The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, June 21, 1920, Page 5

“ by Langer’s attorneys . for 90 minutes, and in-~ stead decides ‘the case . urged by Mr. Pike. and kota, and that the legis- lature, the courf and the ‘people had all expressed. . .~themselves, by ' over- . whelming ‘majorities, ‘in favor of the mdustrxal program oAl . The supreme court de- i clsxon, rendered: June 1, - shows how - much Lan- ger’s ““defense” of the " laws amounted to. ‘The court, . in its decision, . pays mo attention what- ‘ gver to the “point” urged - flatly upon the doctrine . Mr. Lemke, statmg, the decision: " “Under the authorlt& < 'of the constitution and laws prevaxhng in North Dakota, the people, the legislature and the hlghest ¢ court' in the state have declared the purpose for: 3 which these several acts were passed to be of:a pub- lic nature and within the taxing authority of the state... With this united action of. the people, legis- lature and, court we are not at liberty to interfere unless it is' clear beyond reasonable controversy that " violated.” 7 Langer’s attempt to wreck at one and the same - fime; the Scandinavian. Amm'lcan bank. of Fargo and the Bank of North Dakota, are too Tresh in the axplanatxon. Langer’s whole course as a member - action.d by the othé *’*flnbers of the ‘commission.” With Langer ag their eandldate, the old gang “in North Dakota is making’its last desperate attempt o stem the tide of the farmers’ movement.. The “industries are under way, they have'been approved - by the people, the legislature and now by the high- < est court of the land. The only chance to kill them is to ‘elect Langer and have him smother them to “death. = The old: gang is floodmg the state with literature * ‘costing ‘thousands of dollars and with dozens of . speakers, ‘repeating the same old lies—that the - ' League stands for public ownership of farms, that: " the League stands for free love, that Leag'uers are Soclahsts, anan:h:sts, Bolshevikl ‘ete. . A Ten-Mflhon-Dollar Pohtlcal Show at Chlcago . . BY E. B. FUSSELL At the Republican National Convention for the Leader HICAGO, June 10.—By the time’ this didates for president and yice presi- : — ‘home. 7 gates ‘are mlllmg -around ke a bunch of cattle, try- - ing to decide whether they want to be for or against . .a ieague of nations and whether they want Wood, - T.owden, Johnson or any one of about 30 others for " president, ‘while a little group of the leaders are “deciding what WILL be done.’ So in these random notes I will not try to tell what is bemg ‘done on Sthe convention floor, day by-day, because that will . all be in the daily papers. I will try and tell, in- stead, of a few occurrences:and impressions: that -~ the da.xly papers probably will -overlook, In the first place it ought to be remarked that ; the farmers and working people of the ‘United States are having a pretty expensive convention. A nghts secured by the federal Constxtutxon have been : . minds of the people of North Dakota to require any _of ‘the industrial commission has been to attempt Vs and to vote against almost every important en .to forward the .industrial enterpmses» : The supreme eohrt of the Umted States. Seated, lett to right, are Justlce William R. Day (who wrote the decision upholding.the North Dakota industrial program), Justice Joseph McKenna, Chief Justice Edward _Douglas White, Justice Oliver. Wendell Holmes and Justice Willis Vandevanter. ' Standing, left to ? rlght are Justlces Touis Brandels, Mahlon thney, James C M;:Reynolds and John H. Clarke. . What is happemng at the I V. A meetmgs : throughout the state is told by a:farmer at Berlin, N. D, wntmg to. the Couner-News of Fargo Thxs farmer says: “The Rev. Mr. erchenough and the candldate for yheutenant goyernor ‘on the I. V. A. ticket arrived « in' Berlin last Saturdey and at 2 p. m: addressed a meeting of nearly 200 farmers. Mr. Bu-chenough' ; remarks were not; well received-and a menacmg un- ‘dertone of distaste began to gather force.. k LEAGUE MEETINGS IN N.. D.. DRAWING MONSTER CROWDS “Mr, Barry, manager of the local elevator, in’ the interests of peace, secured permission to addressthe meeting. He requested the audience to' listen -pa- tiently to the speaker. occupying the floor and then ‘requested the speaker:to give someone in the audi- ence an opportunity to answer his Statements and . that if such permission were granted he would guar- antee perfect order no matter how outrageously in- sulting the speaker might be,: . &‘Mr. Barry further stated that every Nonpartisan speaker that came to Berlin offered half time to any opposition speakers. : Mr. Birchenough stated heat- edly that the meeting was his and that he would allow no speaker to follow him.. Mr. Barry stated " that he could claim the hall, of course, but that the reaches readers of the Leader the Re- - .publicans will have selected. their can- dent, adopted their platform and gone As this is written the dele- There are something: over.: 1,000 delegates here : (counting contesting delegates) anid the same num- ber of alternates, and from every state there are at - least as many. additional visitors as delegates arid * alternates put together. This would make 4,000 al-" Probably the total number: who have . together ’ come to: Chicago is much larger. The Cohseum /The senate. 1nvest1gatmg committee showed expen-- ¢ ditures of $1,000,000 from: Wood’s national head-: quarters alone (not counting what was raised and - where the convention is held, seats 15,000, and I.'".’ ‘would guess that over half are from outsxde Chi- - ‘eago, besides which a considerable number of Yisie tors have failed to get tickets at all.- But say 4,000 . delegates, alternates and miscellaneous pohtlclans. - They spend not less than $200 apiece, on the aver: . age, on raxhoad fares and during the week they ; are here 'l‘hxs is a conservatlve estxmate. Rooms - meeting could not calmly su; down to unanswered insults, and taking his cap he'left the hall, followed by all but 10 mdlvxduals, countmg the two speak- “ers.” On the other hand Governor Frazxer and other at the big hotels are $5 a day and upwards, with a great many more rooms at ‘“apwards’. than at $5. I saw the reservations made for one helegation—' New Hampshire—at one hotel.' The cheapest room any member of this delegation had was $20. Visi- tors like Judge Gary of the United States Steel cor- - poration have a whole suite of rooms, whxch cost anywhere from $200 to $1,000 a day. .~ “One farmer whom I met told me about his first* dmner in town. He wandered into. the Congress _ hotel dining room' and in addition to his meat order decided to have some peas. He ordered without looking: at' the price. They brought him two or < three spoonsful of peas (canned peas, not fresh peas) and he paJd 75 cents for the smgle order ALL IN: ALL, IT IS COSTING. $10,000,000 Four thousand delegates at :$200 . for the week means 2 total ‘expenditure ‘of $800,000.. ‘Add $200,- ‘060 for-the expenses of. presxdentxal headquarters . and the Coliseum for the week of the convention alone, and it bnngs the. total 10 $1,000, 000 for the ~ week. ‘But this is only & small part of the expenses. ‘spent locally in many: states) Of course not all “'the candidates. spent quite as much as Wood, but: their total expenditures undoubtedly are mot less “-than $9,000,000. Added to the $1,000;000 of con- ventxon week expendltutes this makes $10; 000,000, Yes, itisa ‘pretty expensive luxury, this national conventmn, for the farmers and workmg .people. ~ Of course someone is bound to say that the farmers and workers don’t pay for it. As a matter of fact g he st spendex S, both in Chlcago and durmg the & o large more. -and he pomted to a badge on his coat lapel: sxgmfy— 3% . ing that the wearer was-an assxstant sergeant-ate .. arms. . A oo Ididn’t say anythmg Four years ago I'had seen every assistant’ sergeant—at-arms barred ‘out of the ' Coliseum, - when nominations were made, because . Mayor Bill Thompson of Chicago put in his firemen "7 and pollcemen and pohtmal hangeérs-on -to start a . demonstration. for him—and threw the sergesntss at-arms out, because there wasn't room enough for ““candidates on the League . " ticket .are speaking to thousands ‘. of farmers daily and are holding their crowds to the end .of the: meeting. John ‘“N. Hagan, commissioner of agriculture and labor, was speaking ‘to- seyeral hundred farmers at Re- gan, 40 miles: from Bis- marck, when news of the declsmn of the supreme court’ was received. “Great stuff,” he shouted, and then an- nounced the decision to ‘the big crowd. 'As they voices ‘could plainly he _heard over the telephone line. at Bismarck, -40 miles away: Governm Frazier received telegrams of congratu- “lation from: points as far distant from North Da- kota as Newark, 'N. J., and: the Pacific coast. “We have nothing to fight now bt the interests and the politicians opposed to the industrial pro- gram, and we’ll take care of them June 80,” said Governor Frazier, when notified of the decision. *.The hostile interests and politicians who took the appeal to the supreme court of the United: States, while unable to stop the North Dakota industrial program, have caused a delay of many months and " the loss of many thousands: of dollars. At the time the appeal to the supreme court of the United Statés was taken a contract had been signed with eastern bond buyers, providing for the sale of the state’s 5'per cent bonds at par. When the appeal was taken the bond buyers canceled their “‘contract, stating that it ‘would be difficult to sell the bonds while an appeal was pending. Since that time the interest rate has advanced throughout the - United States and Minnesota and many other states are unable to sell 5 per cent bonds at par in conse- quence. . Raising’ the interest rate will mean an added expense of thousands of dollars a ‘year to the state. But North Dakota farmers, tired of these ex- i pensive dilatory tactics promise, as Governor Fra- zier says, to take care of the interests and the poli- tlcxans, for all time, June 80. Remembering their previous victories and gettmg ready for ‘another one; the farmers’ motto is: : “We’ll stick and we'll ' win again.” pre-conventxon campalgn* are the ma.nufacturers .. and. bankers; who contribute to the:various, presi- dential campaign funds, and the polltlclans The politicians expect to be repaid, a' good many times .over, by getting good jobs in which they will be supported by the taxpayers; the manufacturers and bankers expect to get laws from the next congress and president that will énable them to ‘get back their money, a good many times over, ‘How are the politicians and the bankers and manufacturers and other contributors going to get their money back? : From the farmers and workers, who' else? So the ‘farmers and workers:are paying for the $1,000,000 show now under way in"Chicago; though they re - not running it. > v Why shouldn’t they run it? On the opening day of the convention I met, ine ‘side the Coliseum, the: pres1dent of a big state fatm- \.ers’ organization.” He had come to Chicago to-see the big show and to try to get some kind of a co- operative plank in the Republican platform. The day before he had been having some trouble getting a ticket to the convenfion, though Judge: Gary of = So I asked . the steel corporation got a whole box. this farmer if he had gotten a seat all right, ' “Oh, they treat us all right)” he said. “I got than a seat—1 got the freedom of the floor,” (Contmued on page 7). rose and cheered: their = _.‘___ _.-._.-..“._L SR TR Swmm