The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, October 6, 1919, Page 9

. under the new Richards primary law. ‘tions. of farmers and ‘labor. . west Publishing company, has . ting the statement was un- -{WHAT THE OR SHORT NOTES ABOUT THE ACTIVITIES IN LEAGUE STATES ‘ SOUTH DAKOTA the purpose of determining the course of action to be taken in the coming campaign HE Nonpartisan league held a state con- 3 vention in Mitchell on September 18 for It was unanimously decided by the delegates to go into the campaign as an independent political .party, under the official title of the “Nonpartisan League and Labor party.” This will eliminate the possi- bility for the voters to be deceived by trickery on the part of the old gang, which was responsible for the defeat of the League ticket at the last election. i % B £ Walter Thomas Mills has just finished a very successful lecture tour of the state, and O. J. Nel= son is now conducting a series of meetings. A Nonpartisan league picnic was held at Lake Madison on September 14, which was attended by about 2,000 farmers and their families. Madison band had been hired for the occasion and had agreed to play. . Anti-farmer politicians at- .tenfpted to use returned soldiers to break up the meeting by intimidating the band boys and order- . ing .them not to play for the League. - After the speech of Walter Thomas Mills the farmers got into their autos and paraded the streets of Madison. * * ES The South Dakota Leader is in receipt of a let- ter from Grain Inspector McGovern of North Da- kota, in which he says that he has recently visited elevators in South Dakota and finds that they.are paying only $1.87 per bushel : for 53-pound test wheat. He says the North Dakota mill is paying $2.33% for the same test wheat. ; EDITOR SOUTH DA- KOTA LEADER. NEBRASKA - - HE constitutional con- .vention primaries held on September 16 re- sulted in. the nomina- tion of most of the candidates who were indorsed at conven- . AND IF YO DONT COME THRU THE | NONPARTISANY In many districts members of the Nonpartisan league and the Farmers’ union joined with labor and other progressive or- ganizations: in indorsing can- didates. In nearly every in- stance these men were nomi- nated. % % The most bitter fight against the progressive candidates was launched by the New Nebraska federation, the I. V. A. of Ne- braska, and other reactionary . interests. At the. primaries, however, five of the.six men indorsed by farmers’ organiza- tions and labor were nominated. &k ’ One of the striking features: of the primary vote was that the farmers went to the polls. in large numbers, while in the cities and towns a very small vote was cast. R : - Herbert- E. Gaston of St. Paul, president of the North- filed Suit against the Lincoln , Daily Star for $50,000 dam- ages for a false and libelous statement published about him in the Star. The Star charged Mr. Gaston with having been “convicted on three counts.” Following the filing of the suit the Star printed an abject apology and retraction, admit- The One of James Whit’comh Riley’s mos justifiable and unfounded and also admitting that the malicious and untrue statements made about the League in general were clipped from North Dakota papers. . : Pl ES sk 3k The weekly organ of the New Nebraska feder- ation recently suggested that the new constitutjon limit the right of free speech in Nebraska. The editorial suggestion uncovered one of the real rea- sons for the New Nebraska federation. As sus- pected, it was organized to protect the vested and corrupt interests and is willing to deny existing constitutional rights to the people to furnish the protection. i : EDITOR NEBRASKA LEADER. ¥ . IDAHO HE first Nonpartisan leagu€ picnics and r ! rallies which have been held in Idaho for g almost a year are now being held through- S out the southern part of the state. Large crowds are attending and much enthusiasm is shown. = * £ % g The Standard Oil company has started to bore for oil in Idaho. It is announced that no stock is to be.sold and that the company is “ably financed.” ; R T ‘Frank R. Goodifig, former governor of Idaho and aspirant for United States -senator last election, but who was badly defeated, has announced his ' intention of again running for the senate in 1920. He states that he will run only “as a duty he owes to his many friends.” EDITOR IDAHO LEADER. TELLING GHOST STORIES PAGE NINE . GANIZED FARMER IS DOING ® LANGUAGE having failed him, Carl R. Ko- - and his victim, C. K. Gummerson, is of slight huild ~money out. of a state treasury that the auditor the Auditorium, for which no funds were available, which was too small by far to hold the erowds which ‘the document and urged a return to that spirit. —Drawn expressly for the Leader by W. C. Morris. t famous poems is “Little Orphan Annie.” Little, Or- phan Annie had a fund of ghost stories which she laid to the bogeyman. But Little Orphan _ Annie had no more imagination than the slush fund collectors who are busy trying to get money from the small business man with which to fight the Nonpartisan league. But more and more the legitimate business man in the small towns is discovering that his ; real enemies are not the farmers but the men wh?' are fighting the farmers. NORTH DAKOTA sitzky, state auditor, who turned traitor, fell upon and beat up a correspondent for the farmer-owned press last week at the capitol. Kositzky is a big bruiser of 220 pounds and weighs 120 pounds. The cause of the assault was the reftisal of the correspondent to give the name of his informant concerning a payment of $278 which Kositzky was compelled to pay to the United States for interest on vocational training had been claiming was “bankrupt.” Hundreds were unable to hear Governor Frazier’s address at,Grand Forks on “Constitution Day.” A - patriotic charge of $100 was asked for the use of and the program was carried out in the city hall, came from many counties. The governor, show- - ing that in the days when the Constitution was framed, producer and consumer were close together, argued that we-have got away from the spirit of & * *® Anticipating a voice in the five elections of 1920 —presidential primary, city, school, general pri- mary and general election—the women of the farms are beginning to take interest in the om- en’s auxiliary of the Nonpartisan league. This association is organized into local clubs, where. the League laws and program are discussed and the 8 coming- voters are learning more about principles and less about parties. Many applica- tions are coming to Fargo headquarters for information formation of the clubs. EDITOR NORTH DA- KOTA LEADER: COLORADO . T NION labor men of Colorado are planning : to start a labor paper in 'the near future. They have expressed an inten- tion of working with the Non- partisan league for the election of legislators who will work for laws just to producers and consumers. There are 30,000 union men in Colorado and ap- proximately 45,000 farmers. 3 * * o Colorado legjslators who have been interviewed, express : doubt that- the matter of the law will be taken up during the special session of the leg- _islature, although the farmers have asked that this be done. . Well-informed men state that ‘the absence of such law with- a “kick” in it has cost the peo- victims, more than $25,000,000 in the past three years. ) * * * ; Organizers on the western: slope ‘of Colorado, across the’ Divide, are sending in glowing: reports of the enthusiasm de--: veloping over there. The farm-. ers of that section have been;, trying to sell their apple crop:s for $1 a’ box of 50 pounds.: Denver commission men refuse they may control a short mar~ ket and_boost prices. « Apples . have been selling in the east- ern part of the state at two. pounds for 26 cents. - g _LEADER. - and literature necessary to the, - enactment of a real blue sky.. “ple of the state, mostly farmer - - to handle much of the crop, 807 . EDITOR_COLORADO ' | e PR SRR SRR == —cecasasie AR AT RSN EARTRN Jai TARAIEE STt 7 g i : PSRRI i AN i