The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, June 28, 1917, Page 2

e A A CALL TO ARMS IN NORTH DAKOTA BY PRESIDENT TOWNLEY - To League members of the First congression- al district of North Dakota: Here comes another test. Can you elect Baer? If you can you will have done your bit to de- feat the FOOD GAMBLERS. If you fail to elect Baer your enemies, the Far- go Forum, the Grand Forks Herald, the politicians and the FOOD -GAMBLERS WIN. : You will be told that some of the men opposed to Baer are good men—good as Baer. Perhaps so. But that isn’t the question. THIS IS A TEST OF STRENGTH BE- TWEEN YOU AND YOUR ENEMIES. If Baer is elected you win. If any other candidate is elected, the gang press, the politicians and the food gamblerq win. More than that—if Baer is elected he will be for the farmers because the farmers elected him, just as Frazier and Hagan and other North Dako- ta state officers are for you, because they are good men WHOM YOU ELECTED. If a man supported by the Grand Forks Herald, Fargo Forum, Chamber of Commerce and the Food Gamblers—all your enemies—is elected, that man will be for your enemles—the gang press and the food gamblers. Don’t imagine you can elect Baer without a fight. % The robbers and their agents are alert and on the job. YOU MUST WORK TO WIN! Make ready in every precinct to get out EVERY VOTE FOR BAER. Call up your neighbors in surrounding pre- cincts and go and seethem. LET YOUR WORK GO AND CAMPAIGN FRIDAY, SATURDAY, AND MONDAY BEFORE ELECTION. Go into every town and get out all your friends. Remember that every business man and every town that votes against Baer votes against you— votes for v1ctory for your enemies—votes to keep your money going out of the state—votes-against . your prosperity and against his own business. Go into the town. Explain this to the business men and all city people and call them to stand with you in this fight for a better state. The battle is in your hands. Meet your enemy and turn him back.. If you don’t elect Baer it will because you don’t work: You have the numbers and the power to win. SEE THAT YOU DO WIN!! ety ATTENTION! League Convention Called To the North Dakota Members: At the June convention at Fargo a eommittee was selected to make arrangements for harvest labor for this year. That committee has made arrangements that will solve the labor problems, if you will agree to the arrangement. A real crisis now faces the farmers. The factories are calling for men; the war and the great demand. for labor in the factories are using up the labor sup- ply that used to come to the harvest fields. Even in normal times it is difficult to get good harvest help. The crop does not wait. When the crop is ready, it must be harvested or it is lost. - Labor is required to save it. We believe your committee has made arrange- ments that will bring all the good harvest help that North Dakota needs, if you will approve the ar- rangement made by your committee. If you agree to this arrangement, there will be no strikes, no quarrelling over hours and wages. Men ean be supplied who are WILLING TO WORK AND WHO KNOW HOW TO DO THE WORK. A mass state convention of the members of the League of North Dakota will be held at Minet, N. D., July 11, at 2 p. m., to either in- dorse or reject this plan approved by your committee. A; least one delegate from each voting precinct in the state should attend this convention. No formal caucus is necessary, but have a delegate come from your precinct. Three other meetings will be held to rati- fy or reject the action of the state convention at Minot, as follows: Valley City, July 12, at 2 p. m.; Bismarck, July 13, at 2 p. m.; Devils Lake, July 14, at 2 p. m. Let nothing interfere with this. Labor this year will be your hardest problem. HAVE YOUR DELEGATE THERE. THIS IS IM- PORTANT. DON'T FAIL YOUR ORGANI- ZATION." Iwill be at the ¢convention at Minot. Headquarters Addresses The Leader herewith gives mail addresses of the national and various state headquarters of the National Nonpartisan league. Communieations dealing with organization work, payment of dues, securing speakers or meetings for various loealities, ete., should be addressed to the proper League headquarters and not to the Nonpartisan Leader. NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS, Box 294, St. Paul, Minn. - MINNESOTA HEADQUARTERS, Box 655, St. Paul, Minn. NO. DAK. HEADQUARTERS, Box 919, Fargo, N. D. SO. DAK. HEADQUARTERS, Box 464, Sioux Falls, S. D. MONTANA HEADQUARTERS, Box 1625, Great Falls, Mont. KANSAS HEADQUARTERS, Ellsworth, Kansas. - COLORADO HEADQUARTERS, Box 538, Denver, Colorado IDAHO HEADQUARTERS, Box 1127, Boise, Idaho. PAGE TWO