The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1919-10-17
ALL LEAGUE MEMBERS
TO MEET OCT. 31>t

| The time has now come for the
members Of the NonMrtisan League
to ACT.
For the last year the work of or
ganizing has been going on. Meetings
have been held. Agitation has beer
the order Of the day.
The thing that must now be done
is to get into the harness and GO.
The Richards primary law goes in
to operation this year 1t involves
much political machinery which at
first glance appears complicated and
confusing, but is seally not so. In
fact, it is. very simle Certain steps
must be taken and those steps must
be taken as the law requires.
The Nonpartisan League is to act as
separate political party. At confer
ence held in Mitchell on September
18th the delegates from the various
counties agreed unanimously that
they would cut loose from the old DO.
litical parties and GO 1T ALONE,
trusting to the good sense of the vot.
ers to sustain them in the purpose tc
maintain real peoples political par
ty committed to the definite inten-
tion of doing something to eradicate
political and economic abuse.
III is the purpose to clean out thu
court houses and put stop to the
habit of changing seats among the
various court house rings.
1t is the purpose to clean out the
state house, from cellar to garret, and
get rid of the professional tax eaters
who form the preesnt political ma
chine of this state
In order to accomplish this end ii
will be necessary for each member of
the League and those who help it to
Begin Right. Every man who belongs
to the League should make it His
Personal Burden to go to the pre-
liminary caucuses and select none
but the strongest, cleanest, most
active and Intelligent men in his pre-
cinct for delegates to the county con-
ventions.
These delegates will select the dele
r gates to the state convention to be
held at Pierre on the End of Decem-
Der. Thf delegates to the state
convention should be the ream of
your courage, brains and integrity
The county. Legislative and state
tickets Should be mxn-of .cuYfv4f,., ,,AY,,,
and sense who will stand true to your
program. The professional politi-
csns-.he fellows who are ALWAYS
pussy-footing-should be ditchea as
soon as they show up. The expert
ence of North Dakota with her trail
tors should be lasting lesson. This is
a case where men should he taken INV
selective draft, and those selected
should be willing to serve for the good
OF the cause. Self-seekers must he
passed up. They cannot be depended
upon because they think more of
themselves than they do of the canse
and the CAUSE is the ONLY THING
which concerns the great mass of
people who are to be benefited by a
change of government.
FROM now on our motto should he
LET'S CO. and that means that
everybody must go, en- masss.
How to Proceed at Precinct NIcctinu
1t will be necessary for the League
10 form Temporary party organiza-
eion IN every precinct, and Temporary
county organization i'm each county of
Ihe State to get ready for the regular
leeal elections to be held under the
new primary law. In order to form
inns organization, members of this
League should proceed as follows. and
carry out the program to the letter.
l. Go to your regular precinct
polling place at $3.50 p. III. Tuesd4
october 2lst. After having satisfied
yourself that those present are mem
bers OF the League and entitled to
vote, organize the meeting by elect
ing chairman and secretary. Having
done this proceed to the business of
the meeting, which is the election r.
temporary precinct chairman, to act
as your party chairman for the pre-
cinct. Select him with the view of
making him your Permanent precinct
party chairman Tor the next TWO years
to be voted for and legally elected at
the regular legal election which will
be held in each precinct on the 18th
day of November.
Delegates to the county convention
must be elected in each precinct on
November 11th, or there can be no
county convention on November 18th.
II no legal county convention is held
on the 18th Of November 1t will be
impossible for the League to have