The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1917-01-17
FARMERS LEAGUE
IS BRANCHING OUT
Move 10 Make Recently Estab-
Iishod Union Nation Wide,
SUCCESS IN NORTH DAKOTA
N%onpartisan Political League Carried
Recent Election In That State, Win
ming G%overnorship and Legislature.
Four More States Join-Pian Public
Ownership Of Food Plants.


Ownership Of Food Plants.
Naturalization OF the Nonpartisan
Political league. an organization OF
farmers which swept the political
boards OF North Dakota In the last
campaign, has been announced at Bis
marck by A. c. Townley, president of
the organization.
With the removal OF the leagues
headquarters from Fargo, N. d., to st
Paul, Mimi, comes the statement that
organization work Is to be carried on
In four more states, Iowa, Nebraska.
Michigan and Wisconsin being added
to the list Of states I'm which h asso
citation will work.
North Dakota, South Dakota, Mime
sofa and Montana are already being
organized. and later. President Town
ley says, the organization work will be
extended TO the Pacific coast states
the southwest and the extreme south.
"The removal of the headquarters
and the launching Of our organization
Moth III tuC ~ bthtto &at 49,
movement has become national In Its
scope" said President Townley. 'The
program OF the Nonpartisan league In
North Dakota In Its essential seeks to
find a remedy for alleged economic
abuses from which the farmers In the
state have suffered.
What They Plan to Do.
Programs In other states In which
organization work Is going forward are
almost exactly similar. They call for
strict state supervision of marketing
conditions and public ownership OF i'm
portant industries which relate to the
marketing of the farmers products,
such as grain elevators, by which II Is
proposed to establish a fair system OF
grades aud marketing, packing houses.
cold storage plants and flour mills.
ultimately said President Town
ley, I'VE shall have federal ownership
of grain elevators and other important
and necessary adjuncts to marketing
which are now controlled by monopoly
to the great injury of every citizen OF
the United States, consumers OF farm
products as well as farmers"
President Townley says 1t Is planned
to have a great national gathering OF
the league members I'm st. Paul within
the next two years, probably within
the next year, which he believes viii
be the greatest gathering Of farmers
ever held.
J Each OF the states In which the or
ganization Is now under way has al
} executive board Of farmers living II
! that state.
: Success Brings Recruits.
: Rapid progress has also been mad
/, In South Dakota and Montana. Th
leagues success In capturing the stat
administration OF North Dakota an
almost the entire legislature has Civ
en- the league considerable impetu
. throughout the west.
J That the league will become a facto
= In the next federal election Is the fir
e belief OF President Townley and th
other leaders In the movement. Thei
organization work In the eight state
that have been tested up to date wi
y he followed within a year, 1t is undeI
d stood, by organization work In oths
e states.
Thus ultimately the league expect
to become the dominant political IA
tor throughout the middle west and th
far west. In each OF the states whel
organization work will be taken up a
executive committee OF FIVE member
y will be selected to carry On the nov
ment, the national organization, hea,
ed by President Townley, topping o
The entire movement.