Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1916-01-28
.Non-Partisan
League Strong
Movement Has Swept the State
It is Planned To Have a Great
Convention and at I',at C0nven-
ton History Will Be Made-Fargo
Should Invite Farmers.
(Fargo Forum)


The Non partisan league-what is
it?
The question has been asked
good many times the past year. Who
is back of it, what do they want and
what they intend to do? are some of
the many questions that have been
asked regarding it. Some of these
queries have been asked The Forum,
and is must be confessed that until
recently The Forum knew little about
it.
Today, however, The Forum can
answer the first question. The Nom
partisan league is an uprising of the
farmers Of North Dakota ALMOST
TO A MAN
Perhaps that was not the aim of
the men who originated the name
and who launched the movement. I'm
doubtedly this movement has gone far
beyond the. widest expectations of
those who set it going.
But it has spread like wildfire and
has swept the state of North Dakota.
Today it is the dominant power in
political affairs of the state. Don't
make any mistake about that. The
.Non-partisan league is going to make
a housecleaning in North Dakota
politics or The Forum is greatly mis-
taken. ~
The Forum does not know who the
leaders Of tbs organization are, but
it does know who the rank and file
are and in them this paper has the
utmost confidence and for them it
has the greatest respect.
The rank and file of the Non-par-
tisan league are tn farmers, of North
Dakota. From the Red River valley
to the far Missouri slope, from South
Dakota to the Canadian boundary,
like the minute men of the revolution
they are ready for revolt. And they
are in deadly earnest. They are out
for purpose and they do not pro-
pose to be sidetracked.
The farmers propose to form a
great organization. In every county
there is to be county convention.
That convention will be made up of
delegates elected from tn hundreds of
local organizations of the Non-parti-
san league. Each county convention
and these delegates will be pledged
to certain program of action.
This state convention promises to
be the most representative gathering
of farmers ever held in the state of
North Dakota.
These men will not be radicals, or
socialists or anarchists as some peo-
pie seem to believe. They will be the
farmers Of the state in convention
assembled.
Any city in North Dakota ought to
be proud to entertain such a gather
ing. 1t will be a gathering that is
going to make history. 1t will map
out definite program, the object of
which will be to make the farmer in
dependent Of the grain speculator; of
the "loanshark" banker who flourish
es in some Of the newer sections of
the state; Of the meat trust that dom
mates the live stock industry and of
the cheap, petty grating politician
who uses his office to build his own
political fortunes instead of working
in the interest of his constituents.
The Forum believes that great
things may come out Of this move
ment for the state Of North Dakota
and that the city Of Fargo should
extend to the farmers Of the state
a cordial invitation to come here fol
their convention, promising them MOI
only cordial welcome and the bes
entertainment the city affords, bu
also the hearty sympathy and thu
active cooperation Of the citizens o!
Fargo, in this effort to secure thh'
political and economic freedom o1
the citizens Of the state.