The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, June 1, 1916, Page 24

Supplement LYNN J. FRAZIER For Governor _ Forty-one years experience in North Dakota as farmer, business man, school teacher, and school boy, sum up the qualities of Lynn J. Frazier of Hoople, chosen to lead the ticket of the people, the Nonpar- tisan League ticket for Governor. While not as old as some of the other candidates, Mr. Frazier is excellently equipped for the varied and strenuous requirements of the Governorship. In education, in contact with the people’s problems, in experience of ‘men and affairs; he lacks nothing essential to the making of a well balanced executive. " He started in a sod house, as did Lincoln: He trapped gophers, milked the cows and drove the binder. . Indeed during all his schooling and his attendance at the university .he/ never missed driving that binder every summer for twenty-nine years. . Although he was born in Minnesota and came with his parents to North Dakota when a small boy, he is virtually a product of this state. : S : After he finished the common schools he graduated from the Graf- ton high school, later from the Mayville Normal in the first class sent out from that institution, and still later at the State University. He « intended to go further and study medicine, but.through the death of the - ——=ather and an elder brother, he fell heir to the old homestead, and there he still lives, in a large, comfortable house, surrounded by broad acres, which his industry, and good business sense have acquired. ! ~ Without political ambition during all.these years, Mr. Frazier has nevertheless been forced into the activities of his community. He has always been a stalwart supporter of better educational facilities in the public schools, has-served on his district school board; has been presi- dent of the board of township supervisors, where his enmity to liquor soon made that article scarce at public gatherings; has become inter- ested in one of the largest and most prosperous farmer telephone com- panies in the state, and a director of a cooperative creamery. : But though without political cravings to satisfy, Mr. Frazier has been known as a man of progressive principles in his part of the state. His interest has always been with the plain farmers. He is not of that clique known as “highbrows,” and the better opportunities he had for getting a valuable education, have not dug a gulf between him and his less fortunate fellow farmers. Common, in the good sense of that word -« gs an American ought to be, well educated; deeply mindful of the needs of the state, Lynn J. Frazier is one of the most logical men for a govern- orship to be found in any state in the Union. = ™ SR ANTON T. KRAABEL Rl For Lieutenant Governor S _Experience and a good record in the eyes of all North Dakota, are ~two of the strongest points in favor of Anton T. Kraabel of Clifford, Traill county, who has been indorsed in a mail referendum by the Non- partisan League for the office of Lieutenant Governor. He has served bs Lieutenant Governor presiding over--the 1913 legislature, and has gerved two terms in the legislature. : Mr. Kraabel was born in Norway in 1862, but came early to the United States, and for years lived in Wisconsin, where he received his education. At the age of 20 he came to North Dakota, and he has been a resident of this state for the past 34 years- :He is now a hardware dealer at Clifford, where he has for many years operated a successful business, that has given him a good name among his neighbors, and has prought him into contact with a great number of farmers, with whose problems he is known to have a sympathetic interest. Who th: Candidates Are - pretended to be his friends, were foiled by his simple expedient of Mr. Kraabel is by nature progressive. His years of political activity in North Dakota have served to set him in relief against a back- ground of stalwartism, as a genuine people’s man, a man of up-to-date ideas of government, who is firm in his conviction that government is for the interests of the entire population, and not for the benefit of any manipulators behind the curtain. He is an ‘ardent prohibitionist ‘and has been indorsed” by the Enforcement league and other prohibition organizations. / S i Nowhere in the machinery of ‘state government will practical ex- perience serve to better advantage than in the presidency of the senate, where a man of right convictions and principles will wield the power of committee appointments; and will have much to do with making the people’s great effort effective or ineffective, as the case may be. It is ' in the senate that most of the stalwarti: will be many holdovers, and it is well that: here who can compete with this sentiment o; will be found, where there TLeague will have a man ual ground. : THOMAS' HALL For Secretary of State Thomas Hall, now secretary of state, : tisan League for his third consecutive term miner and railroad hand. Starting his career wall, England, when a boy, he has steadily. has reached one of the most responsible place { in an American state, and is so well favored, that he has the almo: O ; =7 railway employe. Lm0 - lessons which he. ' % have since put him in offi Concordia college, at Moorh reased his efficiency and_ taken advantage of new opportunities as they came to him, until now he. .secretary of the Progressive Republican League, a position he held for rule of the people goes hand in hand with genuine efficiency in office. - <. One-of the%fiest"-ffiendgs the people ‘of North Dakota: will have a | . - chance to put into office this year, is C. R. Kositzky, of Bismarck, whose. “treasurer of his county. _In both instances Mr. Kositzky was the over- ‘Business upon -the people of North Dakota, and has helped to expose - not Sell the alchohol. He does not even draw two public salaries, - . paper career. For 12 years he was a reporter on Fargo newspapers, 2 and gained a variety of experience all of which went towards increas- ing his efficiency. He was also a traveling salesman for two years. His connection with political affairs really began in 1906 when he became six years. : : : _ The fact that he was identified with the progressive movement in politics-is an indication of his whole career as a public man.He is pro- gressive in principle and by nature.. He believes in making all govern- ment responsive to the will of the majority. He believes that genuine He believes in a short ballot that will place before the voters a few can- didates whose careers they can study, and then make these chosen men responsible to those who elect them. He beliéves in rural credits, and a workmen’s compensation law. He is heavily interested in farming in Oliver county, and was secretary to the board of railroad commissiioners for four years. - LR : wEy : S . - C. R. KOSITZKY - : For State Auditor - : public career in Burleigh county, and distinguished record as the target = of boss rule there, has shown him to be of the right mettle. He is 40 o years old, was born in South Dakota of German parents, educated at the = ' - University of Nebraska and Neleigh college at Neleigh, Neb., and for 15-years has been a resident of this state. ' - X - He is the League’s candidate for State Auditor, a position which his Burleigh county activities have amply fitted him to fill. Back of his willingness to accept this office lie two successful administrations as wheélming choice of the people, but in Bismarck, where gang politicians . were most powerful, his support was light. In 1912 he was elected county commissioner, which position he still holds, and later he was named secretary of the Tax Commission. In this latter position he has been brought face to face with some of the worst deals put over by Big them.. He knows the enemies of the people personally and politically, and he has-made them-his own énemies, -. . = " .o Lol In all the eight years of his public lifé, he has been the champion of simple justice for all. He put a stop to the manipulations by which rich tax payers’ property was not sold for taxes. He made the wealthiest 5 pay up on time or pay the full penalty for delinquency, which had not -7 been exacted from them theretofore, although it had always been ex-: acted from the farmers and the other small property holders. The - gang fought him and he fought them, several times having to go into - court to nail victory to his mast. But he was a winner. . g - Underhanded deals to :ensnare him, through the aid:of men who § always being right. The gang tried to buy alchohol which he had for medical purposes on a physician’s prescription, and brand him as a boot- legger; they tried to borrow county money from him and throw him in . - jail as an embezzler, but he safeguarded the county’s cash, and he did - although ‘he fills two public positions, his pay as county commissioner . at $5 a day being subtracted from his pay as secretaryof the tax : commission. : X % e - CHARLES W. BLEICK : : - For Railroad Commissioner = . % Among the new men whom the great upheaval of rural sentiment: in_North Dakota has brought to the top, few are younger and more thoroughly trained than Charles W. Bleick, one-of the League candidates for the émsition on the Railroad Commission. He is only 35 years old, % with mémories still. fresh in his mind of football triumphs in college, - which he expects to parallel with triumphs in behalf of all the people: ~ = of the state after the farmers have had their first chance to vote a real. - farmers’ ticket. - s s s e "He is another of those candidates who make up a well balanced = ticket, men who combine with higher education, the essence of demo- =~ ' cracy, who go to the best schools they can while 'y:ouu%;and‘ work as hard =~ as they can on the farm afterward. He graduated from the Nebraska - : Agricultural college, (where he was a famous fo tar) -anc am : influ - welfare of this state, Mr. ized_efior%sof the farmers to take p made a bi; ess of tl Mo: —