The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, May 18, 1916, Page 16

& | GUESS AGAIN The politician who figures on a bplit among the Nonpartisan League voters before the 30th of June is mak- ing a big mistake as he will find out to his sorrow.—POWERS LAKE ECHO. { HAS WALK AWAY Peter Romsaas was a News caller Saturday evening. Mr. Romsaas was indorsed by the Nonpartisan League for representative from McLean county, and the present outlook is that he will have a walk-away for election. Here’s luck, Pete—RYDER NEWS. BOOST KRAABEL . Hon. -A. T. Kraabel, of Traill coun- ty, has been indorsed for lieutenant governor by the Nonpartisan League. Mr. Kraabel filled this responsible position very acceptably on a pre- vious occasion, and, with the League behind him, should have a walk-a-way Ehjill year—BISMARCK PALLAD- UM. CONVENTION FAIR “Every delegate had an equal show. Past records of proposed candidates were thoroughly discussed and thresh- ed out and every one stood on his own merits,” is what Fay Harding said relative to the Nonpartisan League endorsing various candidates for state officers at their convention in Fargo March 81 and April 1.—EMMONS COUNTY FREE PRESS. PARAMOUNT ISSUE. Although the Fargo Courier-News gtill carries over its editorial page the slogan “Our Paramount Is- ue: The extermination of the liquor business,” it appears to be devoting a whole lot of time and space to an at- tempt td exterminate the Nonpartisan League. This is something that is hardly likely to boost the paper's cir- culation to any extent.—COURIER- DEMOCRAT, Langdon. WHERE IT STANDS The Tribune reports that there is “a working agreement among all Repub- lican candidates to assist in defeating any Republican who has accepted the Nonpartisan League indorsement.” We don’t know anything about that; but there sure seems to be a working agreement among the rest of the voters to assist in defeating any can-. didate for office who has received the indorsement of the Tribune.—BIS- MARCK PALLADIUM. BIRDZELL FOR“BENCH One of the best known lawyers in he state writes the Journal as ollows: : 3 -“I note what you say in your paper ‘about the Nonpartisan League. I fthink your statements are all right. I don’t know anything about Frazier but I don’t believe the nomination of Langer could be improved upon, but I motice that you say nothing about [Prof.. Birdzell for supreme ' court. No d ment was made than that of Birdzell. ‘With all due respect to Langer and others, Birdzell’s indorsement could There is no better lawyer than Prof. Birdzell in this state. He is young, active, alive and progressive and we need a man like him on the supreme bench.” All of which the Journal concurs .in. At the time the article referred to was written, it was not known % whether.or not Mr. Birdzell would ac- P ceut the nomination.—DEVILS LAKE % * JOURNAL. judge of the etter indorse-. not and can not be improved upon.. K oc‘oooo‘ooooooooopoqoo@ e o ness men of the state. the rubes in Michigan. DEVILS LAKE JOURNAL. 9 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 BOWMAN INDORSED In this issue Eric Bowman of Kulm makes official announcement as candi- date for the legislature. Mr. Bowman for several years been an enthusi- astic worker for social reforms.” He personally investigated grain condi- tions at Minneapolis and has heartily supported the Equity and Nonpartisan movements, and has the indorsement of the League. He was elected one of the ten delegates to the mational convention from North ‘Dakota. Mr. Bowman is one of the bright and pro- gressive young men and thinkers of the county and should make a good representative if elected. — LA MOURE COUNTY CHRONICLE. ARE IN EARNEST Until within the past few weeké, little .attention has been paid to this movement, the Nonpartisan League, the newspapers of the state having, for some reason, almost ignored it. This attitude is_rapidly changing, -however, and at least one prominent daily is now indorsing the League, When the farmers of North Dakota are so much in earnest that in the neighborhood of 40,000 of them are willing to tgay from six to nine dolars each for the privilege of joining the League, besides pledging themselves to support its candidates for political office, there is enough =3(1'05 ect of future developments to make t?e out~ look interesting to say the' least.— BOWMAN CITIZEN. Lynn Frazier, candidate. for gover- nor on the Nonpartisan ticket, was a visitor here last Thursday,. coming in auto, accompanied. by. O. M. Thomason. Mr. Frazier leaves’ the impression of :a- fine gentleman, well learnied and fully capable of handling . the affairs of the.office.he seeks. He is a man of excellent qualities, and after a talk with him, one cannot help but believe that he is the type of a man that should be at the head of the state. He is not for the farmer alone, as some of the papers have been try- ing to_lead the people to believe, but instead is for the business man as well. He stated that it is not the in- tention of the League to buck the E ©0000000000000000 ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooioooooooododhooo: DANGEROUS TO GET EXCITED. - _ The Fargo Courier-News is wrought up over what it char- ges as a scheme of the Nonpartisan League to destroy the newspapers, the banks, the insurance companies and the busi- If a good crimp could be put into the insurance companies, which are taking 100 cents out of the state and putting back only 50, there would be little complaint among those who pay. Another thing: the insurance companies have taken it upon themselves to butt into North Dakota politics this year and if they should receive a good stiff poke on the nose it might serve as an object lesson that North- Dakotans are not as “easy” as - And as for the “ mail order” myth, sd long as the Courier- News is carrying foreign advertising, and so long as nearly very paper in the state is doing the same thing, and glad of the opportunity, it would seem that the pious thing to do would be to soft pedal on what the Nonpartisan Leader is doing; albeit no speaker for the League has ever been heard to. “ex- toll the benefits of mail order patronage.” And as we are reaching the time of year when warm days may be expected, Parson Guild should not allow himself to be- come unduly excited—in his efforts to serve his master— 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 business man, but to get them and the farmer together, so that they may better understand one another and work to better advantage. The farm- er has been unable to get a look in when it came to getting laws through that would help them, in the past, and surely they are entitled to consider- ation, and about the only way they be considered is for them to stick together and elect men who will cater to_the people, and not to the corpor- ations and moneyed men. We are all catering to the farmer, in the busi- ness sense, and why not help them when they are trying to get help.: There is no question but what they will have something to say this elec- tion.—~COURTENAY GAZETTE: TRY STAMPEDE. . There is a great effort being made to stampede the farmers and cause them to split up and divide and to go fighting each other. There is g made a strong effort to get the Equity people and the Nonpartisan people quarreling. - There is also a strong effort being made to disorgan- ize the Nonpartisan League by scar- ing its membership. = The farmers should not consent to being stamped- ed or scared. They should continue to remain organized and to cooper-’ ate at all times. Instead of tearing down the Equity or the Nonpartisan League, both should be sndpported and pmlt.up. The. same kind of a fight is being made against the Nonparti- san League as was made against the Equity organization. — FARGO SEARCHLIGHT. ; DISTORTS ISSUES. In the teeth of the fact that the Ngnparhsan‘league{s candidate for SEED CORN on hand, so order today. N. J. OLSEN COMPANY GEO. A. WELCH, President J. P, FRENCH, Sec. - Treds. High test, high grade, northern grown 1914 szeed . 3 corn. Minnesota N. 13, Minn ‘White @ $5 per bushel. Only a limited amount of this good seed ord We want clover -and timothy g gaieg'not is a total abstainer and has _ the reputation of having opposed the sale of litg:)r in- his home community, and that the League indorsed for ate torney general’ William ' Langer of Mandan, who has gained a reputation for enforcing the liquor laws since be- coming state’s “attorney of Morton county, Editor Guild of the Fargo " morning" (no) newspaper is attempt- ing ‘to create the impression’that the League will abolish- the prohibition law when its candidates.are elected. What may anyone expect from a’ paper that will' distort the real issues in ‘a political campaign? Anythi —but the truth. — FESSENDEN FREE PRESS., st - FOR LANGER. Mr. William ‘Langer, state’s attor- - ney of Morton county, stamped with- the seal of apptoval by the Nonparti- - san e as the best man for at- torney general, has put ‘on his fight- ing clothes and is touring the state in “the - interest of his candidacy. Wednesday afternoon he pas through Milnor. While in the city he made this office a pleasant call and we - were greatly pleased to meet the gentleman. = 'We know of him as a fighter and believer of law enforce- ment. He is a menace to the blind pigs-and for that reason has gained a state wide prominence. He is strongly supported by the law en= forcement forces of the state accord- ing to reports.—SARGENT COUNTY TELLER. POLITICAL GHOSTS The ghosting process designed to scare members of the Nonpartisan League out of their boots is now. un-- der full swing, the ghosts being trot- ted out simultaneously at Fargo, Bis- marck and Grand Forks, From each of these fiKomi:s appear the messengers of direful calamities, threatening. the new farmers’ organization whose members are now busy seeding on their prairie farms. “The idea appears to be to start a stampede from the leaders of the League,’and break up' the organization. Some ‘of the scare- crows are too clumsy to deceive any« body, ;even those not members of the League. Among the latest charges put forth is that McKenzie is back of the League, and that in the indorse- ment of At.hT.Lea bel fo:i lieutenant governor the gue is playing into the hands of the “old gang.” At least this is the claim made by W. E. Mar- tin, of Mandan, “farmer and progres- sive Republican.” Another around the s T Tl T el B e personally respon- sible for any personal debts that may have been incurred by any organizer of the League in years gone by.: It is doubtful whether the League farmers will find much time to josh with 'each particular ghost, as it comes ‘along the road and stops at the. farm --house, or not.—J. S- y ghost stalking TOWN DAILY ALERT, esota No. 23 and seed. MOORHEAD, MINN. = PHONE 141 te to alarm the honest - . KEEP MAIN POINT IN MIND, (Editorial in Kensal Progress.) . The “friends” of the farmers who have been so busy looking after the interests of the Stalwart political machine that' they-have not had opportunity of letting the farmer know‘just how deeply interested they are in his welfare are now wasting a lot of energy and time telling the farmers to look out for the boogy man who will get ’em if they don’t watchout,. .50 ! o ' / Belesd Thie The farmers of North Dakota are well able to look out for themselves and may be:trusted ‘to handle their affairs with a fair regard.for the rights of others. If they find their League wrong they will be the first to right the wrong and that will be their first thought ’should occasion arise. f 7 R ; Meanwhile it would be well for all good, progressive citizens to keep in mind the main point at issue in MMt campaign. The old gang that is now in the saddle must be o . Any fair and legitimate means to that énd should be.-welcomed by all North Dakotans who want to see representative government. No one need expect see the'farmers, the most law abiding and law' respecting ‘class in the state; become wild eyed anarchists-at -the waving of a wand; that is entirely con to the spirit of the men who are seeking some avenue through which to work out reform conditions. b Rl 7 . Let ‘the farmers have a charce to weigh theéir own problems and work them out: there is no cause for excitement and no revolution will esult from the farmers’ success.. ° ; 5 06000000000000000000000000000600000000 2 ;Ammmww.’gamfi.&flfiwhtiI%-J’“‘A“ 5 i aee | MAIN STREET 0.........0.....?0.....‘..‘...'..0.!......‘....‘. G, S . =55 o P AR v i i) o S i / LR T RO s : RIS A Harness - o Farm Implements - g ¥ v : P lumbing and Heating S Shelf and Heavy Hardware =~ ~ FRENGH & WELCHHARDWARE | BISMARCK, N. v. | BT il 1