The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, July 13, 1916, Page 3

: Go to Fargo” wm be the general rule. VICTORY S0. overwhelmmg as that scored by the Nonpnrt: League candxdates in the primary electxon of June 28 answers A many criticisms: " Tt was a complete mdorsement ‘of “the ., Tesgue’s axms, 1ts methods and its candldates by the peop‘e of North Dakota.” : “ There'is no longer any doubt in any man’s mmd that the League movement 18" a’ popular uprising.- Newspapers that haVe been loud’in their denunclatlon of” the League s leaders and the League S“program ' now - adnut that." They- now admlt ‘even” the ‘essential justice ‘of the - farmers’ aims-’and’ the ‘manner ‘in~ which they have set about to accompllsh them. They admit that pohtlcal mJustlce and’ corription ‘have béen nfe in'‘the state. They admit that the farmers: have béen repeatedly deceived” by the pohtlcla.ns. They " admit that there is great need for.* state action” to" prevent'the nches ‘of the state’s resources from bemg plundered by outsiders. it “'The doctrine upon which the League bullt its strength the declar- atlon of facts upon which'it'made its appeal “are seconded and indorsed: ‘by men-who have béen’ flghtmg the’ League “The whole movement now } an A is 1s the farmers movement an almost unanimous movement of all the farmers of North Dakota. ; “The farmers want to contro] the government of the state.’ They whioo are about to realize thelr desue.h Now e ‘shall See What they will do Tlus is the athtude of ‘men who have ‘been‘doing theu' best toT pre- - vent the suceess of the’farmers’ movement: for Several months past, | “And: along ‘with ‘this’statement ‘comes! the insinuation that: the : farmers wrll ‘prove themselves incompetent’ to-handle” the aftairs of the - gtate'and that after'they Have Had their try at state govermnent they wfll want to turn affairs:back into the hands of the: politicians again.’ . The farmers of North>Dakota:" 1l prove this slur untrue.’ They ; wxll prOVe that“they have: among" them men with: the=eapacity for' ~directing the affairs of the state. They will prove: ‘that the voters of the state know how to choose b befivee‘h honesty and dishonesty and that > ; the e, : stt*ength and the _ state £i the first’ttme in it§ his’tory ol lms 18 a view of the racetrack at the state fair grounds at Fargo, where a thrillin . occasion bemg the annual-state fair; which this year -comes to Cass. County. Speclal trains are to be run on the rallroads and the prospects are that the slogan “Let’s | i : looks dxfferent to outsmers who were rgnm ant of 1ts real purpose O ! the mdorsements of the League- -..A newspaper. that dares ta print the truth WHOLE NO, 438 g series of contests w:h be seen durmg the week begmmng Monday, July 17, the i in a way that will brmg greater prospenty to the state will come next, - . The farmers will not forget thelr program when they get mto power. Neither will’ they plunge the ‘state headlong into 1ll-cons1dered i ‘experiments. In the light of a sweeping v1ctory, a whole-hea.rted approval by the people of the state of the aims of the founders of the League, it will become necessary for the men whom the people will choose to make and. . admmlster their laws to plan carefully the first steps toward the accom- phshment of what the people of the state have shown plainly they want. B A ) : NOT EVERYTHING—BUT SOMETHING The farmers do not expect the millenium. to come rushing in when the first farmers’ government gets into power.. They do.expect earnest, conscientious - and - patriotic. -effort -on .the part. of .the public servanfs « ~ they will choose. That will accomplish wonders, in North: Dakota. - It - has been sadly lachng in,the past: - b * ¥ W LT THE LEAGUE IS NOT PARTISAN One ‘of the absurdities of the political daze in which some of the 19 ik it Old Gang editors have been.wandering: about since the primaries is the : 'rm: FARMERS’ RIGHTS ADMI'!TED odk e Al questaon propounded by ‘one -of, their. sun-struck sages as to whether “having seized the Repubhcan party the-League will stand by the entn'e Repubhcan ticket.” . ; The answer- is; certamly not The League, in the first place, has not “seized the Republican party.”: The Republican voters did that, They chose by their. votes:to nominateall the:good Repubhcans——and that term goes. both ways—mdorsed by the League. .On .the .Republican._ticket is John Steen, present state treasurer, . He also was nominated: by: the Republican voters, though by a muech - smaller vote than the League candidates. : He was.not indorsed by the League.. . /'The . League indorsed: for: state treasurer P. M. Casey of : Lisbon, the vice: plesulent of the North Dakota union of the American . Society. of Equity, one of -the. Eqmty s-ablest men and one of the most loyal workers for the farmers in the state. - The League: stands’ by its -indorsement.;of: Mr, - Casey. He isa Democrat -and .iss now the:. Democratm nominee . for: state treasurer, : Members of: the Leagne will; work for his election as well as for the : election of all men indorsed by the League who were nominated in the - Repubhcan primaries. o The I.eague has not: swallowed the Repubhcan party, nor: has theé Republlea.n partyswallowed it wRepubhcan ;voters simply have. adopted:: | So ha,ve the Democratlc yoters so fm: 07