The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, May 11, 1916, Page 3

In the interest of a square deal . past week or so have been seeking to get some first-hand in- formation about the prospects of the candidates indorsed by the Léague Inquiries have been addressed to League “members all over the state and particularly to the precinct dele- - gates. gassed it along to the Leader: to be passed on to all members. § Remember that picture we printed on the cover last week? It showed the gang politician beating his bass drum and roaring at the top of his lungs in the effort to confuse the farmer—to stampede “him. ~ The farmer’s common sense—his clear vision of the truth, his firm determination to carry out his purpose—was represented as a - rock against which all the noise and fury of the politician beat : ‘harmlessly without effect. s Well, that's just exactly the way it has resulted. THE FARM- ERS ARE STANDING FIRM AS A ROCK. On another page are printed this week a few samples of the responses received from precinct workers. They are only a portion of the responses from all over the state. -They are taken Just as - they come in; without any effort to select from them. - OFFICERS of the League at headquarters in Fargo within the League to stand by their cause and their candidates. They show -“also’ that thousands'of others, not members of the League, have - seen the justice of the League’s fight and that the election of the : ’League s candidates is the hope of the people of the state. . ... Tt is the most joyful news that has been received since the day the League movement started. the precinet delegates has expressed the feehng that ireads these reports:: =+ ? ave been a firm believer and have had great hopes Qf this movement all. a‘fon 3 : get out among the pedple sure doe sone League and siasm_for ere they FARGO, NORTH DAKOTA, MAY 11; 1916 THEIR MASTER’S VOICE G()" News ‘rr‘n‘ Good news has come in—so good-that headquarters has . members of the League into deserting their cause. -of the farmers’ cause haven’t as good a chance as the Leader has to _'sound out the actual sentiment of the farmers and to find out what They show the unanimous purpose of the members of the ' e Ltlunk not; I stopped A newspaper "~ that dares to print the truth WHOLE NO. 34 the Front ' mg the petitions of League candldates get out among their neigh- . bors; and the answer is the hest of good news to the people of the state of North Dakota. The farmers are “sticking” and victory for good government is assured. ; : When you can’t answer arguments it’s always in order to get personal, throw mud and howl calamity. But the little old League rambles rlght along. THE REASON FOR NEW ATTACKS O NEED to wonder, in the face of this sort of news; that the enemies of the farmers’ organization are adding new venom to their personal attacks upon the League officers and their " frantic efforts by falsehood and deceit to beguile or to frighten the These enemies efi‘ec}il: their mudslinging campaugn is havlng on the League mem- ~bership. - . For the-benefit of these foes of the farmers, and to carry out the principle of being kind to the enemy, the Leader here quotes a few. sentences from reports of League members in scattered pre- '+ cincts all over the state, showing what success is being experienced .-by the paid enemies of Big Business and crooked politics in their efforts to disrupt the League: -°_ “The farmers here get mad when they read or talk about the gang papers. I know many that have stopped the paper.” “The gang papers are makmg votes for the Leadue cand1dates every day in this vicinity.” . ‘Here are a few answers to the question, “Do the nus1epresen- ~ tations of the gang papers'have any influence in your vicinity 2 ol “Not. to my ,&nowledge 2 *No.” “None at all.” I know.of.” : “Very. little, if ‘any.” = “Do not think so.’ : “Not: one bit. They all are for the League.”” “No, the more ud: they sling the more votes we will get.” -“No, they are disgusted:with such’ du‘ty sheets. “I“No the knocks are all boosts.”: ) "No, they do not seem to- have. was antmpated by all.’?:. = ) oy i "‘No ‘the people know.. the gang too well," mine. ‘qut that Opposltlon from gang: papexs Thls is really one of most 1ema1kable thmgs in the whole ¥ PAGE THREE