A picnic held by the Nonpartisan League in Wegdahl draws 14,000. The league was a farmers' association organized in North Dakota in 1916. It advocated several ideas considered radical, including public ownership of the nation's food distribution system and a draft of capital to finance World War I. The organizers of the league sought to avoid charges of antipatriotism by selling war bonds at their rallies, but Governor Joseph A. A. Burnquist's Commission of Public Safety still restricted them, supporting nineteen Minnesota counties as they banned the league from meeting in their jurisdictions.