The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, November 1, 1920, Page 7

Nothing Counts Now but Votes North Dakota ' Good Effects of Farmer Laws Insure Vic- tory November 2 7] INCE the June primary the League has §| gained strength by the reorganization campaign put on by the farmers, by the raid on the wheat market by the chamber of commerce and by the fight made by the League administration against increased freight and passenger rates. The good effects of the farmer laws are now much more appreciable than in June. Hail insurance and' sol- diers’ bonuses are being paid, the state mill and elevator is being built, the Home Building associa- tion is building more than 50 homes, the tax levy for state purposes has been lowered and the valua- tion of farm land reduced. The last week of the campaign was devoted to an intensive campaign drive throughout the state. On October 25 League men and women met at their precinct polling place in nearly every country pre- cinct in the state. Cars full of boosters then started to canvass every resident of the precinct. Plenty of literature and sample ballots were taken along and new voters especially were instructed how to mark the ballots. Speakers report big crowds and much interest. Father O’Donoghue spoke to 1,000 people at James- town, a former 1. V. A. hotbed Street meetings in Fargo draw well. Women’s clubs and individual women are show- ing much interest and “new voters’” clubs have been started’to teach women to mark ballots prop- erly. If women are able'to get to the polls—no storm preventing—the League should carry the entire state ticket by better than 20,000. If bad weather falls on November 2 the League ticket will win by a narrower margin, but it will win in either event. In a last-minute effort to confuse League voters printing firms engaged to print official ballots at- tempted to turn out two different styles of ballots, one with three columns and one with four columns for candidates. This would make it impossible or difficult to direct League voters in which eolumns to find their candidates, who are running as independ- ents in many cases. The League at once carried the case against the printers to the supreme court. Following are the candidates’ for state and con- gressional office and their party designation. The names of candidates marked “Republican” will be found in the first column on the general election bal- lot; the names marked “Individual Nomination” will - be found on the last column of the general election ballot; the names marked “Neonpartisan” will be found on the separate nonpartisan election ballot: STATE OFFICES ' -Governor—Lynn J. Frazier, Republican. Lieutenant Governor—Howard R. Wood, Re- publican. Secretary of State—Alfhild Alfson, mdxvxd- ual nomination. 3 States Auditor—D. C. Poindexter; Republican. State Treasurer — Ole Kaldor, individual nomination. Attorney Gemeral—William 'Lemke, Repub- lican. ;Commissioner of Insurance—S. A. Olsness, Republican. . Commissioner of Agriculture and Labur—— John N. Hagan, Republican. Railroad Commissioners—C. W. McDonnell, Republican; Frank Milhollan, Republican; F. G. Hildebrand, individual nomination. Judge of the Supreme Court—Seth Richard- son, nonpartisan. Superintendent of Public Instructmn—Ruth M. Johnson, nonpartisan. CONGRESSIONAL United States Senator—E. F. Ladd, Republi- can. = Representative, Fu'st District -—-Jolm M. - Baer, individual nomination. Representntxve,’Second Dlstrlct-—OIe Olson, individual nomination. ; Representative, Third District —J ames H. Sinclair, Republican. The League has 23 candidates for the 25 places in the state senate to be filled this year and 109 candi- dates for the 113 seats in the lower house. The_ STATE TICKETS OF LEAGUE League has county tickets in 45 of the 53 counties and candidates for district judge in six districts. Five initiated measures, intended to cripple the League program, are being voted upon gn a .separate ballot. The League advises “Vote NO“five times.” \ South Dakota Automobile Caravan Rouses Voters of the State for League Ticket Hundreds of farmers joined a 17-day tour of the . state in behalf of Nonpartisan league candidates. The caravan of automobiles started from Mitchell October 10 and finished the tour at Beresford Octo- ber 26. All the League candidates for state and congressional office were along and large meetings and enthusiasm were the rule everywhere. : Sentiment is fine. Victory depends upon every Leaguer and his wife getting to the polls, All Nonpartisan league candidates are running under the heading “Nonpartisan League Party.” _They can be voted for either by putting a cross at Mark P Bates, League candidate for governor of South Dakota. _the top of the column or by voting separately for each candidate. Following are the candidates indorsed for state and congressional office: STATE OFFICES Governor—M. P. Bates. - Lieutenant Governor—C. W. Best. Secretary of State—William E. Neilson, , Attorney General—QO. M. Burch. State Auditor—Henry B. Anderson. State Treasurer—J. L. Fritz. ’ Commissioner of Public Lands—E. M. DeLap. Superintendent of Public Instructxon—-Ahoe Lorraine Daly. Railroad Commissioner—Second district, Ar- thur J. Anderson; third district, F. Jennewem. 3 ; CONGRESSIONAL United States Senate—Tom Ayres. Representative—First district, Engrebret J. Holter; second district, Frank Whalen; third district, O. E. Farnham. The League has candidates for the legislature and f.or county office in a ma;onty of the countles PAGE SEVEN - Vote for Every : League Candidate Wiscomsin Plot of Bipartisan Machine to Beat League Candidates Exposed EVELOPMENTS since the primary have exposed the existence of a vast bipartisan machine with a $100,000 slush fund to .defeat the Nonpartisan league. = W. J. Morgan, Republican candidate for attorney general; C. T. Bundy, well-known waterpower lobbyist, and John P. Hume, Democratic state chairman, appear to be r)he ringleaders in the bipartisan big business com- ine. Bundy is a former law partner of Senator Wilcox, - defeated for the Republican nomination for gover- nor by John J. Blaine, Leaguer. Following the pri- maries Bundy and Morgan got together and framed the plan to write a plank in the Republican plat- from attacking the Nonpartisan league and prac- tically reading Mr. Blaine out of the party. Morgan, it develops, took this stand because he ; was assured that Judge A. C. Larson, Democratic nominee for attorney general, would w1thdraw in his favor. On September 30 Mr. Hume and Mr. Bundy called upon Judge Larson, asking him to withdraw and threatening that if he' did not he would get no Democratic campaign funds and would have to finance his own campaign. Hume at the same time told Judge Larson that Repubhcans and Democrats were joining in raising a.campaign fund for McCoy, Democratic candidate for governor, in an effort to beat Blaine. This fund is now reported to have reached the $100,000 mark, Larson refused to become a party to the deal. After mves!;lgatmg his record and finding it to be a progressive one the Nonpartisan league executive committee has indorsed him- for attorney general and every effort will be made to elect him as @ re- buke to Morgan. A fierce campaign is now under way. Colonel McCoy, Democratic candidate for governor, and Morgan, Republican candidate for attorney general, have joined forces against the League. McCoy is himself on the defensive, however, on account of having declared for compulsory military training and a state mounted police. Mr. Blaine, League candidate for governor, is showing voters that McCoy’s military training pro- gram would cost Wisconsin an additional $2,000,000 a year. Blaine is standlng squarely for the League in opposing all forms of militarism except proper defense of the country. There is no doubt of his election if League and labor forces get out to vote. Senator Lenroot, also a League opponent, is being given a hard race for re-election by James Thomp- son, who is running as an independent, with League and La Follette support. p A number of additional indorsements for congress have been made since the primaries. Following are the state and congressional candi- dates indorsed by the League and their party desig- nations: STATE OFFICES Governor—John J. Blaine, Republican. Lieutenant Governor — George F. Comings, Republican, Secretary of State—Elmer S. Hall Republi- can., Attorney General—A. C. Larson, Democratic. CONGRESSIONAL United States Senator—James Thompson, In- dependent. Representative, First District—Allen Cooper, Républican. Representative, Voight, Republican. Representative, Third District—John M, Nel- son, Republican. Representative, Sixth District—Florian Lam- pert, Republican, Representative, Seventh District—Joseph D Beck, Republican, Representative, Ninth Disfirict—\&ndrew Me- Donald, Democrat. Representative, Eleventh District — James McConner, Independent. The League has three candidates, for the state sena.te and 25 candidates for the lower house of the legislature. Second District — Edward R S SRES g | | 3 |3 | 3 IS;