The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-02-02
ELECT
$50 OFFICIALS,
SAYS LEADER
SURPRISING TOTAL OF OFFICES
WON BY PEOPLE UNDER
LEAGUE AND LABOR BANNER.

LEAGUE AND LABOR BANNER.
cover $50 candidates with Nonpar-
tisan League Endorsement have been
elected to public Office" declares the
National Leader in its January issue.
'This figure" continues the Leader
'does not include those elected to
county Office. It includes only sena-
tors, governors, and other state off,
Gals, congressman and members of
state legislatures"
A table is given comparing the to-
tai vote for the head of the ticket in
dOrsed by the League and labor in
nine Western states for the election
years of 1920 and 1922. In 1920 the
table shows that candidates for gov
ernOr with League and labor indorse-
ment in these states polled a total
vote of 1,236,197 and this was SO per
cent of the total vote cast. In the
1922 election the same states gave the
League Endorsed candidate for u. S.
Senator and governor a total vote of
1,579,262. There was thus a gain in
the League vote of over $4,000, al
though a much smaller total vote was
cast. The League vote of 1922 rep
resents, according the Leader, 5S.S
per cent of the total vote cast in the
nine states.
GROWTH RAPID
"This grand total Of $50 candidates
elected" declares the Leader, "helps
one to grasp the rapid growth and
success of the Nonpartisan League in
the object for which it was organized.
Instead of having a long period of
slow growth and of casting minority
votes in a few states as so many in
dependents movements in the past
have done, the Nonpartisan league put
III candidates into public Office in the
first year Of its existence. That was
in North Dakota.
"By the time the 1913 election rolls
around the league was working in
several states and it elected about
twice as many to public Office. In
1920 its territory was still larger, but
it was kept from making its proper
showing of further growth in candi-
dates elected because Of the RepubIi-
can landslide of that year and the
sudden appearance of the women vot-
ers. In several states the League had
candidates in the Democrtic column in
1920.
"By 1922, however, these handicaps
had largely worn out and League can
didates for important Office got 1913
per cent, or over half, of the total
vote cast in nine northwestern states.
SIN the. first North Dakota election
the League captured all the state Of
fees except that Of treasurer, the
three members of the supreme court
to be elected, 10 senators and 81 mem
bers Of the lower house. In the sum-
ner of that year the leagues first
congressman, John M. Baer, advanced
on Washington, the nations capital
''The year 1920 saw the election of
DR.. E. F. Laid, to the u. S. Senate.
Congressman Baer was defeated for
reelection in eastern North Dakota,
but the League-indorsed delegation in
congress increased from three to six,
without counting Young Of North Da-
lzota who had turned his coat. John
J. Blaine was elected governor of
Wisconsin. Frazier was reelected for
a third time in North Dakota and the
other state officials.
Mighty efforts were made by the
League in other states not indicated
by the bare figures on candidates
elected. Great votes were rolled up
for state candidates in Minnesota,
Montana, Colorado, Washington and
Nebraska, considering the survival of
war hysteria, the Republican land
slide and the new women vote. The
League vote in the several states in
creased from 26O,OOOOOO votes in the
previous election to 1,236,197. Fifty
nine members Of state senates were
elected and 151 house members in the
several states.
"In 1922, the Nonpartisan leaguers,
by sticking to their guns, turned into
victories many of the contests which
were Mountaineering disannointments