The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, May 25, 1916, Page 8

of | fini fay are | - . erganization that saves for these con- polidated school districts the sum of over $65,000 annually through the time ‘saved by the excess number of classes in the 1000 one-room rural schools that have been eliminated; and last but most important the securing and the holding in service for longer periods than usual some 1000 well-trained teachers. WHAT IS NEEDED NOW: - A'NEW AND SQUARE DEAL We would not give the impression that ¢ the rural school problem has been solved, just that a good beginning has been made. There is still great need for much more of intelligent and unselfish service. There are over 4000 one-room rural schools in great need of improve- ment, and there are over 27,000 farm children to be provided with high school privileges. We are in urgent . need of more state aid to encourage the fuller development of the ‘one-room rural schools and to extend the useful- ness of the consolidated schools, and we Some the Gan WHIRLWIND CAMPAIGN The Nonpartisan League now has 80 cars in active operation throughout the state, and numerous speakers are mak- ing a whirlwind campaign for the ticket recently indorsed at the Fargo conven- tion.—HANNAFORD ENTERPRISE. BOOST FOR JOOS C. B. Joos, of west of town, who received the indorsement by the Nonpar- tisan League at its convention in Fargo this spring, for the office of representa- tive from the 23rd legislative district, has his announcement in this issue of the Patriot. Mr. Joos is one of our wide- awake, progressive farmers, who takes a keen interest in anything he feels is for the betterment of his farmer friends. and is always working for their interest. He is fully competent to serve and if elected will no doubt make ‘an efficient representative—PINGREE PATRIOT. Political Tricksters-at Wask (Bditorial in Minot Messenger) The political bee has commenced to buzz and for the next six weeks we are going to have some politics. There is a determined effort to be made by the old political machine to down the Nonpartisan League and as the machine is backed by the best political tricksters in the state it is safe to assume that there will be a real fight. The machine has already found a willing tool in Preacher Guild, who conducts the - Courier-News at Fargo, and that paper will be the sewer through which all un- clean attacks will be made on the farm- ers’ organization. : The machine knows the game and the first move is to disorganize the farmers by - creating suspicion in- their minds against their leaders. It is a wedge that every blow widens the crevice if the mallet in the hands of the manipulator is allowed to swing un- molested—and the result is inevitable. But in this instance we believe the farmer has had too many lessons to al- - low the first whack of the mallet. He has been up against this same machine since he cast his first vote and he is in the best position to judge what it has done for him. ; For the first time in the history of -~ North Daketa an organization has been this | perfected . to -successfully fight octopus and this organization is in the hands of the farmers of the state who control the votes if they stand organized. The leaders in the movement may be anarchists, socidlists, dead beats, crooks or scalawags or they may be honest men —the result will be the same if the farm- ers stick together. Townley may be the biggest scoundrel unhung, but Townley * is'not running for office neither can he . control the actions of any candidate on the Nonpartisan ticket. 5 In all the slush that has been written we have yet failed to see one where an attack has been made on the character, of the League candidates—and they are the ones-if they are elected to whom we ~are looking to correct the wrongs that . we have suffered at the hands of the pork barrel politicians. The farmer has been warned time and time again that his danger lies in the fact _“that he will not stand organized and this is the weak link that the gangsters expect to break. They will stoop to any- thing to bring about the result and there but for all alike. WELL QUALIFIED L. H. Larson’s petition was circulated last Friday and signed by almost all who were eligible. As will be remembered, Mr. Larson has the indorsement of the Nonpartisan League as a member to the legislature. We know of no man, who is more conscientious or better qualified than he; being one of the old time farm- ers of Courtenay, he is in a position to know what legislation the farmers and business men should have, and we know that he will stand for legislation that helps the farmer and business men alike. He will not be a man for a choice few, He is a good clean cut fellow, a man who -has built his way through many storms on the North Da- kota prairies and is entitled to every vote from this territory. We should see that . he is made a member to the legislative body.—COURTENAY GAZETTE. is no telling” what that trick will be ex- cept as it discloses itself from day to day. - The time has now come: when the : loyalty of ‘every member of the Nonpar- ; tisan League will bé put to the supreme test. If they stand the victory is won. If they falter in the battle line they are defeated.” = : We - don’t” know ~that all the things . promised can-be brought. about but we do know that the promises of the old ~ gang, given yeéar after year, and for ' many years, -have brought. only wotrse - conditions than we have faced before. Is. it not worth trying for? = : Conditions can be no worse even if Townley himself had the control the gang give him credit of having and is . the crook he has been branded by the . machine newspapers. We are not going to waste time or-space in defending Townley or his associates who are not an issue in this campaign. The issue.is be- tween the men who are running for office 0000000000000000000000000000030000000020000000000 ..Q............!‘.........C......bQ.....O..O............ GANG FIGHTS IN SAME OLD WAY : (Editorial in Fargo Searchlight) . If one will but remember the tactics used in the attempt to destroy the Equity organization, it will be readily called to mind that they were the same as are now used to attempt to destroy the Nonpartisan League. are in great need of more assistance with which to carry on a more extensive and effective campaign for better rural schools in every section of the state. Briefly we need a ‘new deal and a square deal for the rural school. ' This would mean among other things that ample provision must be made for secur- ing better trained and better paid teach- ers, that the course of study must be more largely modernized, that the state and the county superintendency must be further removed from political influence, s Can’t Control Here’s a Good Idéa, Parson—Get - McKenzie to Write One (Editorial in Devils Lake Journal.) The boys out in Morton county had a good laugh the other day when Parson Guild of the Courier-News spread Bill Martin’s letter; anent the Nonpartisan League, on the front page and in doing so referred to Bill as a “progressive Republican with a good record.” The boys out there know Bill and the thought of anyone classing- him as a progressive Republican seemed mighty ridiculous. In tact, if it wasn’t laughable it would seem highly unfair, for Bill has worked for almost a lifetime in Morton county to be known as a smooth member of the standpat machine of that section. those who know him he has won a hard-earned right to be classed as a dyed-in-the-wool stalwart. To have a mere tenderfoot news- paper man come into. the state and call Bill a progressive is said to have made Bill powerful peeved. son’s front page. “wholeheartedness of his. nature. ‘fihyfidngfifi from socialism and “sich.” ©0000000000000000000000 and the organizations they represent. It’is up to the farmers of North Dakota, and the friends of these farmers, to gain control of the politics of this state and show to the people whether or not they are equal to the occasion. Get out your gun, oil it up and pre- Bill really deserves better than the parson gave him on the par- You see Bill has always done what-the machine wanted him to do. He talks a little reform stuff now and then, but _he always delivers when the votes are really needed. He is against insurgency, progressiveism, - reform, and the like, with all the how in blazes did they ever get Bill to stand for that letter. : Bill knows that he ‘is looked upon as a stalwart and that his . Speaking out against the League right now will have the effect of “helping rathcr than hurting that organization. Bill, we are sure, would have known better, had he been left to his own way of Just to-make the thing look good now we suggest that the par- son induce- McKenzie to write a sanctimonious screed protesting ‘against the League and calling - upon North Dakota to save itself 10l ] _ _Such a letter would be along the same line .as -Bill's and it would really do the thing up in good, generous style. . And if he:thought it might hurt the League we do not doubt that Parson Guild would refer to McKenzie as a‘ “sterling Repub- -lican with a splendid record as a citizen of the state.” - will-only keep on blundering: along he is bound to make the Nonpar- . tisan League -an undreamed of. success. % ..‘.....‘..b.‘.b‘b’.....6.i............O......O....I‘;.. 0000000000000000000000009000000 ..‘.....‘.@.........‘..... “valuable consideration.” The attack made on the Equity organization was made against the man- agement, just as the attacks made on the Nonpartisan League is claimed to be against the management. At the time the attacks were made on the Equity, Loftus and ‘Anderson were denounced as rascals and frauds of the very worst kind, and by the same newspapers and men as are now denouncing the Non- partisan League. Now these same newspapers and men are praising Loftus and Anderson, with the hope no doubt of trying to get them and the Equity organization to turn against the Nonpartisan people. : It will be remembered, too, that at the time the fight was on against.the Equity organization the Co-operatdrs Herald, the official prgan of the Equity, was denounced in the harshest sort -of language, and Baker, its editor, was’ charged with being everything but a gentleman. Now ‘those same papers, the ones that denounced the Herald and Baker personally, are beginning to try to flatter the paper, and are willing to say good things about Bé;ker, no doubt with the purpose of trying to set the Herald and Mr. Baker agdinst the Nonpartisan League. : . Gl < = it 2 The Nonpartisan League is largely made up: of Equity Taen and-the effort to split the two organizations will'not Win. It may be remembered too, that at the time the attacks were made on the Equity a few farmers were found who lent their aid to the attacks,'in print, as now a few farmers are found who lend their aid in print and otherwise -to the attacks on the Nonpartisan League.: These tactics are always adopted byfi,gbose who would destroy the organizations of the farmers,”and who would attempt to keep them apart from cooperdting. At times some well meaning farmers are misled for the time being, but they generally wake up after-a little, unless they be such as can be handled for a 0064600000000000000000000000 ' PAGE EIGHT §9000020000000000000000000000000000000 Strictly temperate and a companion- “able, clean citizen—COOPERATO HERALD, s - Society. - that the rural school must get its fatr share of the state aid grant and‘the rail.. ‘road taxes, that the strangle-hold that a section of the city school has upon a sece tion of the rural school must be broken, that the grafters and political crooks must be kept out of the field of rural school administration, and that the nore mal schools must be galvanized into - greater activity in behalf of the rural schools. This calls for the united and heroic service of all men and women of information and ‘vision, of courage and action. : Among What we cannot see through is If the parson pare yourself with plenty of amunition for the battle is on. You must not only 3 fight the enemy but you must use your . influence in getting recruits. It can be. done and will be done if you do your little 2 part. Fight every minute” from : now until the polls close on the day of election. : e THEY LIKE FRAZIER The query at the beginning of the present political campaign as to who : Lynn J. Frazier is and where he comes from is being largely- answered by Mr. Frazier himself, As Mr. Frazier had had no previous political experience it was thought he would be slow in getting -“onto the ropes” but he has, with true North Dakota . adaptability, quickly. acquired the ability to meet and “mix” with people and is making a quiet but effective campaign. Z ; -No previous campaign in the history of North Dakota has equalled the present in its effect upon the so-called politicians, Those who usually are able to prognos- - ticate electionsin advance are all at sea . and the uncertainty is surely destroying . some parties. who have heretofore been credited with nerves of iron (or perhaps. - it was simply unlimited nerve.) - . Mr. Frazier ‘from all accounts is tak- . " ing well with the average voter, those. outside the League. He is essentially a = = farm man, having been born on a Min- - .mesota farm, raised in' North- Dakota, is a graduate of the state university and ' the owner of a large and successful farm at Hoople.. He is“quiet,’ well poised official_ paper of Equity oobpc,o¢ooooaooooodocooocoooooooocoooooéooooooooooo e