The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, May 25, 1916, Page 19

1} - - N BE ) \ < e 2 ) ] » i - i - ks k4 b 7 e 4 v & s ] | .. ) | 4 3 .( \ i The Truth About It juild Unfair to His Reporter When He ccused Him of Editor Nonpartisan Leader: Dr. Guild of the Courier News has Fwitted me several times about my brib- ing one of his reporters with a $5 bill. In Fact he adds it is a common newspaper ,'pmcfice to accept such bribes for a Iittle ‘publicity. I however doubt that state- ment. But some of the press of the ptate have distorted that bribe incident. “So I answer through your paper that the Courier-News absolutely lied when it states that I bribed one of its reporters. I never-thought of it. I never tried it. McCanusland, the reporter to. whom I Eave that $5 bill did not look like a man who would even take a bribe. What I tell you only shows how an unfriendly editor can take m half truth and make 2 whole lie out of it. Just before I. boarded the train at Mandan for the Fargo Grain 'Growers convention, where I was to speak, Earl {Tostevin, editor of the Mandan Pioneer, told me that if anything happened un- " usual to telegraph him the news. On the program a Dr. Weaver, a minister of the Gospel, spoke before me on the sub- ject of stampeding our nation into a gigantic preparedness scheme. It made me rather indignant to think of a minister nailing a canmon on top of a church spire instead of the cross. So in my speech I answered this minister, declaring that if the amount of money that we as a nation had been spending Wwas spent right there was no need of get- ting excited over . this preparedness question. ABOUT THAT $5 McCausland, the teporter for the Courier-News, was one of the first to congratulate me. I thanked him and then asked him to send an account of the .affair to Earl Tostevin of the Mandan {®Pioneer. He agreed and then afterwards {4 handed him the $5 bill, saying that "would pay the expenses. ,The Fargo “Forum reporter was there. If I wanted to bribe a newspaper, I would try to bribe a paper like the Forum, which has influence and is a muck bigger paper in the west slope. If that is bribery and your reporters have - buch a practice, then, Dr. Guild, make the most of it. 3 Now as to that Fargo Non-Participat- ing convention, as Dr. Guild calls it. I - was Belected as a delegate. I believe that I was the only delegate that was not a candidate for the state legislature. I~ -noticed that our friend Mr. Quanbeck in an open letter says that he will not ac- cept the nomination for legislature from the Nonpartisan' League. Among “his objections found in his letter in the Courier-News of recent date in the fact that the Rev. Ray McKaig of Fort Rice was one of the delegates to this conven- tion at Fargo where the state ticket was put in the field and yet the said McKaig was not indorsed for the state legislature. "I wiill tell Quanbeck that, however, I was chairman of the county convention and that my name for the state legisla- ture was put up before the convention and that I absolutely refused. In spite of my refusal half the boys at the con- vention voted for me. Then I again ‘made it clear that T was not %o be con- "gidered as a candidate because I had too much’ farming 'this year and could not .leave my place. Only two candidates out of a possible " three were indorsed and this left the third place open. So I was chosen to go to Fargo by the delegates. Now _‘what was wrong with that? RIGHT MEN WERE PICKED I am a farmer, have farmed for six - years and when I get well and strong *enough for indoor work, will very-likely \go back into the ministry. Is there anything wrong in an ex-minister speak- . ing and debating for the interests of the farmers? = . x ; So 1 took in that Fargo cozmvention . where; to say the least,” history was surely made. If that had been a packed affair you surely would have heard from Aceepting a $5 Bribe me.” Now, Dr. Guild, I had the honor to nominate two - men who are on that farmers’ ticket. One of them is @ Ger- man by descent from the western part of this county, for railroad commissioner, a Mr. Bleick, who is one of the shrewd- est, kindest, squarest hard-working farm-’ ers in this county. ¢ The other man is the Bill Langer that comes from this county and who will, to put it mildly, never pull any raw deals on the farmers’ Equity when the Cham- ber of Commerce pulls the string. Could I call it a packed convention? I took the word of other men that Fra- zier and Aandahl and Dick Grace were all right. They took my word that my men were all right. When they saw my men they were pleased, and when I saw Frazier and the others I was pleased. Now what was the use of making any fuss over all this? We were men that went there to pick out a good ticket to beat the gang. Well, we picked the right men and already we are hearing the squeals of defeat from the enemy. Hurrah for the 28th of June! That will be some day! Yours very truly, RAY M’KAIG. WHY POLITICIANS HOWL (Editorial in the Staats-Anzeiger of May 12) The press of the Republican machine . politicians of the state have been howling for weeks against the Farmers’ Nonpar- tisan League (Nonpartisan Farmers’ Union) but up to the present we have not found anything which should give them occasion for this. . Why the machine politicians howl is quite clezr. This Nonpartisan farmers’ movement threatens to expose to the light of day all the affairs of the machine politicians like Hanna and also his entire affiliation. We beg of our farmer friends to view more_critically the gentlemen who inveigh so strongly against the farmers’ movement in political’ matters. When they do they will clearly under- stand. The farmers’ union has grown to a wonderful movement in this state which we view with great satisfaction. The entire English daily press is doing its best to discredit this movement but until up to the present these partisan papers have mof advanced any reason why the farmers should not become affiliated with this movement. These papers over-estimate their in- fluence. A paper can have influence with the public only if it does honor to by Q.0.0...0..0......00Q.....'OO.......O.......'.....li..'."" ~ How to Register League members, in order to vote in the primaries, must have given the assessor THEIR PARTY DESIGNATIONS, Only mem- bers of the RECOGNIZED POLITICAL PARTIES can vote in the primaries. Many of the League’s candidates will be found ON THE REPUBLICAN BALLOT. None but Republicans can vote for them. A few will be found on the Democratic ballot. Only Democrats can vote for THEM. If you have registered “Nonpartisan” or “Independent” you can not vote in the primaries. There is no such party designation. Assessors must turn in their registration lists on June 1. If you failed to give your party designation CORRECTLY there may be still time to change it by communicating with the assessor after this copy of the Leader reaches you. , DON'T REGISTER “NONPARTISAN” OR “INDEPEND- ENT.” truth and’ stands -for principles which defend the welfare of the majority of the people. Every politician in the state, even -the inconsequential and long ago shoved aside and among those to the German element our well-known and “dear” Mr. Wishek prophesied that the -world'illeome"tnlnmdifthemer of the farmers’ movement is not broken. We hope that the farmers will not let themselves be bamboozled by these machine and spoils. politicians who never yet have done anything for the farmers. To the readers of this paper it is a well- known fact that the Staats-Anzeiger remains with no party through thick and thin, because generally not every party and every movement has only good sides. But until now the farmers’ movement is good and has been well managed and no farmer need be alarmed at becoming a member, but he has reason to seek to become affiliated with it. The farmers’ organization has placed a full ticket in the field for the election in June and if we cannot speak well for all the candidates which the organization has indorsed * * *yet it nevertheless ‘remains true that, taken as a whole, the most of the candidates of the farmers’ organization are able and good men of which many are Republicans and some are Democrats. (Note—The reference above to “the- entire English daily press” is not strictly accurate. Several ably edited daily newspapers are among the friends of the League.—Editor Leader.) IF THE FARMERS stick we have ~ them on the run, Three cheers for the League. Let’s boost and not kick.—P, PEARSON. REGISTER AS YOU HAVE ALWAYS REGISTERED ¢ AND VOTE YOUR OWN PARTY BALLOT IN THE PRIMARIES. ................C....OQ....'.....O........C.......O...O.. CONDEMN REGENTS . Dismissal of Worst an Injustice to Ena ' tire State, Say Farmers The following resolutions passed by Bostonia local No. 42 of the Farmers’ union have been submitted to the Leader. for publication by O. E. Willis, of Tut« tle, N. D., the secretary-treasurer: “Whereas, it has pleased the board of regents of the North Dakota Agricul« tural college to remove the Hon. J. 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