The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, May 25, 1916, Page 4

. resubmission peoplé and " professes to love. . : DON'T FORGET YOUR'FRIENDS = s ARMERS of the Nonpartisan League will not soon forget the E enemies who have fought them in this campaign, especially those who have not scrupled to throw mud, to‘make unfair attacks, to descend to personalities, to give-currency to deliberate falsehoods. : : Neither will they soon forget those who have stood'loyally by them. ' State They will not forget their friends among the educators, among the most - and among the . reputable attorneys of the state, among the merchants _ ers.. Especially they will not forget, their good friends of the daily and weekly press who have stood by them, who have encouraged their efforts to organize and who have given them sound advice. > There have been a few papers which, while standing aloof from the battle, yet have not lent themselves to the enemy, which have printed no falsehoods about the League. Others, a.large number of them, have seen the justice of the farmers’ cause and have got behind it-to work + loyally for what they believed to be the highest good of the state. These newspapers, and the fearless men who edit'them, deserve well of the farmers. An independent press is a necessity to reform. It ought to be encouraged by the support of.the people of the state. One of the surest ways to encourage progress and clean government is to stand behind those newspapers which show themselves friends to reform and which dare to raise their voices against political corruption. If your home paper is working for you, give it your support. When the Equity was fighting for its life against a campaign of mis- representation in the gang press, when it was almost driven to the wall by slander, lies and court actions, it was a popular argument of those opposing this great farmers’ cooperative movement that they were not -against’ the Equity plan of organization .or ‘against the farmers, but only opposed to ~the leaders of the Equity, who, they said, were crooks and grafters. Gosh, ., . how familiar that sounds! Flip-flop! What was that? Don’t be alarmed, dear reader, it was - only Dr. Guild turning a double somersault on the question of Mr. Kraabel’s qualifications for office. : S . 5 3 "AND NOW -HE’S BURDICK’S FRIEND W HE Fargo Daily Courier-News pretends to be a great friend of U. L. Burdick, who is running-on the Republican ticket for governor in _opposition to Lynn J. Frazier, the farmers’ candidate. Dr. Guild, the editor of the Courier-News, has filled his paper with baseless charges against the League, claiming among other things that the League should ?ave fiiindorsed Mr. Burdick and dwelling on Mr. Burdick’s qualifications or office. 3 : : : . % In this as in most everything else he has done in his frantic effort to disrupt the Nonpartisan League, Dr. Guild, to put it mildly, is insincere. In his attempt to turn everything against the League that he can set his hand to, without reason and regardless of the facts, ‘Dr. Guild oversteps ent friendliness for Mr. Burdick is amusing: He is for Mr. Biirdick not because he likes Burdick. He showed how muth he liked Burdick two years ago when he circulated miean™insinuations about him and went down the lirie in his paper for Hanna. / & Two years ago-as now Dr. Guild was overlooking the real :,iSsu,efs of e excuse to fight the Progressive Republicans. Prohibition is a safe issue and a righteous one that Mr. Guild thinks gives moral tone to his paper. In the last campaign he clamored about prohibition daily though prohib- ition was never in danger. The real issue was progressiveism against stalwartism, .and he was against the progressives. The resubmission candidate ‘got a handful of votes. . In this campaign-he has been doing the same thing, only to find that there will be no prohibition repeal measure on the ballot this fall and that his “paramount issue” has gone, glimmering. . B : : WL Two _years ago while kicking up dust about. prohibition to_ obscure the real issue Dr. Guild was quietly knifing the Progressive Republican league and all its candidates, including Mr. Burdick. He was besmirch- ing Mr. Burdick in what he thought was a very cleveir way. He was pretending to like Burdick and his qualifications for office, at the same time insinuating that Burdick was in league with . the liquor element and had the support of that faction. Here is how he did it:- : ; Editorial in the Courier-News, June 3, 1914: . ~ : 2 ' “The combat thickens. Rumors which seem reliable are to the effect that an understanding has been reached between the German league ard the Progressive wings of the Republican party on the matter of governorship, and things are so fixed - up that by continuance of the German league candidate in the field, U. L, Burdick ; will have a safe majority of about 2000. * * * The temperance people are quietly rallying behind Governor Hanna.” i See how he did it? See how this now professed friend of Mr. Bur-- dick intimated that Burdick had a frame-up with those opposed to pro-. hibition? Burdick was the candidate of the Progressive Republicans, but Dr. Guild was for Hanna, the stalwart, and he used the worn-out liquor argument to instill prejudice against Mr. Burdick, -just as he is now doing in the case of the Nonpartisan League. - Here is another one: Editorial in the Courier-News May 20, 1914: - “Mr. Burdick and his followers have been conducting a vigorous campaign. * * ¢ Meanwhile Mr. Wishek (the resubmissionist candidate) is also reported to be enter: ing upon a campaign of much vigor, though in a different way.. The people who want to assail the prohibition law are massing behind him and the principal attack seems to beé on Governor. Hanna. ' Indeed it seemed probable at one time’that the German alliance would indorse Mr. Burdick, so evidently he is not the object of their .. Do you get that? Tt is an underhanded and round about way of using the prohibition "‘1_ssue” against Mr. Burdick, whom Mr. Guild now : e. . This editor, who will stoop to anything, tries to make it appear in the above editorial that Mr. Burdick is friendly with the ‘ 1 t they are not opposing him; that at one time they thought of indorsing him. This insinuation was to make capital for Hanna and help in Hanna’s election by making it appear that Hanna was the only one -the resubmission people were opposing and therefore was the only friend of prohibition. Sk This is exactly the line of attack Dr. Guild is now using against the . Nonpartisan League and Lynn J. Frazier, farmers’ candidate for governor. He is trying to make prohibition a paramount issue again - attacks-on men copnected with the League, gotten If. " To those who remember how he knifed Mr. Burdick when he: was running for governor against Hanna two years ago, Dr. Guild’s pres-:- < :i§ getting stuff used in-the rest of the gang press. now because Mr. Burdick was not indorsed by the farmers’ organization,'. - campaign to talk about prohibition. He useéd prohibition as an- C ~News May: 6. “OPEN HIS EYES.” M’KENZIE, THROUGH = OUT.THE STATE. ~ paper has only 8770 circulation; .- it 'will not permit it to pass out of and ifisififiafe that the .Lea'gfie 'bafidida{;és are in leb:gfié mth thia qufl_or interests. He does this knowing that Mr. Frazier is an ardent prohib. itionist and for law enforcement first and last and despite the fact that one of the League candidates is William Langer, fighting enemy of blind- vigs, and another, Mr. Kraabel, indorsed by the prohibitionists of the state. e g i gl "“"What do you think of this kind of an editor? “Pa, ‘what is it when.you say something and then say the opposite?” exact | _- “Why, my son, the word for that is doctor-guilding.” ' 5 MKENZIE’S PRESS COMBINATION: ; 3 HE Bismarck Tribune, that old war horse of the political gang in North Dakota, had to.make a sworn statement of ownership to the United States government the other day. This paper has bpen one of the chief enemies of the Nonpartisan Leag'ug and has done its ‘best from the start to discredit the great farmers’ political movement. What its ownership certificate reveals, therefore, is both important and inter- esting. And here it is: = : Fi Ownmers of the Bismarck Daily Tribune: - ALEX M’KENZIE : : Mg, RATE 7. JEWELL. : e Mr. McKenzie needs no introduction to the readers of the Leader Mr. Little needs an introduction to only a few. He is president of ~~ the First National Bank of Bismarck and for years financial represent~ - ative of Alex McKenzie. He and Mr. McKenzie own the controlling interest in the Tribune and Mr. Little is receiver for'it. Heis a c{mdx- date for the senate against Carroll D. King, farmer and League candidate in Burleigh county. : ; o W This paper has been particularly active in attempting to besmirch “the characters of the,men at the head of the League and the Leader. It has printed several purported dispatches from places- where persons _connected with -the League and ~Leader formerly lived apd ‘has - attempted by distorting facts and using profuse misreprqsentahops, to %gld Lg};ese‘men up to contempt and ridicule, in its campaign to disrupt e League. e : g : Alex McKenzie’s Bismarck newspaper has played an important part in the gang press fight on the League. One of its functions has been to furnish material for all the gang press of the state, including the Fargo Daily Courier-News and the Grand Forks Daily Herald. These two ‘papers have been careful to copy each of the specially prepared up by McKenzie’s paper and printed first in it~ There seems to be an nuderstanding that the stuff against the League used in:Alex McKenzie’s Bismarck paper -shall be used also by the Courier-News and Grand’'Forks He ’ -other two papers, however, do not give the McKenzie special organ credit for originating and printing first these attacks. - It has remained for the ‘Leader in this article to point out the connection and show how MecKenzie . One or two instances of this will suffice to how it-has beeri done amd prové tHe case. On May 18 the Bismarck Tribune used a-front page story purporting to come from Spokahe. It was a garbled “history” of- one of the men connetted with the League movement and was written to blacken his character. On May' 16 the same story was.used in the sourier-News. On May 4 a similar story, labeled as coming from. Spo- kane, was used by the Bismarck Tribune. .It appeared in the Courier- Both these stories also appeared in:the Grand Fqrks Herald after appearing in the Tribune. S e FEsiyer - Sometimes' the other'gang papers copy- the stuff:from McKenzie's Bismarck’ sheet word for word, giving McKenzie no’ credit for the articles. tain the IF ANYONE THINKS THE ALEX M!KENZIE INFLUENCE IN NORTH DAKOTA IS' A THING OF THE HIS O AND CONTROL OF THE BISMARCK PAPER, COMMANDS SPACE IN ALL THE GANG PAPERS. THE GANG PAPERS FATTHFULLY COPY THE M’KENZIE ARTICLES. THUS IS THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST . THE LEAGUE CARRIED ON. . THUS THE BIG BOSS STILL MAKES GETS HIS VIEWS SPREAD THROUGH- 5 HIS' WISHES FELT AND . The sworn government statements of circulation of the three gang _‘papers above mentioned are as follows: ., Courier-News, 10,249; Grand Forks Herald, 17,186; Bismarck Tribune, 8770. ' e d S mgess .. Thus the total circulation commanded by McKénzie for the‘articles his ‘Bismarck paper originates against the League is 81,205. - His .own ‘over state, : X g e The Bismarck Tribune has béen in the hands of a reeeiver since January 4, 1915. - C. B. Little, one of the stockholders in the paper and 31,000 for his stuff. Yet some say .his influence is dead in this financial agent at Bismarck for McKenzie, is the receiver, so the paper is not in independent hands on account of the receivership. = It remains in the same control. When ‘it went into receivership its assets were stated at $46,374.74 and its liabilities at $74,460.90 It was stated that it owed Mr. Little $34,083.52 and his bank serves to give ‘Little and McKenzie greater control than ever over the- paper. , : bt W S el S There has been no effort to wind up the receivership or:ge]l the paper. The paper is not for sale, though bankrupt. Those controlling : ¢ / 1t of their hands. - When it was nécessary to have a receivership on account of creditors pressing the matter, Tittle, a.stockholder, with McKenzie owning the majority stock, was put'in. ' . . .The Minneapokis Chamber of Commerce bought and paid for 4000 coples - - of the Fargo Daily Courier-News to circulate free to the fariners of North ~ Dakota.. The Chamber liked what the Courier-News had to say and wanted the farmers to see'it. 'The Leader will give the Chamber r » them free. Shall we hold the line? . “Pa, what is the Song of Hate?” Again they are rewritten and thinly disguised, but they con- same tharges and it is easy to see where they were taken from.' ° PAST, THIS OUGHT TO WNERSHIP but with this he controls a circulation of - $7000. The receivership . ers to see it. . tive the Chamber of Commerce, free =~ - of charge, 4000 of any of its issues, if the Chamber will agree to circulate PS = 0 B AN A D e b1 L