A rather youthful lad to stand before a thousand strange faces, to be the object of professorial scrutiny, to listen to the exultant plaudits of local partisanship; not to be, not to seem brazen, yet to face it all without a quake of knee or, and what is more rare, a tremor of voice; not to forget a syllable; and, in ten minutes, to so cast the spell of a winning personality over his hearers as to evoke a spontaneous outburst of applause, generous from his antagonists, enthusiastic from the nonpartisan.
"Our Nervous Friends Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness"
Robert S. Carroll
North Dakota blows down the nonpartisan League and discovers that darned thing was loaded in both barrels.
"One Third Off"
Irvin S. Cobb
Whether in the mouths of the I.W.W., or nonpartisan League, or the Socialists, it did not make any difference; to brand anybody as a traitor, un-American, who sought to tell the truth about our industrial conditions.
"The Centralia Conspiracy"
Ralph Chaplin