The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, September 16, 1918, Page 3

“‘titude is one familiar to the people of Liberty loan and Red Cross speeches. MENT OF LAW AND ORDER THE = A GOVERNOR IN NOVEMB’ER - ‘MUST MAKE MINNESOTA In the ‘interest of a square deal- for the farmers Official Magazine of the National Nonpartisan League A magazine that dares to print the truth VOL. 7, NO. 11 ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA, SEPTEMBER 16, 1918 WHOLE NUMBER 156 [aw and Order Candidate in anesota Nonpartisan League and Organized Labor Put Up David Evans for Governor— - Pledged to Carry Out Nonpartisan Policies and Subdue Rioters HE govemor of Minnesota re- cently made his first public have not been enforced in his state. = This admission, how- ever, was accompanied by a statement of the governor’s in which he excused the lawless- ness - which has prevailed. He declared that no one has as yet been killed! As a further “explanation” of the.Minnesota outrages against citizens who differ with him: in political . beliefs, the governor’s statement says that the “self-control” of “wide-awake” citizens (mobbists) has been “challenged,” and the mobbings have not been “grave”’! This _statement was, of course, an affront to President ‘Wilson, who had just issued the splendid proclamation denouncing mobbists and demanding that governors enforce law and order. But if the ‘governors excuse for the conditions which have ‘existed in his state is an affront to the president, 1t is equally an ‘insplt to the people, AND HAS SUCCEEDED IN. MAK- ING . THE ENFORCE- DAVID EVANS of Tracy, Minn. Here is David Evans, the can- didate of the farm- ers-and the work- : men of the cities for governor of Min- nesota on an independent ticket. The at- ‘Lyon county who have heard him deliver .CHIEF ISSUE OF THE MINNESCTA POLITICAL CAMPAIGN, WHICH ‘WILL END, IN THE ELECTION OF SAFE FOR DEMOCRACY e ijnqmst' ; 1ll-adwsed excuse the mobbmgs and mtmndatlon, NG * MOB' VIOLENCE, which ppeared in papers HERETOFORE siLENT ON THE MATTER ‘and. whlch have bheen SUPPORT- “'1s a leader in war work in . admission that- law and order- ORDER, and including the political and economic demands of the Nonpartisan league and union labor. Governor Burnquist and his friends have been drunk with the thory they obtained this spring in the Republican primaries, through the suppres- sion of meetings of their opponents and through mob intimidations, but an aroused people has now made LAW ENFORCEMENT the chief issue, not only by a formal political plank, but by indorsing for the chief office of the state A MAN WHO- HIMSELF WAS A VICTIM OF THE BURN- QUIST GANG DURING THE PRIMARY CAM- PAIGN REIGN OF TER- ROR. = - David Evans was - unanimously indors- ed for the chief of- fice in the state by the Nonpartisan league convention . at St. Paul. He was also unanimously indorsed by a dele- gate convention of - organized labor, representing every labor union owner of $15,000 ‘worth of . -audience. recently assembled . - for state offices. Tty bonds, sup-’ omsto,ck. 8 Pro-. - He was well known to the League farm- ers, through his 40 years or more residence at Tracy. He DID address the farmers, and took- occasion TO EXPRESS HIS VIEWS IN REGARD TO MOB OUTRAGES, which were then sweeping over the state. The next morning Mr. Evans found his hardware store painted yellow, with insulting inscriptions daubed on the windows. At another time during the primary campaign, Mr. Evans invited 4,000 farmers to his farm 'to, hold a League meeting, after the farmers had been driven out of town by town and county officials and the defense council. Besides the indorsement of David Evans for governor, the organized farmers and union la- bor of Minnesota have so far decided to contest at least-one other office in the fall election— the office of attorney general—for which they have indorsed Tom Davis of Marshall, lawyer and member of the last legislature. Mr. Davis has a splendid record in' the legislature on farmer and labor legislation and, like Mr. Evans, will oppose the regular nominees of the Republican and Democratic parties. NOW FOR A FARMER- LABOR VICTORY In the Minnesota primary campaign farmers and union men also co-operated. In that campaign, " however, the battle was a straight out-and-out one between the farmer-labor candidates and the pres- ent officeholders, for the Republican nominations In the present campaign ‘the workers of farm and city have virtually form- ed a third party, and are contesting with nom- than a good chance of success in the three- cornezed fight. In the primary campaign orgamzed la- bor participated through the action of trades and labor assemblies of the prin- the present campaign, labor’s par- " ticipation is more formal and unit- ed. For the first time in the his- tory-of the state organized labor called a state political conven- tion, to which every union in the ' gtate sent regularly elected dele- gates, This convention met at from the railroad brotherhoods, ~as well as from all the unions af- eration of Labor. It was this con- Evans and Tom Davis, and indorsed them for governor and attorney general. manner in co-operation with the farmers Almost: all Americans love a square deal he few are profiteers or specml privilege rgtél; e lmeu_p in Minnesota ‘is clearly that men against the few dishonest v‘,any h cipal cltles, and through various indi-~ vidual unions and labor leaders, In: St. Paul and seated' delegates - filiated with the American Fed- “.vention of labor which agreed with the.. farmers on the candidacy of David ‘was caused through the general realiza- . “tion of union mén that the success of g “unionism depends in a substantial way on favorable political conditions. - The unions of Mi ‘“nesota have found by bitter experience that t “can not prosper and their demands can not be: ‘ca ~ried out successfully without: the -election ‘to office who are favorable to- their cause. inees of both of the old parties, with mere ‘The action of organized labor in thus entermg pohtlcs in-a formal and effective . 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