The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, April 27, 1916, Page 3

Ifi the interest ' of a square deal for the farmer Nonpartisan Official Paper of the Farmers’ Nonpartisan Political League of North Dakota A newspaper that dares to print the truth ~ VOL.2,N0.17 T FA RGO, NORTH DAKOTA, THURSDAY, APRIL 27, 1916 WHOLE NO. 32 T The Big Boss Gives His Orders NE of the most necessary things in modern warfare is to watch the enemy. 4t is also necessary in politics. It is especially necessary m this fight of the people of the state of North Dakota, led by the Farmers’ Nonpartisan Political League,.agamst the corrupt interests that have long held political control in this state. 2 .. The Leader has been watching the enemy. In previous issues | it was able to report how some of the shrewdest political manipu- § lato.rs in the state were laying plans to concentrate opposition against the candidates indorsed by the League. That effort hasn’t got very far. The League seems to have thrown considerable g panic into the counsels of the Old Gang politicians. They are ap- SR [ e parently beside themselves. Their wires seem to be crossed for the i time bglng. There is-great confusion of counsels, though, as one of their newspaper mouthpieces put it, they have “abolished an- tagonism” between their various . i factions for the purpose of fight- ing the League. . The first big plot failed in its main object, which was to = - cause a candidate for governor to withdraw so as to leave one candidate to fight it out with Frazier, the League’s candidate for governor. But it will not do for members of the League to imagine that they are not going to have a fight on their hands.” The Old Gang will not give up without a 5 struggle. Though just now all it appears to be doing is to throw mud at the officers of the League through its press mouthpieces, there is something else going on behind the scenes. In this is- sue, through one of its corres- pondents who has been on the ground at Bismarck, where the plots are being hatched, the Leader is able to report some- thing of the line of attack map- ped out by the enemy for the spring campaign. M’KENZIE BACK ON JOB HAT shrewd old fox Alex McKenzie, for many years . absolute political dictator of this state, has been back in his old haunts at Bismarck. Those on the inside know that McKenzie, whatever the hired organs may say about it, has never relinquished the reins. He may leave one of his lackeys on the job for awhile, but when 2 a critical situation arises, the old i Boss himself is back on the job. Old Gang has arisen. The Non- take a hand in politics.” partisan - League has become the L * biggest menace in a political way ; have faced in many a day. Wi The Big Boss has demanded an accounting. He has called his jackals on the carpet. There has been a great barking.of orders, a great hurrying and hustling around. = The Big Boss is angry ; some- thing must be-done. = : ; H A Something has been done. - A plan has been reached. Here is .. about the gist of it: : : “You have made a mess of this governorship affair,” is the “word that goes out to the subordinates.of the Old Gang. ‘“We'll-do - our best with that, but in the meantime there is another campaign s ‘more important. Get busy on the legislature. You have been let- do something to head them off.” " The Big Boss has spoken. ut. 0Old Gang knows. its task. The farmers must know theirs. BY ALL MEANS THEY MUST WORK FEOR THEIR LEGISLATIVE CANDIDATES AND WORK HARD FOR THEM. : “.voted to the interests of the people no progressive measures can be ' Nonpartisan League stands can be enacted into law. It is impor- ta‘%xé that a goveril(l)r in sympathy with the wishes of the people of - the state should be elected, but it is mucl ik législlatll;:e -wslllli:‘llli dwill enact the people’s wi ticable laws should JREN. T T e It is not enough bers of th: = The Ventriloquist The Voice of Big Business Speaks Through Old Gang Papers. 1 Professor Big Biz: “Now little men, tell the farmers of “Such a critical situation for the .| = North Dakota all about how dangerous it will be for them to McKenzie and his satellites and the Interests for whom they work- ting these farmers steal a long march on you, ‘Now hurry up and' The ér_de‘i‘s have gone out. The The legislature is the vital point. - Without a legislature de- put upon the statute books; none of the great reforms for which the uch more important that a Soun 2 “m i " stand for a should resolve - The farmers of the state to be on hand at the primaries, at whatever cost, and vote: for the League candidates on their party tickets. They must go among their neighbors and their friends who are not members of the League,'they'must go among the business men with whom they deal and ask their votes in the primaries and in the election for the League candidates. " In doing this they ‘will be asking their neighbors and their friends and the men with whom they deal that they shall do only “that which is for the best interests of all the people of the state. The election of these candidates pledged only to work for the best interests of the people of the whole state means relief from political oppression and misrule. It means honest government by honest men. It means laying the foundation for a new and greater pros- péer"i;ty for every farmer and for every business man within the state. THIS POLICY DANGEROUS? ITH pride and with con- fidence the Leader pre- sents in this issue a simple statement of the prin- ciples and the aims of the man whom the good people of the state of North Dakota are going to elect as their governor. 3 the farmer candidate for govern- or, printed on another page un- der the title “What North Da- kota Needs,” without being in- spired with confidence in this man who holds close to his heart the prosperity and well-being of the people of North Dakota and who is clear in his ideas of what the state needs. He is a modest man, but a man.of solid purpose and resolution, as every word he speaks and writes in- dicates. In office he will move carefully and will make few mistakes. But, better than that, his every act will be guided by a conscientious, painstaking regard for the rigkts of all the citizens of the state. Does any man see anything dangerous in the beliefs and pur- poses of this man Frazier? Surely not. He is advocating the very things the people of the state, farmers and business men alike, long have believed in. Yet his program and: his beliefs here published are in exact har- mony with- the program of the League, advocated in the col- umns of the Leader and publish~ ed abroad in every corner of the state by League speakers. by Mr. Frazier as a political plat- form. It is a plain statement of the beliefs and the purposes that made him the logical man for the people’s candidate for’ governor. It is_worth noting that in stating his own purposes and aims Mr. Frazier shows how they will bring about the very things to- ward which the advocates of better farming systems and those who have been preaching the gospel of “keeping the money in the state” long have been groping. North Dakota can not develop into an in- tensively cultivated, diversified farming state until through leg_ls- lative action it clears the way for the upbuilding of the industries ~which will make that condition possible. - Its greatest industry is held in an iron grip by outside capital and the profit which its rich soil yields is enriching citizens of other states instead of the men who are earning it. - .. The program of the Nonpartisan League and the purposes: of its candidate for governor both mean greater prosperity for North Dakota. This program and this candidate both ought to be sup- ported by every loyal citizen of the state. A LETTER THAT WASN'T PRINTED . 7THEN John Swart of Tower City wrote to the Fargo Courier- " News, which has been engaged in a vituperative attack onthe League and its officers, he didn’t know he was writing an ed- itorial for the Leader; but he was. Failing to see his communica- ‘Leader. Here is an extract: e “No good thing ever came to civilization without a fight. To / ‘cause’ is to invite criticism. We .don’t mind’it. No man ean read ,with' open e mind the words of Ly.uFrazier . This article was not written tion in print in the paper to which he sent it he mailed a copy to the ° are not represented in the laws as they grs caomanm e y