The nonpartisan leader. [volume], September 16, 1918, Image 13

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counted. He may win on the final
-count. He carried his own precinct
fetter than THREE TO ONE. And
when he filed thie Elgin banker laughed
and said it "wTas a joke. A recount may
determine something different. Sheets
could not get the figures on the elec
tion for more than a week.
AND METCALFE WENT
DOWN IN DEFEAT
And
so
it was throughout the state.
Despite the organized opposition of
the gangsters the farmers won. They
helped defeat R. L. Metcalfe for the
United
States Benate
by more than
15,000 majority. Metcalfe was for
merly chairman of the secret service
committee of the state council of de
fense and was the principal opponent
of the League on that body. Willis E.
Reed, present attorney general, who
fought the League and issued an of
ficial opinion stating the organizers
were not "usefully employed," was low
man in the race for the United States
senate. Reed also fought union labor
in 1917 and he got a" little more than
6,000 votes and was beaten by 19,000.
Farmers who are in the thick
of the League movement often do
not realize how remarkable a
movement they are in, or how
their activities are being watched
by farmers everywhere. The fol
lowing article from the Michigan
Patron of Adrian, Mich., the of
ficial organ of the Michigan state
Grange, shows how interested the
great farm organization of that
state is in League affairs:
Nonpartisan league was
prominent in both bat
tles, the results have
more than a local interest. The first
primary was in Minnesota, where a
bitter class conflict was staged. The
plan of the. Nonpartisan league is to
combine the farmers in one organ
ization, adopt a ticket and platform
and then go into the primary of the
dominant party and endeavor to
nominate their man. These contests
were, therefore, in tne Republican pri
maries. The total vote in the Re
publican Minnesota primaries for the
past 10 years has averaged 170,000.
'The highest vote ever cast in the pri
maries was 190,000. This year the
enormous total of 350,000 votes was
cast. The Nonpartisan league poUed
155,000 and its opponents 195,000.
would be composed of small stored
keepers and others as well as farm
ers. The farmers were not able to
affiliate with the Labor party in an
organization of their own. $Iowever,
according to a-decent' isspe of the
Brisbane Worker, the weekly organ
of the Labor party of the state of.
Queensland, the executive of the -in|g^
dustrial council of Brisbane,:.at its
meeting on May 22, 1918, discussed
a proposition for the formation of a
farmers'. industrial union and it was
finally resolved that if the farmers
draft a constitution for a farmers'
industrial union, the council will ren
der every assistance in the organizing '.
'f the farmers. jp
This decision of the Brisbane exec*®'
utive opens the way for the farmers
Australian Labor Party and the Farmer
BT GEORGE MACDONNELL
USTRALIAN farmers
have only .been able to
become members of the
Labor party by joining
the. local league in their
district, which league.,
of Queensland to become members. o£^ stay. M. L. LINELY.
to the facts: Two papers that mark
the progress toward a free press are
the Seattle Union Record and the
Butte Bulletin.
The Union Record is owned by
union members of the state of Wash
ington, most of them in the city of
Seattle.
1
Michigan Grange Watches League
WO western states have
held primaries since our
last issue and as the
Bitter contests are yet to be'fought
in which the League is interested in
Montana, Idaho, Colorado, Washing
ton and some other western states.
Under local laws the League was not,
-permitted to hold meetings in 19 Min
nesota counties. The League carried
30 counties in Minnesota,
the Labor party by joining the farm
ers' union and it^will then be possible
for farmers as such to be affiliated
with the Labor party, just as it. is
possible for trade unionists .now.
LEAGUE HAS COME TO STAY
-Lakeruen, Texas.
Editor Nonpartisan Leader:
Western Workers Own Newspapers
Seattle and Butte Now Have Thriving Publications Giving
the Organized Producers' Point of View
HEN the people are really
free, they will have their
own press. The news
will be true, and big busi
ness will have no power
to deceive the public as
The Central Labor council
of Seattle and vicinity owns 51 per
cent of the $100,000 worth of stock
of the company publishing the paper.
The rest is being rapidly sold to local
unions and organized workers
throughout the state. All the local,
national and world news is printed
without suppression or distortion. The
editorial policy is independent. The
Only 30,000 votes were polled in the
Democratic primary. The League
nominated a majority of the candi
dates for the legislature.
Elated by their success, opponents
of the League, headed by the success
ful candidate for governor, at once
invaded North Dakota, where the pri
maries were held two weeks later, and
endeavored to defeat the League in
its stronghold. North Dakota has
been governed the last two years by
League officials and the people of
that state had the advantage of know
ing just what League government
would do. The result was a decided
victory for the League. Two years
ago G6vernor Frazier received a ma
jority of 3,000 in the primaries, re
ceiving a total vote of 40,000. This
year he was renominated by a major
ity of nearly 20,000, receiving a total
vote of 60,000. The League also
nominated all of its candidates for
congress, three in number, by sub
stantial majorities, and nominated
three-fourths of its candidates for
the legislature and its entire state
ticket. ..
I am a Texan by birth, but am al-5—ducer.
It seems to me that the majority
of«our business and professional men.
believe in slavery.' But, thank God,-'
the laboring men and women look
forward to the new freedom, as it has
been
presented to them by qur noble
president. The League has come to
most ashamed to acknowledge, it for?
the reason that graft has got so.
strong at Mineola and other places
that farmers can not attempt to or
ganize to keep starvation from their.
homes. I was a charter member of, ^farmer. It's' time the farmer -woke
the Alliance and when it went down up and organized so he can get what
I became a member of the Farmers' belongs to him for his produce. The
union. When the Nonpartisan league^lonly way he will ever get it is by
came, I was one of the first to join, organizing, and not leave it to the
W
PAG£T HIRTEBN
paper grew out of the Weekly Union
Record, which was started by union
ists-subscribing to the number of 20,
000 for the first two months. The
paper is now three months old and
has paid its own way from the start,
and is now issuing daily. The Union
Record at all times
haB
defended the
Nonpartisan league against its ene
mies, which it feels are also the ene
mies of union labor.
The Butte Bulletin, similarly, was
started as a weekly and is liow a
daily. It, too, has stuck up for the
organized farmer as well as the or
ganized city worker.
THE WORLD MOVES
Printers thought typesetting ma
chines were not practical.
But the world moved on.
The wire manufacturers wagged
their heads and said wireless teleg
raphy was impossible.
But the world moved on.
Corporations -said government
ownership or control of railroads and
monopolies would be unprofitable and
a failure.
But the world moves on.
Germany said that America was not
ready and would count but very little
in this war.
But the Yankees have changed their
.opinion and "the allies move on toward
Berlin.
Politicians say the 'Nonpartisan
league is wrong.
But the League is moving on to
DEMOCRACY.
H. J. TAYLOR.
Shamrock, Texas.
A WOMAN TO THE DISPATCH
Minot, N. D.
Editor Nonpartisan Leader:
Am inclosing copy of a letter I
mailed to the Farmers' Dispatch. We
do not want' the paper and hope the
Leaguers over the entire Northwest
Twill take time to do the same. They
don't deserve the farmers' support.
Farmers' Dispatch: We never sub
scribed for your paper, but some
friend sent us a paid-up subscrip
tion. If you had been neutral, at the
present time especially, or helped the
farmers, THE PEOPLE THAT ARE
SUPPORTING YOU, you would not
have been criticized.
We already have proof that the so
called Townley store is a benefit. As
for Maxwell's information, no doubt
he is well paid. Our $16 can do dou
ble the work of the bankers' $25.
Kindly show your patriotism and
at least be neutral. We are liberal.
MRS. O. R. BROWN.
A WISCONSIN CONVERT
Boyd, Wis.
Editor Nonpartisan Leader:
I wish to become a subscriber for
your best newspaper and wish you
would send. me a sample paper.
I am interested in a farmers' or
ganization which will give the farmer
a chance to make the price on what
he produces as well as an^ other pro-
I have been reading the St. Paul
Pioneer Press all summer and I judge
from the means of attack, their ox
will be badly gored or your opponents
4will
lose the pap they have from the
other fellow's generosity.
5 I would think this farmers could
from the mode of attacks that &
town fellows were getting a good dr
out of them or they never would t»y
such dirty methods, to prevent them
from organizing.
GEORGE MEADE.
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