The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, November 15, 1920, Page 3

IN.THE INTEREST OF A SQUARE DEAL FOR THE FARME! Ente as _second-class matter at the postoffice at M.lnneunulis Minn., under the act of March 3, 1879, Publication address, 427 Sixth avenue 8.; Minnes; lls Minn, Address all remittances to The Nonparflun Leader, Box 2075, Minneapolis, Minn. VOL. 11, NO. 12 Ilonmamxan ]Eader Official Magazine of the Nafinnal Nonpartisan League—Every Two Weeks LIVER S. MORRIS, Editor. ° MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA, AGAZINE THAT DABEB TO PRINT .THE TRUTH ® tn advnnee 2.50; six months, $1.50, Clas- One yeur 3 age; other advaf'uulng rutes on a pllc fion Membar Audlt Bureau of Circulations, o, St Lo WHOLE NUMBER 259 advertising renreaen uflvea New Yok. Cl\i Louis, Kansas City. , NOVEMBER 15, 1920 A Million Votes Cast for the League Program result in other cases is still in° doubt. As this issue of the Leader goes to press; however, the outstanding feature of the election is the enormous increase reported in League strength everywhere. Two years ago the League had candidates for governor in four states—Idaho, Minnesota, North Dakota and IEAGUE candidates“won in some states, lost in others and the League Vote South Dakota—and the total vote they received Four Times "2% ?1‘?;1015;0 R W That of 1918 ye e League had candidates for g ernor in these four states and in five other states— Colorado, Montana, Nebraska, Waskington and Wisconsin—and from preliminary reports it is apparent that the total vote for League candidates for governor will reach approxi- mately 1,000,000, or more than four times the vote of two years ago. Offieial weturns may show a total vote of much more than 1,000,000 for the League program HIS is a tremendous gain. Part of it is due, of course, to woman suffrage. It is estimated that approx1mately one- third of the votes cast in-League states were women’s. But in the western states women voted two years ago. The two biggest causes of the phenomenal increase shown in League strength were the increased territory - “We’ll Stick” taken in by the organized farmers, as compared Spirit Was with two years ago, and the mcreased support P! : given the League candidates in every state.. the Reason Not only did the farmers go down' the line with their “We’ll stick” slogan; they were joined in every League state by thousands upon thousands-of members of organized labor, men and women, and by thousands of independent voters who realized the justice of the farmers fight on behalf of .the common people. ENATOR WARREN G. HARDING has been elected premdent vf the United States, as the Leader- predicted some months ago. He was elected, not because of anything he has done in the past, for his public record is-almost a blank not because of his promises for the future, for his “program’ ’ has been Senator - almost as blank as his record. Harding’s Senator Harding was elected because the people aramng of the United States wanted to reprove the Wilson Election_ ;dministration for the evil that it has done and the opportunities it has wasted and because a vast num- ber feared that the promises made by Governor Cox might prove as meaningless as the liberal promises of the Wilson administration have proved in the last eight years. E HOPE President-elect Harding realizes that his selection s)\/ was due, not to the reactionaries who are m the great mi- nority in this country, but to the progressives. Many pro- gressives voted for him as a means of rebuking the present admin- istration. . Others voted for Governor Cox, as the more liberal of the two candidates. And hundreds of thousands of What Is the men and women, normally progressive Repubhcans Outlook £ and progressive Democrats, voted for Debs or th‘:a 1‘9312111'(()31‘:’ Christensen, as a protest agalnst both old parties. The progressives were badly split in this elec- tion. But they will be together four years from now. We hope President-elect Harding does not think that the Amer- ican people are ready to go back to the days of Mark Hanna. We hope he does not think they are ready for a war of conquest upon Mexico. We hope he does not think they will approve appointing a Prussian militarist like General Leonard Wood as secretary of war. If President-elect Harding does not realize these thmgs he and his party are heading toward a more.disastrous defeat in 1924 than the defeat administered to the Democrats this year. |_ : HIT AND MISS : | : i v leropul The federal reserve board announced, when it d cided to “deflate” the currency, that this step was intended to prevent speculation and profiteenng. But, as Ca.zc- toonist Morris points out, the real victim has been the American farmer, who has been denied credit by his gov- ernment, wlule the profiteers and grain gamblers get off scot-free. ; ~ PAGE THREB