The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-03-21
Nonpartisans Call On
Equity to ''Clean House"
In Response to Attack

The Nonpartisan Leader in this
weeks edition. answering the criticism
OF Gov. Lynn ]. Frazier. voiced last
week by The Co-operators' Herald.
the Society of Equity publication,
makes an appeal 10 the members Of
that organization TO clean house"
The Nonpartisan Leader places the
burden OF responsibility for the attack
upon Governor Frazier upon the
MANAGEMENT Of The Co-Operators'
Herald. insisting that the view ex-
pressed BY that publication ID not the
view Of the rank and file Of the So
ciety OF Equity.
Frazier. which was based on the
executives veto Of the terminal eleva-
tor. is unjustifed. Is maintained by
The Nonpartisan Leader. which re-
peats assertions previously made as 70
the supposed unworkability OF the bill
in question. and as they were set forth
by the governor in his veto message
In concluding its article. The Non
partisan Leader declares the only step
open to the Society Of Equity in the
present situation is to rid itself or the
men responsible for the attack upon
the governor-and The Leader init
mates that there are men within the
petent to accomplish that result.
The Leader Article.
The Nonpartisan Leader article,
in part, follows: Within the last few
days an attack from unexpected quar-
ter has been made upon Lynn ]. Fra
zier the farmers governor OF North
Dakota. While farmers and leaders
Of farmers organizations from all over
the state have been praising the good
sense OF Governor Frazier in disap-
proving senate bill 81, the old gangs
be - =
ors' Herald, supposed to be an organ
Of the farmers movement, has made
bitter and unfair attack upon the
governor for his veto of the bill.
In this amazing and unexplsinable
action the editor Of the Co-operators'
Herald, who has heretofore posed as
a sincere. friend Of the farmer, has
of The Grand Forks Herald and Nor
manden, the persistent foes of the
farmers interests. He has ranged him
self alongside the old gang in the FIJI
teenth North Dakota assembly, whose
members cunningly designed this
fake bill to trap the farmer legisla-
tors and who rejoiced with open glee
when 1t passed: and alongside the
Minneapolis chamber OF commerce and
all the big interests allied with it in
its fight on the farmer.
At a critical point in the battle for
their rights the farmers have been
betrayed by a leader they have trust
ed.
The grounds upon which the Coop
orators Herald makes its ill-timed and
regrettable attack upon the farmers
governor are the same grounds on
which the old gang members in the
senate urged the passage OF the bill.
Material for Attack.
Il is impossible to say whether the
editor of The Herald designed this at
tack to furnish ammunition TO the
enemies of the League to fight the
farmers cause, but the nature and the
occasion Of the attack seems to justify
that suspicion.
THE governors action has aroused
the Equity men to a realization of the
fact that the Equity fight is again un-
successful-this time at the hands Of
q man who owes his election to the
battle for a state-owned elevator"
says the Co-operators' Herald.
At the very moment when these de-
ceitfuI words were written real Equity
leaders in all parts of the state were
engaged in writing to Governor Fraz-
Ter their whole-hearted approval OF
his action in vetoing this old gang