The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, July 29, 1918, Page 6

R R AP A N N N R MINN //’y/% W?/Il,y,// 4 % g //1/// 'é/// N\ \\\\'\\\ N §\\\\ AN onpartisan Teader Official Magazine of the National Nonpartisan League—Every Week . Entered as second-class matter September 3, 1915, at the postoffice at St. Paul, Minnesota, under the Act of March 8, 1879, e OLIVER S. MORRIS, EDITOR Advertising rates on application. Subscription, one year, in advance, $2.50; six months, $1.50. Please do mot make checks, fts nor money orders payable to indi- viduals. Address all letters and make all remittances to The Nonpartisan Leader, Box 575, St. Paul, Minn. MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS THE S. C. BECKWITH SPECIAL AGENCY, Advertising Representatives, New ~ York, Chicago, St. Louis, Detroit, Kansas City. Quack, fraudulent and irresponsible firms are not knowingly advertised, ‘and we will take it as a favor if any readers will advise us promptly should: they have occasion %o doubt or question the reliability of any firm which patronizes our advertising columns. : " THE LEAGUE IN IDAHO THE Nonpartisan league has formally opened its 1918 political campaign in another state. Idaho Leaguers have met in convention at Boise, adopted a formal state platform and indorsed a complete farmer-labor ticket for the coming state pri- mary and election. A full report of the proceedings, including the platform and list of candidates, appears in this issue of the Non- partisan Leader. League farmers in all states will be interested in the activities of the farmers of Idaho, who are strongly organized under the League banner and have every chance of winning a sweeping victory at the polls this year. The Idaho League was organized and built up to its present tremendous strength under the most favorable auspices. Following the sweeping League victories in North Dakota two years ago, Idaho farmers, through the Idaho State Federation of Agriculture, invited the National Nonparti- san league to establish an Idaho branch, under the usual League plan, which is to establish a state League under the direction and management of farmers of Agriculture is a body in which all the farmers’ organizations of the state—the Grange, Equity, Farmers’ union, fruit growers’ associations and others — are represented, and the League therefore was started in Idaho with the co-operation and aid of all the existing farmer organ- izations. ; - The movement took Idaho by storm. The farmers joined T the League as rapidly as they could be interviewed by organizers and there is now a solid League organization in almost every county. The organization work is still being carried forward and hundreds of new members are coming in each week. The organized farmers have had the full co-opera- tion of union labor of the state, which was represented in the recent convention and had a voice in the formulation of the state platform and indorsement of candidates. . : Every progressive element of Idaho is lined up with the farm- — - — = = h IN THE L|M&L\GHT ers in the campaign, and the movement to free the state from the. domination of politicians and big interests has had the support of every newspaper of progressive tendencies. The League majorities in Idaho this fall will not be a surprise to the political gang—the gang for a year has seen what is coming, and its desperation can be measured by the character of campaign waged to block the farmers. Idaho will take its place this year beside North Dakota, and there will be weeping and wailing, but- not among the farmers and workers and real patriots of the Gem state! THE IDAHO PLATFORM _ ‘S IN the case of the Leaguers in North Da- : kota and Minnesota, the Idaho farmers at | their recent state convention adopted a | formal statement of principles and platform which places the chief stress on the winning of the war, and which pledges the League and its members - to aid the government in every way in bringing the great world war for democracy to a victorious the state.- The Federation of I HOPE THOSE Bl B(Z AUTOCRATS 195 SUGZESSFUL (N THEIR ATTEMPT TO CRUSH THAT DPAMNABLE NOMPARTISAN LEAGULE _ 7 g”’"’e y, %, . 0/// 'Iéllll// "Z o é/ 4 Z 9, ¥ LV 2 5 close for America and her allies. The Idaho farmers expressed their views in language much the same as:did their brethers in Minnesota and North Dakota in the formal League platforms of those states, which have hitherto appeared in the Nonpartisan Leader. The Idaho platform appears on page four of this issue. Its loyalty declaration and pledge of support in winning the war is as follows: T We declare our undying loyalty, our unalterable devotion, to our beloved country at this time when the soul of the nation is being tested in the fierce fires of the battlefield, and we pledge, before God and man, all that we have, all that we are and all that we hope to be, to America in her championship of civili- zation, democracy and human rights. * * * The para- mount issueis to win the war. . The chief qualification for of- fice is loyalty—100 per cent Americanism. We indorse, without qualification, the masterly statement of war aims that " our great national leader, ‘Woodrow Wilson, has given to the world as America’s purpose and to accomplish which the people of this na- tion have dedicated their for- tunes and their lives. These inspiring words were ifioken by farmers, who, like eir fellow workers in other STAMP OLT THE KAISER states, have been insulted and : outraged by contemptible charges of disloyalty that have been en- couraged by politicians and hirelings of sinister interests, who see a menace to themselves in the political and economic reforms which the Nonpartisan league seeks. It will probably make no difference to the Idaho patrioteers circulating these damnable charges, that the farmers and their fellow city workers have adopted and pledged their candidates to this striking declaration of loyalty, and promise to give all, unsparingly, in America’s cause. It made no difference in other states. The same charges of disloyalty continued, and they will continue in Idaho. : The Idaho farmers in this League convention sent a message of encouragement and appreciation to the farmers of other states battling for democracy and justice under the League’s banner. Said the Idaho farmers: : We view with pride and with gratitude the record of the farmers’ administration of North Dakota, which has given clean and honest government in the interests of all the people. Especially do we praise and congratulate Governor Lynn J. Frazier, the farmers’ governor, for’ his manly independence and fairness to all. 5 We congratulate the farmers in other states of the West who have taken up the battle for more perfect democracy. The Nonpartisan league in truth has broken down state boun- daries as well as party lines.that have separated farmers. The message of the farmers of Idaho to the farmers of North Dakota, Minnesota and other states, who are throwing off the yoke of economic oppression, will stir them to new sacrifices and efforts in the cause of democracy, but most of all the EXAMPLE of the farmers of Idaho in facing their accusers and standing firm through thick and thin will inspire League farmers everywhere. The cam- paign of lies and slander against the Idaho Leaguers has been just as fierce as in any other state, but Idaho farmers are going about the business of making their state a better place in which to live, and they throw back in the teeth of their would-be traducers the mean and contemptible insinuations of political crooks, hired editors and representatives of the house of swag. : ; ' Every reader of the Leader should read for himself the Idaho platform in full. It incorporates the fundamental political and j economic demands stated in the national League program and “also adopted by the League in the _ other states that have adopted formal state plat- forms this year. In addition there are issues local to Idaho and whose treatment by the Idaho farm- ers shows the enlightened and progressive stand glaf the League takes everywhere on publie ques- ions. 7 : 55 e - THE IDAHO CANDIDATES centers, outside of Idaho, in the approval o liam E. Borah. The Idaho League has selected particularly strong state and congressional ticket headed by H. F. Samuels for gove; - than whom ther - among the farm ’\ NTEREST in_indorsements of candidates by = _ the Nonpartisan league in Idaho naturally - the Idaho farmers of United States Senator Wil-