The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, August 24, 1916, Page 4

.ATTACK on the people’s candidates for the supreme court is being ' the supreme court. ~ Whose court is it, the lawyers’ court or the people’s " not SEEK BY TECHNICALITY TO DEFEAT THE WILL OF THE .is the state senate. < 2 UG READ THESE OVER AND OVE AGAIN (] CUTS HAY IN THE FIELD AND DELIVERS IT TO BARN SAVES TIME AND LABOR — NO DUST N N SN s e T ‘HITTIN’ DE HaY' ‘ NN\ OR HAY FEVER - A\ A FORM OF \ \\ SPRING-FEVER, AN o JANSIE D) - NO MAY FEVER. N AL TR L 4‘ A R~ ESTIONS-=By M. T. Do V= __M T.DOMES & -MANY A BIG LEAGUER - WAS' DEVELOPEL BY PITCHING HAY ON: THE FARM! OUR CARTOONIST MAKES HAY WHILE THE SON SHINES. Here are more valuable hints by the eminent farm scientist, Mr. M. T. Dome. ~Professor Dome never patents his ideas. 'He doesn’t beliéve .in vulgar commercialism. He wants the farmers to have all the benefits and all the joy of trying them out. In the vacuum mower, shown above, the large flat wheels on the side are geared through a differential to a traction wheel under the seat which helps to drive the machine, thus resting the horses and contributing to that happy expression seen on fact that the horses as attached in the diagram seem to be. treading down the uncut hay. I “ ‘Muzzle not the ox that treadeth out the corn,” the Scriptures say, and while this is not corn the principle is the same. that stubble is very hard on the feet.” Professor Dome, it can be seen, is WORK UP A SENTIMENT AGAINST ATTEMPTING ANY REAL REFORMS. This is the object of the. SCARE CAMPAIGN. The first part of the enemy’s program is being carried out very quietly. It embraces several features. 4 The first feature is to fix things at the state capital so that the farmers’ administration will have serious trouble on its hands when it takes over affairs. s : The next feature is a determined campaign to HOLLD POSSESSION of the supreme court, which is considered the STRONGHOLD OF SPECIAL PRIVILEGE. Quietly, unostentatiously, a VICIOUS carried forward. Lawyers who fear.to offend this powerful judicial body and others whose habit is to fawn on the courts in order to get favors are being used to spread lying tales about your candidates. Plenty of lawyers can be found who will openly indorse the present members of the court. It’s good policy. Few can be found to indorse their opponents publicly. THEY DON'T DARE. They may have cases - pending. But lots of them are writing to the people’s candidates to say they are with them—*but don’t use my name.” - Don’t rely implicitly on a lawyer’s indorsement of a candidate for court? o If the Interests can defeat JUST ONE of the three candidates indorsed by the Nonpartisan League—the people’s candidates, Robinson, Grace and Birdzell—they think they will have made certain that “UNFAVORABLE” legislation will be killed by the court. ; There is only one way to make certain that the supreme court will PEOPLE. That way is to work for the election of all three of the ‘people’s candidates—Robinson, Grace and Birdzell. 3 * * % ; THE SECOND DANGER SPOT : There’s one other serious danger spot in the people’s ticket. That “Holdovers” comprise half of that body. A few of them are friendly to the farmers’ cause. Many are not. There are several districts in which the farmers as yet have no candidates. By electing all of the candidates indorsed the farmers will have a BAR * MAJORITY. They can’t afford to lose any. : Big Business is now making determined efforts to DEFEAT YOUR CANDIDATES. At the same time the SAME INFLUENCES ARE AT * _ PAGE FOUR the nigh nag’s countenance. Mr. Dome’s attention was called to the “Ah, that’s the idea exactly,” said Professor Dome; Besides, I have noticed a humane man as well as scientific. B WORK ' TRYING TO INJECT DOUBTS AND FEARS INTO THE MINDS OF YOUR CANDIDATES SO AS TO GET THEM TO DESERT ° THE CAUSE AT A CRITICAL MOMENT. : Candidates need to be on their guard. Voters need to be on their guard to see that candidates are loyal to the cause. We must stand together. There was never greater need. The battle is not half won. ....‘.................O.........Q..................O.... WE'LL STICK The farmers of North Dakota sticking together as the Farmers’ ‘Nonpartisan League won a complete victory in the primary June- 28, precipitating the greatest political turnover in the history of the. state or perhaps any state. . : el e They did the impossible. They showed what co-operation may do. ' They killed forever the rule of the old machine in polities of the Flickertail State. ; Yy | Nationality didn’t count, religion didn’t count. Gérmans voted for Swedes and Swedes for Germans; the voters did something heretofore unheard of in politics; went to the polls and voted “’er straight” for a platform that they believed in. This is ‘nothing -short of Dolitical revolution. It is a jump of 100 years forward in progressive politics. If the sentiment only spreads to other states and the whole nation it means that the day of blind voting shall have passed, that democracy shall have been stified. ©. The one big surprise of the primary was the big city vote givén to the League men. Frazier, the Nonpartisan candidate for. gov- ernor, carried one of the wards of the capital city, Bismarck. %e dirtiest. methods were used in an attemipt to prejudice the urban residents against the rural citizens; but they knew each other too well. The automobile in North Dakota has wiped-out: the division: line between the cities and the rural districts.—MINNESOTA ooo.ooodboo_oooooooooooooooo’oo‘o‘oooooooooo‘oo’oo’ooo‘oooo‘o‘jo" ’ FROGGY AGAIN . Brother Smith of Plaza'is, apparently, peeved at most everything since his late political fiasco. He now cautions the farmers against “J. M. Anderson and the other men who are rumning the that embrace nine-tenths of the farmers = Equity.” Taking in the Equityon the in the state. He loved them: once— .- one hand and the Nonpartisan League Jiminny ached on the other into his : seems like a large order far a “farmers’ / ~ 000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 friend.” If he has any sense in that part of his head above his eyes he should than make a spectacle of himself snap- make effort to conceal his sores, rather . - ping at the two farmers’ organizations =