The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1919-09-15
RABID REDS AID
N0NP AR TlSANS
TO GET NEW DAY
Radical Socialists Are Helping
League Workers to Lead
Nebraska to "the Light

Omaha, Neb., Sept. 15.-A new con
stitution for Nebraska is to be written
this winter. The last legislature au-
th0rized constitutional convention
and provided for an election OF dele
gates this fall The convention will
meet in november.
As soon as the bill authorizing the
election OF delegates to the convention
was enacted into law, the Nonpartisan
league got busy and openly declared it
intended dominating that convention
and making constitution along the
lines of the policy Of the league.
The nonpartisans claim $4,000 voting
members in Nebraska, with a member
ship all the way from the Missouri
river to the Wyoming state line and
flom the South Dakota boundary to
the Kansas line. Their organizers are
at work all over the state. In new
communities these organizers are work
ing secretly, living with the farmers
and not going near the towns nor even
the small villages SO anxious are they
that their work be not known.
They are even holding the checks
given them by members until the en-
tire community is organized. Many OF
these organizers are "red card" So
cialists. They are maintening school
for organizers in Lincoln and are
teaching and instructing their men how
best to approach their prospects.
GET AID FROM RADICALS
The Nonpartisans leaguers have OBJ
tot Of
radical democrats and the radical
republicans in their fight for control
OF the convention and they are prepar-
ing to put up the hottest campaign
Nebraska ever experienced. They have
tried to tie-up with union labor and to
a certain degree have succeeded in
getting the support Of the socialist end
Of union labor, but have not yet OBJ
tanned the official support Of that or
ganiZation.
One of the provisions the non
rartisans will seek to write into the
new constitution is to enlarge the
amount of Indebtedness which the state
can acquire. At present Nebraska, by
constitutional provision, can have
bonded Indebtedness not to exceed
100000. The nonpartisans hope to
change this provision and permit an
unlimited Indebtedness. With TINS
provision as a corner stone. the leagu-
ers can then provide for state owner
shin of elevators, warehouses, rail
roads, banks. packing houses, and any
thing else the red card men desire,
once they have the means of issuing
state bonds in unlimited amounts.
A FEDERATION OF FARMERS
The New Nebraska Federation,
which is being organized to defeat the
Nonpartisan league in the latters
plans to control the constitutional con-
vention, is composed of business and
professional men of all parties, and or
many solid farmers and workmen. The
Federation intends selecting good men
for the convention, regardless of party
affiliation, but it will see that no
Ieaguers are elected if possible.
@. G.. Smith of Kearney, is president
of the federation. Smith is president
of the Nebraska Farmers congress ana
one of the most prominent farmers OF
the state. w. G. Thompson Of Lincoln,
is chairman Of the executive committee
and Horace M. Davis, editor of news
paper at Ord, Neb,, is secretary of the
organization.