The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, June 16, 1919, Page 8

'y ‘5 i pe & [} P J& 4 :;"4;.*} ;-' L 7 S i told in this week’s Leader. " FOR THE FIRST:10 _expenses, or $168.750. . will be still more interesting, Watch for them. i HE Nonpartisan Leader has in the past made some definite charges in regard to the activities of the anti-League com- bination of Minnesota business interests and politicians oper- ating from headquarters in the Merchants National Bank build- ing, St. Paul, in an effort to_control political affairs in Minnesota and other states, especially North Dakota. We have charged: 1. That the “Nonpartisan League of Minnesota,” incorporated by John A. Stoneburg, Clarence F. Johnson and others, was a “fake,” planned to make it more difficult for the real League to or- ganize in Minnesota. ' 2.. That the fake “league” came under the control of Minne- sota business interests and was supported by them. S That finding the “fake” league a failure, the same inter- ests organized a new plan, establishing headquarters in the Mer- chants National Bank building, St. Paul, with Charles Patterson in charge. . 4, That a feature of this campaign was a scheme to bribe country papers,‘by advertising contracts, to fight the League and that Tom Parker Junkin was given a $100,000 slush fund for this purpose.. : . 5. That the headquarters in the Merchants National Bank building, St. Paul, attempted not only to dictate politics for Minnesota, but also for other states, especially North Dakota. That the anti-League headquarters planned to use the “America First” organization in Minne- - sota, supposed to have been organized for patriotic purposes, to fight the or- ganized farmers. The Nonpartisan Leader is now in a position to present the evidence to back. all these charges. 1.” Clarence F. Johnson, one of the organizers of the ‘“fake” league, in last week’s Leader told plainly what its pur- poses were. 2. After the “fake” league was un- able to make expenses, Twin Cities finan- cial interests guaranteed its expenses and the expenses of its newspaper organ, “The Nonpartisan,” Mr. Johnson admits. Among those who were to get complimen- tary copies of this paper, evidently be-* cause they underwrote it, Mr. Johnson names Louis W. Hill, president of the Great Northern; Fred B. Snyder, Russell M. Bennett, Charles Gordon, Eli S. War- ner, Charles Patterson, Joseph Chapman and others, who represent, in the aggre- gate, the railroad and grain interests, the steel trust and the wholesalers of the Twin Cities. This was told in last week’s Joudo, Leader. - ; 3. When this scheme proved unsuc- cessful, the fake league was given up and Johnson was transferred to Patterson’s office in the Merchants National Bank ll)glging,. ‘as was told in last week’s In a market rigged to cheat And likewise all your hogs 1 Do you hate to give away, your labor every day? 3{0 3[?“1233“ tfi) pay the price e who charge For products of the forest, 1 Do you hate the profiteer, | And his paytriotic sneer? Just fall in line. And the way the fat boys la; Jin line. | The plutocrats and masses Just fall in line. Can you meet the ridicule, er. - . i The further history of the activities | And stand their of this group of the farmers’ enemies is 4, ‘In regard to the charge of a $100,000 slush fund, to be managed by Tom Parker Junkin, to bribe country pa- pers to fight the League, the Leader confesses itself in error. According to - Junkin’s own letter, reproduced in. fac- : simile in this issie of the Leader, the expense was to be $150,000 NTHS, plus 12145 per cent for overhead Wo years at this rate must have cost ol - WORK ALONE, in Minnesota and 0 , : 5. The interference of the Merchants National Bank build- ing bunch with North Dakota politics is further shown in this week’s issue of the Leader. Mr. Junkin, according to Mr. Johnson, claims to have written all the books attacking the League which are published under the name of Jerry D. Bacon of North Dakota, Junkin’s former boss. Mr. Junkin also is quoted as claiming credit for the organization of the so-called “Independent Voters’ associa- tion.” Mr. Bacon was a frequent visitor at the St. Paul offices. Norman Black, editor of the Fargo Forum, was another North Da- kota visitor. “Literature” attacking the League was distributed Just fall in line. $400,000, FOR PUBL Dakota.”. - _ from St. Paul offices to every state in which the League is organized. 6. When the America First association started, Johnson states -in this week’s issue of the Leader, he was employed by Patterson - to file their membership cards at 318 Jackson street (the old head- quarters of the fake league) in a cabinet supplied by the O’Donnell Shoe company, of which company Mr. Patterson was vice president. These cards, 13,469 in number at this time, were then transferred to the Merchants National Bank building headquarters. The Leader will have additional revelations to make later that The Fighting Farmers Do you hate to sell your wheat 1 If }mx do, why, man, you're one of us! ust fnll inline. .| 1f you do, why, man, you're one of us! Did you hate to see the graft, ughed At fooling all the people all the time? Do you want to spoil the spoil And give more to the toilers? If you do, why, man, you're one of us! Do you know there’s just two classes— And a few between who think they’re on the climb? Do you want the people winners? Do you want to skin the skinners? If you do, why, man, you're one of us! calling “fool,” 5 And the rube jokes which the gangsters think are fine? Can you see right through their praise Of your “independent ways”? If you can, why, man, you're one of us! - B T Y e 'y .~ HAYS AND THE CHAUTAUQUA ; IRECTLY on the heels of the exposure of the plan of Min D neapolis jobbers to finance a series of chautauqua enter- tainments throughout North Dakota (which is claimed by the promoters NOT to be intended as a fight against the Nonpar- tisan league, though individual lecturers, it is admitted, have used their position -to attack the League) comes a new report of at- tempted subversion of the chautauqua. : ; Chairman Will H. Hays of the Republican national committee has written a series of letters to Republican orators urging them to get engagements to speak at chautauquas and to make Repub- lican speeches camouflaged as lectures on “goed government.” Speakers were urged to get in touch with Doctor Horace Ellis of western headquarters of the Republican national committee in Chi- cago and have him arrange for engagements. In his letters, Mr. Hays said: - - We want to get as many Republican speeches made in the next 18 months as possible. All these speeches, of course, will not be under direct Republican auspices, but we are enlisting theé help of thousands of public speakers in order that they may, as occasion arises, use Republican matter * * * in whatever kind of speech they may be making. S In other words, Mr. Hays frankly proposes getting engage- ments under false pretenses in order that disguised “Republican matter” may be gotten before the public. The plan has met rebuke from Doc- tor Paul M. Pearson, secretary of the As- sociation of Chautauqua and Lyceum Managers of the United States. Mr. Pear- son said: Evidently Mr. Hays has been get- ting some up-to-the-minute information about chautauquas. He has probably learned that 20,000 American towns.in . ° every state have their intellectual life stirred by a .visit from chautauqua speakers every year, that no less than 7,000,000 people purchase tickets and that more than 20,000,000 people attend chautauqua and lyceum courses. Quite naturally Mr. Hays would like to take oner this great organization for the . 0. P. and fatted kine? e taice: 'i‘his purpose of subverting chau- field and mine‘l. tauquas to the uses of the Republican party will prove only a.-boomerang. It is a safe bet that no speaker will be - heard from the chautauqua platforms for whom Doctor Horace Ellis, who has been selected by Mr. Hays to earry out this scheme, is sponsor. : It is significant that the Hays letters proposing this scheme of using the chau- tauquas were sent out shortly after the national Republican chairman had made a visit to St. Paul and Minneapolis to con- fer with Minnesota politicians and busi- ness men. Did they suggest to him, we wonder, that he ‘use the same scheme they were using in Minnesota? Or was it an original idea on the part of the ener- getic Will? THE DAYLIGHT SAVING LAW NE of the reliefs being sought by: - O farmers of the new. congress is the repeal of the daylight saving law, passed as a war measure and largely ' for the benefit of the “wartime gardener.” However it may have affected the wartime gardener, its effect on the farmers during war time and out of it has been one of. hardship and inconvenience. However, because it was war time and because it was thought necessary, the farmer submitted to it. Now that the emergency for it has passed, if it ever existed, the farmer is asking its repeal. It has hampered his work and the work of the nation more, probably, than it has ever helped the war- time gardener of the cities. He was forced to milk his cows in the dark as a result of the clocks being set an hour ahead, had to wait for the sun to rise before he could begin his mowing and his har- ers, - vesting, and then was unable to make use of those “extra hours: after a certain time by the clock. : The farmer has had to accommodate himself always to the pleasure of the city dwellers. The argument is used that the farmer is at liberty to be regulated by the old time, if he so wishes. But can he? The business of the nation is done by the new time, : and the farmer must, if he wishes to do business with the world, . adjust himself to the condition. The daylight saving law may be a good thing for the wartime gardeners and incidentally for golfers, baseball fans and automo- bilists, but the farmer has had to bear the brunt of the law. The of daylight” after supper because the farm hands refused to work rider to the agricultural bill, carrying a provision for the repeal of expected to pass a’separate . ~ bill restoring sun time as the standard. e : the law, has been killed, but congress is e e e e e s ere? ]