The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, April 8, 1918, Page 5

‘OLD JOB A e ..‘J":-"' e ARG have one and the same interest and then they turn right around and loudly proclaim that “labor and the farmers” are inevitably opposed to each other and any joint action is sure to fizzle—but they have their tongues in the corner of their mouths when they say it! . OLD PARTIES FOUGHT - Zé& THEN AS THEY FIGHT Now X Well in:1890 at Grand Island it was a whoopmg % . success. The farmers put up-a genuine farmers’ " :-fi and laborers’ ticket, just as North Dakota farmers: ¢ did two years ago, but they didn’t win so easily. . They swept the’state, their candidates got more votes than their: opponents—but that was nearly 30 years:ago. . There was no -Australian ballot, and _the party bosses in powar counted them out. They still try that, and once in a while get by with it, but more often they are caught, and the reason they ‘are caught is just because of that great farm-. > ers movement of the '808 and '903 that has edu-. -HOLDER POLITICIAN cated pubhc opinion and forced progressive elec- tion laws. Bill Dech hits the nail on the head in one slamming stroke, showing why the election in Nebraska failed in 1890, and why there is need for— a renewed, wgorous, nonpartisan ' effort today.\ He says: “The Democrats didn’t and don’t now want the Republican machine to be destroyed, -and the Re-.- publicans” don’t want the Democratic machine to be destroyed For in essentials they are united, .- and in nonessentials they run their campaigns and bamboozle the people.” Throughout Nebraska the votes kept pllmg up for the farmers’ candidates, but in' Omaha—noth- ing doing. Omaha is Nebraska’s big city. It wanted to boss state affairs, as all big cities do in every ~state. A big business man of Omaha only the other day told Bill Dech that the “big cities rule this' country and they always will.” That is what Nebraska’s big: city did that year. -In full control of the election maehmery m Omahn they simply ey POLITICAL. HOBOES ONCE RAN NORTH DAKOTA TO SUIT THEMSELVES! JUST TO THINK THAT THOSE =N —Drawn expressly for the Leader by Congressman John M. Baer took to checking up votes for the antl-farmer can- didates as fast as pro-farmer ballots were counted. Afterwards the scandal was unearthed, and it was found that in order to carry the electlon the anti- farmer politicians of Omaha had used the names of thousands of Council Bluffs citizens. Council Bluff's is just over the Missouri river in Iowa, and it made ‘a handy place from which to get names for the big ballot box stuffmg It was 20 years before-Omaha ever again cast as big a vote as she did -that year agamst the farmers, although she ‘doybled in size in the meantime. ; ill Dech was running for lieutenant govemor, and was counted out along with John H. Powers, president ‘of the Nebraska Alliance, who was run- whose sons and neighbors are still ‘active in Ne- bragka affairs. An incident connected thh thm robbery of the (Gonhnued -on page 23) oeqple -of theu' first victory is interesting and m- 4 e . e Nio B @ BT Ry DD et L e w0 (2] THY ST H ST O — DR S R0 T RS oo oY T N T P P (DB (DD DO e M‘sm)&— s ning for governor, and a‘lot of other radical “Pops" i