The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, December 29, 1919, Page 9

T conscientious men as leaders and or- ganizers, get the benefit. Believe me, I am heartily in favor of the Nonpartisan league program and so long as its organizers are sin- cere I believe the movement will suc- ceed. 3 JAMES H. WATTS. The advertisement Mr ‘Watts in- closes- is devised to sell stock in a consolidation of Nebraska flour mills. The advertisement points out that “every home in the world” is com- pelled to use flour three times a day. Going on to discuss the profits that the individual mills in this combination made last year, it gives them as fol- lows: “Last year the Hastings mill made 29 per cent; the St. Edward mill, 55 per cent; the Ravenna mill, 36 per cent; the Glade mill, 21 per cent; the: Omaha flour mill, 33% per cent. They made an average, for the five mills, May Amalgamate Farm Organizations” of 34 per cent. They did a business, last year, of over $10,000,000. “These officers and directors would | not have sold their respective mills and joined this consolidation if they did not believe that under the consol- idation they would make more money than they made when working as sep- arate mills. “We believe that you will agree with us that our proposition is as ‘safe as old wheat in the mill’ and that our profits are sure, and out of profits come dividends.” " Nebraska readers of the Leader will note that the towns at which these mills are located—Grand Island, Oma- ha, Ravenna, Hastings and St. Edward —have been the sources of the most bitter opposition to the Nonpartisan league. : Why was this? Did the mill own- ers fear that the League might inter- ‘fere with their 34 per cent profits, and with the greater profits that they expect to make under consolidation? Equity, Farmers’ Union and Grange Combine Urged at Equity National Convention . OSSIBLE amalgamation of farmers’ economic or- ganizations in the Middle West was given impetus — convention of the Amer- ican Society of Equity at Madison, Wis., when six states participated in an informal conference and selected a committee to take steps towards sounding out sentiment in other states. . The principle of such amalga- mation had already been twice indors- ed by the national board of the Amer- ican Society of Equity, and was in- dorsed by the recent Minnesota and Iowa conventions. The national committee named to sound out further sentiment was chosen at an all-states caucus the third day of the convention, after the - Wisconsin majority of the convention, by domineering tactics dictated by J. N. Tittemore, national president, had succeeded in shutting other states out of participating in the Equity’s na- tional affairs. ‘The conference, how- ever, was not in the nature of a bolt, but was an indorsement of what was officially done by the mnational board several months ago and in line with the growing sentiment of Equity, Farmers’ union and Grange organiza- tions in the Middle West. The com- mittee appointed by the all-states con- ference consisted of the following: Vincent Barrick, Minnesota, state secretary of the Minnesota Equity; J. Weller Long, Wisconsin, former na- tional secretary of the American So- ciety of Equity; M. V. Perry, Iowa, present state secretary of the Iowa state union of the society; H. O. Folkestad, Montana, state secretary of the Montana state union of the socie- ty; L. A. Rush, Illinois, and C. E. Eastman, South Dakota. . DELEGATES RESENT TITTEMORE’S TACTICS The Nonpartisan league, being a farmers’ political organization, would in no way be affected by the proposed merger. The Wisconsin convention repre- sentéd the organized effort of J. N. Tittemore to seize control of the na- tional organization as a help in his campaign to be elected governor of Wisconsin, and was dominated wholly by Tittemore’s political henchmen. - The opposition to Tittemore consisted of the united Equity forces of Minne- sota, Iowa, Illinois, South Dakota and Montana, and a large wing of the Equity in Wisconsin. Tittemore’s power in the convention was based on his control of the Wis- consin state union, to which office he was elevated a year ago before it was realized in Equity circles that his aim by the recent national was to make the Equity organization his own political weapon, instead of a farmers’ economic weapon. Titte- more was able to push organization of the Equity society in Wisconsin to about 29,000 members. 5 Wisconsin had 59 representatives in the national convention while the other states had but 20. Tittemore control- led the majority of the Wisconsin dele- gation and by a margin of a fractional vote up to 10 votes controlled the na- tional convention on several proposi- tions.- 5 Tittemore’s supporters on the floor of the house succeeded in amending a resolution declaring the neutrality of the society towards the Nonpartisan league, by striking out the name of the League, and "thus Tittemore gained what he desired—the chance to hold up the national Equity convention as an opponent of the League in his 1920 | political campaign. After the convention Tittemore told | several persons that this would be the | last convention of the American, Socie- | ty of Equity. He also made this state- ment before the convention assembled, | -and six months ago in a national con- ference of Equity members declared that he himself would take the lead in disrupting the Equity movement by withdrawing from the national unless | the board would discharge J. Weller Long. The first and most significant aé¢tion of the new national board was to dis- charge Long as national secretary, Clemmens of Wisconsin making the motion, and Samuelson of Minnesota seconding it. The new national board consists of Carnahan (Wis.), James Clemmens (Wis.), Foster (Wis.), Samuelson (Minn.) and Hendrickson (Iowa), giv- ing Tittemore control. : THE EARLY HATCHES BEST In the state egg-laying contest con- ducted by Enoch Peterson, poultry- man of the North Dakota Agricultural college, it is only the early hatched birds of both the general purpose and laying breeds of fowls that are giving any creditable return in eggs so far. 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