The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, June 14, 1920, Page 5

_ed to get out of - the . convention | - ~adopted the -| . camouflage ‘tonnage tax _that Preus, the | .- friend ‘of the 't '+ -, steel trust, had “itself, disturb- datee for go' €rnor, - seeing. no: chance for ° election; refus- ° | race | themselves woil The steel trust ed because the. plank, refused to glve up its | campmgn, and is spending un- - told" thousands ‘" of dollars it throughout the RLets BIp osmg;l ‘national vice president; and n: Jional and state organizer. He was bom in anesota and always lived .in the state and besides 2 % 'm‘...‘k ELiete, 'nmne’nl; R ; aeveatll dht %ipusl:?i:?:l};n bemg 3 farmer carries a card as member ‘of ‘organized labar. pl}tfg;: can- o mamed and has lived in Minnesota 14 years.’ didate of the “no chance of eleetwn by refusmg to res:gn from the' & office of state auditor, which he mow holds, while - “making the race. -He is using his hig force of depu-‘ * ties, paid by the state,inadespemteefl‘orttogam'_ ‘as many votes as possible while pnvately admithng : * “that victory is impossible. ' ¥ ~ . ‘As a last desperate attempt to wm, the oppos:t:on ; 'pmposed to bring.a suit'to have the names of Ship- . "Stead ‘and other candidates aken from the ticket, ' and all - expenses and after conducting ‘& school for ,‘. these speakers; in‘ which' they are trained in all the & " usual anti-League lies, has sent. them throughout ' ' MERCENARIES TRY TO | o g _-BREAK UP MEETINGS = 2 .' -are shown are: that' most of - the crowd ; ; Jeayes before the show isover. .. them las “Socialists.’’: primary day, is to. refuse to give the farm- '} : ill;s Repubheen ballots, oti{n the ground that . 1. W. W.-and other names, have attempted ‘“to break up League meetings, apparently 5 :fered them so that League leaders can be ~arrested. “In many cases ‘the speakers in . question haye been so insulting in their ac-. ~ tions that they h £ .’rough handlmg - ‘spent daily for speakers the Sound Govern- ment' association is sending: out: ridiculous' : ,motmn picture shows, showing the farm- . “ed; mot 'to win the farmers’ votes, but t 'on the false charge that they were not Republicans, They .attempted to haye one of -the independent candidates for governor stand sponsor for this suit: When they could find no “dummy” who would lend y mentxoned, is: sending a’scurrils has hired’ scores of young'lawyers at $50 a week the state to deliver “lectures.” In many cases the speakers, after finishing their course of instruction; . “‘have been sent to Bismarck, the capital of North . “Dakota.. They stay there betwéen trains, the pur-. pose of this being to enable them to say, when they ' - are questioned, that they have “heen at'the capital of North Bakota studymg the f Ieague” T il i These $50—a~week mercenanes, “in addx- tzon to delivering speeches in which League farmers are called Socialists;: Bolsheviki, in the hope that some violence will be of- e ; nerrowly escaped . In addition to thousands of dollars bemg ‘ersstaging Tiots and revoluhons ‘and Mr. Townley crowning himself as king of the mfl;um~ Reporf,s everywhere these. pxetures Al this expensive propaganda is mtend' g create a prejudice against them and stamp. ‘ . The mtentxon, on. are not memb that parby. -upon - his quahficatmns ~ er and banker. - ; - For Railroa 1. D. Ostby, League farmer.. o ‘The names of all the' ca.ndxdates hsted above wxll rbe found on the Republican primary ballot. = = : - - For Justice of the Supreme Court—George L Sie- | : _gel, attorney- for organized labor and. the orgamzed, i} farmers and progressive legislator. 3 Mr, S;egel s name will be Tlns scheme, however, has 11ttle ehance of bemg 5 “worked ‘however well' it ma¥ ‘be organized. Under the anesota law any vote lot of any party he desires to vote at the primary. election, by making' affidavit at the polls that he "‘supporl;ed that party generally at the'last election.: No one but the voter himself has the right to pass the Nonpafi:lsan lea.gue and orgamzed labor. . The - list of candidates is printed on this page. Throughout Minnesota local pohtlclans and busi- ness. men,. ‘who. fought the League hltterly two places. But whxle they are not: re;ectmg any good falth Bev 0.3 Kvale, Benean, may demand the bal- " Leaguers’ and . others can’ defeat this campaign of bulldozing by refusing to be bulldozed, by demanding the ‘Republican ballot, ‘on which the names of Doctor Shipstead and other an . League candidates appear ‘and by voting, straight @ ° ‘- down the line, for the list: of candidates indorsed by gs name to brmg tlns smt they had to dmp tlus 3 L 7rAt present ‘they are spendmg money hke watet, z . ~but to no purpose. ' The “Sound Govemment ass0= - ciation” previo " ous sheet called “Minnesota Issues” to every yoter ' in the state whose name they can secure: This sheet is filled with false statements about ‘the League and its leaders. In addition the association = : Mr. Fuller is ‘w1dely knOWn on account of hls ect:lvxty w1(:h the Amencan Soclety of E'qmty, with which. he: has been. . Mr. Little is mayor of Brainerd, elected on 'a labor-reform ficket. He is a raxlway machmlst active in umon affairs, - Mr. Kvale is a pastor of the Lutheran church and a member of two of the most lmportant natxonal boards of the church-—- ‘But there is one thing our forefathers failed to do and we are not proud of that Ffailure — and that was their failure to take care. of the heritage hand- ed'down to them by the Almighty, our great natural _resources. “Qur fathers | *'were so: busy ‘building the cities’and rail- _roads, to make an empire where there - ~‘had been only . wvilderness, that they did ‘not have much time to spend taking care of the “N. E. ’I‘Ilonnodnon, Dalton. minth dis ; “elimination .,those on education ‘and finance. He was in much. demand durmg the War as a patriotic speaker and always pleaded for: "t i:; ;‘;fi: convention, - true patriotism in the service of all the people and not in the service of a few war profiteers. - tits 0f tha state 'vn'tuall B M Thomodson is a practical farmer, born in Minnesota and a graduate of Mankato normal school ‘and the Umversxty ‘of and so they mitted that he” anesota He has always been actlve m farmers co-operatlve euteumses. o § 5 ~ left the doing knew he had 2 ~of that to'the pohtxcxans But you know the ‘people of Minnesota ~have learned their bitter lesson. They have learn- ‘ed the lesson that the old-time Viking learned han- ‘dreds of years ago—that in the bitter: struggle for existence he could not depend upon any one else to fight his battle for him—that in any fight he must not beg help from a friend or ask mercy of an ene- - 'my—that he must fight his own battle or die. . PEOPLE OF STATE FIGHT THAT (- FREE GOVERNMENT MAY LIVE “And. the people “of the Umted States and of the state of Minnesota, the great common people who ~‘have been dependmg upon their friends; the politi- | years ago, are seeking now to jidentify themselves : - with the winning movement. Mayors are ofienng ; _to-preside at the meetmgs, bankers and other busi- ~Mess men are ofiermg halls and parks for meetmg o oEers of co—ope!‘atlon, ‘the farmers 'of Minnesota are going straight. ahead this year, as they did two years ‘ago, fighting their own battles and depend— 5 mg upon their own strength. £ “As Doctor/Shipstead said in a recent speech. e “We are proud of Minnesota and of the work our forefathers did when they ‘came here and tore the trees of these: forests out, and bmlded an empxre. found on l:h ¥ " ciang and: the profiteers; to do their fighting for ~ ‘them, have learned that lesson and they are going, - in-future, to use their own strength, they are going ‘to sta.nd oon’their own feet and fight their own bat- tles, in- order that Amenca and Amencan mstltu- ‘tions shall live:” . President Townley, in his speeches,: has been ac- centmg the difference between the present cam- paign and that of two years ago; saying: “Three years ago our government came to us a.nd : . told us we were'in a war for democracy, to establish the right of free peoples. to: choose from among themselves their representatives to govern' them. - They, said the farmer must work harder, produce * more, send his boys to fight for this nght of free ~‘peoples ‘to govern' themselves and give money to “ back up their boys. INDORSED FOR STATE OFFICE IN MINNESOTA For Governor—Doctor ‘Henrik Shipstead, former . »"mayor of Glenwood and progressive legxslator a fighter ‘for the farmers in the 1918 campaign. ‘For- Lidutenant Governor—George H. Mallon, one ?i;) Pershing’s “100 war heroes”' leader in organized abor. . . : For Attorney General-—'l‘homas V. Sulhvan, law- ~ yer for organized labor and organized farmers and L leader of the League ticket in the 1918 primaries. i - For Secretary of State—Thomas Vollom, League i‘farmer and leader in farmérs’ co-operative enterprises, For State Treasurer—Charles Lund, League farm-,v ) : (Mr. Lund was - selected to take ‘the - place of Miss Lily Anderson, original selection for this | ~ office, Miss Anderson being unable to file because the | - woman suffrage gmendment had not been ratified). : and Warelgouse Commlssmner——Paul ] “%“The farmers said: ‘All right. We are for that, we always have been; we are for the right of free peoples to select their own representatives to make their laws; if that is:-what this war is for.! So the farmers “worked harder, produced more, sent their ' -boys'to war and backed up the boys with : money for Liberty bonds and Red Cross .donations, because they believed in the right'of free peoples to govern themselves. ~And they kept on organizing, so that they nght select their own representatlves here ~ in America, at the same time, “Then, two years ago, the gang came. along and told the farmers to. quit organ- .izing; ‘to quit selecting their representa- - tives to make their laws and called ths farmels dxsloyal They said we weren’t ehind this great world war for democracy S own representatlves and make their laws. “But the farmers kept right on. They -~ said to the -politicians:” . fighting for democracy and the right of “ free peoples to govern themselves, just-as ) ‘We are fightmg now, when you, Bumquist, «_ o and your gang, are dead and gone.’ : ~4‘And now Bumquxst is.dead. pohtmally, to ma.ke thexr laws, has only Just begun “and the right of free peoples to select their = ‘We will stil be = o : and his gang' is putting.up its last-despair- - . ing fight in Minnesota, while our fight for -the right of free peoples to govern them- = selves, to select their own representetwes FEsty