THE STORY OF THE NONPARTISAN LEAGUE 



nominated on the ticket of the opposition 

 party, equally controlled. Every farmer in 

 that delegation, every farmer in the state, 

 knew perfectly well that the Interests that 

 rode the state and domineered it laughed at 

 him and his impotence and believed they 

 were settled in the seats of power forever. 

 Every farmer in that delegation, every farmer 

 in the state, knew that the same Interests 

 that controlled (and corrupted) the politics 

 of the Northwest were the Interests that 

 maintained the fraudulent gradings, the fraud- 

 ulent scales, the fraudulent tradings back 

 and forth, the frauds of the mixing-house 

 and the doctoring bin; that because of these 

 impositions the farmer was kept poor; that 

 a part of the money thus wrested from his 

 grasp was the very money that defeated the 

 will of the people at the polls and made demo- 

 cratic government in America a farce. Know- 

 ing all these things, what then would you 

 expect? 



