The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1917-01-23
Move 10 Make Recently EStab-
IiShed Union Nation Wide.
SUCCESS IN NORTH DAKOTA
Nonpartisan Political League Carried
Recent Election In That State, Win
ming Governorship and Legislature
Four More States Join-Plan Public
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 in which the 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
work IN the other states means the
movement has become national In it's
scope" said President Townley. THE
program of the Nonpartisan league in
North Dakota in its essential seeks to
lind Il remedy FOR alleged economic
abuses from which the farmers IN the
state have suffered
What They Plan to Do.
Programs la 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 10 establish a fair system of
/ grades and marketing. packing houses.
cold storage plants and -four mills
Ultimately" said President Town
| ley. we 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 we'll as farmers"
President Townley says 1t Is planned
/ TO have great national gathering of
the league members In st. Paul within
the next two years. probably within
/ the next year, which he believes will
be the greatest gathering of farmers
ever held.
/ Each of the states I'm which the or.
/ n IL
executive board of farmers living i'm
that state.
Success Brings Recruits.
Rapid progress has also been made
in South Dakota and Montana The
leagues success In capturing the state
administration of North Dakota and
almost the entire legislature has Civ
en the league considerable impetus
throughout the west.
That the league will become a factor
in the next federal election is the firm
belief of President Townley and the
other leaders in the movement. Their
organization work in the eight states
that have been tested up to date will
be followed within year. 1t is under
stood, by organization work In Other
| states.
Thus ultimately the league expects
to become the dominant political fac
tor throughout the middle west and the
far west. In each of the states where
organization work will be taken up an
executive committee of five members
will be selected TO carry on the move
ment, the national organization, head
ed by President Townley. topping of
the entire movement.