The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, June 1, 1916, Page 9

: supreme court, where i 'uom:mm.lo;ep 3 2 : [T MTITINARE LS IO IO TIITTIN NEAR TRE BARNS, camuvic wee SueLES O The laimh of narper Brothers, Barnes county, N. D., which is located about nine miles north of Valley City. S E Harper is a successful farmer, and is the farmers’ candidate for the legislautre "from the 15th district, which comprises the northern half of Barnes county.” Mr. Harper, like all the League candidates, did not seek the office for which he'is a candldate msxsted that he run. e is the proper man to represent them in the legislature. His neighbors selected him and Mr. Harper is well known in his district and his industry, honesty and integrity have convinced his fellow farmers that They beheve that a man with the business ability to make a success of farming’ while paying hlgh mterest hlg‘h taxes and buckmg a controlled market 1s— Well fitted to .render them valuable service in the lawmaking body of .the state. S THE campaign warms up complete tickets are being put out throughout the state to oppose the legislative candi- dates indorsed by the farmers through the Nonpartisan League. Most of these men who are trotted out to oppose the League candidates have had seats in past legislatures and most of their records are bad. They are posing, how- ever, as “farmers’ friends” and askmg support on that ground. In Burleigh county the powers-that-. be have got together and ,settled on 2 full legislative ticket to oppose the farmers’ ticket, and it is SOME" ticket that has been put up. It is headed by C. B, Little, president of the “First National bank at-Bismarck, who is run- ning for the senate against Carroll D. King of Menoken, farmer and indorsed by the Nonpartisan League.. Mr. Little has been Alex ' McKenzie’s firancial agent in Bismarck and with McKenzie - owns the majority stock in the Bismarck Tribune, "which paper ' of ‘course is' boosting Mr. Little’s candidacy * and roastmg the League and its candldates HOMAN FOUGHT .FARMERS John Homan is on the Little ticket for ‘& Young,. the legislature.. ;He served in-the. last legislature; v.where~he fought the. farm- ers’ interests to a finish and where he did good work for the insurance lobby. He voted ‘against the terminal elevator bill, of course, and voted for the repeal of the tax to build: terminal.elevators ; that the: 1913 legislature -had inaugur- ated. = This eleyator-tax repeal bill has . not become a law, howevér, for - the farmers’ got. out referendum .pefitions . and haye held, it up. for a_vote of the people this fgll.l_. A s ‘Homan went down: the l.me for the - insurance company interests by voting against the state bonding act, intro- duced to cut out one of the big insurance grafts-in the state.. The state bonding. act was recently, declared constitutional by the supreme: court of the state and . is: now - before = the United: States was appealed by the big insurance mte:fests. i -selling - & Pohhmame __ to Fi McKenme Crowd Brings Out Tlcket in BurlelghCOunty--GangBusyEverywhere lobby by refusal to vote on -the bill for state insurance .of state bmldmgs, a measure adopted in Minnesota, where it is workmg out . well. "The msurance companies were pa.rblcularly opposed 'to this bill and induced Governor Hanna to veto it after it was passed. - Homan also refused to vote on the compulsory state hail insurance blll thus helping ' the insurance companies, who were also “anxious to kil this bill. "He had a habit of not voting on farmers’ bills like the state’ hail 'measure. He -declined -to - vote for the bill providing for the incor- poration of cooperative societies, a measure wanted by farmers’ buying-and organizations. He was right there,- however,” when' it came to voting for measures the banks and other big interests wanted. LITTLE PICKS N. P. LAWYER Another man _on the, thtle legislative ticket in.Burleigh county is C. L. Young, la.wyer, .of the firm of Newton,- ullam counsel , for ,the No:thern Pacific . railroad and other corporate .interests. He is out for ‘the lower house. The third Little candidate for the legis- ‘lature is A. M. Blexrud, a farmer, put on to lend balance to the’ _opposition to the League and to gef farmers’ votes, if possible,. for the .entire. antl-League : ticket. Blextud. ‘hag been, act yé. in co- -operative : farmers’ organizations but. he is' in mighty bad company -when he becomes a.member of an anti-Leagie .. legislative , ticket headed by Little and mclu : such men .88 Homan and “men for the leglslature. The M¢Kenzie Bismarck newspaper, the Tribune, one of the most violent against the League and the farmers’ cause, by editorials and “news” stories is now boosting hard for this anti- League ticket. It is going down the line hard- for Little, Homan, Young and Blexrud. The farmers’;candidates who are opposing this Little-McKenzie line- up are Carroll D. King for senator and L. D. Bailey of Moffit, Frank” G. Prater of Arena and George N. Varnum of Menoken, for - representatives. These men are all genuine farmers and-not politicians. They have the indorsement of the Nonpartlsan League. The farmers in Burleigh county prob- ably have a few hundred more votes there than the Bismarck city vote, but the farmers will pretty near have to stick together to a man for the League candidates if they are gomg "to defeat the’ McKenzxe-thtle ticket in the Repub- lican .primaries June_ 28. The McKen-'_ zie tlcket will get’ blg support in” Big- " ‘marck. The entire fight will be decided” in the Republican’ primaries, for both - the League and anti-League tickets are . on the Republican_ ballot. SOME MORE BAD RECORDS In; other countles nearly ‘the 'same situation ' is developmg. Everywhere the antl-Leag'ue forces are pu In" Sargent county the opposition’ has groomed F.° again run for that place in opposition -to Rlchard McCarten of Cogswell . o [J [d o [d (J [ d [ J (] [ 4 [ (J [d [ [ J ° [ J [ ] [ [J [ 3 o [J [ J L] [ J (J [ [ ] [J ° [ [J o o [ 4 [ d [ [ [J [ o ® [ 2 o ° [ o ° [ L4 o ! ® ° ® - (& L] The Leader i is pleased to see that the efiorts of certam newspaper dema- gogues to stir up class hatred against the farmers by stating the farmers’ program is “destructive” is not succeedmg. Business men who haye exam- 7, ined the farmers’. program see no menace in it, despite efforts ¢ of the “gong” to arrnign the business chss ngamet the farmers, . ...O..‘..........O...............'.0....O............O.. I ht . record ‘on farmers’ g out . * mers to approve. _Tl_ley should ‘read ity farmer, who has the. League mdorse- ment. . This fight will be at the electlon, however, as’ the League’s candidate- in this district is a Democrat and Senator Vail is. a Republican, and they will not; be opposed at the pnmanes because they will run on different primary bal- ' lots. But this situation shows the kmd of men that are bemg brought out against the League. - Senator Vail helped kill msurance regulation” in North Dakota in the’ last legislature. The" powerful insurance lobby got his vote against the set of bills introduced to prowde state super- vision for the fire insurance rates thaf are niow so high “that” they return thé fire insurance companies twice what ig necessary to pay fire losses. Senator Vail also voted to repeal the state-owned : terminal elevator tax passed by the 1913 legislature,” the bill afterwards held up by a referendum of the farmers. In Sargent’ county also Nils Petter< son has come out for the leg'lslature on the antl-League ticket. He seeks re« ' election to ‘the “lower” houge.- Mr.: Pet< terson can hardly ask reelection ‘on his* bills. He -voted - against ‘state ‘hail insurance, for “ong | thmg The hail measure"that - was ‘up was “merely a “proposition’ to'- put- the .matter before the people for a’voteé; and .Petterson did not even favor giving the .. people the nghl; to decide the question. The powerful insurance lobby got hig - vote against this farmers’ measure. Ha" also voted for thé repeal of ‘the tax tg establish terminal elevators. The fap« .- mers” ‘candidates,’ indorsed by the . League, ought to“have V_an easey hme . beating men"like-this. W. Vail, member 6f ‘the last senate, to’' In the” 48th" district “Sherman Eickle, an avowed opponent ‘of the Leagte, hag been trotted ‘out to oppose the League candidates. ' This district comprises’s | mercer, Oliver and Dunn. counties. The -League has indorsed three farmers for the legislature in this district, J. Ay ‘Harris, Henry Cordes and Alex, A. Lie« - derback. The Leader glves Sherman Hickle’s legislative record in this issie - in the “Asked and Answered” column. It is not a very good record for the fare S T S s LA A e A R A b e s A S S R S B A SR N S S S FEHISS R R s g