The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, August 17, 1916, Page 17

Bttt o e SO e D. C. Coates, Managing Editor. Advertising rates on application. Farmers. and up-to-date farmers. The Nonpartisan Leader PUBLISHED WEEKLY—EVERY THURSDAY Official Paper of the Farmers’ Nonpartisan Political League of North Dakota e e B S O NOTM A CARON Entered as second-class matter September 3, 1915, at the postoffice at Fargo, North Dakota, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Subscription, one year, in advance, $1.50; six months, $1.00. Communications intended for the paper should be addressed to the Non- partisan Leader, Box 941, Fargo, North Dakota, and not to any individqul. The Leader solicits advertisements of meritorious articles needed by Quack, fraudulent and irresponsible firms are not knowingly ad- vertised, and we will take it as a favor if any readers will advise us promptly should they have occasion to doubt or question the reliability of any firm which patronizes our advertising columns. Discriminating advertisers recognize the Nonpartisan Leader as the best medium in the state of North Dakota through which to reach the wideawake Guaranteed Weekly Circulation of 45,000 Copies and Upward - Hanna’s Goat at Deering Picnic Herbert Gaston, Editor. EE This is a picture of “Hanna’s goat,” farmer boys dressed as clowns. feature of the big farmers’ picnic near Deering on July 4. The goat.,had a prominent place on the speaker’s stand and furnished all kinds of fun for the assembled farmers. properly labeled and in charge of two The goat and its custodians were an amusement Frazier Cheered at Grand Forks YNN J. FRAZIER, nominee of the Republican party for :gov- ernnor of North Dakota, intro- : duced Charles E. Hughes, Re- publican presidential nominee, when the latter spoke at Grand Forks August 10. Mr. Frazier was introduced to the 2500 people, packed into the Grand Forks auditorium, by O. B. Burtness, states attorney of Grand Forks county, and a tremendous ovation was given the can- didate for governor. The next governor, in a short but forceful talk, spoke of the splendid resources of the great state_of North Dakota and predicted that the Repub- lican party would sweep the state in the election this fall. The enthusiastic reception given the League candidate for governor by the people of Grand Forks and surrounding community, showed that both city and farmer voters had accepted the will of the majority in the primary election and were pr-pared to stand solidly back of Mr. Frazier in his candidacy for the highest office in the state. Many Grand Forks people who had not heard Mr. Frazier before, were impressed with his “fighting jaw” and sincerity, and it may be safely said that 500 people, who may have been preju- diced by the gang papers, had their eyes opened as to the calibre of candidates that the Nonpartisan League had selected. Mr. Hughes, in prefacing his main address on national issues, paid a splendid compliment to Mr. Frazier, call- ing him a true product of this great state, and saying he was undoubtedly well fitted for the high office to which he will be elected. Mr. Frazier accompanied the Hughes party to Fargo and was on the platform of the auditorium when Mr. Hughes spoke. Despite invitations to continue across. the state with the Hughes party he returned to Hoople to work in the harvest fields. " What Is a Farmer? Every four years the farmer vote is counted on a speculative basis by the leaders of the contending political par- ties. The counts vary and conflict for the -reason that they are based largely upon guesswork, stale census statisties and a hit-or-miss conception of -what a farmer is or is not. In estimating the farmer vote en masse it has been the custom to include all males of voting age in the hamlets, villages and towns that are so-called agricultural centers. It takes in the banker-farmer, the lawyer-farmers, the merchants who sell more or less exclus- ively to farmers; it embraces the drift- ing multitude of farm hands and tenant farmers, the loafers and ne’er-do-wells of the towns and villages; and in the enfranchised states it now includes the woman farmers and the farmers’ wives. It is a vast conglomerate total, with interests as divergent and to a consid- erable extent as conflicting as are the interests of those who dwell in cities. Economic, social and educational develop- -ment in the last decade has 'practically “derubenized” the “rube vote,” as poli- N - ticians were fond of referring to it in the not so distant past. Stump spouters can no longer appeal to.the farmer vote by simply proclaiming that the American yeomanry is the back- bone of the nation and that such and such a party candidate will cherish and protect its interests as the special inter- -ests of a class. The ‘real farming farmer of today is alertly aware that whatever affects the great industry of the nation affects the great industry of agriculture. : i The politician who can today separate the farmer vote as an entity can do so only by happy inspiration. He certainly can no longer make use of such a com- modity as the “rube vote.” It has ceased to be.. In its place has .come into exist- ence .a_discriminating - intelligence that will' demand national welfare above all things: and will refuse to be hoodwinked by ‘the petty shams and buncombe of politicians.—COUNTRY GENTLEMAN, DISRESPECTFUL The Minot Daily Optic-Reporter ayers that “the only case of infantile paralysis reported in this state is that whieh has PAGE EIGHTEEN et s b L ~ been contracted by Norman Black’s Good Government League. The Optic-Repor- ter should not speak lightly of the dead. —BISMARCK PALLADIUM. W. D. GILLESPIE Architect and Superintendent 1 64 Broadway Fargo, N. D. 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