The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, May 25, 1916, Page 13

- B " g ~ e ~ i W % i = + s = 45 03 N OUTRAGE For Farmer Delegates to Meet Behind Closed Doors . Editor Nonpartisan Leader; The editors of the “Kept Press” and the politicians are greatly agitated— there is no doubt of it! Their stal- wart knees knock together, .their voices tremble and they are ‘getting pale clear around back of their over- ~.-grown ears; all-because in the polit- ical tug of war the farmers of this - state have finally eoncluded to-all pull - ‘. -on. the same end of. the rope! It may seem strange to the simple- minded that a circumstance, appar- ently so trifling, should cause the teeth of the mighty to chatter and otherwise conduct themselves like ‘a * party ‘of fishwives confronted by an .unwelcome ghost. But ‘when one ' reflects:that rich pickings await those - * 'who can induce one bunch of “hay- . seeds”, to pull their heads off trying. to beat another bunch as foolish as themselyes, the cause of their anguish “and {fnortal terror is fully apparent: Among the greatly: “agitated” is Representative H. C. Harty of Bottin-" eau county.. -In a letter to.the Bot- tineau Courant, copied in the Fargo ‘- Courier-News of May 3rd, the “very honorable gentiaman” relieves ~ hic agitated feelings by emitting a screed ‘of venom against “Boss Townley,” ~ “the Townley machine,” and the “So-’ called " convention of 44 delegates,”" ~ ‘that a rattlesnake wquld find it dif- /I8 BIZ 8 COMPANY - KILLED | DERDER THAN A "~ DOORNAIL Y THE " NON _PHRT\SRN ficult to improve upon. He refers to “those 44 hog-tied delegates,” yet professes confidence. in the average voter! Everybody knows they were average men, from average commun- ities, chosen by average farmers to represent their common cause. This of course, “hog-tied” them! ; One of the crimes of this convention was that it “met in secret conference.” Horrible to contemplaté! If it had been a gathering of well-fed bankers, . met to consider new ways of coralling the elusive coin, ‘it would have been :lrltfigely appropriate to-have excluded <'the A and profane from their councils.” - But- for mere farmers to meet for mo loftier purpose’than to - consider new: methods’ of eliminating graft and then actually insist on talk- ing the matter over among themselves- alone, why it was a gross insult and _ an intolerable outrage to all the grafters.—J. S. INGALLS. ~ GOOD FOR NELS'S{PEEN Here s’ Another Merchant Who is With Farmers. Editor Nonpartisan Leader: I am almost ashamed of myself. For what? For neglecting ~paying niy ‘advertising'in the Nonpartisan-Leader, the greatest paper in. North' Dakota, to_help us people to stick together so FIRST TIME 1 EVER SAW A WEEPING witLow TREE WEEP NG FoR JoY we can do something against Big Biz, and give everybody an opportunity. I am a small business man and have a large'family to support, but I am not afraid the Nonpartisan movement will take the bread away from my family. They will make it just as easy as it is hard now to make both ends meet. We merchants ought to be glad to lend a hand and push this great movement to the front, the quicker we can get this through the better we are off. We merchants are nothing but corporation tools anyhow, ‘and most of us are under obligations ~and -stand in the same boat as the farmers in working for someone. else. ‘Wouldn’t "it. be wise for us mer- chants to cooperate with the farmers and get the state to put in a central market place hera in North Dakota so we could buy our goods outside of the trust? So we could sell cheaper: to the consumer and save that money - which now goes into the wholesale . trust. I don’t think there would be such a howl about high cost of living if ‘'we did save some''money for the consumers. All I.can do to help you with this movement is to urge it along and give you my vote, 'and that is all there is to:it. And you must do the same if - you want to collect what you got com- ing. Stick to 'it. Urge it, vote for Did anyone evex hear of the biggest landed class in any community try- ing to'do things that wounld hamper or delay the development of that com- munity? Not much. The farmers are the biggest landed class in North Dakota and their program is fundamentally in the interests of the develop- _ ment of North Dakota along right lines.. That’s why they are in the League. . PAGE THIRTEEN , b dd Here'’s an Idea ! Approi)‘riate to the Season— In Another Year .. or Two The Farmers of North Dakota Can Plant Flowers on the Gravg of Big Biz & Co., the Alliance of Corrupt Business and Crooked Politics in This State— Will it be a Sad Occasion? NOT SO VERY SAD, Yoo Od KNOCKING HELPS I circulated the petitions today in my precinct and can 1 say that I am more " than surprised to see.how enthusiastic the ‘members ‘and ‘ some that are not members are. Just give the Courier- News rope enough axd it will hang it’ self. The more it hollers the stronger the League grows, Put your shoulder to the “wheel, boys, and boost it along. —F. H. FULLER, it, don’t pay any attention to these grabbers and politicians who are find- ing fault with those people who are the head of this movement. . Everything has got to have some one to lead and push things along, We don’t care if they haven’t got the money, or if the?r are bankrupt, or got thousands of dollars mortgages hang- ing over their heads as long as they are working for an honest movement, ..— A as we will all be benefited by, —~- The enemies ' say you - farmers should now step'in and take their place and manage this" great undere taking. Then they would say- you were too lazy to work on your farms and they were foreclosed by mort« gages, and you were looking for an easy job, trying to put the public in b?d_.t You would never hear the end of it. I have a diferent point of view in this ‘matter. I think most of those: who are in debt, and have lost every« thing they have izlot, and those who- have mortgages heads, and those who are striving hard night and day to keep in exist- ence, are honest men, and are more so .than_those .who are jabbing and growling on these men who are the head of this movement. I had better quit for fear this may reach the wastebasket. I have figured a long time to write to help this movement along, but I haven the education, to make myself under stood, but I thought I 'would do my best to show you from the bottom ‘of my heart that T am with you, brother farmers.—NELS A. STEEN.. anging over their - L i