The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, June 14, 1920, Page 4

"~ town to town by airplane, is "~ speaking to as many as 15,000 _get a 100 per cent vote out, ~would put the League presi- Minnesota Victory Campalgn Near En ‘ Primary Electlon June 21 Promises to Sound Knell of Corporatlon ULL of “pep” and punch; the organized #| farmers and organized ‘workers of Minnesota, in . their: “Shipstead for governor’’ campaign, are giving the politicians and business interests of Not only do the farmers'and workers intend to put Doctor Shipstead in the gubematonal chair’ in the state capitol at St. Paul, giving Minnesota the same kind of’a governor that North Dakota now has in Lynn J. Frazier, but they propose to elect: Captain George) H. Mallon as lieutenant governor. to help him, Tom Sullivan as attorney general to show up the crooked practices of ‘the milling, lumber and steel trusts, and all the rest of the ticket chosen by the farmers and labor men' at their conventions'in April. - President. A, C. Townley of the ' League, traveling from farmers a day, and while he . has time for only short speech- es the enthusiasm of the audi- - ences is ’‘enormous. - Doctor.® Shipstead and other candi- \ dates, traveling by - automo- bile, make only one town a day, but have time to discuss thor= oughly the issues of the cam-. paign — something: that their opponents dare not do. In the ‘three large cities— Minneapolis, St. Paul and Du- luth—and in many . of the smaller towns, orgamzed labor is putting up a eampaign of its: - own for: the same ticket, a campaign that is intended to - just as the farmers got out a 100 per cent vote two years ago. R But it is already evident that Doctor Shipstead and the other candidates will get more than the 100 per cent vote of the League farmers and the 100 per cent vote of organized labor. Thousands of friends of the League program among the ' unorganized workers, the clerks, the professional men and small business men of Minne- sota cities‘and towns, will cast their votes for the ‘League candidates because«they have seen them and know they are : honest, fearléss and- capable. - Minnesota citizens are tired of being dominated by the steel, milling, lumber and banking trusts and the League ticket gives them an opportunity to cast their votes of protest. -AIRPLANE CAMPAIGN IS GREAT SUCCESS The success of the alrplane campaign has been tremend’ous At the start of the campaign Twin, Cities papers and even ‘the Associated Press had their representatives watch’ the " meetings. The anti-League in- . terests: frankly hoped for an: accident of any kind that dent out of the way. When a shght accident’ was experienc- . ed in landing near St. James, temporarily puttmg the plane: out of commission, though the’ damage was slight, the papers rejoiced in the headlines that . the so-called #$10,000 airplane” was wrecked. They atterpted. to make the farmers believe that''their ‘money was being wasted on Mr Townley’s per< that state the fight of their lives. —He fought for you in thev‘ o regular American way— - two-flsted and hard-hlttmg. }——Lend here as Mallon fought . there. Fight with your dol- lars in the chtory leerty - & sonal pleasure The fact is, of cburse, that the air- - plane is used simply because-Mr. Townley can make " three- meetmgs a day with it, instead of one.” The < fact that he is making shese meetings, instead of meeting with disaster, has ‘50 unpleasantly affected the Twin Cities papers that “they .now refuse to mention meetings at which from 5,000 to 10,000 farmers are present and have even, stopped Te- ferring to the “$10,000 airplane.”” Control of State Government .l’ g on am:raft produet:on—and out of thm enormous sum failed to.get a single first class fighting piane in service: by.'the end of the war. And now the Twin’ Cities ‘papers and the politiciars are. afraid - . that -with'one first class fighting plane we are go- ing to get to: the people and tell them the truth ‘-about it.” Another reason why they are not re.ferrmg to the - airplane any more is that Captain Mallon is using it to show the people of Minnesota the need of bet- ter govemment state and national: “During the war,” Captain Mallon'is telling his faud1ences, “the - Umted States spent $1,800 000,000 A £ it R Home Addsrs: N&' Efimvfiwm i &.Kn-n% lnnu X e Early in; the' campaxgn trouble was experxenced with the airplane. On one flight the gasoline: cock: had. been left open and ‘when the “gas” drained away it was necessary to make a forced landing. Engine trouble also developéd and President Town- _ ley for a few days had to use a substitute plane. Starting on the road again it was decided to em- % ploy an armed guard to watch the plane at night, VICTORY LOAN POSTER PRAISES MALLON conspicuaus gallaniry and eicpiday sbove and beyend 1 i 4 e temy s B e et 36 September; 1918. wmmum.cumh; Mullon, wrh aine solders, pushed férward machine gons, eaptuneg 8 of them igh the woodh, alsnary and eserminaeion, dnplayed ‘n.hup-adm hundeed privonees, So s n o el GEohee IHLMAML@N Above isa reproductmn of a govemmmt V:ctory loan poster, based on the heroxc exploxts of.‘ Captain George H. Mallon, League candxdate—for heutenant governor of Minnesota, during ‘the " war, Captain’ Mallen received the. lnghest decoratlons in the gift of the United States, 'ta& ; Ftench and other governments. But he is not one of the 'profesmonal patriots who believes in calling every one elge a slacker ora pro-German. ‘Neither is he an advocate of compulso : ; Pruse’ mlhtary training. He declares that compulsory militar : siamsm, wbich he and 4,000,000 othe 3§ Y training is to keep possible’ marauders away, who might try to dam- . age the plane so it would col- .} lapse during its flight the fol~ . lowing day. i, - good reason for employing the a “* guard was shown at one of the - :i B western Minnesota towns, ’ * when an automobile drov& up - = at, mght, extingunished its lights “ 7 as it drew near the field where . the plane was parked. It stop- © ped and ‘a number of ahghted and approached the - plane. . . The g-uard moved out to ‘challenge’ them. When they .. saw him the mysterious visi= . tors' promptly -climbed into ':dark. MARAUDERS ARE o FRIGHTENED AWAY 2 " The next mghfi anotherauto— mobxle or the same one stop= ¥ - ped over two blocks away from . .~ -where the plane was parked but' ence of the guard, _-is frankly disorganized ‘and - discouraged. With mxlhons of _dellars of campaign funds at . ~ - their command they have been . unable to .get their conflicting ~ interests ' together 'so as to . - spend this ‘money to benefit ' . any one opposmg candidate. 2 Some months ago. the {#“Sound . Government - associa- ‘tion” 'was organized, with a “ million-dollar slush: fund. . 1t ~was 'intended’ to spend this ~money to back the one candi-. date for' governor who should . 'pe selected by the interests to ' “go up against the candidate of " the farmers and orgamzed i labor. The 'steel trust, the b)g in- - irenched interest of northern e anesota raised another cam- ‘|~ paign fnnd of its own: and- | formed the so-called “Fair Tax | i ‘association” to ‘make 4 sepa-’ ‘. rate campmg'n ‘to .oppose any udo-wu-» g 7 . taxes upon iron ore. - An ‘“elim- " | ination convention” was called, “1in an effort to get:all other ) - Thig convention nominated for | candidate of the steel trust and an avowed opponent-of the ton- © nage tax aad at the same time: “faxr and eqmtable tonnage “ble hy this method, the League - ‘ ;pposxtion made more ¢ roublg for o men“ . again the marauders were - ,,‘frlghtened away by xhe pres- 5% .That there was . A .their car«and sped away n the i The opposition to the League : attempt /to " levy additional i . ‘candidates out of the way. - “.governor -Jacob A. O. Preus, i : adopted a platform calling for - : ,.Instea.d of” settlmg all trou- o