The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, October 14, 1918, Page 10

Colorado Farmers Sprmg Big Surprlsé Leaguers Nominate All Their Candidates in Recent Primary Election—Seventh State to Show League Strength—No Candidates for State Office W it is Colorado that does the unusual. Colorado, for years the private property of the Rockefeller interests, a state which has not had time to get well enough - organized to go- after the state offices, puts up farmer and labor candidates for the legislature and then puts every one of these candidates on one or the other of the old party tickets. If farmers and workers of Colorado can keep on hitting the ball like this, they will certamly get the state offices as well as the legislature in 1920. The followmg is the ticket put up by the League before the primaries and it looked just the same afterward because of the way the League members “stuck”: : REPRESENTATIVES Baca and Prowers counties— Sam M. Dean, Westola. (Demo- cratic ticket.) Boulder county—V. H. Hamil- ton, Longmont. (Democratic ticket.) Logan and Sedgwick counties —J. P. Dillon, Sterling. (Demo- cratic ticket.) Morgan and Washington coun- ties—Isaac Bollinger, Brush. (Democratic ticket.) - Delta county—Fred S. Hotch- kiss, Hotchkiss. (Democratic ticket.) Montrose county—W. F. Wil- cox, Montrose. (Republican ticket.) Otero and Crowley counties— J. M. Shaulis, Rocky Ford. (Re- publican ticket.) Gunnison county—John E. Whipp, Gunnison. (Republican ticket.) SENATORS Logan, Sedgwick, Phillips, Yu- ma and Washington counties—A. C. Scott, Haxtun. (Democratic ticket.) Bent, Baca, Prowers and Klowa counties—C. W. Burke, Wiley. (Democratic ticket.) Montrose, San Miguel and Dolores counties—J. A. Dunn, Olathe. (Republican ticket.) In addition to these the League farmers have five other candidates for the lower house of the legislature and one for senator whom they pro- pose to run as independents. Conse- quently the voters did not pass on - them at the primaries. Here is the list: : REPRESENTATIVES Bent . and Kiowa counties— Henry Fingado, Arlington. Lincoln, Cheyenne and Kit Carson counties—A. H. Shuffler, Vona. Elbert and Arapahoe coun- ties—W. L. Foster, Elizabeth. Weld ' county—F. G. Ballinger, Stoneham. Adams county—George W. Brown, Brighton. SENATOR ] Lincoln, Cheyenne, Kit Carson, Elbert and Douglas countles-—-Grant U. Bentley, Eliza- beth. With a good state paper usued at Haxtun, Gol:, and with farmers’ picnics and public meetings, the Leaguers of Colorado are workmg hard to send all these men to the state capitol in the fall and so do another 100 per cent efficient job. Sam M. Dean of Baca and Prowers countxes won by a substantial majority, just as he will in the general election. V. H. Hamilton of Longmont made a splendid showing. His nomination was . conceded before the election. Isaac Bollinger of Brush, candidate for representative for Morgan and Washmgton counties, won out by a five-to-one vote... Other representatives who.'won in a big way were Fred S. Hotchkiss for Delta county, W. F. Wilcox for Montrose county, Jo M _‘Slumlls for Colorado and in other League states. Otero and Crowley, and John E. Whipp for Gun- nison. A. C. Scott, candidate for senator from the twelfth district, won out by three to one although there was decided opposition and much money spent to prevent his nomination. ,The harder the oppo- sition worked the more the votes swung to Scott because the issue was entirely clear. At one town a banker’s wife got out the. limousine and cam- paigned all day bringing in the sheep. But there were too. many intelligent voters outside the gilded fold. Mr. Scott will poll one of the biggest votes ever given a candidate in the twelfth district in the regular election. The special interests, none the less, are going to make a real fight on him. Before the primary election a determined effort THE LIGHT OF DEMOCRACY \ [ —Drawn. expresely for the Leader by Congressman J. M. Baer Something of genuine cheer for the boys! That is what the farmers and workers are providing when they unite politically to take things into their own hands and out of the hands of the special interests, as they are doing in The boys who have gone realize even better than the folks at home that the return won’t be very cheerful unless in * 7 the meantime’we have kept and added to real democracy here._ “was made to keep Mr. ‘Scott’s name off the ballot because of a supposed technical error in the nomi- nating petitions, but after a great deal of fire- .works by the anti-farmer interests it.took less than five minutes for the judge to decide that there was nothmg to the fireworks but the noise. Through his friends, Mr. Scott secured far more ”than the necessary number of mgnatures to have "~ i A slight - his name placed on the primary ballot. technical point was ignored by his supporters when - his petition was filed with the secretary of state, and this fact was taken advantage of in a political “'way’ to the extent that Mr. Scott’s petition was _ thrown out.- The ' matter was taken up by -the Nonpartisan leagtie of Colorado but no satisfaction was received.. . It was evident that they would use ; every trick to keep Mr. Scott off the ballot : . Secretary of State Noland decxded he had no 2 Junsdxctlon in the matter and treated the petition : .- ““accordingly. League he,adquarters were not:satis- . fied with: this and brought a mandamus:smt in the ,at D ‘befor Judge “Mullens to - have the name of Mr. Scott placed on the ballot. The plaintiff was represented by Attorneys Her- rington and Dakan, both attorneys for the League, while Attorney General Sweigert appeared for the secretary- of state. JUDGE MULLENS GAVE HIS DECISION IN LESS THAN FIVE MINUTES. ° He ordered the name of Mr. Scott to be placed upon the ballot at once. . Twenty-four hours were given for the defendant to make. an appeal but evidently the secretary of state was satisfied that the decision was right and proper for there was" no notice of appeal filed. The primary purpose of the farmers of Colorado, of _course, is to take the government out of the hands of special privilege and. restore it to the people. They know that with men of their kind in the legislature and state: offices their interests will be protected and advanced, and that, on the other hand, the best of platforms under the wing of the anti-farmer _interests means nothing. Over a generation of disappointing experience -with bad - candidates and good platforms and “good candidates” with bad platforms —either one of which is very accept- able to the special interests—the farm- ers and city workers have at last got a gang-proof method for restoring democracy. The League farmer candidates in Colorado are pledged to the following specific program: ; 1. State operation of school land, coal mines. 2. State packing plants, smelters, sugar mills, flour mills and terminal elevators. 3. State cold storage warehouses for fruit and potatoes. 4. Rural -credit banks operated at cost. 6. Exemption of farm improve- ments from taxation. 6.. State operation and dlstnbutmn of waterpower. Texas Opinion Estelline, Texas. Editor Nonpartisan Leader: Inclosed find a letter I wrote to_the Farmers’ Union Messenger at Fort ~Worth. Although he had been slan- dering the League, the editor refused to print it. E. E. WRIGHT: Farmers’ Union - Messenger: - In looking ‘over your paper, I see that you published a vile slander on the Nonpartisan league, the only farmers’ organization-in America with a defi- - nite plan to” correct existing: abuses. The article seems to find fault with the League because a few Socialists have become members. I want to see all VRepublicans, Democrats and So- ¥ cialists' join the” League. Then there will be no opposition, except the poli- ticians and big business. Now, Mr. Editor, I am a member of the Farmers’ union, also a member of the Nonpartlsan league, .an organizer. for the League’s state committee. You seem to want the names:of some members. I can give you a host of names’ in -the Panhandle country, as fine citizens as Texas has, lifelong Democrats. Most ‘of the farmers here are Union members, too. nother serious objection you:lodge against the Léague'is the $16 membership fee. To elect men to office who will favor the reforms the League stands S * for—that is the purpose of the $16. Did not Mark " Hanna spend. $11,000,000 to elect: McKinley -presi-- i dent? -That seems bo be all right. But let the - farmer pay $16 for political purposes, and Blg Biz yells and” goes wild with rage. As Lincoln'. tore .the shackles from 4,000,000 ~: glaves, the onpartlsan league will save 100,000 000 § people from the hands of the grafters and profiteers The Nonpartlsan league is in Texas to stay It will: not be bulldozed or driven out by Big Biz or the law-: less element, for: zt stands for nfilples indorsed b i 3 G