The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 10, 1919, Page 8

ea noe a BISMARCK DAILY TRIBU: CREEL INSULTS ALL LOYALISTS, SAYS BURNQUIST Governor of Minnesota Resents Highly Colored Story in Everybod. DECLARES CHARGES FALS Asserts That Wilson’s Chief | Publicist Is Catering to the League Georgo Creel, friend of William Randolph Hearst and head of the bu reau of information press bureau Washington, is author of a high ored, far-fetched story of alleged op-! pression of Nonpartisan leaguers in| Minnesota, which appears in tne cur-! rent number of Everybody's Creel tells of aged people being | driven from a community or from the| state becaouse their sons were leag- | “of one instance in which a} sold babe was torn from its | arms by a stream froma tire se; “of old men who were pulled | from wagons and beaten; and of loy. all Jeague farmers who iorced to hold their Red Cross rallies and Lid- | erty loan meetings out in the open air, | under blazing sun or beating rain, or else in some hog house. because they were denied a puvlic place for their assemblies, Because of its absurdities, pure Creelism, the story mé s simon- es good | reading. Governor Burnquist of Min nesot has read it, and he has this to gay of Creel and his lit ry effort Says Loyalists Are Insulted. “It ig a most contemptinle insuit to the patriotic and Joyal people of Mine nesota,” said the as he plunged into hi r to the nos: en spokesman of t “In view of Mr with the the seriou that this is the prope! to deny most emphatic Creel’s affiliation Iministration and ee ines | _ Here's the photo-story of the attemy lly his infam-| America in the hands of a special courier. nis| Newspaper Enterprise Association. nalicious At the top is a photo-diagram of the scene of the shooti éuplaiit or Charman hind the comfort kiosk (1). waiting for Clemenceau’s autom teal apin Autecautepnosltlon. 0 his home. When he saw it coming. he stepped out to the middle of the s the leaders of the so-called Nonparti- The course of the auto is indicated by the dotted line. Almost oppe san league. About a y azo ths ‘feur slowed down, thinking he had a blowout. Then he saw the assassi spokesman of the administration wro © ward him, and ke put on speed and turned down Boulevard Delessert. 2s |line. The assessin stepped to the s afety: isle and fired several shots at the back of the auto. The lower photos show the sin, Cottin; the back of Clemenceau’s ear with its seven bullet holes; and the modern pistol that Cottin used. In the small diagram at the bottom, No. 1 is Clem- enceau’s home, 2 the point where Cottin started shooting, 3 the comfort kiosk, 4 the safety-isle, and 5 the point where the car slowed down before turning. ‘ as rushed to manager of the sted murder of Premier Cle by Harold Edwin Bechtol. ted for hours be- dewn the street from indi cated bs the dotted | Se See Town: | or: | a letter 10 an organ in which he sz was impreg now | | comes George | le: president of the #onparusan voice of the present | doing is ex » who s id, speech at Wil-, ad and sa! thar “ihe | crisis. thet ae Noupi n league | tensely in the loyalty of ihe | san league.” “In the last issue magazine the same wri lis no doubt that man. j were pro-German a even after Americ | Germanism persisted well-established lies Nonparti us a 1g, came persona fought in the interests ot the damne | the governme rotten rich” That li bout the rien | paign of patriotic education and that ce impregnate | Minnesota was’ selected for the in- of Wi ‘itiation of the drive’ ueur, secretary | “What can be more sue, whose wel. think that tie man who had impreg- known connection with the si {;nated the league membership wita party and the “People’s Peace councii | ‘the lie about a rich man’s mar’ should as prohivited ‘om holding @!later-in good faith ‘proceed to Wash- meeting in this state and whose ac-} ington to get speakers for the purpose ./knowledged and notorious letter fav-} of combatting the very idea for whicn wanted most particularly ach was 1g oppe they themselves were more respons- {the Nonpartisan league, for it had a/SPy bills are a idence of his ible than anyone else. Tue only con- | membership that covered the Dakotas,| SUpport of the lie about the ‘rich|ceivable reason. for the. leaders of ' Minnesota, Montana and Idaho, man’s war.’ ng to Washington to get | more than any other, was Impregn Gitbert Also Held Liabte. loyalty speal was ast the purpose | with the lie about a ‘rich man’s war. Iso impreg. by j of- using George Creel and ‘ais speak-} “The lead of the Nonpartisan J r off ers’ bureau to make it appear thai; | league, he ‘came personally to ‘an league, wno|the league was pulling itself eat ot, | Washington to ask the government io/ arrested in Ja s|the disloyalty pit into which its lead- [commence a campaign of patriotic e and subsequently convicted by /ers had fallen. lucation, and Minnesota was ne which connected Safety Commission Accused. \for the initiation of the him with the making of disloyal state-| “In his article in the last issue of to Washington to ask ut to commence a can. and ., Haywood—Arthur Le of the Nonpartisi absurd than to ; | and certain tun 1 ligeuee rae ignorances.” j that Anxious to Reach League. “The one orga The KNOX BOSTWICK Here’s a Hat decidedly good _ ca ees F df tin his magazine artic friend, ments, the discouraging of enlist-| Everybody's magazine, this federal of for'the man taking off the [/of the teague alleges that Its memiers | ments, opposition to the conseription ficial states that nis ‘committee soni army service Hat for the | were impregnated with ‘tne lie about) law, and an attempt on his part te/speakers to Minnesota and accuses civilian Hat. The Bostwick ja rich man’s Who preg-| make the farm of Minnesota be-|‘the Public Safety commission of this jnated its members with sach trine? That lie a! ‘lieve that this was a ‘rich man's war.’ “Such were the league leaders and doc- ' state of prohibiting the speakers so rich man’s | sent from addressing any meetings organized, by, the Nonpartisan league ~ or under its alispices.’ IT’SGREAT! THE PALM BEACH CLUTCH | “in April of last year, however. ne P se |made an altogether: different state- ment. Then he wrote a letter-to a United States senatoz, in which he pans wered a question as to his connec- ‘tion with ‘the meetings of thé Non- partisan league as foHows: “Some time since the league asked {me to-send the government speakers, \but this request was refused because I | knew the bitterness“of the Minnesota has a wide upper binding that is distinctive and new. WAND PRESSING STOM TAILORING fou Dy CLEANING EXPERT REPAIRING S.EBERGESONE SON |, |. 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I ave sent no speak- ers to Minnesota and will not send any.’ “With the exceuption of a request from Mr. Creel that Joseph Gilbert who was the Minnesota manager of the Nonpartisan leage, be permitted to speak at the great stale patriotic rally held in this auditorium in No- vember, 1917, to offset in a measure the disloyal La Follette speech at the ; Nonpartisan league convention held jhere earlier in the year, so faor as | we know the only person sent to the {state byl Mr. Creel as a speaker for ‘the league was the said Dixon G. {Williams of Chicago. After his ar- jrival in Minnesata this last named | gentloman discovered the disloyal | character of the leaders of the Non- {partisan league and coluntarily stat- {ed to the secretary of the Minnesota i Commisison of Public Safety that he | would not speak under the auspices of the league but would be glad to speak under the direction of the commis: } | sion.” Answers “Tar and Feathers” Charge. 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