The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, June 29, 1916, Page 7

o others; fol' seats was hemmed obont by a ‘ring of antomoblles in whlch were other listeners. e Fit'teen hundred persons gathered under the trees in the park at Hlllsboro Wednesday, June 14, to hear a_program. of speeches from legislative candidates and ~The photograph is a near view of a part of the crowd in. front of the speakers’ stand. Others were grotped about the stand on all sides and the space ~ Chilly Greeting for Burdick _ Williston . Candidate Talks to Small and Apathetlc Crowdsfrom#Special” SHER L. BURDICK, the-Wiliston law'yer who 1s makmg an actxve campaign yier, the governor, . arrived .in Fargo Wednesday on his. special - train after. a .series :of ¢old and faint-hearted receptions across:- the state which had. cansed- gloom: to ‘ gettle in the Burdick camp. Mr.. Bur-. Bick was accompanied by -a group of Mwatt Republican politicians, who are urging his claims for election and seek- jng to line up the political machines in 5 ertownsthwghwhehtheypassfor the Williston -candidate. Thebeadofthepmtysz.B. Over- Eon, ‘the ~Hanna appointee who -was ¥orced out-of office as-a member of the state board of control because he had been: unconstitutionally appointed.: One of the chief speakers ‘is former State Senator J. E. Davis of Goodrich, whose opposition to the - farmers’ -measures made his chances of reelection so hope- !essthathelsnotacandxdatethm -Another prominent member of party is E. R.-Sinkler of Minot, one bf ‘the leaders of the stalwart faction of the Republicans. . 'The presence. of these Old Gang poli- ticians ‘and the fact that Burdick was met at the station in Fargo by a com- mittee headed by Alex Stern amply . ‘made ‘good the boast -of the Burdick forces that a° considerable element of the stalwart faction of ‘the Republican party - politicians - had ‘composed ’their - differences with : Mr. - Burdick: for the Bake of defeatmg the Iasue. : FBAZIEBAGOODMAN BUT “ONLY A FARMER” fie e T A eoneett: by -the . lehston band, wluch -accompanies:-the -Burdick party Gardner: hotel and.they were: by - Senator Davis ‘and Mr. . Burdick. -, » Both speakers had many-kind words for { Lynn: J. Frazier, and both assured the audience that he: would ‘make a:.con: - sclentlons chief exocuhve. 'Devis, howevey,’ audience that Frazier was “nothing but . a fa¥mér”-and that the people of the * state oughtbochooseamanwhohad had' long political experience, like him- self or Burdick, for:governor. Mr, Davis also atfacked the Nonpartisan Teague * at length, referring to its officers and organizers as “a bunch of agitators from’ the mimes of ‘the west and the " factories of the east” and assured them that the’ Repubhca.n machine in North akota was' progressive and honest. : DBurdxck mpade no ~attack “on the League itself-but confined himself to its = ing program. He put sqnarely on record acaim told’ the ' termma.l elentor, which the people ‘of the: "state have tw:ce overwhelmmgly. voted to establish. ° The reception”“to’ Mr. Burdick .in Fargs " was the most encouraging experienced by the Williston man in a Atnpacmssthestabewhmhhasbeena series of discouraging experiences. It has required all the energy of a band of practiced politicians aboard the train to keep the Williston candidate cheered up, . A representative . of the mompamed Mr. Burdiek’s train from Grand Forks and witnessed the lack of- ‘interest in the Burdick campaign which. had. caused even his most enthusiastic success of their ca.ndxdate. : boosters to despair of the posenlnhty of . - CHILLY RECEPTION IS GIVEN TO BURDICK The Burdick special tram annved in Grand Forks theevmngofJuneZO A Burdick parade was held by Burdiek boosters © who aocompamed the train from Williston and the 'band played on thecomrtorhalfmhour,attractmg a ‘crowd of about '300," to whom Mr. Burdick spoke for half an hour. 'The next morming’ the triin started for " Fargo, p at each ~station - along the way, but ‘at four stations no_ . speechés were made as noho@y had - turned ‘out for the e_vent. No' speeches and Kelso, 'though ~gtations Mr. Burdick gotk 2 hands with the station agent and two or tacked up ‘signs’ hOWever. 3 ~ . Mr. Burdick’s - reception - between Grand Forks and ‘Fargo was not enthus- “iastic.” This: s -~ strong Nonpartzsa.n" League’ territory and no farmers ‘cimé ' thoug‘h at a‘_ in to -~ meet thej numberofthe atatxons smr all: cre mostly women; at uxton, Gardner, - -Argusville and merely ‘a handful, ranging from 5 or 10 areoonservahve dnte Ieader' - future? - Then, early "100; at Hillshoro, close ‘to' 200, ‘at’ Grandin, - rather chilly,” Harwood to 20 ateachstnhon. ‘These estimates and are large 1f~- said - Mr. _Burd:ck in..these -talks. “He would - make :.North Dakota a' good governor, -but..I -am .opposed to the platform he is running upon.:I.do not beheve in the state building and operat- ing terminal elevators, though I do approve of :the Nonpartisan League program = for - exemption .of farm improvements from . ‘taxation. There .are other good points in the League program, but I am opposed to the state ownership proposition. “I want to say to Nonpartisan League members-that a state-operated terminal elevator to handle all the grain of the farmers might work' all ' right under Mr. Frazier, or under the farmers you elect to the legislature this time. But what about a change of administration ? What if you- get - another goveinor, besides Mr. - Frazier, in office in . the I am ‘afraid, - there would be a political machine built up through the state. ownerslnp of these -elevators.” GLOOM SPREADS ON - BURDICK’S TRAIN In the matter of taxation Mr. Burdick told his .hearers . frapkly that _he .could. not ~save them a.nythmg if elected ““ governor, but he claimed that Mr. Fra- “zier could not reduce taxes either.. said the ‘most Mr. Frazier could do, if elected to office, would' be to, save per- haps 50 cents in eaoh ta.xpayers bill.. . e . “And if he saved that much for. you, - “you League members would still be °$8.50 out-von- your 'League membershrp § - thrée''persons who happened to be at ~ 5371 “‘the°depot. “Burdick boostem got’ ofi' and_"' fee.” While the Wzlhston boosters traveling “on the ‘Burdick special are keeping .up their -courage “as bést they cam, the ' failure to get, crowds at scheduled stops and ‘the lack of entlmmasm dxsplayed in those whHo 'do g‘ather to h dick ha.d dampened ‘their iast on the tra.m.' was so_bad, conmdenng all things.” athtnde of Burdick’s supporte spirity, con- by “‘the “time . they eached “But 1 don’t. think it * This. statement “well reflects the : o them. half-hearted way, without any convic- tion he can win or that the people want him. One gets the lmpressmn that the only thing that has kept him’in ‘the race is the ‘spirit ‘of a few of his ‘enthusiastic : friends, who did not" want him to resign from the race, even though the farmers had chosen another"*m«{t “W’ standard bearer. 2 Mr. Burdick at all Ius talks pays : high tribute to the character, ability and honesty of Mr. Frazier, and he praises much of the League platform. Still he asks votes for himself. Even his most . active boosters, who accompamed him on the Burdick special, a.drmt, though * not for' publication, that it is a ‘losing’ fight when ‘any man goes up against a solid organization of farmers like Lynn J. Frazier has behind him. They admit- it will be hard to beat the League ‘and Mr. Frazier, and it is taking the heart out -of them. This can not help but be - - reflected- in - the ‘audienceés Mr. Burdick ° speaks ‘to. They fail"to respond enthus- iastically to ‘the Jokes ‘he tells or the - points he makes 'in" his' talks.. There.’ were no cheers or ovations for him on the trip from Grand Forks to Fargo— ' there was merely polite -applause. % No crowd greeted the. Burdick specxal ¥ at Fargo. -There was merely a com- mittee to greet' Mr., Burdxck, although (Contmued on page 9) One tlun Pocket Boo the other thin pocket-hoo! n learned why we are so thin?and. 8t only unity of action at the ballot &t, X will save us ‘and our mastérs, let’s |- urge the farmer voters to . ‘get gether to keep more of ‘their wea within us unnd make us mm“’ !