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...Republicans of another vote in the next Senate. In the new Congress the Republicans had, until the death of Senator Nicholson, 53 Senators; the Democrats, 42; and the Fanner-Laborites, 1. Governor Sweet of Colorado, who must appoint a successor to Senator Nicholson, is a Democrat sponsored by the Nonpartisan League. Senators Ladd, Frazier, Shipstead, Wheeler, Howell, Brookhart and La Follette were also sponsored by the League. Consequently it is expected that a radical Democrat will be appointed to the vacancy caused by Senator Nicholson's death. The resulting alignment will be: Republicans 52 Democrats 43 Farmer-Labor...
...attribute the decline in the power of the Nonpartisan League in North Dakota chiefly to the blunders of the League itself," declared Walter W. Liggett, Deputy Commissioner of Immigration in the state of North Dakota and eastern representative of the Nonpartisan League, when interviewed recently by a representative of the CRIMSON. "We naturally are human and fallible and since the people of North Dakota are human and fallible they have drifted away from the movement. There have been several egregious blunders, perhaps the worst of which was the appointment of a very unpopular man defeated in his campaign for election...
...What is the attitude of the Nonpartisan League to the Marxian theory of class welfare?" Mr. Liggett was asked. "Naturally being a farmer's organization we believe in working for the farmer. If we don't, who will. All classes are at bottom working for themselves. But we're not against any class. You can quote me, however, as saying that we believe in "proportional occupational representation...
...tickets and the feeling that one is going to sit in a Harvard crowd would bring many to the games who now hate to bother with special tickets for each game and feel out of place when they let their enthusiasm carry them away in the midst of a nonpartisan crowd...
...following article "About Amending the Constitution," by Hon. David A. De Armond, member of Congress from Missouri, is the second of a series written for the Intercollegiate Civic League by prominent politicians and men of affairs. These articles, which are nonpartisan in character, are aimed to encourage an active interest in politics among college...