The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, September 29, 1917, Page 1

~ "revelations of the department of state! : sued a proclamation, extending them boys whom he so hypocritically greet- Fair tonight. THIRTY-SEVENTH YEAR, NO. 27/ F COVERNOR INTRUDES CHEAP ~ EROICS UPON FAREWELL 10 ~ SOLDIERS PLANNED BY BAND Chief Executive, Fresh From Abjzct Adulation cf La Follette, En- deavars to Cover Up Disloyalty of Townley’s Pacifist .Crew by Spouting Bromides at Meeting to Winich He Came Unbidden and Unwelcome. Camouflage Fails to Accomplish End for Which It Was Designed Frazier Receives Cool Reception in Spite of League Organizers and Capitol Employes Carefully Planted About Auditorium—Clark Sounds Keynote. . ASKS LA FOLLETLE § EXPULSION Washington, Sept. 29.—A com nunication from the Governor of Minnesota, and the State Public S:fety commission reouesting the expulsion from the Senate of Senzi‘or La Fellette of Wisconsin, was presented to the Senate today by Senator Kellogg of Minnesota, and referred by Vice President Marshall to the Senate privileges and Election Committed. Senator Kellogy explained that he presented the resolution az- cording to the usual practice of all senators of filing communica- tions from responsible organizations, and that there was no other significance in his action. y Characterizing LaFollette in St. Paul on, Sept. 20 before the Nonpartisan league as ‘‘disloyal and seditiouos,’’ the resolution declares the utterances already have served to create treasonable sentiment in Minnesota. and petitions the senate to begin proceed- ings to expel LaFollette as a ‘‘teacher of disloyalty and sedition, giving aid and comfort to our enemies, and hindering the govern- ment in the conduct of the war.”’ Senate Will An:wer. A lively agitation for having the senate pass some resolution reaffirming the war aims of the United States and further approving the administration’s war policy developed today. Leaders deelared the resolution would be the senate’s answer to the public speeches of those members who decry the war. Taking advantage of a farewll concert arranged by Harold Bachman, director of. the Seeond Regiment band. for North Dakota guardsmen and their friends, Governor Lvnn 4. -Frazier at the Au- ditorium last night delivered a ‘‘farewell’’ address filled with pa- triotic platitudes and -containing, but two Townleyisms, both of which. yeferred to'‘profiteering’’—a word which seems to roll auto- anatically from the lips of the, governor. ! The-presence of Attorney Gencral William S. Langer and the governor on the program. was.a surprise to the 1500 soldiers and civialians who attendéed to unite in a farewell demonstration in hon- or of the Second battalion of the First regiment, which leaves for Camp Greene today, the Second regiment band and the units of the Second which depart for camp Monday. It had not been Director Bachman’s purpose to make. the affair a cheap political event, and the band advertised and the people came prepared to hear a simple concert. The intrusion of the governor aud his henchman was the one unpleasant note of an evening which proved a splendid triumph for Director Bachman and the popular Second regiment band. Purpose Self-Evident. BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, SATURDAY, THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE] SEPT. 29, 1917. FIVE CENTS GERMAN SPIES ASSAIL NORWAY — SFEOND RECIMENT BAND COVERS | F WITH CLORY IN FAREWELL CONCERT AT CITY AUDITORIUM Encores Number After Number Cheered to! HOLDS AYWOOD Echo, Demanding Repeated | : COL. FRANK WHITE SAYS IN |. \V. W. CASE TROOPS WiLL GET BACON: ak : iNine of the Leaders Still in Jail Only Thing to Prevent First Be-) wnanje to Furnish Necessary ing Best Is the Smashing i “Bonds The purpose of the governor's in-| trusion at once became clear to every-} one. Sam Clark, chosen to give the key-note, preceded the governor with a defense of North Dakota's patriot- * ism, which never has been question- ed, and concluded with the govern- or’s cue—“I have defended you, gov- ernor, and now t expect you when you get up here to prove that | have been ’ right in doiug so.” FROM VIERFCK ¢ Jake on June 5 when 60,000 loyal o North Dakotans marched to the Pe polls to register for select service.| Assurances to People’s Council There he ‘began with Townley, Bow- en, Thomason and other socialists to Lauded—Burnauist Con- cold water on the liberty lean ‘ “Thank ‘rou, said the governor. Goverpor razier’ was in Devils which continued throughout the demned month and terminated only when pub- —— lic indignati halt. - ic indignation called a hal CERMAN PAPER BUT Governor Frazier was n St. Paul,; sharing the same platform with Town- ley and La follette, while North Da- RECENTLY EXPOSED kota's first contingent of 2,000 select- Governor Lynn J. Frazier of North tive service men were entraining for] payota is highly regarded by Viereck, Camp Dodge 1 : govern- Camp Dodge last week. |The Zorer editor of the seditious German weekly, farewell. He did not take time ‘be- “The Fatherland,” prominently men- aor. bastenlus to. St. a for the tioned in disclosures of the state de- 8 lous conference there to write one word of farewell to his own partment of German intrigue and state’s loyal citizen soldiers who had ‘feachery in America. For his con pledged their lives te their country. | sent to the pro-Germans of the Peo. Came Unbidden. ple’s Peace council to meet in North Unbidden and ‘unannounced, the Dakota, the Flickertail chief executive governor intruded last evening upon this week receives honorable mention a pure patriotic demonstration ar- jy Viereck’s weekly. ranged by patriots for patriots to dis: Arter discussing the difficulties ven thst er tirana which the People’s Peace council en- the tide of disgust which is rising in Countered in staging {ls seditious gath- loyal communities everywhere against Bead ae annenites ant following, Mownley nme and “all. that At leans. ' Burnquist, whose sturdy Americanism The governor came to address an would not countenance a pro-German audience which had jus: read in Veir- meeting in Minnesota, Sylvester Vie- eck's German weekly, “The Father- peck pays this tribute from The Fath- land, his eulogy of Governor Frazier criand to the governor of North Da- for his invitation to the people's; jotg- peace council to make free of North i Dakota with its pro-German confer- ence. They had read Viereck’s state- ment that “Governor L J. Frazier did not hesitate voluntarily to extend an invitation to the managers of the convention to summon their dele-| gates to meet in his state, and he promised them the full protection of the law.” The audience which the governor | addressed had just read the startling Fargo, North Dakota, seemed to be the fated scene of the great gathering when it was decided to retreat before the threats of the chief executive of Minnesota. Gov- ernor L. J. Frazier did not hesi- tate VOLUNTARILY TO EX- TEND AN INVITATION TO THE MANAGERS OF THE CONVEN- TION TO SUMMON THEIR DEL- EGATES TO MEET IN HIS STATE, and he promised the full in connection with the pro-German| Protection of the law. activities of the I. W. W.. for whose It was following the disruption of} Protection on the eve of the date! the pro-German peace council confer- which had been set for their nation-| ence by loyal Americans, members of wide revolation, Governor Frazier is-| the home guard and the same soldier is protection and prohibiting peace | oq last night, that Governor Frazier ofiicers of North Dakota from break-| sent Attorney General Langer to Far- (Continued on Page Three.) go with instructions to investigate. Second “There is no sacrifice in being a soldier—-it is a precious privilege to} be a soldier of the greatest nation in the world,” declared Col Frank White of the Second regiment last} evening. j MILL. CITY WO. LES JAILED. Minneapolis, Sept. 29.—Five members of the |. W. W., T. A. Lambert, Theodore Fraser, For- est Edwards, Dan Buckley, and Seiford Sternberg, were arrested at the organization’s iocal head- This was the central thought in a} quarters and placed in the coun- splendid . farewell demonstration} ty jail early today. A _consider- which the Slope accorded its national} aole amount of literature and guardsmen at the Auditorium, whero| correspondence was seizeq,in the 1,500 soldiers and civilians assem»led| government’s raid on the |. W. W. last evening as guests of Director! offices here three weexs ago. Harold Lachman and the Second reg- ~ vm iment band of Harvey. The farewell | ,, Chicago, dd who were arrest- had been advertised as the last pub-| = ; . 5 lic concert to be given by a band | ¢d in Chicago last night on indictments vhic! = seers charging seditious conspiracy return- which has played its way Into Capital] o'by federal_grand jury against. 185 crowdel auditorium. Every seat in| members of the organization through- t the United states were stfll_ in the big theatre was taken, and the! 0U saan foyers, lobbies, hallways and corrid-| Jail toaey having been onahle st fur, ors were crowded with late-comers| 28h bonds which were fixed at $10. 000 each, except in the case of Wil- ie not: Hind “other “AccommNS: | iam, B. Haywood. international secre- tary treasurer, who was held in $25,- 000 Lond. .—The-nine lead- Program High Class. The program presented by the Sec- 4 oe ond en ot unusually high quality,| , A large number of meu were olen even for that organization, which has| into custody with the saat hat a proven to Eismarck that a good band} Uty United Stat: "aden atten AEE can play anything written. Bismarck |PU™m2er were released afer bing ‘questioned, while others believe that BiG NGHT-FOR SAMAY'$5,000-BAIL | OFF TO THE FRONT | Now comes the parting of the ways, North Dakota loyal to the core, despite the shadow of pacifism and near sedition in some of the seats of authority, bids farewell to her fighting sons. They, not the socialistie mummers, lashed by public opinion, hunilated by the scourgitigs of a nation’s press, typify the virile patriotism of the-state. With banners high, loyalty unstained, these soldiers of dem- Sons of North Dakota’s-leyal mothers and fathers: reflect — the patriotism of the state, not the Hag waving demagogues who at the eleventh hour have come out of their pacifist shells to save their political faces, “It is not a sacrifice to be a soldier, but a priviledge’ well said Col. White of the Seeond Regiment, Every inch a soldier, he towered last evening above those who play fast and loose with the sacred honor of a nation and plaee in contumely the good name of a great. state. North Dakota is patriotic. Its loyalty needed no defense from one of the speakers last evening. Et has never been in question. The nation does not doubt the spirit of this state, however, it may hold in contempt those pacifist weaklings who wittingly or unwit- tingly do the bidding of autocré Our sist ates will judge us not by the defenders of La Fol- lette, Gronna and Townley, but by the fine, brave upstanding fel- lows who teday start on the first stage of their journey to France. North Dakota's regiments do her honor. They will) win’ her laurels and set to naught the acts of those who have so sadly mis- represented the citizens of this commonwealth. Farms, villages and cities of North Dakota early recruited the state's quota. Men who stand four square to ever nd that blows did not wait months to heed the nation’s call, but came in the first hour of need. A state’s honor is safe in their hands: a nation’s defense is en- riched by their service. The world will not lerg remember the unpatriotic vaporings of pacifist politicians, but the brave acts of these boys will be im- perishable evidence of a loval citizenry and a patriotic state. These hours of farewell grip the heart-strings. A few days ago drafted men from every walk of life left smilingly to yield the last full measure of devotion. Now the movement of the nation! guard regiments begins. Bismarck says farewell and in parting knows that the contingent iven by th ate to the armies of the nation is the highést expres- sion of North Dakota's fidelity to the Stars and Stripes, Never ean North Dakota be accused of not’ enlisting heart and soul in this battle to make the world safe for democ As the boys march forth today, they give the lie to all sedition- ists, all pacifists, all pro-German Americans all of them, these warriors. - God bless you, and goodbve. has heard Sousa and other great band-| ( the 150’ or more indicted men will leaders, and it has enjoyed the New {be brought to (hicago presage a! York and Minneapolis symphony OF) holesale prosecution that for spec: chestras, but these famous organiza- tacular’! feature tions never played to a more appre-| es rm seldom has beea! iati So ehin equaled in the (nited States. | It dictments were re‘urned by the grand core, and left with reluctance when the long program was finished. Strikes Key-Note. Mayor A. W. Lucas, who spoke with-} out introduction from the Nonpartisan interlopers, sounded the kevnote in a jury yesterday »«fore half of the evi-! dence seized in I. W. W. headquarters had been examined. The sudden ac- tion is said to nave ‘een due in part ;to information that the agitators were busy in various parts of the EDITOR BISMARCK TRIBUNE, gaged in the conflict were brought down by the British. There were no casualties. alty to have worked extensive dam-/ dispatch from Petrograd, 150 Russians belonging to various si and other political organizations, have — By Associated Press, in his dispatch today from the sh front. their occupation of Riga. vity on both sides,” is the essence of it. The warnings yesterday from the newspaper correspondents at the ront that nothing need be expected from them for the time being read in this connection tend to create an Charison, N. D., Sept. 29.—A four-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Peterson of Banks was in- stantly killed when a 12-year-old brother rolled a large boulder 1 D é 4 Prief but hearttett torew en teed ia; United States in splte of recent phd ee *. ’ .<: raids. greatest war of all time, and it will are, said tone nat vee Of the contra follow their every act upon the fields! POWers, oF of the provinces they con- ot glory with love and loyalty. m Sen ee ered Sam Clark then paid a tridute to the boys. i iN Privilege to Go. | W i Colonel Frank Whitg, looking every: | inch a soldier in his regimentals, bade. Bismarck good bye on behalf of the’ RAND FOR N Y soldiers. He told of the splendid; record made by the First North Da-} kota infantry in the Philippines,; LARIMORE GUARDIAN where the commander of the Eighth! I corps declared it his best regiment. ; —— ' “And there is only one thing which! Larimore, X. |). Sept. 29.—Sanford Ualag MEG Saat fa Ciaiay Geaemeewnd Coaye Teme points tes it Graal Peres that is the fact that tae Second ie go- COUMY. holding «Tice a; Grand Forks ing down; thefe, Monday,” sald (he SLY Under precilent Crant.has ‘heen Solbsel s > Sau named chief o! police of Larimore, Hone: . , succeeding J. J. aBine, who resigned dite Sophias Aiea amdinsh ies ea fe perience he army the’ world. has even known, the pee riaty ciency. stant tooo He Pree First_and Second North Dakota will oid and highly © a pected citizen of airplane formation failed to reach Lon- | public moneys (Continued on Page Thrée.) the county. jon, and two of the 20 machines en-| land office air of tenseness with the possibility seen of big events impending. Military observers, not on the spot, however, seem at sea over the prob- | abilities. The possibilities that the | veil drawn over the fighting activities only intended to cover up some new | osition of the entente forces. ‘he comparative quiet that has pre- | vailed for the last few days on the | French front is continuing. Only the artillery has been at all active. The latest German raid in England turned out badly for ‘ye raiders. Their Mansfield down upon him while the young- sters were playing about the buttes near their home. The older boy had sent a number of large stones scuttiing down hill, when | the little tot decided to race one to the bottom, stepped in its way, and was crushed beneath the rock. Several ribs were broken, and the skull was fractured. MANSFIELD GETS PLUM. Washington, Sept 29.—4 appointed rec at Williston, British aircraft, on the! other hand, are reported by the admir-j{ age by raids in Belgium. SOCIALISTS HANGED. i London, Sept. 29.—According to al said one Christiania paper. 1°” PROPACAND USED HERE IS ACTIVE THERE Bomb Plots, Fires, Intrigue Un- covered by Secret Agents of Government USE NEUTRAL NATION TO CRIPPLE ENTENTE Hospitality of Scandinavia Abus- ed as Was That of the Unit- ed States Christiania, Norway, Sept. 29.—Ger- man conspirators, spies and propa- gandists, formerly so active in the United States, seem to have trans- ferred their attention to Norway. A series of suspicious fires in steam- ships and manufacturies are blamed on the plotters. Others are charged with helping interned sailors to es- cape. Espoinage is freely carried on and some Germans have been caught at it and sent to jail. Propagandists for many months have been trying to spread a thick layer of pro-Germanism over the country. Pernicious Activities. Every day plots or some assault against Norwegian institutions, such as the “Baron Rautenfels bomb plot,” at least prove the pernicious activi- and “First in the Hearts of Their Countrymen” "=" The situation has become such that patriotic Norwegians have come to look upon every German with more or less suspicion. This is the result of the admissions made by two German spies, Captain Lowen and a petty ‘offi- cer, Schwartz, who were tried, con- victed and sentenced to five and four years respectively in the penitentiary. They said no matter how they felt about the matter, a German must do anything he is ordered to do from Berlin. The newspapers have warned Norwegians to distrust many Germans and: the warning in many cases is being heeded. The police now charge that they know a German newspaper corre- ocracy depart. .| Spondent here, who has been closely associating himself with: German-spies in Christiania and-with a Norwegian named Hagn, who is under arrest ‘in England. The dispatches of the'corre- spgndent to his paper- has caused much bitterness in Germany against Norway. a The other day the newspapers were filled with articles dealing with one of the professors of the Polytechnical college of Trondhjem, a native of Ger- many, who for the last few years has been in the service of the Norwegian government. He admitted freely that he had dealings with members of the crew of the German auxiliary cruiser Berlin, which is interned there. Uncensored Letters. The professor confessed to having members of the crew pass letters into Germany without being censored. Several citizens of Trandhjem have | been sent to jail or fined for helping officers from Berlin to escape. It is not long since a great fire in Trondhjem harbor destroyed large warehouses where provisions from England and destined to Russia, were stored. A German steamer which was in the harbor, left just before the fire was discovered, and just after suspicious looking men had been scen running from the building, which was fired in several places. The polica have been unable to apprehend the men. No Norwegian doubts that this. fire was started by German agents. Another fire destroyed a factory and a million tons of condensed milk and cream, which were to be shipped to England. No direct evidence has been found against Germany in this case, but it leads to a strong suspi- cion. A series of fires and explosions have damaged Norwegian ships carrying cargoes for England and there is no doubt infernal machines have been employed. | “What Lowen told during his trial must make us suspicious of all Ger- man authorities and all German pri- i vate citizens, especially when again ! it has been shown what practices they are engaged in. Edith Cavell said patriotism is not enough. The presid- ing justice in the case of Lowen used the same words, adding the Germans might allege patriotism as motives for their misdeeds, but that ‘we cannot look at it from that point of view’, “We do not recognize any Deutsch- list parties | land uber alles here. Those who abuse our confidence and hospitality, even “eld Marshal Haig is extremely 1a-| been hanged by the Germans since| officers of the Germany navy, we seu- tence according to law. By such sen- tencing we throw a stain on the au- othing to report, except the usual | FOUR-YEA’ OLD BOY [eect ee en Ete nian tie CRUSHED AT PLAY ' citizens to abuse the hospitality of a neutral state.” Warns Germany. “Such a system lies entirely out- side the modern European way of thinking. Couriers such as von Raut- enfels, officers such as Lowen, scien- tists, as Filchner, and press corres- pondents as he of the Zeitung (to mention a few special examples) are all products of the same contempt- ible system. Official Germany had better take warning of the sentences in these espionage affairs. If it is not its intention entirely to destroy the esteem of the German name in Norway it had better be more care- ful in the future of persons and means to safeguard German inter- ests.” This quotation is: typical and_ex- presses the general feeling in Nor- way against Germany.