The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, November 15, 1917, Page 18

ADVERTISEMENTS TO MINNESOTA MEMBERS We arc making arrangements to hold, at least, one good meeting in every county in the state during the coms ing winter. This meeting is to be addressed by a speaker of national reputation. When practical, we wish to hold these meetings in county seats, unless there is some town in the county that is better situated and has a lavger hall. If you wish one or more of these meetings to be held in your county, fill in the information blank printed be- low and mail to the Minnesota Department of the NA- TIONAL NONPARTISAN LEAGUE, Box 655, St. Paul, Minnesota. We will, then, try and arrange a meeting for you sometime during the next three or four months. We should get this information by return mail or as soon as possible, so that we can complete our routing for the entire state without delay. l PLEASE CUT OUT AND MAIL THIS BLANK l Cotnty. < it Name of hall........ N Name of owner or manager........... Man who will seeure hall and advertise meeting. . ... TAVES Abcsh.vonivie sotasis o e g S Range. i=] Name of paper or papers...... Name of editor..............: Remarks A GOOD SCHOOL Trained Expervienced Teachers, Modern Office Appliances, Thorough Courses: Bookkeeping ,Banking ,Shorthand, Stenotypy, Typewriting, Civil Service, Preparatory, Pen- manship and Pen Art. Work Guaranteed Satisfactory or Tuition Refunded We Have a Caller The other day we were a little late in returning to the office from lunch. The office boy met us outside the door. “Dey’s a guy in dere lookin’ for youse,” he whispered. “What does he look like?” “Well, he looks sumpin like a book agent, but he ain’t got no books.” i Reassured, we entered the office. There was an urbanely smiling gentleman, youthfully middle-aged, smooth-shaven, solidly built. We recognized him at once from the pictures we had seen of him with the P. S. commission. “How are you, governor?' we asked. “Lynn J. Frazier, the farmer governor " AR.FAKE~ S PHOTO GRAFTER v T MAKE You Loox MKE WHRT You ruNY" of North Dakota, gets in to see us every once in awhile, but this is the first time a governor has come from across the line.” “Well, it's getting toward election time,” said our visitor. “I thought I'd drop around and tell you that [ was a farmer governor, too.” * “Oh, is that so?” we said. *“What do you raise on your farm?” “I think it's corn or wheat, or something like that,” said the governor. “Yes, I'm sure it must be wheat.” “By the way,” he added, “I had a picture of myself taken the other day which might interest you.” He handed us a picture of himself in a farmer’s boots and hat, a pitchfork in one hand and a hoe in the other. On one side of him was abushel of potatoes and on the other a nice big squash. “Very good likeness,” we said. “Taken on your farm, we suppose.” “Not at all,” was the reply. “I don’t get out to the farm often, so this was posed in a studio. The farm buildings and wheat field in the background are on the studio drop curtain. Pretty clever, eh?” We admitted it was and asked him what we could do for him. “Co-operate,” he said. “Co-operate—that's it.” “Co-operate with whom,” we asked. “With me and the business men of my state. operation and help of business men.” “We understand the farmers did try to do that in your state, but that the business men connected up a fire hose and threatened to turn it on the farmers, and also mentioned that the farmers would be rotten egged.” “That’s the way* with you fellows,” he said, “always putting class against class.” “But wasn't it the business men that tried to put class against class?” we insisted. 2 He ignored the question, “I try to be fair,” he said. “I always want to do what is right. But it is so hard to decide what IS right. Don’t you think so? When gentlemen from the Chamber of Commerce came to see me (and they are fine gentlemen, Mr. Editor, many of them go to church with me and belong to the same lodge, so I ought to know) when they came to me and told me the farmers were all Socialists and anarchists and atheists and traitors, it seemed they must be right. And when the farmers came to me later, and told me they were loyal and God-fearing and pa- triotic, it seemed that they must be right. It is very hard to decide. “But the attorney general and I fixed it up. We wrote a four page letter te all the peace officers. You can read it one way that no officer can interfere with a farmers’ meeting. That ought to please the farmers. And you can read it another way, that the officers have a right to break up any meeting they please. That ought to suit the Chamber of Commerce. 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Leader when writing advertiser these things—to please everybody, if possible.” “That policy ought to keep you right with all interests,” we observed. “That’s the way we run things,” he said. “But even then it" everybody. But I try hard. I teach a Sunday school class to pl people, and when I'm downtown I say ‘Gosh darn it,’ show I'm broad minded. But I must be going.” “Gee,-dat guy gives me a pain,” said the office bo: “Say what is dis here P. S. commission? written in a letter, that youse is about t'ru?”’ “Well, something like that,” we assented. Suicide’.” s hard to please ease the religious or something like that, to Y as our visitor departed. Does it mean like it does when it's “It probably stands for ‘Political He Knows Better Now Karlstad, Minn, Editor Nonpartisan Leader: Enclosed you will find two clippings from our local paper. I have seen sev- eral copies of the Nonpartisan Leader, since I wrote my reply to the Ilocal paper, but I have not changed my mind in regard to it. Will give the editor credit for printing my reply, although it was rather lengthy. AARON F. SPJUT. Editor’'s note: The clippings are from the Karlstad Advocate, which quoted favorably the fake “Minnesota Nonpartisan league” paper’s attack on President Townley, but which later also printed Mr. Spjut’s reply. The Karlstad Advocate appeared to be poorly informed, and thought the fake Minnesota league paper was a real farmer publication and voiced a revolt against President Townley of the Na- tional Nonpartisan league. The Karil- stad editor apparently did not know that the paper he got was the official organ of a coterie of St. Paul politi- cians, without any farmer support, or- ganized with no other purpose than teo defeat the National Nonpartisan PAGE EIGHTEEN league, and all effective organization by farmers. But Mr. Spjut replied, and the Ade vocate editor was fair enough to print ‘his reply in full, exposing the fake paper and giving the Karlstad editor and -his readers a straight tip. Mr, Spjut praises Townley for taking the lead in organizing the farmers, He ridicules the kick of the politicians be= cause the farmers have national head- quarters in a modern office building at St. Paul, and asks whether the editor thinks they ought to -organize in 3 hayloft apd keep the door open to get light, CONSPIRACY OF SILENCE ‘Williston, N. D, Editor Nonpartisan Leader: - ; ‘I went over to Bainville, Mont., Yes terday to a Nonpartisan league meet- ing, There were a good many teams in town, and it was a' fine day, but hardly anyone knew anything about the League meeting., There was evi- dently a conspiracy to keep the farm- ers from the meeting. FLORENCE M, IRVING, P i PAZE AT A SN o S SNl e o a1 o B B