The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, July 20, 1916, Page 12

prmm— - i North Dakota Good Soldiers Rejoice at Battle’s Qutcome HAIL! HAIL! Cheer! Cheer! Cheer! The farmers’ gang is here, Cheer! Cheer! Cheer! We have no cause to fear, For we have won this game, And put the politicians to shame. There'll be a hot time in November When the grafters must surrender. = . ouTH DakoTA | o 2 % -~ m;‘j‘,;';“@‘m-gfln / % & L AZ@ /Aé S R ] 4 5 WHEN ARE, YOU QOING TO ORGANIZE! A LEAGUER. ? % WANTS TO SHAKE HANDS 3 *.i/’/A\ Editor Nonpartisan Leader: + Some of our neighbors told us that it would not be a very good job an primary election_day. 1 wish my arm was long and strong enough to reach all the way to Fargo so that I could shake hands with you crazy guys down there, [ITTI] J. H. SPANGELO. " GRATEFUL TO TOWNLEY | Editor Nonpartisan Leader: | Now that the smoke of the battle has cleared away I will write to thank you for the never-to-be-forgotten . part | you played in the victory, the grand, and | sweeping victory of the farmers of | North Dakota. After it is all over we must not forget. We must not forget | A C. Townley, the Gladstone of North | Dakota, a man big enough to_ realize that if he came up for any office the gang would use the honest financial fail- ure that he and his good wife suffered and grieved over and could not help, ax a means to defeat the cause of his brother farmers, whom he loves so well and is fighting for. Yours for :the cause. ‘WILLIAM MARTIN, T N LIKE THEIR LEADERS Editor Nonpartisan Leader: % urrah for . Frazier, our next governor. We'll stick. They say that the League is all right but those leaders!—well what would any. organiz- ation_do_ without leaders. Yours for success aid good government, ? H. S. BRADLEY. COURIER ATTACK TOO THIN Editor Nonpartisan Leader: ~You will find enclosed- duplicate of a letter that T sent to the Courier-News: Editor, Courier-News: 1 have been a subscriber. to the Courier-News for years, and I have been a farmer all my life. ‘Seeing that you are taking a stand against the farmers organizing politically T would be a traitor to my class as a farmer to support your paper any longer. I therefore ask you to take my name off your mailing list. Your attack on the leaders of the Nonpar- tisan League is too thin—a blind man can see through that. - . 0. W. DINNET: NOT AGAINST LEAGUE. Benedict, N. D., 629, 1916 Editor Nonpartisan Leader: _ 1t has been reported that I am op- posed to the Nonpartisan League and 1 take this means of placing myself be- fore the members of that organization in the light in which I stand. I wish to state through the columns of your val- uable paper that this report is untrue and believe that the editors: of the . Leader will bear me out in this state- ent. I have i or as-a private individual. - But-on the contrary I have did whatever I could |~ both editorially and 'privately for the " good of the organization. “True, I am not a member of the League neither have I as a candidate . for the ofice of County Commissioner of the 8rd District of McLean County ever asked the League for ‘its ‘indorse- ment or aid, not because I did riot desire Z the same,: but because I -have placed GRATEFUL WORDS . myself before the people as an ‘inde: Bitar Nonpartisan Leader: - " pendent canldne for (b offce, #n4 "1 inply vant o dop y0u o fw lns would “ riske them & fitting comris- and compliment you on your splendid sioner or not. ; paper, the Leader. You are undoubtedly - Members of the Nonpartisan Im;u: doing good work. Just keep it up. It with whom I am acqainted know whe- is great to get an expression of public - ther I am against this organization and Mmoo S Most of the progressive farmers in our. . community belong. to. the. League now, many having joined lately, . We are ONE ‘FOR NORM “ The North Dakota. Good: Leaderis offsétting all these falsehoods. : Durinig the past 18 yeats of whi Uier” - have'bedn a resident of Bottineai c HOPES VISIONTR! partisan Leader: state. STROM. ; _ VICTORY FOR JERRY that will 1 3 up 50 big that it will finally become one’" ent voter, I have never found the political " of his strongest. daily. competitor ‘in - linup 'so that my-vote could be cast with ‘a_aily paper we would be better equipped formati is h n % e , . . ‘guard y lies put" - Since the farmers have taken'a hand in tion by the late Grand Forks Herald, e Mi"'m Sonopgi:fi Yf&f‘&.’;fi campaign of ‘education for the average i ¥ . e h ¢ s ‘by. i ‘We * the lineup we have a ticket before us was nominated. The story lacks con. : 1o these parti & n our g cat the ga it . ’ : with® the names" of League. candidates " farmer that mever was equaled . stafe history, which I believe ill give us an adminis OPTIC-REPORTER. "PAGE tration of justice for one and all in our Yours - for “successi—0: H. SWAN- 1t is"reported on reliable - authority that a candidate for justice ‘of the peace who wassupported in the Tecent elec- firmation however—MINOT DAILY.’ Messages from Men Who Fought for Right THE SUCKER CLUB VICTORY The sucker club signed up to stick, No prying loose with a Courier pick, .The more it digs, the more it grunts, The easier the suckers pull off their stunts; The suckers went forth to do their best, Beside the foe they marched abreast; They marched abreast in perfect time Against the enemy, ranked sublime. They ranked sublime in joyous lark, - And. placed on Dakota Townley’s mark, The political pot is now upsét— - Nonpartisan, Dakota goes, you bet. The “trick is turned—the hogs are “slopped.” The guilty Gilts are thoroughly mopped. Frogged to a frazzle, take to your nest, The League’s “Big Five” have proved the test. J I Froggius and Giltius need a pill, * Big Biz, Old Gang, will pay the bill But we should worry—it’s lots of fun, - Townley’s toy turned out a real gun, ' The gun was loaded for a guilty pair, But brought a swarm from a reeking Tair— The season is closing for Dakota game— Please tell us how to spell your name. Go'seek your gold, but use‘a pail. Discard: your business on a rotten scale, Go get a mask for your cunning face, And wash your hands ‘of Dakota’s disgrace. ] —G. 0. PILCTIN. BEAST EVER BUSY ~Editor Nonpartisan Leader: o 1 congratulate you 'people at the headquarters and " All the farmers and labor men for the ‘greatest achievement politically that ever was enacted in - Notth: Dakota. Yet let ‘us work on still to’ carry“out completely our purposé'in the fall general “election. The beast is ever busy to destroy what the farmers and labor men built, but we'll stick.— FRANK RIBA. : SAYS LEAGUE WILL LAST Editor Nonpartisan - Leader: a I learn that all the candidates for nomination which the League indorsed have been nominated. That is a’ great victory, and the farmers riust make the most of it, and I have no doubt that they will. It don’t look as though this latest movement for realization of government of the people, by the people, and for the people will be like other sporadic advance movements in 'the same line, that have disappeared: like the dew of the morning in the sunshine of reality and the breeze of struggle. JOSEPH VARJE. WANTS TO HELP Editor Nonpartisan Leader: 8 received a letter some time ago thanking me for my services to one of the organizers, and also asking me if T would help gather data, statistics, etc. You can depend on me to do whatever can be reasonably expected from one full of enthusiasm for the League and its success, and whose finances are limited —RALPH MAD- LAND. 5 b Editor Nonpartisan Leader: - While' in" Fargo I called at -the Courier-News office and ‘asked- for -some of those Good (?) Government league circulars. They informed me that the commercial club was circulating. them. I have. always been ‘under the impres. sion that a commercial club's’ chief and only object was to work for the benefit of "its. home .city, Antagonizing - the farmers of North Dakota a few-more times. may_benefit Fargo, but I fail to see how.—W. P. OLMSTEAD, . FARMERS GAIN THEIR OWN The Nonpartisan League has * prac- tically. swept the.state. The situation will be an. interesting one to observe for the next few years. ‘The farmers have apparently. come into their' own, and it is.to be hoped they will make |