The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, April 1, 1918, Page 3

In the: interest of a square deal for the farmers VOL. 6, NO. 13~ : T N<TDHN — » ;‘ o ¥ P T — L) h ,\ t,’;,' \ LI \ / { 74 / // 77, 77 1y ) —~— SIDENT A. C. Townley of the Nonpartisan league last week battle -with - the prosecuting authorities of Martin county, Minn., who are seeking to con- vict-him - of “hindering enlist- ments.” Mr. Townley is charg- - ; ed with circulating pamphlets containing a ‘statement of Congressman.John M. Baer, ‘and resolutions adopted by North Dakota farmers last May, and another pamphlet- contain- ) i statement of war aims and pledging the support b 5 of the League to the United: States and its allies. T The latter resolutions were adopted last September . ' by the great patriotic: Producers’ and Consumers’ w1 conference_at St.- Paul, in which conference or- ganized labor and organized farmers participated. - Mr. Townley’s attorneys demurred to the charges, holding that they did not constitute a cause of ac- tion, that the resolutions and statements were so plainly patriotic that they could not be used as a onpartigsn The war profiteer has set up a cry of disloyalty, because organized farmers and organized labo newspapers, dupes and tools have taken up this.cry against the farmer and labor. by Congressman Baer. The profiteer is himself branded with disloyalty and the noise profiteer is a German “dachshund.” Say, ain’t it a good laugh? Townley Wins First Round on Charges League President’s Attorneys Succeed in Taking Indictments Out of Martin County and Getting Them Before Supreme Court of the State of Minnesota won the first round of the legal . ing resolutions approving - President - Wilson’s . -basis of such charges, and that the resolutions ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA, APRIL 1, 1918 THIS IS WHAT IS CAUSING ALL THE TROUBLE IN MINNESOTA . e, . Official Magazine of the National Nonpartisan League PROFITEER A magazine that dares to print the truth der e e N LAV AR ANAARRRIAR R, - “\‘ “‘\‘—““-‘_‘.‘_“‘ e — NN B SR : —— L ———— and statements were almost in the same language as used by President Wilsén in his speeches and messages to congress. ; : Mr. Townley’s attorneys then asked that the court in Martin county pass the demurrers up to the supreme court of Minnesota for :decision, in | place of deciding them’' in Martin county, where, _due_to the activities of anti-farmer forces, there is high feeling against the organized farmers and “Mr." Townley. : ‘The court: granted Mr. Townley’s petition, and the decision on the demurrers will not ‘be decided in Martin: county but by the state supreme -court. The prosecuting attorney of Mar- tin county, in a bitter and passionate argument, tried to prevent the case being removed from Mar- tin county as he wanted to profit by the prejudice there against the League. * The decision against him is-a great victory for Mr. Townley and the farmers’ cause.’ St S AL INDICTMENTS .BASED ON ' - PATRIOTIC RESOLUTIONS: The first indictment ag‘ai'néf_fl'.l"resxdt‘am';~ Townley s m Martin county was !b'asqd‘f on the League pamph- .. PAGE THREE ;e ~“in the ‘United States army. * —Drawn especially for the Leader by Congressman John M. Baer r have condemned war profiteering. The profiteer’s paid agents, But the profiteer deceives nobody. What is really happening is pictured above _we hear is simply the profiteer chasing his own tail. And withal the let which was printed in full in the issue of the Leader for March 18. The second indictment of Mr. Townley in the same county, on the same charge, was based on a League pamphlet issued last September, which contained the famous patri- otic resolutions of the great September Producers’ and Consumers’ conference at St. Paul, held in conjunction with organized labor. These St. Paul resolutions were printed in the Leader at the time, but were not printed in_any of the newspapers which are fighting the League; for the reason that ‘their - strong indorsement of the war and their - strong backing of the United States government belied the charge of these newspapers that the St. Paul conference was ‘“disloyal.” ; These resolutions in full, on which the second indictment of Mr. Townley is based, follow. :The paragraph below, printed in black face type, is the part of the resolutions singled out by the Martin | county prosecutor as “discouraging enlistments” t This paragraph is a denunciation by the farmers and organized labor +of autocracy in Germany. -There is no other coun- . try except Germany and Austria engaged in the N S A A e S S5 AT T Iy S S Sy R TV TR, WHOLE NUMBER 132 e v o T SRR TR { { 1 § | { t . ]