The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, October 26, 1916, Page 4

SALARY PUMPING, ANY WAY ! ' —— A1 11 Old Gang seemed to have an iron constitution. He could punish any amount of booze, kéep any kind of hours and still s But now it looks like he’s all in. He is reaping the blames the doctors. “His blood is getting thin,” said Doc Guilty; but he will never be the same man again. - against Republican candidates. You need to elect ALL OF THESE MEN to have a state senate friendly to the farmers. , It will be a fine thing to have a farmer in the governor’s chair. Itwill bean HONOR TO NORTH DAKOTA to elect Lynn Frazier, a man to whom the farmers can point as the MAN WHOM THEY MADE GOVERNOR. But it will be an EMPTY HONOR unless you give Lynn Frazier the backing of a friendly senate. He can only recommend laws and approve them or disapprove them. He ean not pass any laws. Neither can the house pass any laws WITH- OUT THE AID OF THE SENATE. - : YOUR STATE GOVERNMENT will be an empty shell, crippled and ineffective, without a STATE SENATE willing to work in harmony. You have given each other a pledge of good faith. You agreed in your conventions NOT TO ACT AS PARTISANS. You agreed you would not act as Republicans or as Democrats. Republicans united to indorse Democrats and Democrats united to indorse Republicans.- Now comes the test. Will' you be true to thosé principles to the-last? Will you stand by your own' cause and. refuse to be blinded by the appeal of the PARTY POLITICIAN? ‘ The men in the DISPUTED * DISTRICTS, where League candidates are running as “independ- ents” or on the ticket of a MINORITY PARTY— these men are in the FIRST LINE TRENCHES. They are meeting the enemy ‘face to face in a BITTER STRUGGLE. Will you support them?. will aid? you stand back of them, ready to go to their o Thi;svh is the test of your DEPENDENCE. Ay : FOUR \ OoH-0-0! I'Mm NOT FEELING. A’ BIT STRONGER™THAN I WAS N THE. JUNE. PRIMARY eem fresh as a da.isy. penalty of a misspent life. His pal Big Biz, who foots the bills, is feeling rather gloomy. He “well pump in a little pep.” So he and Doc Black went at it. The patient’s circulation increased very rapidly and his temperature rose to the fever point, but he didn’t gain an y strength. The doctors may patch him up, “I don’t know what I'll:do for a political agent if he plays out on me,” says Big Business. This is the test of the sincerity of your words when you said: “We will not let the old party leaders boss us any more.” ; ’ The call of the party booster is loud. Don’t be blinded by it. Remember that your brother League members are relying on you to be FAITHFUL TO THEIR INTERESTS AND TO YOUR OWN. The League has kept HANDS OFF all the par- tisan fights. As between Hughes and Wilson it . has nothing to say. As between Burke and McCumber it is TAKING NO SIDE. It is taking no part incounty fights for office. . : Your delegates in your conventions agreed on this course. They agreed " not to let PARTY. SQUABBLES enter into their course of action. The League embraces men of all parties. .It recog- nizes no dependence on and NO ALLIANCE with . any party. ; Ve ; Your state matters ‘are GREATER of IMPORTANCE TO YOU than the action of this state on national questions. There is a lot of noise béing made about NATIONAL ISSUES, all of which tends to take attention from the REAL BIG QUESTIONS right here in your own state. That’s the way you’ve been fooled in ‘the past. They—the old gang—have been appealing to youto SAVE THE NATION, while they “saved” the state ALMSKHLVES. And they chuckled in their sleeves—they LAUGHED AT YOU—while they were doing it. ; ; Where’s the laugh going ta be this time? Is it going to be WITH the old .gang, or AT them? Are you going to fool them this time? i The way to do it is to vote for ALL YOUR candidates, no matter whether they are designated - as Republicans, as Socialists, as Democrats or as Independents on the ballot. = i , S