Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-02-05
LOOK FOR PROMPT AND
FAVORABLE ACTION N
REGARD TO THE TERM1.
NAL ELEVATOR.
NO TRUCE FOR OTHERS
Famous Roll Call Favored With
Promises Of Political Suicide
for Those Opposing It.

I'VE are hopeful Of winning
the elevator. I personally am pos.
sessed of tremendous confidence
that the farmers who assembled
in convention here have driven
home to the legislators their de.
mands in the matter. There will
be no stone left unturned until
the public has equal opportunities
in public elevators, to break up
the illegal accumulation Of grain,
thus breaking the back Of short
sellers and grain gamblers which
are today the curse Of agriculture.
expect immediate action, to
have the bill for a terminal eleva-
tor owned by the state Of North
Dakota and located at St. Paul,
to be promptly introduced coming
from the farmers Of the state.
When you 60 back to your homes,
do 80 with a conviction that your
hopes will soon be realized. That
they must be realized.
There were the parting remarks
by 5. H. Greeley of Chicago, when
the three days convention OF tile
North Dakota branch of the Amerl'
can Society of Equity was brought
to a close at the Commercial CNno
rooms last night. About 400 delegates,
including farmers from every part OF
the state, catcher to voice their opln'
ions in favor. of a state-ow1ed grain
elevator to be located at the tern1i.
nal In St. PAU. Splrred on by speak
ers whose degree of enthusiasm at
times was better than their judgment,
the meetings which have marked the
life Of the convention here were al
tnded by the widest kind OF ou;'
pursts, which at timesborcered on tne
verge of riots. A roll call, purport'
ing to sho whow the individual men,
sbers of the legislature stood on the
proposition, was introduced by
George s. Lotus of St. Paul, on the
first day of the convention, and about
this centered series of debates,
threats, accusations, and a general
Indulgence in personalities, in which
no feeling was spared and the pet"
names literally interspersed. Mem
bers of the legislature attended the
meetings, only to hear themselves
listed one way or the other, WlthouO
having made up their minds in the
matter at this time, strenuou5ly ob-
jected to this method OF procedure
adopted by the Equity men in charge
of the convention, and by such de-
malls in open meeting were often sub
iected to ridicule and verbally chas'
tised, to the delight of the Equity So
ciety constituents. .|
Extra Day Session.
The convention was to have been
brought to close on Wednesday, but
the feeling stirred up in the matter
and the Intense interest stirred up
resulted in an extra days session yes
terday, although the attendance at
the meetings had fallen off. The farm.
ers have been urged to go pack TO
their homes and arrange mass meet
ings 50 that the terminal elevator
proposition may be kept d warm Is
sue at this time A committee con-
sisting of lMyron p. Johnson Of Tol.
ley, H. r.. Wood of Deering, Carl
Knutson of Voltaire, F.. A. Bowman OF
Kuhn, and S. III. Greeley of Chicago,
has been appointed to remain in Bis
marck during the lite of the legisla'
tive session in order to keep in touch
with the terminal elevator matter ana
look after the interests Of the farm
ers. The leaders in the movement
believ bill will promptly ID intro.
ducad and are hopeful of winning the
elevator.
On Speaking Campaign.
It was stated last night that George
$. LOTUS departed last night for Mel.
son county, to choke for cnce ana
all. senator Gardners political am
bitions. by a speaking campaign IN
that district Senator Gardner was
among those listed as wrong on the
proposition, and the policy mapped
out by the Equity leaders is to mass
their oratorical batteries against any
that dare oppose the measure. claim.
ing that it will be political Suicide
to do so. The roll call. which brought
about the excitement here, is not a
pleasant thing to handle said Mr.
Lotus. tBut it's sure cure FOR
those who aren't with us on good
thing. It's a whole lot better to line
up these fellows before action, THAI
to wait and line them UP after elec-
tion.''
CAPTAIN FERGUSON DIES
Nh;ooro Coh A-Cantain James