The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, April 5, 1920, Page 9

- C e~ AL NORTH DAKOTA N SPITE of a blizzard that raged throughout the state at the time of the presidential primary election, constitutional amendments submitted by the .League legislature -carried throughout the state by an over- whelming vote. The amendments pro- vide for the recall of elective officials, facilitate municipal ownership of puab- lic utilities, provide for the leasing of state coal lands for agricultural pur- poses, and allow a voter who moves shortly before election to retain his vote in his old precinct until he has complied with full residence require- ments in the new precinct. Senator Hiram Johnson won easily in the pri- mary against Wood and Lowden. Gov- ernor Frazier declined to permit the use of his name as a presidential can- didate. The storm, which prevented the country vote from coming out, however, made it possible for the Mc- Kenzie-Young faction to elect dele- gates to the national Republican con- vention. The League took no part in the campaign except to support the constitutional amendments. The League opposition has filed ref- erendum petitions against three of the bills passed by the special session of the legislature—the bill authorizing a legislative committee to investigate election frauds and illegal use of pub- lic funds, the bill extending privileges of the absent voters’ law to women: and the state sheriff bill. P. S. Jungers, ex-service man and sympathizer with the Nonpartisan league, has been re-elected mayor of Hebron, N. D., after a hot contest with anti-Leaguers. Grand Forks has requested that the forthcoming state convention of the League be held in that city. 'SOUTH DAKOTA The League program was the sub- ject-of a recent debate at Sturgis, S. D. The affirmative was ably handled by D. A. Grossman of Newell and by O. E. Farnham, League candidate for congress in the third district. The negative side of the question was pre- sented by Jack Milne and Harry At- water, two old-party politicians. The sympathy of the large audience was unmistakably with the League speak- ers. The audience clamored for a vote, but Atwater was evidently not willing to risk the decision and hastily moved an adjournment, which was de- clared carried by the chairman: It has recently come to light that the Norbeck machine in this state has been rewarding its political henchmen from public funds, As previously re- ported, favored political bosses have ‘been permitted to hold school lands for eight years without the payment of principal, interest or taxes. It has * now been discovered that political friends of the administration have been borrowing money from the rural credits department to finance their land speculations, while specific pro- visions of the law are that only actual farmers can borrow from the fund. During the recent primary cam- paign Governor Norbeck entered the fight against Governor Lowden of Illinois. One of the charges made by Norbeck against Lowden was that he had favored the corporations and re- duced their taxes. istration has been guilty of the same offense, It has increased the valua- tion of the people's property durmg the past year $385,276,687, while in- creasing the valuation of the corpo- rate property only $436,880. Norbeck’s admin- MINNESOTA The contract has been let for Min- nesota’s state-owned experimental flour mill. The mill will be built in Minneapolis at a cost of $35,000. Pro- fessor ‘Bailey of the University of Minnesota will test the milling value of the various grades of wheat in the new mill. Little opposition has mani- fested itself against this move toward “hell bent” socialism, as the St. Paul Dispatch characterizes the laws pass- ed by the farmers in North Dakota. The Republican elimination conven- tion to select candidates to run in the primary against those on the farmer- labor ticket, will be held the first week in May. The state G. O. P. convention, meeting in St. Paul March 20, authorized the state central com- mittee to call the new convention. Delegates to the state conventions of the Nonpartisan league and Work- ing People’s Nonpartisan Political league were arriving -in St. Paul for the two conventions March 24 and 25, as this edition of the Nonpartisan Leader was going to press. The Nonpartisan league and League publications formerly published in St. Paul—the Nonpartisan Leader and Minnesota Leader—are now housed in .the new bmldmg of the Minnesota Daily Star in Minneapolis. The state convention of the World War Veterans was to be held in Min- neapolis March 31. IDAHO The so-called “American plan,” a camouflaged attempt to break up la- bor organizations and establish the open shop, has thus far made a dismal failure in this state. Representatives of large corporations have been the instigators and have not been kindly received. In Pocatello, a railroad town, the merchants refused to sign up and the agents had to leave the city with- out accomplishing anything. The same dodge also failed in Twin Falls, - Idaho Falls and Nampa. Great farmer-labor massmeetings continue to be the order of the day in Idaho. Recently in Idaho Falls there was held a meeting in one of the larg- est halls in the town. More than 1,800 people crowded into the hall and more than 1,000 were turned away. The business interests of Idaho Falls at- tempted to have Governor Davis use the state constabulary to stop the | meeting, but the governor discreetly refused. 2 The Idaho Leader’s expose of the nation-wide plot to curb progressivism has caused a sensation in this state. The promoters have been rushing into print in an endeavor to offset the damage done to the organization, the so-called “United Americans.” WISCONSIN Henry Krumrey, president of the Wisconsin Cheese Produce.s’ federa- tion, charges that J. N. Tittemore, president of the Society of Equity, is not merely using his office to attack the Nonpartisan league but also is seeking to break up the Cheese Pro- ducers’ federation. Mr. Krumrey has made his charges and has submitted proof against Tittemore in an open letter addressed to the secretary of the Wisconsin union. COLORADO The Nonpartisan league, the Amer- jican Federation of Labor and the rail- way brotherhoods have organized a “triple alliance” for political action. Enthusiastic meetings are being held throughout the state. 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