The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, June 28, 1920, Page 6

News Notee From Many States: TEXAS HE first state convention of the Nonpartisan league of this state, held recently at Waco, ‘was a pronounced success. Organized labor co-operated with the League and 72 accredited delegates were present. i Wright of Estelline, League farmer, chairman, and i W. E. Carroll, secretary of the Heouston Trades and f i Labor Councll as secretary, the following platform, : submitted by the platform committee, was adopted: atleast ashigh as developed lands of the same class. “2. Reduction of interest “rates through rural credit bank operated at cost. 3. State storm, drouth and fire i insurance at cos(; “4, 'As a most effective' means of reducing the cost of hvmg' we demand the elimination of’the specula- - tor in the mnecessities of life, and to that end we recommend co-operative ownership where practical means of transportation, manufacture and dxstnbu- tion of all necessities of life. “5, A stronger, better. and more comprehensxve state warehouse -and marketing ‘law, placing the . weighing, grading and docking of farm products in { the hands of expert state weighers and graders, i with provisions for licensing of buyers, and requir- B ing them to make purchase upon the state welghts, ‘g grades and dockage. . “6. A workable initiative, referendum and recall; provision abolishing poll tax qualification for voters. 7. An amendment to the constitution of Texas directing the legislature to pass a law establishing [ a state insurance plan to underwrite compensation ; insurance .under the present employers’ liability { law. 8. The perfection of the present women’s mini- ‘, mum:wage law to the end that the future mother- f hood of Texas may receive proper protection. “9. We demand the immediate passage of ‘g + strmgent law that will require that the source of campaign funds as well as the manner in which they ; are expended be given full pubhelty i “10. While we favor improving ‘every branch of the educational system of Texas, we demand speclal This letter shows how a‘n antl-League chambet of commerce in’ Kansas is using officers of the American Legion to carry out threats and mob * violence against the organized farmers. - As the result of this ac- tion 22 members reslgned from the Great Bend Legnon post. After 'electing E. E.' “1. Exemption of farm improvements and equip- ments from taxation and taxing undeveloped: lands' . -and public ownership where necessary,-of all the 35 4 WITH THE ORGANIZED FARMERS Wm Wi and xmmedlate relief be given the rural schools of this commonwealth. “11, We are unalterably opposed to any encroach- ‘ment upon the sacred rights of free speech, free press. and peaceab'le assemblag-e guaranteed by the . constitution.” ~‘county tickets. .erton, Tyler; ‘iter; 'W. R. Holzman, 7 17 counties the League It was decided’ to submit questxonnalres to all tandidates for state of- ; fice, legislature and congress and put them on record for or against these measures. "It was also decided to put can- didates for office, repre~ senting the organized . farmers and organized labor, in districts where the farmers and labor are organized strongly enough to ‘make such efforts 'successful: ' In expects to conduct cam- paigns. to elect’ full The following ' were named as the executive committee for the League for the follow- ing year: T. A. Pink- Tom Motis, West; E. E. Wright,: Estelline; Doran Brown, Roches- Waco, Lee ‘L. Rhodes, Grand Saline; R. 'B. Milam, Waco. President Slater of the State Federatlon of Labor s and League Manager Sulak made addresses. KANSAS FALTER /THOMAS MILLS, League speak- er, will return to Ellinwoed, Kan., in de- fiance of the mob which broke up his meet- ing there June 1 and deported Mr. Mills " and !us party from the county, it has just been announced. The letter written by T. B. chamber of commerce to prevent the Mills meeting. = The result of' the mobbing has been that 22 from the organization, ' and state have followed i in thhdraw~ “ing membership. - : : - Scores ‘of farmers are stop- ping | their rages and ‘are subscnbmg in- stead to the Ellsworth County and controlled paper in Kansas. held, at which the mayor ‘of El- 2 move was started by the farm- stores in retaliation for the sup- - the nigbbists, it is reported. ‘The rotten egg throwers, who " %o desecrate the flag in their at- / :,,dence ‘of the egging, farmers. liocal a.uthontxes. i . PAGE SIX' The American flag, desecrated by rotten eggs thrown at Leaguers in Kansas, and the mob victims. Carry- mg the flag, on which the egg stains are plainly seen, - “is: M. L Amos, promment member of the Leagm and Farmers’ union; in the center is Wa Thomas * Mills, and at the right J. 0. Stevnc, Kansas manager of the League. "= to the effect that ‘persons who yoted for “farmer- Kelly, as chairman of the “vigi~ lance” committee of the Great Bend post. of the American. Legion, indicates that the Legion post was used as a tool by the: members of the Ellinwood post of the Legion have withdrawn others in warious parts of ‘the - married man of 31 years, wealthy ‘and physxcaliy . -sound, who apphed for and secured exemption from subscriptions ' ‘to- papers’ which defended the out- Leader, the only farmer-owned ; A’'massmeeting in protest: was - lmwood was asked to resign; and ers "to ‘organize co-operatxvef League, directed toward labor. ; A lng crowd heard port given by the merchants to» ; lum. ~"had boasted of %100 per cent ~Americanism,” did: not hesitate - tack on Mr, Mills.. The Ameri- . can flag carried by Mr. Mills' was “ ies . photographed immediately after ~ the attack. It shows p}am ev:- o To. date Governor Allen has ~taken no action to protect the : The governor’s ‘office referred the farmers. baek to the o e’ll Stlck and ‘MINNESOTA EAGUERS broke all records in holdmg meet-~ ings during the 30 days previous to the pri- mary election June 21.; More than 230 meet- ings were held in rural districts, covering each of the 86 counties of the state. President Townley attended approxlmateiy 75 of these meet- ings through ‘useiof a high -¥peed ' airplane, - which -had been' chris- ~tened the “Shipstead for governor” plane. In ‘addition to the country ¢ meetmgs, 161 meetings were held in Minneapo- lis, at shops’ durmg the - . mnoon hour and in school * grounds in the evening, including. ‘a big mass- - meeting at the Minne- _ apolis auditorium. , “More than 100 meet- . ings were ‘held ‘in St. - “‘Paul, and 2 score or more in’ Duluth, includ- ing ‘a massmeeting at the Duluth auditorium. - Hundreds’ of meetings ‘are planned for this vsummer ‘and fall during -the general electlon ~In’ the last’ week of “the anesota primary - campaign the ‘opposi- tion resorted ‘to intimi- - dation in &n aitempt to scare the farmers from votmg' for the progressxve Republican ' candidates .indorsed by the League and labor. Country news- papers all over the stafe carried false statements labor” candidates in the 1918 general election would be guilty of violating the election laws if they-voted the Republican ballot. 'The farmers were warned _that they would be “challenged” by the election judges and told if they executed an affidavit stating that they had “generally supported” the Republican ticket in 1918, they would be arrested and prose- cuted for per;ury 85 : S NORTH DAKOTA : RAINS of unusual quantity and duratlon ‘have rendered the roads in the state, particularly in the Red River valley, impassable. Heavy rains just preceding the ratification rally at Bxsmarck ‘June. 11, reduced the attendance there consnderab]y. Yet a fine meeting was held. . Cap- tain Ray Craig, state manager; acted as. chairman, mtroducmg ‘the various candidates in their: five- minute talks. He made a :short speech. himself, in- " ‘which he paid a soldier’s respects to Langer, an un- ‘military service, and who stayed with the farmers® until the war was over and exemption was not need- ‘ed. At Fargo the rally was held in Island Park, " with about 600 in attendance. Not an automobile could come in from the country. Seth Richardson, candidate for supreme court, made ‘the principal speech and, as a returned soldier, flayed the lying i tactics of the gang press, both as to this campaxgn and as fo the war. In the evening Duncan Mec- * Donald, president of the Tllinois Federatlon of Labor, made.a most effective ‘argument for the 'The state mdustnal commissxon, by resolutmn, has requested the North Dakota Bankers’ association to. ! appoint two state bankers 'to co-operate with the state bank examiner in makmg a thorough audit of the hooks of the Bank of North Dakota. Thisis