The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, July 15, 1918, Page 21

J A Triumph of Right and (Continued from page 5) ing scheduled was held without vio- lence. ’ At Devils Lake on the day before the primaries, a crowd of 1,000 as- sembled in the opera house to hear Congressman Baer, Sergeant Black, a returned Canadian soldier who had "~ been wounded 14 times in battle and who has been speaking for the League, and A. E. Bowen, one of the League speakers. The crowd found in the box seats in the opera house women carrying banners on which were painted sentences insulting the farm- ers. Secretary T. A. Box of the state council of defense was present, hav- ing heard that the city commission had notified the speakers not to come under the pretext that there would be disorder. Secretary Box delivered a patriotic- address, telling of the work of the state council of defense, of the service needed of the citizen by the government and of the duty of every good citizen to keep the peace . and to respect the law. When he had finished Congressman Baer announced that he and Sergeant Black would refuse to speak in the presence of the insulting banners and invited the au- dience to come with him across the railroad tracks to the south of the city. A TRIUMPH OF COMMON SENSE ~ The audience that gathered around the speakers’ automobile in the open was three times as large as the num- | ber that could get into the opera house. Here every man member was sworn in as a special deputy of the state council of defense by Secretary Box and all enjoined to assist in pre- serving order, which the local of- (i;xcials of Devils Lake had declined to o. The addresses were enthusiastically cheered and there was no disorder. The only disorderly meeting of the campaign was held in the city of Fargo, headquarters for the agents of " the Minnesota politicians and center -of opposition to the League. In Far- go on Monday night preceding the primaries the two labor candidates for the state legislature, I. H. Ulsaker and_N. H. Hinkle, both indorsed by the Trades and Labor assembly, at- tempted to speak from an automobile ‘on a principal street corner, accom- panied by Howard Wood, ' candidate for the office of lieutenant governor.’ A crowd of town politicians and traveling men hooted and boced the speakers throughout their speeches, " calling on the “loyalists” to “come over to this side of the street and leave the Huns over there.” They em- ployed motorcyclists to chase along the street with .their mufflers open and otherwise demeaned themselves as rowdies. The labor candidates pluckily stood their ground and en- deavored' to make themselves heard, though with little success. Hinkle, a printing ' pressman, announced that he had two brothers in the_army, was working to support a family and de- fied any man in the crowd to show a better record than he for loyalty. DICTATORS FROM | MINNESOTA WERE REFUSED These evidences of hate of the farm- ers and their cause, fomented by a press which did not hesitate to spread the most outrageous falsehoods re- garding the farmer ticket, showed plainly that only by having a loyal and efficient and honest state admin- igtration was North Dakota saved the disgrace of riotous events” such as happened: in Minnesota. Another striking - feature of the North Dakota campaign was the open ingolence ‘with which it was directed from the: state of Minnesota. Never ‘before have the interests which dom- Democracy inate Minnesota and have in the past dominated in North Dakota been so bold in their methods. Not only were speakers from Min- nesota sent into North Dakota to in- fluence the result, but a squad of rep- resentatives of the subsidized press of the Twin Cities was on the ground to -direct the publicity and to send out false stories regarding the North Dakota situation. Through the hired newspapers of the Minnesota cities the big bosses spoke their orders to all underlings to get to work to “re- deem” North Dakota for the corrupt gang which rules Minnesota. The employes of the big interests of Min- nesota operating elevators and other agencies in North Dakdéta were di- rected to get busy to prevent the re- election of Frazier and the Nonpar- tisans. - But in all the fury of the attack practically nothing was said in the state 'of North Dakota regarding the record either of the Nonpartisan league legislature or the administra- This beautiful Semi-Cut Glass Berry Set, Madam, is tion. Only the League- speakers touched on the record of the last two years, the real issue of the campaign. The reason obviously was that the record was not open to attack and the enemies of the League realized it. REAL SERVICE - GAINS APPRECIATION One little law alone, the grain grading law, has saved the farmers of North Dakota several times over . the cost of their membership in the League. The old gang didn’t want to provoke any discussion of the grain grading act, the moratorium act, the seed and feed bonding act, the bank deposit guarantee law, the taxing re- forms of any of the other accom- plishments of the farmers’ adminis- tration. These things, however, made many votes for the League in the state and were responsible for the unanimous testimonial of support by the farm- ers shown in the vote. The enemies of the League in North Dakota have been humiliated by the result of the election. They begin to see now that they can gain ADVERTISEMENTS nothing by wholesale insults directed against the farmers of a whole state. They begin to see that if they want the support of the people of North Dakota they will have to become con- verts to the doctrine of government by the people. 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