The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, June 8, 1916, Page 5

Damage Wrought by North Dakota Storm|_ These pictures show some of the havoc wrought by a windstorm which swept through eastern North Dakota early in the morning of May 22 and assumed cycloni¢ proportions in northwestern Cass county and in Barnes and eastern Stutsman The pictures were taken especially for the Nonpartisan Leader by one of the Leader staff and, so far as known, are the only pictures of the Cass county cyclone given publication. ! The . photographs at the upper left and the center are the wreck of the big 3 eément-block barn of R. H. Marrow, located two and one-half miles southwest of Erie. Three buggies, two wagons and a blacksmith shop were also destroyed. The loss was '$2700 with no insurance. ‘Below these pictures, to the lower left and center, are the honse and wrecked barn of William Burgess, two miles west of Erie. The .. barn, lying directly in the path of the cyclone, was completely demolished and boards - Remember the Old Gang Trick _ ‘part of the state elected a certain gentleman to serve in the legis- - lature. . He served there, but always he voted with the corpora- tions and never for the people. ) £ .. Whenever the railroads, old line elevators, lawyers, bankers or insurance companies wanted a law to make it easier to fleece the farmer this gentlemen was Johny-on-the-spot.. Whenever the farmers wanted a law to aid them this “public servant” either voted against it or was sick or asleep or off on a rabbit hunt. ; So, of course, at the next election the gang wanted him reelected. But the farmers of this district didn’t want this insurance company tool sent back to Bismarck. So the farmers got together and put up a good substantial farmer to go to Bismarck and represent them. Now, the farmers could elect their man if they all voted together. FOUR years ago the voters of a certain county in the northwestern - The ‘gang knew the only way to elect the corporation tool was to SPLIT THE FARMER VOTE. Here is how they did it. They got into an automobile, went out _ into the country to the home of the best farmer in the north end of the district. They told this farmer that his end of the district should have a representative at Bismarck and that he was the man to run—that . his neighbors would all vote for him. But this farmer was wise. He said to these tricksters: “We : already have a farmer running for the legislature. - If we all vote for him we can elect him and he is all right. I can easily understand that what you. fellows want is to make a dummy of me. You want me to run so that half the farmers will vote for me and half of them for the - ‘other farmer candidate. Then with the business men’s votes you can " “elect your lawyer representative. You fellows don’t want me elected. You are playing a clever trick to divide the farmer vote and defeat the : farmer candidate. . No, thank you. Ill not be your tool to defeat the farmers’ candidate. = You might as well move on.” They moved on, but they found another farmer who- was/foolish enough to‘let them make a dummy of him. * This farmer let them per- sudde him to run for the legislature.: The result was that half of the ; farmers voted for one farmer candidate and half for the other farmer candidate. This split the farmer vote and the insurance companytool - got -more votes in the towns: than either farmer.got in the country and .+ g0 was elected. The farmers, because they allowed the Gang to divide . their votes between the two farmers, though thei, were both good men, - didn’t elect either one. : ; -~ 'This is a favorite trick of the politician. * The Farmers’ Nonpar- tisan League was organized so the farmers could get- together before “ the pnmanes, pick out a good farmer and then -all vote for him and-so - elect him. : 5 : But the politicians are at their tricks the same as before. In a .great many districts in the state they have gone out into the country and persuaded-the best farmer they could get who would believe what they ‘told him to'run for the legislature or senate. They always get a League man if they can. One that hoped to get th agents ~go. about telling the:farmers who are foolish enough- to ‘e listen that this farmer whom they have picked out is just as good a man as the farmer the'League indorsed. -Sometimes he is as good. Some- ‘times he is a better man than the one the farmers themselves indorsed. . -~ But no farmer, no matter how honest or able :he'inay‘,he,' is true to . —H. -J. HANSON. ) i C : e farmers’ indorse- ‘ment but- who got let: down: Then :these 'tricksters -and their - BIRPSAES ein from it driven like arrows through the side of the house, as shown In the cen picture. A kitchen leanto was torn away from the house, but no one was injur The damage was $1500; no insurance. The two pictures on the right show ruins the barn owned by John See, a renter on the Fred Williams farm, one and a half miles west of Arthur. Damage $100; no insurance. Altogether some two dozen barns were destroyed in northwestern Cass eom.\tx by the storm, many of them'being swept away so completely that there was nothing left to photograph. Several persons were injured at Wimbledon, Barnes county, but there were no fatalities. 3 Nearly all the property destroyed was insured against lightning and fire, but not against cyclones, as thése are extremely rare in this part of the country. Engrays ings by Dakota Photo Engraving Company, Fargo. - political tricksters to split up the farmer vote and defeat the farmer candidate the farmers themselves indorsed. A man who will do this is the willing tool of your enemies. Gener- ally they own stock in a bank, old line elevator or some other business enterprise, or they are very intimate with some influential business men. They are not friends of the Farmers’ League and if elected they will serve the big interests as they always have. Beware of them. There is only one way for League members to win this fight for the farmers. And that way is to stick and werk and boost for the candi- dates the farmers have indorsed. There may'be better men in some places than those the farmers indorsed. It is not to be expected that some mistakes might not be made. Undoubtedly, in some CaSes; MOra-- time and deliberation on the part of the delegates might have resulted in better candidates. The delegates were not infallible. But they did their best and taken as a whole THE MEN WHOM. THEY INDORSED ARE THE BEST SET OF MEN EVER PUT UP ON ANY TICKET IN THE HISTORY OF NORTH DAKOTA. They are pledged to serve the whole people of the state. i Every farmer and progressive citizen who is loyal to himself, his state and his cause, will lay aside personal feeling or prejudice and sup- port the candidates the farmers indorsed. HAVE JUST received the first num- 1 NEVER SPENT $6 so well in my ber of your great paper as I joined the’ life as I did when I joined "the League ‘League recently. The League is very and I am willing to give $6 more any strong here and if that way ,all over the time just to keep the good thing agoingy state we will be sure to get in our men. Let us all hang together and we farmera will be better off.—WM. STEIBY. - HARVEST TIME IS COMING Just watch this voting precinct both in the primary and gen- eral election, and if all-localities vote as we are going to vote there will be the biggest funeral that ever occurred since the boys of ’76: read the riot act. They can call us Socialists, Democrats, Republic ans, or any other old name they like. 'Let us be all those and united as to our men and great good will be the result to all the masses. Let us drop religion, race or color, and get free from “graft” which is but another name for the past political organization which we - have been dupes enough to support. But like Patrick Henry we - have been deceived by the illusion of hope—and that is all we ever: -got. ' That is what-we have lived on and toiled on, and ‘the plug hat- ted gentry has had the real substance thrown into their wigwams _long enough. Let’s help ourselves now before we get so poor and weak that our mortgages and debts will be beyond redemption, for _ the farmer will never get rid of the monstrous Greed and Graft that “has been going on not only inthis state but all'over our blessed land. The country is full of buccaneers living in idleness and waiting for another harvest. The farmer harvests the land by sweat and toil and then those’ pickpockets harvest him, get the boodle and then _say: “what a lot of fools the farmers are.” Now then if we farm- ers are not loyal to each other we ought to be skinned, and then the meat scraped off ' with a dull scythe to the bone.——PAUL - himself and the farmers’ cause, if he allows himself to be used by the : ; PACE TTUR s : 2