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The nonpartisan league fellows are
laughing their heads off at the turn OF
the wheel politically. In Minnesota
thew have about a dozen candidates
for governor running in opposition 10
the league and in North Dakota we
have several and probably more com.
;np The more candidates you get OUT
araint, the socialist ticket the better
thev like tit spells defeat for the
antis and success for the Io"niey-
ties.
The Mississippi senate, which some
+;n,a apo turned down the woman SUI
frare amendment, yesterday had
touch Of remorse and passed the
amendment. The women must pe
hrinping some pressure to bear on In the
hefoged denizens of Mississippi. Inc
great argument these southern states
have been putting up against woman
suffrage is that they do not want tne
colorpd women to vote. Under the
sresent system they do not let the col
ored men vote, or if they 40 tney take
count them. They can stu 40 that WIZ
count them. They can still d that WIN
the colored women's vote II they so
desire-hut they hould not try to keep
the white women from voting.
The question now arises: are the
delegates elected to the republican
national committee-the regular re,
publican delegates if they are elected
INSTRUCTED for Hiram thomson. or
are. they free to use their own Judg-
ment. The league delegates, defeated
at the primary election We're Instructed
johnson delegates. The other set run
ming as regulars and which appear to
have been elected, were under no m
structions at all. Are they morally
bound to johnson inasmuch as they
were elected against the johnson del
epates and no other name but john
son appeared on the ballot so that they
could vote for no one else! ms IS
the burning question of the hour.
Ten million dollars Of property loss
and many lives is the toll Of the recent
cyclones in several middle west states
recently in fact it is hard to tell Just
what the real loss is, but 1t IS bad
enough. We had blizzard here few
DAYS AGO in which half dozen people
lost their lives and that fact has been
regarded with horror by people living
in southern states and middle western
states. Not until these same local.
ties meet with these cyclone disasters
do they realize that blizzard which
sweeps over our pralrles once IN
a while. while it takes some lives once
in awhile, it is nothing compared to
those devastating cyclones and tor
nadoes that visit these other localities.
Every part of this big country Of ours
has some drawback, but taking IT an
in all, there are less drawbacks IN
North Dakota than in any place IN the
union.
A county convention Of the I. V. A.
was called by somebody to convene in
this city tonight at eight o'clock. Just
who had the authority to call this con-
vention no one knows, but it was call
ed and we presume will be held at the
citv hall this evening. 1t would seem
that somebody has made themselves
very previous in calling this conven-
ton without consulting the Barnes
county units who are the most vitality
interested. If it was done at Fargo
we want to serve notice at this time
that this sort of stuff will not be toll
Grated, neither will any dictatlon be
taken as to what stand the Barnes
county |. V. A. members will take IN
regard to endorsing prospective can
didates for any state office. Barnes
county is unqualifiedly for William
LANCER for governor and we are gong
to tell the world that fact regardless
Of what the Fargo people think of 1t.
If the Independent, the I. V. A. or
gan is thinking of bringing out a can
ddate for governor to oppose William
LANCER, just the minute it does SO
will split the |. V. A. into smithereens
and undo lot Of good work that that
organization has already done. The
great majority Of the people of this
state opposed to Townleyism are for
LANCER and the sooner the |. V. A. peo-
pie realize this fact and head off any
body who will in any way endanger
the winning Of a victory over the
Townleyites the better it will be for
all concerned. The Independnt last
week contained a sort of yelled trend
against LANCER in tame suggestion
that it would be all right to run cou-
pie Of candidates for the governorship.
There is only one way to lick the
enemy and that is to get behind one
candidate and it is easy to figure out
who that candidate should be. Let's
be sensible and not throw away the
real chance of our lives to win out.
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We hear that Nestos and Steen are
going to be asked to keep out of the
fight for governor this year and leave
clear field to William LANCER. Pc
titions are now being circulated in
different parts Of the state asking
Nestos and Steen to bury their politi-