The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, July 6, 1916, Page 13

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GENERAL MERCHANDISE Egeland and Rock Lake, N. Dak. - The Edmore Mercantile Store Wants your business; we also want your good will. Right treatment should get both. We try to be rifi!. Edmore, N.D. - YOU always find Satisfaction in buying at the Peoples Trading Co. ~ General Merchandise HANSBORO, - NO. DAK. Our established motto is ‘“MORE FOR YOUR MONEY”' Michigan Mercantile Co. MICHIGAN - NO. DAK. J. D. Reeves Garage STEELE, .- G. B. Smith Auto Repairing Satisfaction uaranteed NO. DAK. DENTIST Dr. Prescott, of Steele Will be in ..May 29 to June 10 pu— 1) A I T 7] ‘When in Hampden make you headquarters at e Canenburg’s Sanitary Shaving Parlors ‘Good Work Courteous Treatment " REAL ESTATE - AND REGISTERED i STOCK AUCTIONEER I reed -Chester White Hogs, the _prolific ‘and easy feeding kind, ~All work -and stock guaranteed. Your work .ment. < All business entrusted to my- care mptly attended to. @ - e ; shop k D“i’h,:n'e’lpr_ Write Me at i MILNOR - i NORTH DAKOTA . , bartner, - could . vote,: but™ |- take notice and !mri‘ah ) .in ‘some places have met farmers and: ~others. who . took-off .their hats and: BLASKY. - s ' League Debater on Top ) NE of the most important verbal battles that has taken place in the state ~ since the Nonpartisan League entered the political arena was staged at Lidgerwood, Richland county, on Monday, June 26, when O. M. Thomason, member of the Leader staff and League speaker, met in debate A. G. Divet and former U. S. Senator W. E. Purcell of Wahpeton. Messrs. Divet and Purcell are laW partners of Wahpeton. Mr. Divet was a member of the lower house in the last - legislature. Mr. Purcell has also served in the senate of the state lawmaking body and was appointed by Governor John Burke to fill an unexpired term in the United States senate. J The debate arose out of bitter attacks made on the League by Purcell and Divet at an Old Settlers’ picnic held at Lidgerwood last week. Mr. Purcell is considered one of the ablest lawyers of the state and yet it was deemed neces- sary to'pit both him and Divet, his law against - the one League speaker. : 7 Bohemian hall at Lidgerwood was packed to the doors with farmers from all the surrounding country and busi- ness men from the surrounding towns. Mr. Thomason, representing the League, opened with a 30-minute speech and was followed by Divet for the same length of time. Thomason replied with another half hour and Purcell followed—but refused to stop when time was called by the chairman and continued, speaking one hour in all. Mr. Thomason then made a rebuttal of fifteen or twenty minutes. While the backers of the opposition to the League packed their hand- clappers into the hall ' who made all the noise possible yet the geniiine enthus- iasm and fighting spirit shown by the farmers, not a few business men and many neutrals showed clearly that the League side was regarded as victorious. THOMASON PRESENTS ARGUMENT Mr. Thomason presented the farmers’ case in a masterly manner and his opponents utterly failed ‘to meet ‘his arguments. He showed beyond the possibility of refutation that the pro- gram of the Nonpartisan League would not only be of " great benefit to the farmers of the state but would to the same degree reflect prosperity upon the business men of the state. He showed that while the farmers of the state were being robbed out-of millions of dollars each year yet that robbery was being committed, not by the business men in the state, but by Big Business out of the state; that the local business men of the state had nothing to fear from the Non- partisan League and that any fears they now felt were due to the connivings of politicians. who used the local business men as cats’ paws to pull chestnuts out of the fire for Big Business out of the state. 3 When the business men of the state, he declared, quit listening to the mis- - representations .of the politicians, they would come to understand and:appre- - ciate the efforts of the-farmers to clean up state politics and prevent Big Busi- ness . of other states from committing gigantic robberies upon North Dakota and they would join in and .cooperate with the farmers in this effort. PERSONAL ABUSE THE ANSWER Mr. Thomason’s opponents indulged very largely in personal attacks, not only on the speaker himself but on the leaders ond officials of the farmers’ organization. They poked fun at Mr. Thomason, evaded the issues, violated all the rules of debate, ignored the facts and figures he offered and lamented the fact that the farmers would listen to strangers and turn a deaf ear to men who had lived in their own community for many years. In his hour’s speech Mr. Purcell put in a gdéod share of his tinme extolling the sacred virtues of the supreme court and bewailing the efforts of the farmers to compel the court to be subject to the wishes and wills of the majority of the people. In reply to this Mr. Thomason denied that there was any design upon the part of the League to make the supreme court subject-to any faction but on the contrary to put the court out of the reach of control by large interests. In proof of this he cited the fact that two or three years ago, the .feeling became so prevalent among attorneys of the state that the supreme court had " been in the habit of misstating the facts of cases for the purpose of bringing them within a certain rule of law, that the state bar association felt called upon to warn the members. of the court. Mr. Thomason challenged his opponents to deny these facts or even to deny that they knew of them. 55 It happened that Mr. Divet was chair- man of the bar association’s r.ommittee that made the investigation® and the report and he therefore failed to accept the- challenge flung ‘at him by Mr. Thomason.. No further defense was made of the supreme court. Throughout the debate it was clear that the League man had the best of the argument and that the bulk of the crowd was with “~him. Some -business men afterwards expressed their disap- pointment with the efforts made by the League’s opponents, some going so far as to resent their coming into town and “balling things up” and ‘“getting the business men in bad with the farmers.” The debate was highly satisfactory io all members of the League and their friends and they are willing to take on such debates as often as the opposition desires to meet them. Mr. A. C. Townley, Fargo, N. D. Dear Mr. Townley: country, so far as I know. will be glad to. do so. A YOUTHFBL BOOSTER Editor ,Nonpartis,an - Leader: I am 16 years old and together with “my brother and my father we are out boosting for: our League. I wish I member. ' 'We: have “on’ ot zier’s pict Packard with the Fafmers STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA TAX COMMISSION Frank E. Packard; Chairman June 28,.1916, will in my judgment be a memorable day in the political and economic history of this country. The accomplishment by the Nonpar- tisan League in a few months of that which many men in this state have struggled for many years to do is without parallel in the history of this 1 am mighty glad that this has happened and am glad that I was privil-_ eged in some indirect and remote way, to assist just a little with the work. I congratulate you upon having accomplished the seemingly impossible and: if there is anything that I can do to assist you between now and November I . Give my assurance of support to all of your candidates. Yours with best wishes for success. 5 consider myself a ve pass and Bismarck, June 30. FRANK E. PACKAHD. dates. I wish all boys of my age in the state would get out and boost for the League, for when our fathers and our older brothers pass away then we should be ready to take control. So I say, “boys”, boost for a ‘cause that helps our fathers ready for it. ‘I wish the League and Leader all suceess. — WALTER G.' wished all sugcess. for the Leaguecandl- . and will be ‘a help to us when' we get - GARNAAS BROS. - ., Incorporated e GENERAL MERCHANDISE and FARM MACHINERY SHEYENNE and OBERON; N. D.’ Ladles Wear, Gooda.th.ndClfll.‘ Pt ?'cz::k"" cmer: o%0d Balh ery, les o Flour, P:f;'u. Varnishes, _ C. EVENSEN * GENERAL DEPARTMENTS SHEYENNE “N.D Wm. C. Benz BLACKSMITHING — GARAGE PLOWS AND WAGON WORK AUTO REPAIRING Mofiit = N. D. G. G. Wood Lillian J. Wood WOOD & WOOD " MINOT’S PIONEER CHIROPRACTORS Drugless Healers Brauer Block Minot, N. D, “\ THE ; UNION N ;&f’l‘lON AL BANK Minot y Capital and Surplus $90,000.00 Farm Loans Negotiated at Lowest- Rates. Prompt Service. No Bonus. MINOT, NORTH DAKOTA- Percherons I have 'a .f stall! mares left, of th?m:lwdl:ft typrm e always the lowest., Quality: considered. - M. M. WHITE Successor to White Bros. 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