page_title: Nonpartisan League
hierarchical_section_title: Nonpartisan League
caption_attribution_description: English: Cover of The Nonpartisan Leader.
context_page_description: The Nonpartisan League was a political organization founded in 1915 in the United States by Arthur C. Townley, former organizer for the Socialist Party of America. On behalf of small farmers and merchants, the Nonpartisan League advocated state control of mills, grain elevators, banks and other farm-related industries in order to reduce the power of corporate political interests from Minneapolis, Minnesota and Chicago, Illinois.
  The NPL goat served as the US League's mascot. It was known as "The Goat that Can't be Got."
context_section_description: The Nonpartisan League (NPL) was a political organization founded in 1915 in the United States by Arthur C. Townley, former organizer for the Socialist Party of America. On behalf of small farmers and merchants, the Nonpartisan League advocated state control of mills, grain elevators, banks and other farm-related industries in order to reduce the power of corporate political interests from Minneapolis, Minnesota and Chicago, Illinois.
  The NPL goat served as the US League's mascot. It was known as "The Goat that Can't be Got."
caption: 1919 cover of the League's newspaper, The Nonpartisan Leader,  portraying organized farmers and workers standing tall against big business interests
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