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The nonpartisan leader., 1918-03-04

getner. We kept at them. We put organizers in the
field, and said to the farmers:
erE Here, now. You are Democrat You have been
voting as a Democrat all your life. Your neighbor
has been voting all his life as Republican, and an.
other neighbor Socialist and another voting as
a Bull Mooser but the trouble with us is that it
don't make any difference which party is in power
we are in the same boat. We don't get anywhere"
We proved to the farmers that it didn't make any
difference whether you Democrat or Re.
publican when you took your wheat to town. the
elevator man didn't ask you whether you were a
Democrat or Republican, but he says wheat
went down ten cents bushel this morning" ZAP.
plause.)
When you 60 in to buy some bacon, the butcher
don't ask you whether you are Democrat or
Republican. He says: "Thirtyseven cents pound"
and you pay it. So we said the thing for us to do
is to go out and pick some good men who will go
to the legislature, men whose friends live in the
state of North Dakota; men who are not so well
acquainted with the manipulators outside of the
state What we want to do is elect men for office
yUho don't kno hodv 1tci1 fho
The nonpartisan leader., 1918-03-04

business, he has to be in pretty good trim He can't
eat light stuff, and the Minneapolis Chamber of
Commerce-the grain trust-have learned that they
have to provide concentrated food for the farmers.
Now here is how they do it. They take the oats,
grind them up into breakfast food and ship them
back to us and sell them to at high price Cap
plause.) 1t was the wild oats in the blood of the
North Dakota farmers which enabled to build
the Nonpartisan league in summer (Applause)
We never undertake anything up there that we
can't finish in one summer, because we don't know
whether we will be there next summer or not
WHAT FORTY THOUSAND FARMERS
IN NORTH DAKOTA DID
Now this dockage alone amounts to about S7,OO0-
900 year. Think Of that! Seven million dollars in
dockage, and seeds, and mustard, which we gave
to the Minneapolis Chamber Of Commerce, accord
ing to the best expert advice we can get and the
farmer that couldn't see his way clear to give the
SIG to save the $55,OO0000 could see his way clear
to give the SIG to stop this $7OOOOO0 dockage be-
cause we explained If we could save $7OOO,O0O in
one year, it would pay our membership for 20 years
or more
The nonpartisan leader., 1918-03-04

Then he came ILL., We got pretty near all Of them.
We got 900 farmers in the state of North Dakota
to join the Nonpartisan league in summer, for the
purpose of electing men to Office who would be
friendly to the farmers of the state, and not so
friendly with the Minneapolis Chamber of Com
merce.
AS a result of this organization campaign, and
educational campaign, the farmers in North Dakota
and their friends at the first election elected prac-
tically everybody from governor to dog-catcher
Only lost one man the state ticket Out of 10
representatives the farmers elected 49, and out of
rs senators they elected 49, but there were "a SEN
ators that held over; that u.s. didn't have chance
to vote on those senators; they elected for
four years the election before. AS result the hold
over senators who had been elected two years
before by the Minneapolis Chamber of Commerce.
the grain combine, still had majority in the SEN
ate, so we were not able to perform the program
OF the organization in very large measure.
We did, however, get through Is or 80 laws any
one of which worth to the farmer the price he
paid to belong to the organization We got the state
The nonpartisan leader., 1918-03-04

grain grading law, and now IF a fellow
sells his grain and don't get square
deal, he calls up on the telephone
calls up the inspector of grains to come
down-and he comes down and
straightens it up. You only have to
do that few times and then they all
get straight I think THAT one law
has saved the farmers of the state this
year probably $3,OO0,0OO or $4,000
in the grading of their grain.
The nonpartisan leader., 1918-03-04
TIME FOR THE FARMERS
TO GET ORGANIZED

Let me talk little bit about your
selves as farmers. You noticed that
the most important part of anybody's
business is what he gets for what he
sells. The most important part of the
bankers business in this town is how
much he gets for his money, the rate
of interest, and how much it costs to
foreclose on farmer. The most i'm
portant part of the railroad business
is the railroad freight and passenger
rates. The most important part of the
barber's business is how much he gets
for cutting hair. A barber would be
a funny sort of a fellow that didn't pay
any attention to the price Of the hair
cut, wouldn't he? A barber who didn't
care, anything about the price Of the
hair cut and just wanted plenty of
hair to cut, would bea funny creature.
Now, the most important part of the
farmers business, likewise, is how
much he gets, not for cutting. hair, but
for raising wheat, ETC., and how much
he pays for the things that he has to
buy. 7sJ4.. go.
Now, the bankers are very we'll
organized, and fix the rate of in
terest. The railroads are very we'll
organized and fix the railroad pas
senger and freight rtes. The water
power CORPORATIONS are organized
and fix the rates. John d. Rockefeller
is pretty we'll organized. He fixes
the price of gasoline. Even the
The nonpartisan leader., 1918-03-04


bootblack has attended to the most important part
OF his business: The I. w. WIS work hard to build
an organization to attend to the most important
part or their business, because the most important
part of his business is not what you get for 20 BUSH
els OF wheat, but how much he gets for shocking
the wheat. Since everybody else all other groups
OF producers and workers; since all other groups
OF Observation-Disclosures, bankers, doctors, boot
blacks, l. w. WIS and all the rest-have attended
to the most important part of their business, am
sure that the farmer has not neglected that matter
am sure that because everybody else has attended
to the most important part of their business that
you must have attended to it.
ARE THE FARMERS
REALLY INDEPENDENT?
have been told all my life that you are ind II ##
pendent American farmers. l know that you al
Independent farmers, because all those fellows til
handle the wheat and potatoes say you are. The
tell it from morning until night that you are inde-
pendent American farmers. You. know that they
never lie. heard farmer the other day say that
his Interpretation of an independent" American
farmer was that he was Sin" about as far as he
The nonpartisan leader., 1918-03-04

Wiz e1O1R 1kf1OU UOUy OUCoIUC CIIC
state Of North Dakota; farmers, and
men who understand the problems of
farming.
The nonpartisan leader., 1918-03-04
The Farmer:-"NOW EATTT, DURN YE"
NEED MONEY TO FIGHT
FORCES OF BIG BUSINESS

So the farmers he said: "I guess you
are right" We said "see here, now,
it costs money to build up a political
organization, and we want you to
! scratch your name down here and pay
SIC as membership fee, So year for
the two years, to carry it along and
pay the expense" That was when ~
they bucked They said Sixteen dol
lars!" '..@.< ~ ,...
You know, the farmers of North Da E..
kOta haven't been in the habit of con-
tributing to the campaign fund, mean !
that they haven't been in the habit
of contributing to the campaign fund IN
in way SO that they would notice it. M
They contributed all right. They paid w
more than SIG EVERY YEAR but they "
didn't notice it. YOU CAN DO ANY ~
THING TO A FELLOW, IF HE DON'T
NOTICE 1T. When we come to get
ting the SIG, picking it right out of VIM
their pockets, to pay the expense of I//UE
the organization, you bet your bottom fIZA ~
dollar they noticed THAT in good lNM24kN
shape. z<s }N48RM|
They said: Sixteen dollars, 10000 MHN}&
farmers; that is an awful lot of MIN$
money" &S4S<l
"Yes" we said, "that is an awful lot -
OF money. 1t looks like lot Of money 49,
to- you, but it is because you are not 49,
used to handling very much (Laugh
ter and applause.) We said to them:
"It is only very small part-it would
be around half, million dollars-it is
a very small part of $55, 100000 we are
losing" but lot of them couldn't un- V&&Bze
der stand. They couldn't understand 8
that we were losing $550OO,OOO. Lots
of them come right in; whole town
ships, as fast as we come to them.
/ am talking about the man that was hard to ge
These men couldn't understand that we were losin
$55,OO0,O00. They said: t'It is more money than W
got for our wheat; $1,000 is more than we got
MUSTARD SEED AND
WtLD. OATS CLEAR PROFIT :.
We said: perhaps so but look here when yo
take load of wheat up to the elevator they doc
YOU" Yes, yes, the farmers could understand tha
They have the habit in North" Dakota of dockin
the farmers wheat If we should take SO bushel
of wheat in the house, scatter it out on the foo
and get all the kids busy. and hand pick it. an
then it and dry it, and put it back in the sack
and take it to the elevator, they would dock us
pound to the bushel anyway Yes, they say the
would.
They say they have got to do it. It is principl
they don't want to relinquish for a moment. (Laugl
ter) They always dock us, and if we take in som
cracked wheat, they dock us for the cracked wheat
If we have any fax in the wheat, they dock us fo
the flax and IL we take in fax with wheat in /
they dock us for the wheat. It is principle wit
them, and even though mustard is worth more tina
$17 bushei. they don't pay us a penny for i
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1918-11-08

dates for Congress in the State, but
all were defeated.
Representative jeanette Rankin, of
Montana, the first woman to hold a
seat In Congress, was not running for
reelection to the House, but contest
ed independently for a Senate seat
after being defeated in the Repub-
lican primaries.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1918-11-08
GUIDE ISSUED TO
LOCAL BOARDS
New Instructions Regarding
Classifications Are
Sent Out.

Frankfort. Ky, Nov. 7..Regis-
trants for military service must be
classified in accordance with the Sc
lective service regulations and not in
accordance with the brief indicatory
statements in the subdivisions on the
first page of the QUESTIONABLE. These
subdivisions are merely to be re-
garded as guide to indicate the
proper subdivision of the class in
which the rgeistrant actually belongs.
This instruction was mailed today
by Mai. Henry F. Rhodes, chief of
selective service in Kentucky, to all
the local boards in Kentucky, The
occasion for this instruction is that
many of the missionaries were
printed before the last draft law was
passed by Congress and as result
there is a conflict between some of
the provisions of the statute and the
QUESTIONABLE.
For the present the involuntary in
duction of registrants of the Septem-
Der, 1918, class shall be construed to
include only registrants who were
on September IL, 1918, between the
ages of 10 and So. In the induction
of men into the army the age of the
registrant shall be construed to
mean the age on September ~.
The following changes will be
made to accord with the order of the
secretary of agriculture changing
designations of certain field officers
of the Department of Agriculture to
file and approve afiidavits for defer
ment of government employees in the
field service of that department. In
lieu of the text under Bureau of
Animal Industry" substitute the fol-
lowing, John r. Mohler, chief, or
In the absence of the chief, b. II.
Rawl, acting chief" In lieu of the
text under Forest Service substi-
tute the following, Henry S. Graves,
forester, or in the absence of the for
ester, Albert Potter, acting forester;
under Division of Publication for
Joseph A. Arnold substitute Edw. b.
Reid. In lieu of the text under of
flee of Farm Management" substi-
| tute Il. ii. Thomson.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1918-11-08
FOURTH LIBERTY LOAN.

The Fourth Liberty Loan went
over with a whoop. The total sold
amounted to nearly seven billions OF
dollars. Some popular anxiety was
cit in the last days of the drive, when
the end approached and the goal was
not in sight, but it is apparent now
that the big financial interests wait
ed for as much of the loan as possible
to be taken by the public, and then
came down with the big sum that
shot away over the goal. Ohio
county did splendidly, subscribing
more than fifty thousand above its
quota The alacrity with which the
country absorbes these enormous
bond issues shows the splendid finan-
cial condition of the country. Until
we got into the war a little more
than a year ago the United States
was garnering the wealth of the
world, and when the test came was
well-prepared to finance the war.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1918-11-08
RATIONED FOR FIVE
DAYS BY AIRPLANE


Special to The Courier Journal
Frankfort, KY, Nov. Allow the
lost battalion" in the Forest of Ar
gonne was fed by the modern sub
stitute for the biblical raven was
told, prehaps for the first time, by
the Rev. Roger T. Nooe, pastor of the
First Christian church, who has just
returned from six months hitch
with the Y. M. c. A. overseas.
He said he was in a hut behind the
lines in that region one Sunday when
a Lieutenant entered and asked the
attendant for some cigarettes and
chocolate.
He said battalion of New York
troops had been cut off and practical
ly surrounded by the Huns in the Ar
come, and they were sending them
supplies by the air.
They wanted to send them choco-
late and cigarettes, and they were
furnished, and every day for the five
days until the battalion was rescued,
an airplane dropped them their sup
plies, including a ration of cigarettes
and chocolate from the Y, M. G. A.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1918-11-08
WAR PRICE PUMPKINS.

Nothing we have heard in the way
of war prices has quite reached the
record made for pumpkins, at Mar
rows, short time ago. o. p. Willis,
who will buy anything from a horse
hide to a second hand saw mill, got
into the market for limited supply
of pumpkins few for family
use, Tarlton Lloyd, farmer who
raises everything from timothy hay to
gooble peas, had pumpkins for sale.
Neither Willis nor Lloyd had seen re-
cent quotations of the pumpkin mar
ket, but after much quibbling about
prices Willis agreed to pay Lloyd a
cent pound for the product. Lloyd
delivered three pumpkins that weigh
ed out one dollar and twenty-one
cents worth. Lloyd, amazed at the
get-rich-Quick scheme he had work
ed on Willis, gave him a rebate OF
twenty-One cents. III a fellow wants
a fight now all he has TO do to get il,
and to get il quick, is TO offer to sell
Willis pumpkins,
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1918-11-08
RTFORD, OHIO COUNTY KY. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1918.

woman and child and to most of the
dogs along the line. But later. the
old gang scattered to the four winds
of the earth, and we had lost track
of them until a few nights ago, see
ing one of the old veterans back on
the run, we inquired about the re-
mainder of the crews that so long
worked together. 1t has occurred to
us that many other people living
along the line would feel the same in
terest in the matter that we did, so
bers, who we're in the service from
about the beginning of the present
century until about 1912. Bob Moore,
the passenger conductor, whom
everybody loved and laughed with,
has turned agriculturist, and owns a
fine farm on the river, just above
Owensboro. Henry vitteto, the freight
conductor, who could move trains
and handle freight faster than any
other conductor who ever gave the
GO ahead" signal on the branch line,
Is foreman of switching crew, for
the Texas road at Greensboro. Jock
Thixton, who swung the flagman's
lantern first under Capt. Riley and
later under Bob Moore, is with a
switching crew in Indianapolis, Indi-
ana. Pate, | have forgotten his other
name, but everybody knew Pate, is
railroadng in st. Louis. John Smith,
who will be remembered for his much
speaking and being always in hurry,
has a run out of Monet, Missouri.
George Arnold, longest in the service
and without whom a branch line
number of years, has been off duty
since last spring, on account of poor
health, has improved recently, and
hopes to be pulling the bell cord on
the branch line passenger train before
many moons. And last, but not
least, Ernest Brown, known as
Brownie" after railroading for a
number of years in the west, is again
tagging on the greensboro and III.
Branch run. We were about to for
get to mention that Bill Reed, who
has been pulling an engine on the
branch line since the memory of man
runneth not to the contrary, still
has his hand on the throttle of the
passenger engine.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1918-11-08
Big WAREHOUSE
QUITS BUSINESS
Louisville Tobacco Ware
house Co. Votes To
Liquidate.

The contest between two groups
of stockholders in the Louisville To-
bacco Warehouse Company over the
question of liquidation by a MAORI
ty of directors at a recent meeting
was decided in favor of the faction
that stood for winding up the bus
mess at a special meeting of share
holders held yesterday in the cor
poration's general Offices at Tenth
and Main streets.
Victory in the contest went to the
liquidation element by a majority
vote equaling almost four to one. A
total of 1924 shares was voted by
both sides, and of this number the
liquidation crowd received $1,000, as
compared to 1924 shares cast for the
side that opposed the idea of liqui-
dation.
Will Dispose of Assets.
A committee consisting of j. C..
Bright, H. +. Larimore and Laban
Phelps was appointed by the share
holders with instructions to dispose
of all assets available, consisting OF
tobacco stocks on hand, real estate
and buildings and transportation
equipment, and arrange for the re-
tirement of outstanding stock with
the proceeds of the sale.
The committee now is in full
charge of the business, and it is un-
derstood it will begin laying plans
at once for a conversion of the as
sets into cash.
To Close Out business.
This decision of the shareholders
yesterday means that the Louisville
Tobacco Warehouse Company, which
few years ago maintained the larg-
est tobacco breaks in the South, vir-
tually is no more, and this in spite
of the fact that the fall tobacco sea-
son is at hand. The committee
winding up the business, OF course,
will not purchase or handle any more
Tobacco On the pfodhS uSiS iOi w"
FARMERS out in the State, and there
fore Louisville's great tobacco mar
ket, with the exception of a small
volume of business which will be
carried ON by a few independents, Is
gone unless some big syndicate is
formed at once to take over the ware
houses and invest new capital "a
continue.
The contest decided yesterday was
between factions of directors and
stockholders led by President David
A. Keller and Secretary Brown C.
Crawford on the one hand and
Messrs. Bright, Larimore and Phelps
on the other.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1918-11-08
SURRENDER RUMORS.

At the hour OF going to press,
bulletins were posted in all the cities
saying that dispatches announced
that Germany had accepted peace
terms, though one dispatch stated
that denial of that fact had been
made by General Pershing. AT any
rate, there is something doing of
much moment and importance and
the greater probability is that before
this is in our readers hands peace
will be restored to this battle-scarred
world and millions of war-weary men
may drop the implements of death
from their tired hands for a time at
least
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1918-11-08
MADE A COLONEL.

Judge and Mrs. James Montgom-
cry, of Elizabethtown, have received
notice that their son, John C. Mont
gomery, one of General Liggett's staff
officers on France, has been signally
honored for bravery on the field of
battle. A report of his action was
read before his regiment, and he was
promoted to the rank of Colonel.
Col. Montgomery is only thirty-six
years old and is a graduate of West
Point. Col. Montgomery is nephew
of Judge r. w. Slack, and his wife
is daughter of Gen. Fitzhugh Lee.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1918-11-08
OCTOGENAIAN WEEDS.

DR.. ID. S. Hale and Mrs. M. A. Ma
lone. both of Fordsville, were married
by Judge Cook, at the Court house.
Saturday. The groom is S3 years
old and a well known physician, who
has practiced medicine at Fordsyille
for many years. The bride is only
So. May the Doctors days of
welded happiness be happy, If not so
overly long i'm the land.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1918-11-08
Wife And MOTHER ON
The PARTISAN. APPEAL
Nebraska Woman With Hus-
band And Son in France
Replies.

The following telegram, sent to
President Wilson by Nebraska
woman, appeared in the Sunday
morning issue of the Omaha Bee:
Omaha, Now 1, 191S.-My Dear
Mr.. President: The papers contain
your appeal, asking people to support
you by voting only for Democrats at
the coming election so you may be
'unembarrassed' by Republicans
whose loyalty you question. You adj
dress My Fellow-countrymen,' which
l take it includes me, though l am a
woman, and | take it on myself to
speak for my husband and my son,
who are both wearing the uniform
and can not answer your letter except
as they are answering it over there
That you may know ours is not
a paper patriotism l give you these
simple facts: l own and personally
operate a large hospital. At the out
break of the war 1 rendered the hos
pital, with all its equipment, facili-
ties and nurses, to the government.
My son volunteered and has been for
months in the big drive in France.
My husband was a surgeon with an
extensive practice. He was past the
draft age, but when the call came he
gladly gave up his business and is
now on his way to France in charge
of base hospital.
Bought Bonds Literally.
when the Liberty loan campaign
was on he directed me to buy all the
bonds his credit would stand and we
subscribed cheerfully and literally to
the Red Cross and Y. M. c. A. To
make sure my husband and my son
might be 'unembarrassed' in fighting
for our country l gave up my house
and am living at my hospital, which
incidentally has furnished for service
eight of its staff and more than TWEEN
ty nurses.
''Do you think, Mr.. President. it is
no sacrifice for a woman to give up
her home and all that is near and
dear to her?
''Can you be surprised, then. that
am dumb with establishment at
your letter, which would have me
believe that it is disgraceful and dis
loyal to vote for Republican?
Asks Some Questions.
"If my husband and son are good
enough patriots to fight the battles
of their country and risk their lives
for us who stay at home would they.
if one were a candidate fon Congress,
be less patriotic and less to be trust
ed because they are Republicans? IL
/ lived in a State where could vote
would l be manifesting a dislOyalty
that would embarrass you if l voted
for my husband as a Republican,
believing he could serve his country
as well at Washington as in France?
"Inasmuch as the men most love
are fighting at the front do you won
der that | am disturbed by your ap-
peal? Is it strange that i want to
know what is the matter with them;
that want to know if they are not
100 per cent for Uncle Sam?
Il thought you asked us a little
while ago to forget politics and think
only of winning the war. How, then.
do you now ask us to forget what you
then said and follow your orders in
politics? In all candor. Mr.. Presi-
dent, ask you, are you playing
fair?"
MARGARET A. HENRY"
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1918-11-08
THE OLD CREW.

For a goodly number of years the
train crews on the greensboro branch
of the Illinois Central RAILROAD saw
few changes, and the rolling-stock
boys were known to every man,