INDEX 



caste feeling aronsed against, 

 216-217; carries North Dakota 

 election of 1916, 220; unable to 

 control legislature of 1917 be- 

 cause of hold-over senators, 

 222-223; strength in that legis- 

 lature, 221; attitude on the war. 



mill at Drake, 207; purchase of 

 Fargo Courier-Xews attacked in 

 courts, 302; attempts to throttle 

 by repealing the primary laws, 

 302-307; membership and pros- 

 pects on October 1, 1919, 323; 

 conclusions concerning, 323-325. 



229-247; blimders of the League North Dakota: source of the fer- 



leaders, 232, 233, 234; not dis- 

 loyal, 233; accused by its en- 

 emies of disloyalty, 236; incident 

 of the "People's Council," 237; 

 Governor Frazier's telegram gar- 

 bled, 238; speech by United 

 States Senator at St. Paul con- 

 vention used against it, 239; 

 Townley's attitude toward the 

 war, 239, 240; war resolutions 

 of the League, 242; Townley 

 goes to Washington, sees Presi- 

 dent Wilson, 243; testimony of 

 George Creel concerning League's 

 loyalty, 244, 245, 246; testimony 

 of Judge Ben B. Lindsay, 247; 

 President Townley indicted, 248; 

 carries North Dakota in election 

 of 1918, 250; in full control of 

 legislature of 1919, 250-251; 



tility of its soil, 7; character of its 

 first settlers, 95; their devotion 

 to the Republican party, 95; 

 strength of Populist party in, 

 97; votes of state on state-owned 

 elevator project, 103, 104; state 

 Board of Control nullifies vote 

 of state, 105; provisions of con- 

 stitution concerning hold-over 

 senators, 212-213; record of the 

 " Farmers' Legislature" of 1917, 

 224-228; Industrial Commission 

 of, 260; taxation reforms in, by 

 Nonpartisan League legislature, 

 264; recall of public oflBcers pro- 

 posed in constitutional amend- 

 ment by Nonpartisan League 

 legislature, 272; changes in edu- 

 cational system proposed by 

 Nonpartisan League, 276. 



record of that legislature, 251- North Dakota Agricultural Col- 

 279; description of a League lege: laboratory tests of milling 

 legislative caucus, 253; reform values of different grades of 

 legislation achieved in legislative wheat, 90; findings of, on farm- 

 session of January, 1919, 254- ers' losses by undergrading, 90. 

 279; divisions in, after election North Dakota Bankers* Associa- 

 of 1918, 281; referendum of 1919 tion, committee of: report on 



ordered on seven League bills, 

 282; summary of interests 

 aroused against it in referendum 

 of June, 1919, 283-285; bitter- 

 ness of referendum campaign, 

 285; canards about "nationali- 



grain-handling at Superior, Wis- 

 consin, and Duluth, Minnesota, 

 142; experiences with Duluth 

 Board of Trade, 144, 145; inter- 

 view with railroad oflicers con- 

 cerning abuses, 147. 



zation of women" and state North Dakota Mill and Elevator 



seizure of farm lands, 285-286; 

 measures voted on at referen- 

 dum, 287-288; results of vote, 

 289; compared with results of 

 voting at previous election, 290- 

 292; reforming measures at- 

 tacked in the courts, 293-296; 



Association organized by Non- 

 partisan League legislature, 261. 



'Official newspaper" established 



in North Dakota, 277-279. 

 'Old gang," the, alarm at spread 

 of Nonpartisan League, 204. 

 operations of state-owned flour- Populist party, the: successes in 

 331 



