The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, May 25, 1916, Page 2

ENEMIES COMMIT SUICIDE After mingling with the voters of Dickey county the past week I find the sentiment strongly in favor of “the League candidates. The general impression is that “we are going to vote our money’s worth reoaldless of what our home papers say.” I noticed one paper in particular in this county that is committing business sui- cide by opposing the League.—N. J. RODENBERG. EVERYBODY FOR FRAZIER In my neighborhood, regardless of profession or political party . everyone has joinéd hands to vote for Frazier for governor.and the other candidates whom the League has indorsed. Mr. Frazier, every- body’s friend, is the man upper- most in the mmds of every voter— the loving, sensible; goed-natured, broad-minded Lynn, a ‘common farmer who has appropriated to . himself everybody’s confidence. No one doubts his ability to make a grand governor, not even his op- ponents. Not: a paper makes a " different statement. Even the Grand TForks Herald says: “Neither have you seen anything in the Nerald derogatory of the good, substantial men like Mr. Frazier and others who are mem- bers or leaders of the League.” - Let them shout and yell all they please. You can’t hardly blame them, it’s so sudden. And conse- quently . they are delirious- ‘and ~ hysterical. — HAROLD - MARK- HOLT. ‘ Farmers of North Dakofa Have \ Bl Resolved to Elect Him Governor .......................O..................Q....Q......C... CLANCY. REPUBLICANS FOR' FRAZIER After looking over the ground around here thoroughly I am con- vineed Frazier will get every Re- publican vote in our precinct. There will be nothing to it if they all stick together as well as we will here. ——HENRY FETZER. NON-MEMBEfiS FOR FRAZIER The people in my township are * great boosters for the League and. Leader. There are a few farmers in my township who are net mem- bers but they promise to come in. I have not met any knockers yet.— WM. HOLMQUIST. ..O..'..C!‘#‘O....O.....‘.0.............................. ALL NON-MEMBERS BUT TWO I HAVE FINISHED getting signers for the petitions and have got all the non-members éxcept two. " the farm, but Mr. Parks and Mr. Pfau donated the use of their cars “ang we picked up the signers after supper. the work. T am: sendmg you the petitions. under separate cover.— - .’IAMES GAINO NONE REFUSED TO SIGN v I AM SENDING you the petitions you sent to me some time ago to have signed by the voters of this precinct. I was out with a horse and buggy for two days, besides what walking I did. None refused to sign their names whether members or not. I think that is a pretty good showing for this: part,’ don’t you"—PETER 0900000000000000000000000000000000000000000600000000000000 FARMERS ALL BOOSTERS The farmers in this vicinity, practically without exception, whether members of the League or not, will go solidly for the League candidates. — W.- P. FAULK. EVERY VOTE IN PRECINCT Frazier and all the League can- didates will get every vote in this precinet with the exception of two two or three. Farmers are very enthusiastic in this vicinity and are working together for the success ¢f the League and its candidates. —GEORGE CROZIER. This is a very busy time on Two evening drives did He Hasn t Missed a Harvest Since He Was Able to Drlve * ALL MEMBERS STEADFAST "I was out the other day‘with the petitions for the nomination of the League candidates for state office a.ndIfoundalltheLeaguemem- .- bers: steadfast in the League and interested in the Leader. ILet us all stick together and give our candidates a big boost on June 28, —L. W. LARSON. : FOR LEAGUE CANDIDATES This is to let you know that the farmers = around - here are all in ‘_ favor of the League candidates, are working hard for their success and have full confidence in the men at. headquarters —T. R LELAND. BRIGHT AT LANSFORD The greater part of the people of Lansford will vote: for the can- _didates indorsed by the League. 1. can say this after a full investigae tion—CHARLES HI%LMING. RANKS ARE INTACT As far as I can ascertain our ranks are intact to a man in my neighborhood. Several subscrib- ers to the Courier-News declared they were done with it. -The same applies - to. the Normanden. Am glad there seems to be a mutual spirit between labor and = the League. - I notice the “News” had to modify its sweeping statement considerably in regard to the con- Terences with the labor men. With kind: wishes and hope for stead- fastness 1n th1s Jus ‘strugglg.—-& A. OLSN * “YNN J. FRAZIER, the farmers’ L' candidate for governor, is not one of those “gentleman farmers” who is merely “interested” from a greater or les distance in North Dakota. lands. He doesn’t sit at a desk in town and drive out in an auto occasionally to watch the farm hands work. He lives on his farm and works there. He plows, he seeds, he harrows, he tends stock and he does a man’s work in the harvest. He has lived all his life since he was. six*vears old on one farm in North Dakota, and since. he was twelve years old—for twenty-nine years—he has never missed a harvest, not even excepting the years when he was going to college. He - always came back to work during the summer and was always on hand for the hard work of harvesting. ' He is no soft- handed farmer—no easy-chair farmer. He is a working farmer. His interest in the farmers’ cause and his realization of the farmers’ troubles and needs is not . theoretical. He: is a big, strong-bodied and strong-minded man who does his work well on the farm and will do it well when he is in the governor’s chair, At the request of the editor of the Leader Mr. Frazier has written down for readers of the Leader something about his arrival in North Dakota and his boy- hood ~ experiences as he ‘them. “We arrived at Grand Forks the last of March, 1881,” writes Mr. Frazier. “That was the end of the railroad at * that- time and- we drove with two wagons the sixty-five miles to the home- stead in Pembina county, which had been filed on the year before, . “The snow-had just gone and the water was high, but we had no place to stop or money to keep us in Grand Forks, so had to move on. The first of April found remembers T S that tlme.” us ploddmg our weary way toward our new home. “Ourswerethelastteamstocrossthe Turtle river mear Manvel before the . bridge went out. From there on boats would _have served our purpose better . than wagons. As I remember it there was water all the way to the Forest . river, where we had to camp near Minto ' for three days until the water went down ‘and*the bridge could be repaired. “By that time the ground was getting soft and we had to leave one wagen and double our teams. “ In two more days we._ reached the north branch of the Park river two miles from the homestead and found the bridge afloat and: tied to the trees with ropes. The load was packed across the bndge and the horrses had to swim. “Thus we reached our North Dakota home on the seventh day after leaving Grand Forks, We were kindly taken in by a bachelor neighbor until the sod house was built, in w}nch we lived for seven years. : © “The sod house was 16x32 mslde, thh . & partition through the center, the south half of the house being on a quarter filed on by my oldest sister. When Walsh * county was afterwards formed the house . : . 'was half in Walsh and half in Pembma “My boyhood days were spent like . those of thousands of other farm boys, going barefoot from the time the snow: : was off the ground in the -spring until it - came again in the fall, catehing gophers and herding eattle and going to school . when there was nothing ‘else to do. “When I was eleven years old I drove " three horses on a Flying Dutchman sulky plow.and when I'was twelve I commenced driving a binder. I haven’t missed a ‘single harvest on the old homestead since