Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1916-04-13
LYNN J, FRAZIER FOR Governor
Candidate Chose<s by the Farmers The
Man Is&> r. oself.

The Non-Partisan Leader has the
following information about Lynn J.
Frazier, the man called from the
farm to make the race for governor:
Lynn j. Frazier for governor of
North Dakota.
This is the call sounded at the con-
vention mass meetings of the Farm
ers' NOn-Partisan league in Fargo
last week for the first time.
It will be heard more frequently
every day hereafter in every corner
of the state.
Who is Lynn J. Frazier? How old
lis he? What does he look like?
Where does he hail from? What is
his business?
These are the questions that every
body in North Dakota will want to
have answered. 1t will be the busi-
ness of the Non-Partisan league to
answer some of them and beginning
should be made now.
In the first place then, get these
facts into your head: Lynn Frazier is
a native American, Al years old and
farmer. Get that-a farmer-not an
imitation farmer nor town farmer,
either, but q real one, who has been
tilling his section of land in Pembina
county for many years. He was not
born in this state but he has lived in
1t for nearly thirty-five years. He is
now farming the same homestead on
which his father settled In 1881.
Theman who is to be the next gov
,ernor of North Dakota is q college
graduate who was educated entirely
in the schools of this state. He
holds a diploma from the University
of North Dakota at Grand Forks.
He is a teetotaller. He has never
touched intoxicating liquor in his life.
He does not use tobacco. He is inter-
ested in several cooperative enter
prises and is respected and hOnored
by the people of his own community,
who know him best. He is success
full in farming and business. He Is
an able man, physically rugged and
mentally and morally clean.
Those who have heard him on his
very few appearances on q public
platform testify that he is convinc-
ing talker. He has dignified bear
ing and speaks distinctly in a deep,
bass voice. = ........-..,,..=.=
@''' Life History.
Lynn P.aFrazier was born on a
farm in Rice county, Minnesota, on
December 81, 1874. His father came
with his family to North Dakota in
the spring of 1881, and settled on
Section 33 of Township 159, Range
81, in Pembina county, then In Da-
kota territory. Thomas Frazier,
Lynn Frazier's father, built there q
little sod house in which his family
lived for several years. Lynn Fraz-
ier's present home is on the same
place. It is the old homestead, prac-
tically the only home he has ever
known.
The boy Lynn began his education
in the country school in his neighbor-
hood. After that he went to Grafton
high school, where he graduated at
the age of II, something of a record
for a country boy who had his chores
to do and was able to do q mans
work in the summer time. His faith
er had died a year before and he and
his brothers had taken up the work
OF running the farm.
The next fall, Lynn, mature and
manly for mis- age, began teaching
country school. He was at that two
years and he developed an ambition
to become q we'll educated man, hav-
ing visions of profession. He
thought of being lawyer and then
of being doctor. Later 1t was
toward that profession that his aims
began to shape themselves.
Saving Money to Learn a Profession.
He saved q little money in two
years of teaching and he hiked of to
Mayville when 10 to enter the Nor
NAL. He had improved his time so
well that he was able to complete the
course there in a year, graduating
with that institutions first class in
1896.
With his teachers and classmates
predicting for him brilliant future
in whatever profession he might
adopt, but with his savings used up,
Lynn went back to teaching school.
He was 20 years old then. He didn't
become of age until the following
winter.
He kept at country school teaching
again for two years, saving up money
and nursing his ambition. A brother
was to succeed to the farm. He was
to be free for the distinguished ca
reer for which his family all knew
he WAS destined. Fame and distinc-
tion sometimes come in ways not ex-
pected.
In the fall Of 1897 young Frazier
then nearly %, entered the state uni
versity 1T Grand Forks. He had a
little money, but not much, enough to
take him through, he thought, with
what he could earn in the summer.
He had been classmate at May
vile Normal with N. c. Mcdonald,
who by . strange coincidence is also
now running for state Office and also
with the endorsement Of the Nom
Partisan league. Frazier and Mac
donald had q room together and
''batched" during their college career.
Playing Football His College
Diversion.
They were not roisterers, but they
were not altogether digs" Frazier's
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