The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, June 22, 1916, Page 5

% however, Mr; The Handwritit_i'g on the Wall Here is the North Dakota parallel to- Belshazzar’s feast and the handwr ting on the wall. king and his satellifes: were engaged 'in drunken revelry when they were sudde nly thrown into letters a sentence upon the wall. dlsconneoted words, It was a message, he said, to Belshazzar the monarch, You remember how, accordmg to the Bible account, the Babyloman consternation by the appearance of a hand which wrote in great In terror they sought the wise old prophet Laniel for an interpretation of the vision and a reading of the few apparently ind its burden was: “Thou art weighed in the balances and found wanting. Thy kingdom is divided and ‘given to the Medes and Persians.” It was a true profphecy of the downfall of B be a message written-on: the wall at ‘the coming primaries.. It will be a notice to all political corruptionists in North Dakota that their rule is about to come to an end.' abylon, brought about by misrule and corruption. There will Lymg Attack on Frazier Answered -The gang press has launched an eleventh-hour campaign roorback intended to'injure Lynn J. Frazier, the farmers’ candidate for governor. The story, printed in the Normanden of Grand Forks, and copied by other gang papers, is that Mr. Frazier is a director of the Farmers’ Grain "Dealers association. A telegram is printed, purporting to be from some one in the office of the Equity Exchange in St. Paul, stating that this association is the enemy of the Equity, and an attempt is made to create the impression that Mr. Frazier, chosen by thirty thousand farm- ers in North Dakota, is a ‘“‘chamber of commerce candidate.” The main statement upon which the story is based is'a falsehood Mr. Frazier is NOT A DIRECTOR OF THE FARMERS’' GRAIN DEALERS ASSOCIATION. HE IS- NOT CONNECTED WITH THIS ASSOCIATION The Farmers’ Grain Dealers’ assoclatlon is “an- orgamzatlon of managers - of farmers’ elevators—not Equity “elevators——in 'North ‘Dakota. - Mr. Frazier is a stockholder in-a successful farmers’ elevator: at -Hoople. He' is also one of the PIONEER SUPPORTERS AND MENMBERS OF THE EQUITY. : The manager of'the farmers’ elevator at Hoople in wh1ch Mr Fra- zier is'a director became a member of the’ Farmers’ Grain Dealers’ asso- ciation. He was unable to attend the meeting of that association in Grand Forks in March. . The directors of the elevator at Hoople wanted to be represented at the meeting to get a report of its domgs. .- “They asked Mr. Frazier to ‘take:the manager’s proxy. . expressed Wlsh ‘the members present at-the assocxatxon meetmg elected Mr Frazier a ‘member. of the board of dlrectors . of ‘the other officers: ‘and difectors elected. ' To make his refusal final, Frazier: later; and befare: any *meetmg of the directors of asébclatlon had been held SrENT I-IIS WRI'I'I"EN_ RESIGNATION the’ Against his THE T]ME THE FALSE STORY WAS PRINTED IN THE NORMAN- DEN. The persons who wrote the Normanden story could easily have ascertained that fact if they cared to tell the truth.: His associates in the Equity society and the officers and dlrectors of the Equity exchange all are perfectly familiar with the whole: episode. - None have ever thought of accusing him of msmcenty or of playing into the hands of the enemies of the farmer. It remained for men who are eremies both of the Equity soclety and th'e Nonpartisan League to attempt to make out of the incident the ugly and utterly false msmuatlon that Mr. Frazier is a “chamber of : commerce candidate.” Be sure that the Chamber of Commerce would not be fighting M. Frazier through its recognized mouthpieces and with every resource at its command if it did not know that he could not be controlled. : ; THE PROGRESS OF A LIE Behold: the progress of a lie. Starting as evil-intentioned specula- tion by the Grand Forks Herald the baseless story that Grant Youmans ‘is to be appointed state bank examiner by Lynn Frazier is put: forth by ‘the “Bismarck Republican League,” representmg Alex McKenzxe and’ C.‘ B. Little, as an actual “deal.” The fact is that Frazier, the farmers’ candidate for governor, has made no promises of appointments. He doesn’t have to. sary for him to build up a “following” -by the usual political methods, His following sought him out, indorsed him, signed his petltlons, will .nominate him and will elect him governor.: ; -do as ‘he thinks best in the governor’s chair. - Mr. Frazier was urged at the:convention to retain the ofiice that had ‘beeén thrust upon him and his name ‘was -allowed' to stand among' those “When ‘he appoints a bank examiner he will appoint one who'is com petent and honest and he will use his own judgment in selecting him, Those who know Lynn Frazier know that no honest banker will have S anythmg to fear from~ is. admmistrahon of the bankmg afi"alrs of the It isn’t neces- When he is elected he wfll v ) T RRSEA