The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, September 21, 1916, Page 4

e every-citizen of the state.” : _.‘(one worth considering in other communities of the state, Surely it is AM 50 GLAD YOU CAME.QUT [| THISIS A MODEL oF PLOW TO SUPPER WITH ME HIRAM. I WANTED TO SHOW THIS ERTINCT TYPE OF SIMPONUT WHO SPENT HIS TIME (BUT NO MONEY) IN SHOWING THE. THEY MERELY SCRATCHED THE EARTH, HENCE THEY HAD TO SCRATCH FOR A LIVELIHOOD'! o y This is the time of year when organizations to “examine the fitness of candidates” are springing Secret attack up like mushrooms here and there over the state. on your You remember that was the gag the so-called: supreme ;ch;)od Government League” sprung % little while court, Since the G. G. League took to its bed sick of candidates: 2 fatal disease other bunches are continuing the work. Usually such organizations have their verdicts made up IN ADVANCE. They want to EXAMINE to the extent of getting material to KNOCK the candidates they oppose. ; j have been formed for the purpose of FIGHTING THE SUPREME COURT CANDIDATES OF THE NONPARTISAN LEAGUE. One of the busiest little organizers of this kind is 'T. F. McCue, the well-knowi- lawyer politician of Carrington. MecCue wrote a few days ago ‘to anether lawyer asking some “information.” _He began his letter with these words: ; ; ; “I do not know your belief in regard to what ought to be done .in regard to, the candidates nominated for the supreme.-berch. -Pérson‘ally I do not think that Messrs. Robinson; Grace and Birdzell are as well qualified or as fitted for the position as Spaulding, Fisk and Burke.” Then a little later on in the missive he says: : “Our county is being organized for the purpose of informinghthe people in this county of the true record, qualifications and fitness of the several candidates for the supreme court. The organization is known as the Judiciary committee of Foster county and is dominated by farmers and business men.” ‘ Purporting to be a request for information this letter was in fact a sly attack upon all three of the PEOPLE'S CANDIDATES FOR-THE . SUPREME COURT. The very words of the letter ‘give the lie to McCue’s assertion. that his. so-called committee is: formed: for. the pur- pose of telling the truth about the candidates. McCue’s own_ activity is sufficent proof that it is not “dominated: by farmers-and business men.” * * * ; 't allow ' getically supported by a COTERIE OF LAWYER- - Don’t allow POLITICIANS, who are working in the dark and yourselves by means of falsehiood and sly innuendo and 3 " deceit to prevent-the election of men who will free o nelghbars the North Dakota supreme court from the sus- to be picion of alliance with Big Business and of bias in fooled favor of influential lawyers. Don’t be:fooled by it. Don’t allow your town friends to be feoled by it. A prejudiced and unfair coufrt{is:gmenace to. / Y BIG BUSINESS HAS NO CHANCE AT KENSAL “The Nonpartisan Leader is compelled to divide honors and to admit that it is not the only true farmers’ paper in North Dakota. - Another is the Kensal Progress. S : i i rrgesd £t There are other newspapers in_thecstate whichshave backed.the, .. -+ - , EXPLAINING THE BURAL CREDITS ACE farmers’”cause loyslly in’the fight for<control of the state by its own people, but the Kensal Progress lately has assumed a unique position. : It is now owned and controlled by a company in which farmers hold the stock: . a5 S e o 5 The farmers did not buy out Editor Wasgon in order to change his policy. Instead they got behind him because he was a 1l 8 honest-leader and have furnished him means to make a better paper, one whose independence of special privilege is assured. 1 : The,_ example set-by the people of the neighborhood of Kensal is Lk Hiram Rube Drops in on M. T. Dome USED IN' PREHISTORIC TimEeq. BY THE. HoLLowDOMIANS | |- ' Spaulding, Fisk and Burke are being ener- - use he was a faithful and “to' carry-them through until® they can sell< - No:use to try-to help them. You can't change human nature, - All you : = (Of Words) |. I HAVE COMPILED SOME. STATISTICAL INFORMAT ION DEDUCTED FROM ARCHAE O- LOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS AND JUST BEFORE WE. - GO INTO. SUPPER '| WANT TO SHOW_ YOU ‘THis TABLE : SHOW ME THE : The Leader has no hesitancy w : ° in sayimg that the decision of the supreme Capital removal court'in the capital removal case is a high- decision a handed usurpation_of authority. o dod: It ought to arouse the indignation of hlgh h_an.ded every citizen of North Dakota, whether he usurpation lives in New Rockford, in Bismarck; in the Red River valley or out. on the slope. | of authority " It amounts to a declaration by the state N 'supreme court that the people are not com- - petent to-suggest or approve amendments to their constitution, that they - / .. are’not. competent to vote on éonstitutjonal questions and that the This is the case with a number of little SECRET SOCIETIES that ~courts.are not bound to recognize or to give an honest interpretation -to_constitutional amendments passed on the.order of the people of the state. G : L e iRt «» :The decision is. discussed in more detail elsewhere in this issue of the Leader. 1t is a.decision ‘which admittedly overrides and foils the. plainly expressed will of the voters. Not even the supreme court denies that.. It overrides this will on the merest triviality, an- omission on the ° -part of the legislature whi¢h in no way. affects the pu pose and the sub- * stance of ‘the amendmenf providing for the amendment of the state constitution by initiative. s Hagona s ~ This deeision is thoroughly in harmony with the spirit of the present court. ‘It is a court which-hunts for brecedents to decide: the way. it wants_to-decide. : It is a courf which regards the comma or semi-colon of the enrolling: clerk as of vastly more weight' than the will of the people. e g i : The Leader has: taken-no position: whatever upon the question of removing the capital from Bismarck to New Rockford: ‘It does not con- sider it within its:province to take any position on that question. It is - one for the people of the state to decide. = But the- attitude -to be taken on.this decision of the court is far more important than that. The Leaies has no hesitanev whatavay in condemning the -decision. - = 1 a3 TG < ; North Dakota has a supreme court interested- © “Th people - in-blocking by legal quibbling the-exercise of the 2 f’ ‘power of government by the people. North be: damned', - -~ Dakota has.a supreme court which is a4 menace to says the American liberty and to free instifutions. In : ; this decision it says-in effect: “Let the courts supreme and, the legislature make the law; the people be court If the people of the state of North Dakota do. i not rebuke this decision by defeating the members of the court who_are candidates for re-election, then the state deserves: to be held in the bondage of judicial tyranny till a wiser generation comes forward to save it. - SERE A n sl e i controlled by the producers. And when a newspaper does serve the best interests of its readers it is worthy: their backing and ‘eo-operatiop.-" d represent: the public interests as it is that a ‘grain elevator should be R IR ' Charles ', Lobdell 6f Kansas, member of the federal farm loan board, made some observations when he was in Fargo, i “The measure will not change human nature, nor make the shiftless man prosperous,” he said. ' And he also got rid of this significant state- .ment: “As a country banker I can see no objection to the measure.” . Quite evidently, farmers aré of two kinds, “shiftless” and “pros- _perous.” - Those who haveto pay 12 per cent and upwards for money can do is to help the “prosperous” farmer by a rural credits act to which Jjust as important that the moulder of public 'opipiprg should ;t'anhfuny 'fgv‘eofinm:m “can see no objection.” Is it perfeotly plsin? PAGE FOUR SRS SUPPER TABLE! | hatever their crops are “shiftless.” Y ; i