The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, June 8, 1916, Page 11

v ~ with the peculating politicians, _LEAMS. “you asked Mr. Frazier and Mr. Kraabel BAN'KER THREATENS FARMER Deelares He Will Forclose Mortgage if League Wins Edltor Nonpartisan Leader: A banker here was talking to some voters and said if the League ticket car- ries he will foreclose all his mortgages this fall and leave the state. Now I don’t believe he would do such ® patriotic thing as to leave the state, but the taking of the land will certainly be hard on us. “We want you to order us 1000 fimg fmachines that will catch birds on the wing, and with drinking cups to catch the rain, for if we should light for a drm{fi a}r:ywhete around here, this fellow woul ave us in jail for trespassing. —-PETER POTTENGER. it HIS PA SATISFIED Bmall Boy is Also Loyal to Farmers’ Cause . Editor Nonpartisan Leader: I think the Leader is handing out just the right medicine for the North Dakota voters, and I hope that it will cure them so they can get out and vote for all the League’s candidates. Pa says he is not a bit sorry for the $6 it cost him to become one of the suck- ers. The only thing I am sorry for is that I'm only 12 years old, and can’t do much to help the cause along. With three cheers for the Leader and the farmers’ own League, I have tried to be & little booster—RAYMOND MUTH. NOT THIS TIME XFamers Tired of Having Laws Made for Others ‘Editor Nonpartisan Leader: I am one of the $6 suckers, and am -glad of it. I have found out lots of things in regard te how our representa- tives have been making laws; not for the ' farmers,- but against them. And they come back with a glad hand and -tell us that they have some new law they want to see in effect, and would like for us to support them again. But not this “time! Some farmers have ‘been asking me for the paper, or if they could subseribe .for it. I have been telling.them they could. They all want to know what we are doing.—W. C. MITCHELL. LIGHT IN DARK PLACES Says Farmer Leader is Wilderness Editor Nonpartisan Leader: We need a Moses to lead us out of the wilderness, and such is the LEADER. Moses . in I have said for several years that one: would appear, and he is here now, in the name of the Farmers’ Nonpartisan - League—if the members only hang to- gether. If they do, they can get away which we havé been burdened, lo these many years. What I wonder at is that the patient toilers have not. arisen in their might and plucked a few plums for themselves. How the’ pickpockets do hate for the . farmers to eat a little bit of the tree of . knqwledge! I confess for one -that I have been as ignorant as a blind ram as to what is being done and has been done at the capxtal and doubtless many others were in the _same elass. APAUL WIL- < "LET OTHERS STAND { Skarison Would Ask Some Questions of . Burdick’ and Fraine Editor Nonpartisan Leader: The enclosed communication was sent * , to the Grand Forks Herald last Monday, with request that space be ngm same, ‘but - they . refused to publish it. Al- though I have been and am a subscriber "“to the Herald, will you plnse allow _space in the Leader and oblige. I am with a working man and henceforth will sup- port. the farmers' cause.——A. SKARI- SON." Followmg is the letter referred to*‘ “Editor Grand Forks Herald: . “In your issue c»fl?‘mlayamiSatm'(hyrj _in the forenoon of March 31st, some of " the boys greeted me and added: “I wish These Minute Men of ihe Peaceful Revolutton‘ Sound Call to Wlder F reedom for North Dakota Who Controls Olsness P Answer: Olsnes_s Editor Nonpartisan Leader: Seeing that the press, opposmg the farmers’ and our organization, tries to imply that the candidates, in order to receive the League’s indorsement, had to make certain pledges, I feel it my duty to emphatically and publicly deny any and all such charges as they relate to myself and my indorsement. 2 I was chosen as precinct delegate, presumably because I had taken congid— erable interest in public matters and perhaps knew more people personally in our legislative district than most of the others. In our district convention, I dare say, we all tried honestly -and diligently to find the best possible avail- able man for the legislature and I think we did. I had not the slightest idea who would be drawn as a state delegate. In fact I did not learn of my own indorse- ment until evening of the first day of the mass convention. While mingling with.the crowd at League headquarters to congratulate you!” Only after this had occurred two or three times did I tumble that something must be up. The veracity of my story can be testified to by my friend Richard Lof- thus of McVille, who was the first to tell me he had heard. of my being indorsed for commissioner of insurance. I never yet learned what person or cause was to blame for this indorsement, but whether the choice-.of that conven- S. A. OLSNESS Candidate for Commissioner of Insurance 'gwanorofthesmtewfllyoncmhm tion was wise or foolish—it was nevertheless a complete surprise to me! It is possible, however, that some of my fellow members of the North Da- kota Mutual Insurance association, from various parts of the state, and whom I have met at our annual conventions, may have brought in my name before this Fargo meeting. There are many things a Leaguer m.lg'ht be tempted to write about nowadays. For instance: - as illegitimate as compared with the Why does the Courier-News brand the mail order houses regularly organized business? Whether the catalogue house is good of ‘bad for the farmers of North Dakota does not They are The enter into this discussion, the state’allows their. existence.. both legitimate as long as the laws of Leader’s editorial on the attitude of the enemy press and, their praise of the Eqnity was very fimely and to the point. { “Then: there is _the statement of the “Ne of the ‘Leagne means the crippling of business. * for May 9th: “The success the baniing busmm and the msurance Face the facts and take your choice.” 3 Speakmg -about, crippling something. Allowing this for the sake of argu- ment, which is the most important to save those institutions or the farming interest? The “Normanden” seems to be in a plight now, regardmg the position of Sorlie vs. Kraabel.. After having said so many complimentary things of Kraabel for years past it is perplexing, indeed, now to denounce him! Why not plead msamty for Kraabel, Mr. Normanden" The “Leader” is small compared with all the 42 centimeter guns used against us, but the policies, the logic and the arguments of the Leader appeal to us farmers, and we can’t help it. Yours for common sense government, S. A. OLSNESS. / principle. Every candidate for office ought to have a platform of principle or declaration of what they stand for. I understand, Mr. Kraabel has such a declaration, and is printed in his home county paper, The Hillshoro Banner, which perhaps has escaped the eagle eye of the Herald editor. The voters will expect you to call on”all the candidates. “Stand up, Mr. Burdick. Why were you indorsed by the Enforcement league of North Dakota? If defeated at the primarjes will you be a Republican in the fall? Will you continue to live a sober life and favor prohibition as laid dawn by the president of the Enforce- ment league? “Stand up, Governor 'Hamma. Will you please explain why all the news- papers that have been supporting you so faithfully * are econtinually abusing the - Nonpartisan Lengue'.’ And this League is composed of our very best farmers. Explain if you approve of this dirty abusel and if any of your morey is; pay- ing for the work. “Stand up, Ola J. Sorlie. When have _your wouhded ‘and' ldcerated feelings been healed that' you could muster-up . enough love to run for lieutenant gov- ernor on the Regnbhean ticket? You who bolted four years ago and became / aBulIMooser,wfllyouxfddeatedatthe primaries stsy Re]mbhean for twenty- four: hours? ° “Stand up, Mr. Fraine. ¥ ‘elected tobefmr,ufomanthelawscfthe - state or will you allow the saloon element to dictate your policy? “Mr. Editor, you please call upon all the candidates for office, ask them to “stand up and declare their principles. All us voters are entitled to know.— A. SKARISON.” LARS AT MINOT He Gives Hurried Glad Hand ‘and Holds a Private Session Editor Nonpartisan Leader: Perhaps you’d like a line from a trav- eler who happened to be at Minot during the visit of our honored governor, Lars B. Hanna. To 'start with Lars is a genteel gent, and here at the hotel he had from three to seven parrot people ‘who hung around and repeated his phrases. They were of course hangers- on who hope to secure appointments in ‘the sweet bye and bye, when Hanna. ‘replaces McCumber in the senate. To see Lars with his long black coat, giving the glad hand to all comers, was indeed a pleasure. He met them all with the same expressiom, “Fm very much pleased to meet you” If Mr. Jones said “me too” and passed on, all - was well, ‘but occaszonauy one would stop to teIl of his experiences on the ranch, or an alleged funny story. The governor at once showed indications of iatlgue, especially when the story was ‘“aged in wood” but required the “ha! ha!”’ at the proper place. Ifis meetmg with the 30 res'pectables - PAGE ELEVEN VHJA A'AA ' one of the rank and file? _was a private affair—(shocking the; League once in awhile has private con-i ferences')—bnt it was said to be a great| success in “bringing order out of chaos.” —G. J. BLACKWELL. HERE’S THE POINT, SMITHY The Hammer Gets 5000 Times Huvuem at Every Crack | Editor Nonpartisan Leader: { The Leader to my notion is the bed thing that ever was started for fl:fi farmer, also for everyone else who wants: to be fair. If the gang only knew w they could not give the League a hgzz boost than to send out such statem as came out in the Public Opinion ancf' the Courier-News. If it wasn’t for the Leader they might pull the wool oves our eyes, but now they just show them selves up. In the Public Opinion George J Smith had it figured out that the leader; of the League had misrepresented the - membership. He referred to a cartoo’ in the Leader where a farmer was hit: ' ting Big Biz on the head with a sledg @ hammer, and it was marked 380,00( What Smith did not stop to figure ouf was that the hammer got 5000 time heavier every crack. - Three cheers for the League and thiii Leader.—J. S. JOHNSON. L STICK—AND WIN | i Story Delegates Were “Influenced" ?’ Insult to all Farmers Editor Nonpartisan Leader: ] If the gang press fears, as it say’ ] that the most honest, conscientious, an}" incorruptible farmers selected from 4j’ districts of the state, were .bribed cajoled,- or otherwise mfluenced by M; Townley, what does it think of yo individually, Mr. Farmer—you who a1 If 45 of tr best farmers of North Dakota can t" corrupted and influenced, how about tk' average farmer? ; The_kept press insults you by assu ‘L ing that your representatives at Fargo convention were dominated, ar you should remember this when you subscrxptlon to the gang pubhcatxox ] expire. As farmers we should make _eye) effort to disable the old gang machin We can strike a paralyzing blow t refusing to support the papers which a: but mouthpieces of the special interest : We will not heed the wailing of tlj politicians, nor the siren song of tI: servile press, but with confidence in t/] integrity. of our leaders, with faith . the justice of our cause, and with a re: ' ization of our organized power, we w stand by our Nonpartisan League a win.—RAY C. FELVER. ——— 3 -" ARE FARMERS DISSATISFIED? Then Why Shouldn’t Quanbeck Try B Hand at Organizing Editor Nonpartxsan Leader: ~ ] There are a few qestions I would li/ to ask Mr. Quanbeck. He says he w! indorsed by his fellow farmers, but b fused to be muzzled. He says he si the wrongs in the management of t League, the hands of political boss = _active in shaping its-destinies.. Is Mr. Quanbeck farming at the pr ent? If so, how long a fellow farme' What k.md of muzzle did they try him—not a MeKenzie muzzle was i We suckers don’t like to be muzzl either. Did he really see the hands of politic bosses? If so were those hands s and fat, or were they gnaried, callous: and rough?. When the farmers of North Dak( selected leaders, whom does Mr. Qu: beck think they should have consult and whom selected ? Why doesn’t Mr. Quanbeck blame 1 farmers and not the leaders?’ For i farmers and not the leaders are the o1 to blame if there is any blame. Why don’t the farmers kick the t leaders out if they have done s wrongs in the management of League? 5