The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, July 8, 1918, Page 5

_ization work of the National League Strikesat Its South Dakota Foes MAN who has fought for TUncle Sam never will submit ‘to autoc- racy. He will con- tinue to fight for the right when he re- turns to private life. The vil- lage: kaisers of South Dakota are learning that to their sor- TOW.: The wide conspiracy of poli- ticians west of the Missouri river to interfere with organ- Nonpartisan league has been met. A suit for $50,000 dam- ages by W.-W. Cadle of Wil- lard, Mont., superintendent of League organizers in South Dakota, was the first step. The - defendants are eight home guards of Belle Foutche and Spearfish.. The second step was taken in a petition asking the United States court to issue an order requiring enemies of the League to show cause why they should not be enjoined from further interfering with Nonpartisan organization work. Mr. Cadle was a volunteer in the Spanish-Ameri- can war. Furthermore, he has two sons fighting in France, where some of these stay-at-homes in the home guards would be if they had a spark of the ' patriotism about which they continually prate. In his action filed with the United States dis- trict court at Sioux Falls, Mr. Cadle states that he was kidnapped from Belle Fourche, June 22, by Captain C. C. Brown, Curtis Baxter, R. K. Betts, S. P. Standard and D. H. Roberts, all members of the home guard. He was taken from Belle Fourche to Spearfish and turned over to the home guards there. : He was restored to liberty at Sturgis by the state’s attorney. AN ANSWER TO THE GANG POLITICIANS Captain Russell Warren of the Spearfish home guards and two other members of the organization in that town are also made defendants in the $50,000 damage suit. Under the pretence of enforcing a work or fight order, politicians in South Dakota and Nebraska, acting through the state councils of defense, have been attempting to cripple the efforts of the farm- ers_to organize. This sly method of maintaining the old-gang political machines in office is being met by legal means. In their frantic efforts to bolster up their fast waning political fortunes, the cohorts of big business have gone too far. Their defiance of law and justice is only matched by the density of their ignorance. The mental ob- scurity of the farmer hating gangs in South Da- kota is well shown by the following clipping from the Watertown News, commenting on an earlier in- cident in the experiences of Mr. Cadle in spreading the doctrine of democracy at home: - “In Nisland, Butte county, W. W. Cadle, a League " organizer, was stopped in the midst of his address by the captain of the local home guard who said that the book from which the speaker was quoting was ‘seditious’ in character. Mr. Cadle is a veteran of the Spanlsh-Amencan war. He has two Home Guards of Belle Fourche and Spearfish Sued for $50,000 and an Injunction Against wts Further Political Persecution Is Sought The minute the National Nonpartisan league believes it can get a fair hearing, it will take every one of its wrongs into court. In South Dakota W. W. Cadle, superintendent of League organizers, has gone into the United States court for remedy against the persecution which he has endured. He is not only asking $50,000 damages, but is petitioning for an injunction against interference with the work of the League. In every state in which members or organizers have been wronged ultimate justice will be secured. No mobbing, no single act of violence, is without full affidavits, naming the enemies of the farmers who have perpetrated the wrong. The name of every man who has engaged in unlawful activity against the organized farmers is known, and no man will escape the due action of the state and federal courts. sons now fightmg for world democracy in France, and a daughter in the war department in Washing- ton. . Some years ago he was a resident of Red- field, S. D., and later became active in Republican politics in "Montana with what is known as the progressive wing. Be51des, the book from which Mr. Cadle was reading is President Wilson’s ‘The New Freedom,” wriften since Wilson became a prominent national character. We presume that if the quotations had been read by a Republican or a Democrat instead of a Nonpartisan league man the sentiments would have been applauded by the gentleman who was mainly instrumental in vetoing Mr. Cadle’s address.” CALLED PRESIDENT WILSON’S BOOK SEDITIOUS The Roslyn Reporter also gave this example of authority run mad full publicity. It said: “#¢The New Freedom,’ a book written by Presi- dent Wilson, dealing with the economic and polit- ical aspect in the United States, is being subjected ~to the closest scrutiny by certain people throughout the country. Even though the nation’s executive is the author, the book is held as ‘seditious’ by those one-man juries. Residents of Mineola, Texa.s, sent a copy of the book to Washington some time ago for investigation. The captain of the home guards at Nisland, in this state, stopped a Nonpartisan speaker, W. W. Cadle, whose two sons are fighting in France and who has a daughfer in the war de- partment, from quoting the book, because many of the statements were ‘seditious:.’ “Yet these men, who have openly condemned the president’s book, are loud in proclaiming how solid- ly they stand behmd our commander-in-chief. . “Sounds like-the pharisees of old, doesn’t it ?” NO RESPECT FOR - AMERICAN VETERANS Among the organizers of the League are many men who, as Mr. Cadle, have fought for America in the battlefield. In no instance have the petty auto- _crats who hate the farmer and fear his vote re- spected these veterans. In Colorado a mob of broomcorn middlemen, bankers and hoodlums threatened to lynch B. C. Morton, an organizer for the League. Mr. Morton also is a veteran of the Spanish conflict and is a homesteader. The act that enraged these men of Holly, Col., was his aid- ing the farmers to find a high- er market for their farm prod- But the battle cry of free- dom — We'll Stick —is heard throughout the West. :The farmer’s surest weapon is his ballot, and in every state where the League has gained a sure foothold, its influence will be felt in the elections. In South Dakota the pre- cinet conventions, June 22, elected delegates to the legis- lative convention. This marks the official beginning of the South Dakota campaign. League - indorsed candidates will be nominated by petition except where the League dele- S gates indorse candidates of the the recent primary election. A season of League picnics, at which A. C. Townley, president of the Nonpartisan league, will speak, is being provided for. THE NEBRASKA PLOT IS FAILING One hundred of the best farmers around Ord, Neb., came into court there, June 18, to testify in defense of J. Thull, a League orga.nizer. The sheriff had arrested him at a patriotic meeting a few weeks before on the allegation that he was not en- gaged in a necessary or useful occupation. As B. H. Alvord said in a letter to the Leader, “The ob- ject of the prosecution is plain to be seen. It is approaching time for election and the farmer must not organize for political purposes.” The judge thréw the case out of court, dismissing Mr. Thull. As one of the Ord newspapers remarked, it looked like a polltwal prosecution, because none but pohtlclans put in appearance to testify agamst the organizer. ' Another Nebraska organizer has met the same molestation. He is Kinney Yenawine, and was ar- rested at McCook, Neb. The prosecution showed that he had solicited members in Red Willow coun- ty, which to them seemed a great crime. It Was brought out that this organizer was physically in- capacitated for hard labor such as the politicians thought he ought to be doing. It was shown that he had enlisted in the marine corps in 1895, and was with Admiral Dewey at Manila bay. He show- ed the medals given him for his five years’ service, It was proved that he was incapacitated for hard labor by injuries produced from standing in salt water while in the service of Uncle Sam. His case was set over to September. Montana in the Fight Cheadle, Mont. Editor Nonpartisan Leader: I am a member of the Nonpartisan aggregation in Fergus county and I hope old Montana will do her full duty this fall towards whipping the Ger- man kaiser and the little American kaisers. Our president needs every last one of us all the time, for he has-a mighty big job on his hands—not so . much in handling the German kaiser, but in taking care of the Amencan Huns. E. STILLMAN. ON THE FAT ACRES OF SOUTH DAKOTA ‘ews_of ‘the: polmcal alds of Blg Biz? When ‘once the Nonpartlsan league secu : d neVer waste a thought on the gtatters. i : old parties who were named in R S R T