The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, September 16, 1918, Page 12

. was nominated for the state ~ same county is the best illus- Nebraska Farmers Conquer in Pr1ma\ry' Almost Thirty Candidates Indorsed by the League for the Leglslature Win - Places on the Ballot for the Fall Election—An Answer to Persecution ; N Here you can see that Nebraska has waterpower of its own. This dam at Beatrice is privately used. ‘That means the people do not get the benefit.- Notice this plank of the state League platform: has sufficient waterpower to supply every inhabitant with electric light and power at cost. “Nebraska We favor the development of this by the state and are opposed to having this mighty resource get into private hands.” - |[EBRASKA farmers drove the enemy from the trenches in the primary election, August 20. In almost every legislative district where the Nonpartisan league indorsed candidates for office the farmers STUCK AND THEY WON. And the remark- able feature of the election was that not one political meeting was held in the state’ by the League. The farmers won simply because they were organized and knew who their candidates were. Custer county, which boasts of more than 1,500 League members, nominated League men for the legislature on BOTH THE DEMOCRATIC AND REPUBLICAN TICKETS. W. J. Taylor of Merna, long a staunch fighter for the : farmers in the legislature and 2 a former member of the house, senate from Custer, Blaine, Loup and Valley counties, by a vote of nearly two to one. Taylor is one of the best par- liamentarians in the state and his election is a certainty. He . will make. a first class floor fighter for the farmers in the Senatorial Dist. 5 % Third legislature next winter. In Tenth Custer county W. 8. Wells was Seventeenth nominated on the Democratic Eighteenth 3 ticket for .the house, and : : Twenty-third Florian Jacobs for the house & : : Twenty-fifth on the Republican ticket. This Twenty-sixth remarkable result of nominat- ing on BOTH tickets in the tration of what organization can do.that could be found. It eglalative: Dists shows that when the farmers Twenty-third line up together in an agricul- Twenty-fourth tural community, THEY CAN Twenty-ninth NOT BE BEATEN. Lwenty uinth Thirtieth SNOWED UNDER THE Thirtieth KAISERS OF WAHOO Thirtieth The bitterest fight in the” Thirty-fourth state was in Saunders county, Thirty-seventh where the battles of Wahoo Fortieth were staged. -Saunders is one Fifty-first of : the richest counties in the Fifty-second United States. It has con- Fifty-sixth tributed more per capita to the Fifty-seventh RED' CROSS' THAN. ANY Fifty-eighth OTHER "COUNTY IN THE | Fifty-eighth , UNITED STATES. In Wahoo, Sixty-third -the county seat, there'is a lit- Sixty-fifth tle autocratic ring of ‘politi- Sixty-sixth. ‘cians—both Democrat and Re- - Seventy-seventh N pubhean—-—who had been fight- £ ing each other for years, until the League began to be organized there. Then the two old gangs got together in an effort to prevent the farmers from combining. ; : This summer the farmers of Saunders decided they wanted a newspaper of their own. Pledges for more than $5,000 were secured in less than two weeks. A meeting was called at Wahoo to elect directors and incorporate. The night of the meet- ing ‘Dr. O. E. Weber, member- of the ‘state council of defense, and a bunch of roughnecks from Wahoo; broke up the meeting and forbade the farmers to meet. -Among the farmers who were put out of the hall was.“Bill” Dech of Ithuaca, a veteran of the Civil war, who has carried a physical injury sus- tained in the war of 1861, and Henry Long, also a veteran of the Civil war. Another newspaper AS Pioneers of Nebraska Freedom Followmg is a list of the League nominees in Nebraska. Every member should clip this list out NOW .and preserve it. See every voter you can between now and November and work for these men. NOMINATED FOR STATE SENATE Name of candidate Harry C. Parmente}; Yutan F. L, Crowley, Meadow Grove A. R. Noyes, Bradshaw C. Thomas Krogh, Dannebrog W. J. Taylor, Merna A. R. Leavitt, North Platte W. M. Somerville, McCook York, Hamilton Custer, Blaine, NOMINA'l‘ED FOR THE HOUSE Name of candidate James Auten, Albion - Boone Andrew Dahlsten, Newman Grove = Madison W. H. Dech, Ithaca - Saunders John O. Schmldt, Wahoo Saunders H. W. Hedges, Havelock (labor) Lancaster J. F. Eggers, Roca (farmer) - Lancaster Peter Hansen, Ceresco (farmer) Lancaster Fred Damrow, Beatrice Joseph P. Masek, David City Butler - A. A: Barr, York York Soren M. Fries, Dannebrog Howard John C. Harris, Greeley Center D. E. Strong, Ord - Valley - H. W. Lang, Litchfield Sherman W. S. Wells, Merna Custer Custer - Phelps / Red Willow: - Florian Jacobs, Broken Bow Harry Johnson, Holdredge Charles A. Hedges, Indianola E. S. Burke, Arapahoe : onathan Hnggins, Noxth Platte * MISSED THE CASE. ‘Counties Saunders, Sarpy Madison, Stanton, Colfax : Hall, Howard, Greeley Dawson, Lincoln, Keith Perkins, Chase, Dundy, Hayes, Hitchcock, Frontier, Red Willow Counties Gage, Jefferson, Thayer Garfield, Wheeler, Greeley Gosper, Frontier . = Dawson. Lineoln, Keith meeting a few weeks later was also broken up.. A ~ few days after that, W. E. Quigley, a friend of the Leaguers, who was in the county on legal business, was arrested by three automobile loads of home guards and the sheriff. An hour after he was placed in jail—although it was midnight—farmers began calling ready to go his bail. The aggregate wealth of the offered bondsmen was more THAN FIVE MILLION DOLLARS.. But Quigley was kept in jail two nights and a day as “the county attorney was not in town.” Finally Quigley called a Lincoln attorney to get out a writ of habeas corpus, and then a charge of-sedition was filed. Later he had a preliminary hearing and appeared as his own attorney, AND THE COUNTY JUDGE, ALTHOUGH - AGAINST THE LEAGUE, DIS- More than 400 farmers wrote the name of Quigley in the ballot for coun- ty attorney. Every precinct meeting was forbidden in Saun- ders county. Finally the members were called to Lincoln, outside the county, and they put up a ticket. HOW THEY TRIED - TO BULLY THE FARMERS In the primary election EVERY MAN ON THE TICKET WAS NOMINATED BY HANDSOME MAJORITIES. “Bill” Dech was nominated for the house. He has been a reform-leader in Nebraska politics for almost 50 years. John O, Schmidt of Wahoo went across by an overwhelming majority. Schmidt fought the telephone company to a stand- _still when it tried to break its contract with the - Farmers’ union and raise the rates:. He also was instrumental in putting in the big co-operative ele- . vator at Wahoo that did a business of almost $700,- " 000 last year. Harry C. Parmenter was nominated- for the state senate from Saunders and. Sarpy counties by a majority running into the hundreds. Parmenter lives near Yutan. for county commissioners. '~ Ome thing that made _their ‘choice easy was the fact that the present commissioners spent $10,000 for SHOTGUNS for the home guard. They wanted guns right away to “kill off the League,”-and not being able to get rifles, took shotguns, which are good for rabbit hunting at least. Antelope county was another place where persecu- tion was practiced. R. V. Sheets of Elgin was chosen to run for state senator. He was 21 years old this spring, but his char- acter and ability was unques- tioned.” The county council of defense issued a ‘“manifesto” before ‘the*.election and sent out blanks to all county candi- dates requiring them to state where they stood with regard to the League. Sheets, who has studied law, knew that the county : council had no ‘such power. The only power given this body by the law is to call witnesses and examine them. THEY HAVE NO FURTHER DIRECT PO WER., Sheets saw the blank and said he Loup, Valley he would sign the document in question. A lackey of 'the " council heard the: remark and reported It A few days later Sheriff Bennett came out to the splen- rant,” signed by Banker Thorn- ton of Neligh, requiring him to arrest Sheets. along and for two hours he _ was surrounded by the county .éouncil, which made an at- _tempt.to have him repudiate: ‘the League. But Sheets stood “fast and the:council got no \odl i 'f'mgbo He is a university . graduate and has been a farmer since 1903. C. E. . . Beadle and George Pollard were nominated easily. - would see them in hell be‘fdre : did ‘Sheets farm with & “war- - Sheets went satisfaetlon from “him .and" let :