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The League opposition has filed ref
erendum petitions against three of the
bills passed by the special session of
the legislature—the bill authorizing a
legislative committee to investigate
election frauds and iliegal use of pub
lic funds, the bill extending privileges
of the absent voters' law to women
and the state sheriff bill.
P. S. Jungers, ex-service man and
sympathizer with the Nonpartisan
league, has been re-elected mayor of
Hebron, N. D., after a hot contest
with anti-Leaguers.
Grand Forks has requested that the
forthcoming state convention of the
League be held in that city.
SOUTH DAKOTA
News Notes From Everywhere
NORTH DAKOTA
N SPITE of a blizzard
that raged throughout
the state at the time of
the presidential primary
election, constitutional
amendments submitted
by the .League legislature carried
throughout the state by an over
whelming vote. The amendments pro
vide for the recall of elective officials,
facilitate municipal ownership of pub
lic utilities, provide for the leasing of
state coal lands for agricultural pur
poses, and allow a voter who moves
shortly before election to retain his
vote in his old precinct until he has
complied with full residence require
ments in the new precinct. Senator
Hiram Johnson won easily in the pri
mary against Wood and Lowden. Gov
ernor Frazier declined to- permit the
use of his name as a presidential can
didate. The storm, which prevented
the country vote from coming out,
however, made it possible for the Mc
Kenzie-Young faction to elect dele
gates to the national Republican con
vention. The League took no part in
the campaign except to support the
constitutional amendments.
The League program was the sub
ject of
a,
recent debate at Sturgis, S.
D. The affirmative was ably handled
by D. A. Grossman of Newell and by
O. E. Farnham, League candidate for
congress in the third district. The
negative side of the question was pre
sented by Jack Milne and Harry At
Water, two old-party politicians. The
sympathy of the large audience was
unmistakably with the League speak
ers. The audience clamored for a
vote, but Atwater was evidently not
willing to risk the decision and hastily
moved an adjournment, which was de
clared carried by the chairman.
It has recently come to light that
the Norbeck machine in this state has
been rewarding its political henchmen
from public funds. As previously re
ported, favored political bosses have
been permitted to hold school lands for
eight years without the payment of
principal, interest or taxes. It has
now been discovered that political
friends of the administration have
been borrowing money from the rural
credits department to finance their
land speculations, while specific pro
visions of the law are that only actual
farmers can borrow from the fund.
During the recent primary cam
paign Governor Norbeck entered the
fight against Governor Lowden of
Illinois. One of the charges made by
Norbeck against Lowden was that he
had favored the corporations and re
duced their taxes. Norbeck's admin
istration has been guilty of the same
offense. It has increased the valua
tion of the people's property during
the past year $385,276,687, while in
creasing the valuation of the corpo
rate property only $436,880.
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MINNESOTA
The contract has been let for Min
nesota's state-owned experimental
flout mill. The mill will be built in
Minneapolis at a cost of $35,000. Pro
fessor Bailey of the University of
Minnesota will test the milling value
of the various grades of wheat in the
new mill. Little opposition has mani
fested itself against this move toward
"hell bent" socialism, as the St. Paul
Dispatch characterizes the laws pass
ed by the farmers in North Dakota.
The Republican elimination conven
tion to select candidates to run in the
primary against those on the farmer
labor ticket, will be held the first
week in May. The state G. O. P.
convention, meeting in St. Paul March
20, authorized the state central com
mittee to call the new convention.
Delegates to the state conventions
of the Nonpartisan league and Work
ing People's Nonpartisan Political
league were arriving -in St. Paul for
the two conventions March 24 and 25,
as this edition of the Nonpartisan
Leader was going to press.
The Nonpartisan league and League
publications formerly published in St.
Paul—the Nonpartisan" Leader and
Minnesota Leader—are now housed in
the new building of the Minnesota
Daily Star in Minneapolis.
The state convention of the World
War Veterans was to be held in Min
neapolis March 31.
IDAHO
The so-called "American plan," a
camouflaged attempt to break up la
bor organizations and establish the
open shop, has thus far made a dismal
failure in this state. Representatives
of large corporations have been the
instigators and have not been kindly
received. In Pocatello, a railroad town,
the merchants refused to sign up and
the agents had to leave the city with
out accomplishing anything. The
same dodge also failed in Twin Falls,
Idaho Falls and Nampa.
Great farmer-labor massmeetings
continue to be the order of the day in
Idaho. Recently in Idaho Falls there
was held a meeting in one of the larg
est halls in the town. More than 1,800
people crowded into the hall and more
than 1,000 were turned away. The
business interests of Idaho Falls at
tempted to have Governor Davis use
the state constabulary to stop the
meeting, but the governor discreetly
refused.
The Idaho Leader's expose of the
nation-wide plot to curb progressivism
has caused a sensation in this state.
The promoters have been rushing into
print in an endeavor to offset the
damage done to the organization,
the so-called "United Americans."
WISCONSIN
Henry Krumrey, president of the
Wisconsin Cheese Produce-s' federa
tion, charges that J. N. Tittemore,
president of the Society of Equity, is
not merely using his office to attack
the Nonpartisan league but also is
seeking to break up the Cheese Pro
ducers' federation. Mr. Krumrey has
made his charges and has submitted
proof against Tittemore in an open
letter addressed to the secretary of
the Wisconsin union.
COLORADO
The Nonpartisan league, the Amer
ican Federation of Labor and the rail
way brotherhoods have organized a
"triple alliance" for political action.
Enthusiastic meetings are being held
throughout the state.
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