Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-11-28
Lynn ]. FRAZIER
Interesting Sketch OF Newly Elected
Senator From North Dakota.
LEARNEDOF ELECTIONTHREE DAYSLATE
Non Partisan League Now Has Three
Senators In Office-Farmer Vote
Has Welded With Workers"

it-an and from New York to California
had been showered with congratula-
tions or condolences, and even the
anti-Volstead celebrants were begin
ming to get back to normalcy when q
farmer in Pembina county, North Da-
kota, up near the Canadian line, in the
valley of q river that flows the wrong
way" came in from the barnyard to
put in long distance call over the
rural party line, writes Herbert Gascon
In the New York World.
He talked to a newspaper $50 miles
away at Fargo, inquiring the result of
the election for United States senator.
He had been about the place" and had
heard no news since election day.
"Why, you've been elected. Govern
p. or" was the response, and the figures
available up to the time were given
to him.
The incident illustrates not solely
the imperturbability of Lynn j. Fraz-
ier, the new senator elect from North
Dakota, though that quality is among
his most conspicuous traits. 1t illus
trates also the way Of election returns
in the state where they grow princi
pally hard northern spring wheat and
that in greater quantity than in any
other state in the Union.
North Dakota is no place for n nerv-
Gus man to run for office. He may die
of heart failure before they get the
returns all brought in from the remote
districts and counted. In that state
the town vote, which is comparatively
quickly checked up, is no index of what
the farmers are going to do, particu-
l;rly since the great revolt" which
began in 1915, with the organization
ard first campaign of the Nom -Parti-
san League. Many a candidate has
had the satisfaction-rather hollow,
perhaps-of being elected" for day
or two, but defeated by the country
returns. They came through this time
for Frazier, but it was three days aft
er the polls closed before his election
was certainly known.
In the next congress there will be
three senators who owe their election
directly to the Non-Partisan League
movement although it undoubtedly
influenced the election of others Of
the insurgent group in the west whose
faces will be seen in Washington for
the first time. The three will be Sen
ators Frazier and Ladd from North
Dakota and Shipstead from Minnesota.
1t is interesting to note that while
the league movement was mainly to
obtain greater representation for the
farmer in public affairs, but one of
these three is what is known in the
west as a dirt farmer" This ex-
preston owes its meaning to the fact
that in a strictly rural community in
q state whose economic interest is al
most exclusively agriculture, nearly
everybody is from the farm or owns
farm or has some interest in one. Ev-
cry banker is farmer" and so is ev-
cry lawyer. When they are running
for office they admit it.
But dirt farmer is one who lives
on and gets his living from the farm,
who has no living unless he gets it
from the soil. Frazier is one such.
DR.. I.add is a scientist and educator,
food and agricultural chemist and for
mer president of the North Dakota
College Of Agriculture. Shipstead is
dental specialist, an oral surgeon, who
moved from a small community in
Minnesota to Minneapolis in order to
establish a more highly specialized
practice.
The two new senators from the ad-
joining states will offer a contrast in
appearance and temperament. Ship
stead is tall-well over six feet-slen-
der and intense, a man capable Of
making an impassioned plea. He is
q student Of literature and of govern
ment, a man of sensitive nature and
artistic impulses. He is of the type
one might expect a radical" or n re-
form crusader to be.
Frazier is broad and heavy and
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North Dakota university more than
twenty years ago, and there he was
the center rush for two years on the
universlty's football team. He has 2
centre rush physique. He is a silent
man, but generally friendly. In office
as governor of North Dakota he was
known as, IAN executive who likes to
hear advice, but was hard man to
move, when he made up his mind.
For nearly thirty years-he is AZ
years Old-Frazier has been a success
full farmer He owns close to 1000
acres of fertile Red River valley land.
1t was not his own inability to make
a success Of farming that led him to
take up with movement which in a
large measure has. been a protest
against conditions which have made
it impossible for the average farmer to
make fair living in recent years. His
situation has been protest against
condition on the average.
Frazier is one of the comparatively