- gram and in addition’ Ray McKaig of Mandan. ; NIL "EEDY) FARGO SILO Ce. Ask for Little Sioux 000000000000000000000000000090 Fresh, Krisp Packed in an “Aertite” Moisture Proof Package MANGHESTER BISCUIT CO. Fargo, North Dakota. Watch Us Grow O'O’.QQ.».O.D....!.‘..DOOQ... |