The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, July 12, 1917, Page 15

dged ater Arge vide pan top are 1 be wet ary, f a sul- so le- ing red Ans LA, S el ) B e e Denounce Anti-FarmerPaper Tri-County Convention of Farmers at Belfield Upheld Governor Frazier and the Nonpar- . tisan League - ‘Editor Nonpartisan Leader: Kindly publish the enclosed: 5 W. F. KING. Resolutions adopted at the Tri- County convention at Belfield, N. D,, June 16: “Whereas an editorial appeared in the Dickinson Press of Saturday, June 16, 1917, entitled ‘“‘Thanks Be For Frazier”, and whereas this article is a contemptible attack upon our chief executive, Lynn J. Frazier, pres- ent Governor of North Dakota, “And, whereas said article contain- - ed language which was unbecoming, and whereas said article referred to meetings being held by A. C. Town- ley, President of the Nonpartisan league, as being held solely for the purpose of benefitting A. C. Townley and “lesser bell-wethers of the flock”, and milking “the horny handed sons of toil” at $16 per milking, which amount in reality is necessary to con- duct the work of the league, “And whereas the farmer has the game right to organize as those fol- Jowing other occupations; and where- as the farmers have improved their eondition by so organizing, and where- as the prosperity of the state and all business of the state depends upon the “And whereas the governor, Lynn J. Frazier, in making stops over the state, is following the example set by other governors in the past, and con- tinuing a custom, which in our opinion, is just and proper, “And whereas the entire article contains language which was intended to detract from the farmer organiza- tions, and to dissuade those who are not already members from joining same, “Be it resolved that we recommend that the above resolutions be spread upon the minutes, and published in the Nonpartisan Leader, Fargo Courier-News and the Dickinson Recorder-Post. “Be it further resolved that we con- demn the editorial which was pub- lished in the Press on June 16, and recommend the expulsion of the editor, E. L. Peterson, from the Union. ‘“Be -it further resolved that we up- hold our governor in all that he has done since taking the oath of office, and that we shall stand behind him in the present crisis. “W. J. Mosely “S. D. Gregg “W. F. King success of the farming industry, “Committée on Resolutions.” Business Men Appreciate Farmers Editor Nonpartisan Leader: - Lake William ‘is a yearling village in the heart of what was and is a locality with a pull to it, the kind of a pull that Jack London would describe as “the call of the West.” Up here Sam Clark has a hunter's bungalow, Louis Hill his bit of galne preserve, and Henry Ford answered the call last fall. So it has been for 35 years. The tourist tribe that can go where it wills, must see, breathe and feel the spell of northwestern Kidder county’s lake region. The latest transient of the tourist tribe was an Oklahoma tramp who would work two days and use the money for a week's camp by the lake. Had Henry Ford had the good fortune to meet this gentleman as I had, I am sure the economic department of Ford’s makeup would have had a comrad’s response. But the most important fellows that this region allured here are the fellows who stayed and made it their permanent camp. These men of foresight, feeling the danger that threatened their homes through the rapacity of twentieth cen- tury finance, were not slow to join the Nonpartisan league as an efficient, rational method of acquiring results desired. On June 27 finding themselves scheduled for a fourth of July picnic, Farmer J. M. Williams with his Ford, accompanied by Homemaker Sullivan, broke the news to 10 more farmers, recommending a committee meeting at 2 o’clock that afternoon. Instead of 10 showing up at the meeting there were 256. The Heaton Grain Lumber and Implement company promptly placed it8 office at the service of the Leaguers and the 25 immediately got down to business, elected a chairman and secretary and took four hours to decide and rivet a line of attractions and a program. The program included a ball game, horse races, foot races, roping, bucking‘ broncho contest and other features, and it was financed by members of the com- mittee themselves. A call was made for volunteers to distribute advertising and a band of 11 pieces was engaged. The administering of the affair, and the prop- aganda were watched by local and neighboring business men from many view points and angles. Some said the crowd would make monkeys of ’em, others said there wouldn't be any crowd, and still others said the whole thing would fall down and fizzle for lack of experienced handlers, etc., etc. There have been long and well advertised four of July celebrations at neigh- boring towns where money has been plentifully poured into the undertaking, and a grand celebration had been heralded long and far and wide. But the Nonparti- san league farmers advertised theirs only as a League picnic—and. what happened? “The fourth arrived. At 10 o’clock they commenced to come. At 10:30 the band began to play some lively airs and at 11:00 o’clock a parade was formed and the Leaguers marched with the band twice around the main street. . The second time a lot of folks in their cars joined and also a band of picturesque Gypsies who were invited to camp in the town fell in line, and the parade kept growing, accumulating other unlooked for but pleasant features. The first number was a hit, and from then on there wasn’t a dull minute. ‘About dinner time Organizers “Hank” and Joe Richardson and the speaker of the day, Earnest Meitzen, appeared on the scene, and they were met by the recep- tion committee. At 2 o’clock the farmers’ league band was on the speaker’s stand, and the crowd surrounded three sides of the platform. The audience of over 2000 stayed until the last word was said by the speaker, who made himself heard In ‘spite of a stiff wind. After the méeting more members were enrolled and then the Robinson and ‘Wododworth ball teams crossed bats on the Lake William diamond, and the cele- bration wound up with a dance. A surprise was sprung on the farmers by the Lake Williams business men, who insisted on paying all the bills which amounted to more than $180, and they #aid they considered the figure was very low for the worth of the picnic to their town. They said it was an advertisement of the right kind, as it gave them an opportunity to show their good will towards the farmers. F. J. SULLIVAN. Bismarck Tribune Careless (From the Palladium, Bismarck, N. D.) D. E. Shipley, secretary-treasurer of the North Dakota Division of the Farmers’ Educational and Co-operative Union of America, attended the big Nonpartisan League meeting at Dickin- _.son, Monday, and informs The Palla- dium that the account of the meeting published in last night’s Bismarck Tribune is, to use Mr. Shipley’s ex- pressive phrase, “a peck of lies.” “There was no confusion when the resolutions calling for the removal of Chairman John H. Rich and, Gavernor Theodore Wold, of the Ninth district federal reserve bank, and upon which the Tribune bases its remarks, were introduced,” said Mr. Shipley. 4 “The Tribune’s statement that not a single resident of Dickinson voted for the resolutions is a lie, pure and sim- ple, as I was siting right beside one resident of Dickinson who voted for the resolution, and I saw several more of them rise to their feet and vote in favor of them. There were also many farmers present who were not League members, the Tribune to the contrary notwithstanding—and all of them voted for the resolutions. “The farmers of North Dakota are just as true to Uncle Sam as any class of citizens in the country,” con- tinued Mr, Shipley, “and are standing by the government almost to a man. And I want to say to the Bismarck Tribune that there has never been a . more patriotic address listened to since the entry of the United States into the war than the one delivered by Gov. Lynn J. 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