The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, August 12, 1918, Page 11

The Leaguers Move to Free Montana Here Is the Lineup of the Nonpartisans Indorsed for Seats 1n the Legislature _.—More to Come HE Treasure state,” they called it, and a treasure state it has been in good sooth to those few who have held the pro- ducers in vassalage these many years. Fortunes beyond the wildest dreams of the money- mad have been wrung from the . toil of farmers and miners; fortunes whose getting has beclouded the vision of erstwhile sane men, whose acquisition has be- fouled the well springs of justice and shackled the chariot-wheel of law. And now the National Nonpartisan league has entered the field. With persistent and scientific - accuracy it forges along, going straight into the camp of the enemy, thrusting aside the political hacks and pie-card performers, ignoring the self- seekers, choosing for its indorsement men who will serve the interests of the whole people. In consequence the clans are out against it, the war arrow has been split up and sent throughout the land; the company tocsin clamors from all the watchtowers in village and in city, the battle drums boom defiance and from a thousand hills there gleam the signal fires of alarm. That is to say, the political pirates are perturbed to the point of panic: TO THE POLLS FOR WHAT THEY WANT The producers of Montana have put their heads together to control the next legislature. There are certain -things.that the common people have long been demanding that the politicians have been holding from them. The exemption of farm im- provements from taxation is one need. Across the national boundary Montana farmers have watched longingly the simple and just system of taxation in the Canadian west. Now they have resolved to import the idea. Northern Montana has been badly hit by-the drouth. That is what makes the League plank for rural credit banks operated at cost so necessary. State terminal elevators, warehouses, flour mills, stockyards, packing houses, creameries and cold storage plants are other parts of the program. State hail insurance, and equal taxation of rail- roads, mines, telegraphs, telephones, electric light and power companies and all public utility cor- porations -will save the workers of Montana mil- lions yearly. 5 i All these are on:the program of the League, and will be worked out carefully and thoughtfully as the League comes into- power. g In the box on this pagé-are the names of can- didates indorsed by the Nonpartisan farmers for places in the legislature. They are men and women who have not sought office, but who have been drafted. from -their- daily toil and have pledged themselves to vote for laws to put the League . program into effect. The list is not yet complete. ' 'As League conventions report to the Great Falls headquarters, tl_x_e further -indorsements will ‘be - printed. : : Together then, for the need is dire and time is short. Next November there shall beat upon the capitol building, glooming, there above the old: placer mines which gave it its birth, such a flood - * of ballots from sturdy men and women: that the old: regime shall pass into the limbo of forgotten things never more to be seen upon earth. IMPRESSED THE LEAGUE PRESIDENT _A. C. Townley, president of the League, recently spoke at four great farmers’ picnics in Montana. - He is going back again before the primaries.. Two . dates that have been set are August 12, in Fergus ‘county, and August 13, in Butte. Mr. Townley returned from his western trip saying that the . farmers’ pic he attended were wonderful, and. . _the best he ever saw. Al the letters coming to the Leader from Mon- ~ tana farmers breathe a spirit of confidence that - _ is good %o feel, A Leaguer from Richland writes: - yming fall elections will find that the voters’ e will throw a real scare bac! from second base and -the farmers’ enemies will hear ‘side out.’ I notice in Richland large mailed bundles of the Nonpartisan, Leader that are ad- dressed to different members at- Paxton, 75 miles south of here. They are the three last issues be- fore caucus day. This may interest you and our readers at Paxton. The postmaster evidently has no idea of forwarding them.” “I hope we may live to see the whole world un- der the principles of the League,” Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Mack of Camas write. They inclose a clip- ping from the Sanders County - Signal, an honest paper which tells the truth about League enemies. R. W. Jones of Denton writes a letter calling for government aid for the drouth-stricken farmers. expresses himself: Since he wrote, the president has ordered a fund of $5,000,000 to. be lent out to save farmers from bankruptey. 5 Another member sends a clipping from the farmer-hating Lewiston News, telling of the bank- ers organizing., “This is no time for the farmer to organize, but it gseems to be all right for the bankers,” is the comment. Here’s the way Samuel B. Anderson of Winifred “The day of reckoning, fellaw farmers and laborers. of Montana, is next Nevem- ber. That is judgment day; be out and vote. That’s the day to prove that henceforth we will have a real democraey, a government for the peo- ple and by the people.” Blaine county............. Indorsed on Republican ticket. Broadwater county......... Indorsed on Republican ticket. Cascade counmty........... Indorsed on Democratic ticket. Choteau county............ Indorsed on Democratic ticket. Dawso» county............ Indorsed on Republican ticket. Indorsed on Democratic ticket. Flathead county........... - Indorsed on Republican ticket. Gallatin county............ Indorsed on Republican ticket. Indorsed on Republican ticket. Madison county......... Indorsed on Republican ticket. Musselshell county...... oo Indorsed on Republican ticket. Park county.............. Indorsed on Republican ticket. Phillips county........... Indorsed on Republican ticket. Prairie county...... e 2 Indorsed on Democratic ticket. - Ravalli county............ " Indorsed on Republican ticket. Y. Indorsed on Republican ticket. Indorsed on Democratic ticket.’ Indorsed on Republican ticket. |. Stillwater county.........|J. H. Lenthold In_dorued,. on Democrafie_ ticket. " Toole COUNEY:::eiuensvomos Indorsed on Republican ticket. Indorsed on Democratic ticket. > |\ Wibaux county............ S Indduo;d-qnbemognflc;fiek‘e:t. ) > Montana Indorsements Reported to Date EACH COUNTY A LEGISLATIYE DISTRICT SENATOR AND ADDRESS (Holdover)..........c.oo0vven.. Homer Thompson, Three Forks. . |J. H. Moorhead, Cascade...... P. J. Wallace, Big Sandy (Holdover)....... Fallon county............. J. H. Bergstrom, Willard...... Indorsed on Democratic ticket. Fergus county............. L. F. Border, Winifred........ W. S. McCormick, Kalispell.... (Holdover)......: secsscessanei tesccsscsee « .../ (Holdover)....... Indorsed on Republican ticket. Jefferson county........... Dick P. Fabrick, Three Forks:. . .{S. A. Oliver, MeAlister..... (Holdover).. ... .. ............. (Holdover). . Sk .............. | (Holdover)....... (Holdover)....... E. F. Mills, Woodside......... HRR kW. Anderson; - Sidney........ A. N. Brooks, Trout Creek.... Sheridan county......... .|Clair Stoner, Outlook ................ Teton county...'..........C.v C. Davis, Conrad......... William Bourke, Sweetgrass. . .. Valley county.............|A. U;:'Sand, Opheim. . :.....~ Art’ Jeffers, Wibal_lx'.-. Reiieeas REPRESENTATIVE AND ADDRESS James Griffin, Chinook W. D. Nield, Townsend Mrs. C. M. Ditto, Great Falls Merlin Wilson, Great Falls Mike Holland, Great Falls Carl Gereke, Stockett Steve Fuller, Monarch S. B. Davidson, Great Falls Ira Siebrasse, Big Sandy William E. Shaw, Fort Benton George M. Eveleth, Floweree George Martinson, Dutton ...... William Steffen, Bloomfield William B. Crull, Allen C. E. Lawrence; Westmore Henry Larson, Windham R. W. Jones, Denton George Evans, Suffolk J. B. Hein, Forest Grove H. Gattis, Creston R. R. Tower, Polson J. H. McOfee, Kalispell A. D. Stillman, Marion Ben TeSelle, Bozeman M. W. Penwell, Belgrade H. S. Buell, Bozeman: ..|J. Haaland Jr., Joplin Grover C. Watson, Three Forks J. L. Swing, Sheridan W. T. Stephens, Jefferson Island - 0. J. .Melton, Musselshell F. S. Blair, Clyde Park Dudley Jones, Dodson Albert Harmel, Terry George P. Tawney, Hamilton 0. M. Gerer,» Hamilton- . . J. E. AJones. Lambert N. P. Howes, Dixon J. C. Nyquist, Homestead P. E. Hungerford, Columbus .|J. C. Ferris, Collins" ‘10.' S. Forseth, Farmington Dan Brophy, Galata ».|M. Sektman, Glasgow R. C. Arnold, Opheim James ‘Mead, West Fork J. A.-Hawks, Wibaux