The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, July 19, 1920, Page 10

News Notes From Many States NORTH DAKOTA HAIN Iumber companies oper- . ating in North Dakota are en- gaged in the task of sabotaging —throwing bolts in the:thresh- ing machine, as it were—the North Dakota Home Building- association, which is actively operating in Fargo and . Grand Forks. In several in- stances managers of the local lumber yards have approached workmen and threatened them with the blacklist un- less they quit working for the state. Propagandists have also-tried to stir i local home building leagues. W. J. Prater gives as the reason for this- 4 attack by the lumber, interests the ! fact that the state is paying from 45 o to 50 ‘per cent less. for every ‘one of the 21 items of lumber it puts into its homes than the price being charg- _ed by’ the trust. : -Cities; municipalities, villages and towns which increased taxes more than 10 per cent above the maximum for 1918 must refund the excess to the taxpayers; according to a unanimous decision of the - supreme ‘court last week. Acting on Attorney General - Langer’s ‘opinion that the tax limit law did not apply to cities as “sub- divisions” of a county many of ‘the . cities of the state ‘boosted taxes {he’ limit. in an attempt to' diseredit the - state administration.’ In’ Bowman; - for instance, the taxes that should have been levied were $18,000, but the - I. V. A. city board levied $56,000. The question was decided on a case brought against the city of Bismarck for increasing taxes.30 per cent over the 1918 limit when. the = increase ] should have been but 10 per cent. { Victor Kosakavich, a civil engineer, | has been sent to Grand Forks by the republic of Ukraine to watch the state mill ‘and. elevator mnow being built. Ukraine is entirely . without gram gathering facilities although it-is the center of the wheat fields of Europe, says Mr. Kosakavich. e E. E. Rimbach, purchasing agent of" the board of admmlstratxon, put one over on the sugar profiteers the other day ‘when he bought 80,000 pounds of sugar . for the state in- stitutions ~ direct = from { the refinery at 25 cents ; per pound. ‘Wholesalers o wanted 30 and 31 cents { . for the stuff. t Governor Frazier has | fent his efforts to aid * i Bottineau county to se- cure federal aid to fight the grasshoppers by urg- ing the secretary‘’of ag- riculture;, E. T. Meredith, to appropriate $100,000 toward the extermina- : tion of the pests: ‘The monthly report’ of . fhe state treasurer. shows $1,079,887 in the state general fund and a - total ‘cash worth of the state, in all funds, of B $22,661,326, In contrast, i e Montana, adjoining ‘to | " the'west; has a $1,000,000 deficxt : fmA'Ho ‘ 74 $ THIS is written, = 47 ? Leaguers in Ida- S ho are preparing for the big: state: convention scheduled for . July 17 in Boise to draft . a state platform for the 1920 campaign and to in- 7=dorse candidates Ior, up discontent among members of the ‘ert M. La Follette has been in the " state offices. The state executive com- ‘mittee of the Nonpartisan league also: is to be elected for a i:wo-year term. Countytonventlons have been in ress since July 10, at which legisla- tive tlckets and local county 'candi- dates were indorsed and delegateb to the state convention selected. Idaho Leaguefs are optnmstlc over the oui;- look: S WISCONSIN /)OLITICS in Wisconsin is .in P somewhat of a state of sus-: pended animation, waiting: “till Bob géts home.” Senator Rob- Mayo. hospital at Rochester, Minn., for - a serious operation, but is:recovering. even faster than had been hoped.. He is the dominant political mdlvxdnahty ‘in this state, and the campaign ‘will not take on form until after his return to his headquarters in Madison, which: is ‘expected soon, 'There are two ‘or.. three candidates for governor who are askmg support as progressives, and’ there is a fear in some quarters that unless La Follette indicates his pref- : erence as among those aspirants for: the votes of his’ friends: all progres- sives: will lose. There is-a strong be-: lief in many quarters that Senator La Follette will “indicate ‘his. preference for-the candidates on the Nonpartisan league state ticket, headed by John J. Blaine, : present attorney general for . governor.. Reactmnary Repubhcans, fearful lest the ticket nominated and platform adopted by the Nonpartisan. league, and supported generally by organized: farmers and organized workers, /.wfll so unify those forces as to result:in an old gang defeat, have called & con-‘ {ference for July 14 an Madlson, ‘at which an effort will be made ‘to unite -all reactionaries’ upon ‘a platform and. a state tlcket -1t is‘generally believed this move 1s a part of the scheme of big business to nominate Governor Philipp for a fourth term. At the American Leglon state con- _vention, the first week in July, bitter attacks were made by a number; of speakers on the Nonpartlsan league prog- The Legxon, wlhch accused tbe League of defending slackers, actually - im- ported as one of its speakers Dan ‘Richter of Minneapolis. ~of all fomard—lookmg elements in the | /~XONGRESSMAN A. J. VOL- C STEAD, through - friends, is At the same time, however, the Legion indorsed, as a part: of its ‘Americanization - pro- . gram, a splendidly democratic educa- tional program, which has the support state ot 'MINNESOTA : seekmg to have the election, in ‘which he was jarred loose by ~“the voters, declared null and void by ‘the c'ourts,‘in the hope of being able ‘ years. to hang onto his job for another two ‘Suit was filed by 43 Volstead voters in the seventh district in Swift county to nullify the élection ‘on the ground that 0. J. Kvale, the VlCtOl'l-, ous Leaguer, misrepresented -Vol- * ‘stead’s. attitude on the infamous “se- “:dition” bills and on religious beliefs. Kvale denies having accused Volstead of ' being an atheist, as ' Volstead charges, but even if true:the accusa- ‘tion appears insignificent in the face “"the opposfi:lon. ~ ~for: ‘him on a tec of the 'storm of slander and lies di- rected at Kvale ,and-all other League - candidates during the campaign by The voters heard the charges of ‘both sides and as a jury, marched ‘to. the polls and returned : their: verdict, and their verdict was a decisive ma;ority for Kvale and mnot “for. Volstead. . Probably realizing his certain defeat again if he filed as an’ independent against: Kvale in the fall, which would have been the only manly way to' continue the fight, Volstead; through his; fnends, hoges to find & ort fnendly enough to save his job | hmcahty of the law. That Volstead -eredits ‘his ‘defeat to “the showing up of his. record on the “sedition” bills is .indicated by the ' fact that the main grounds in the con- _test ‘are” on the question of thg ‘yirtues or evfls of the so-called sedi- “tion bills; which he supported. ‘His - - ‘stalking horses append copies of both ‘the’ Graham and Sterling bills as ex-- No wonder the loan sharks, profiteers, food gamblers and crooked ‘the Nonpartlsan league, for lt 1is: begumm 2 : y hxbxts A and B of the smt. o . Frank A, Harrison, Hiram. Johnson's . “ka “indicates that hard cash may: be . threat: “It will not do for the reor-* ganized committee to be too bold in'its _tion. If necessary the people of Ne- ; and former_heutenant governior of Ne- ¢ ‘ agricultural district in congress ‘than - We’ll Stlck and We’ll Win - NEBRASKA HE choice of Charles A. Mc-- ; £ ¢ 'Cloud, wealthy banker of York - ‘and defeated candidate. for ‘Re- pubhcan natmnal committeeman at the spring pnmanes, to head the - Republican ' campaign commlttee in Nebraska has created an open breach in .the party ranks in that state. campaign manager ‘in Nebraska and ‘a ]eadmg progiessive Republican, de- clares in his paper, the Lincoln Her- ald, that “the recent move in Nebras- the platform and all those who voice . disapproval - .of the methods or .the management are to be east out of the party.” After warning the Repubh-- can machine that *“the boodle furnish- ed by electric light companies, private waterpower monopolies and bank com-. bines will not be welcome in Nebras- ka,” he closes with ‘the following - dxsplay of power this year, for. such" power is built on a volecanie founda- . braska, Furnishing the expense money.'. e from their own pockets, can smash any - = . such arrogant machine until its spon- = sors will ‘be unable to recognize it!” Edgar Howaxfi leading Democrat braska, ‘has indorsed Mrs. Marie ‘Weekes, the Nonpartisan league candi~: - ‘date for congress:from ‘the third dis- trict. ' Ina sxgnetf article appearing in =~ the Columbus Telegram Mr. Howard @ declam that meither of her’ opponents’ “is any more. quahfied to represent an . the daughter.of a Vanderbilt is quali- <~ “fied ‘to ‘become a_helpful wife to an honest Amencan man whose name does not appear on the roll of the ‘four hundred inNew York.” F i s ANKERS msurance firms and it bonding -companies are being asked to contribute $1 000 each to aid in a campaign. agamst the Nonpamsan league. *A circular @ is being sent out to them . warning ' the. recxpxentsi ; . that the League is likely: - to control the next Colo- . ‘ rado legislature unless a big ‘campaign is waged against its ticket. The *. Colorado . Retail - Coal . © " Dealers’ association is ‘likewise conducting a vig= orous campaign of slan-- derand misrepresentation - against _the League’s : program in North Dako-: ‘ta and other states. An organization of business interests, camouflaged as “The United Americans,” is sendmg out. propagan- da yery: similar to that ‘used by other anti- League orzamzatmns in" ’other states : SOUTH DAKOTA ) ALLIES in nearly : every . ‘section of - Njthe “state ‘are 7727 bringing ‘enthusi- /// asm for the victory: tiek- .