The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, July 26, 1920, Page 7

News thes From - ~ Many States ; . IDAHO — -~ SECOND only to the airplane which is carrying “A. C. Townley through the League states, is - ) the great *free speech tent” which started a " state-wide tour of Idaho on July 7. Twice within the last three months League speakers have been refused the permission to speak in Idaho towns. This so aroused the League farmers that they conceived the idea of purchasing a big tent and a truck on which to carry it. This tent can be pitched at any time or place where it is desired to hold meetings. Starting the tour on July 7 the tent has completed nearly three weeks of more en- thusiastic and better attended meetings than ever have been held in Idaho before. So Wwell have these meetings been attended and so much enthusiasm shown that the tent has become the object of at- tack by the controlled press of the state. They are sneering at-the initiative and originality shown by the farmers of the state, while the farmers sit back and smile, knowing they have hit upon a splendid plan to educate the people. ~Officials of the United Americans, which was ex- ‘posed in all its sinister workings in Idaho some time ago by the Idaho Leader, have made several ‘attempts to enlist the services of the Nonpartisan Jéague and the Idaho Leader. An imported organ- -izer and lecturer for the United Americans makes the statement that, all the millionaires formerly connected “with the United Americans have been ““kicked out.” He has refused, however, to publicly Tepudiate these men or to repudiate the statement of the Tdaho committee of the United Americans to the effect that “the Nonpartisan league is affiliated with revolutionary organizations for the purpose of ‘everthrowing the United States government.” John' W. Hart of Rigby, Idaho, closely connected with the Utah-Idaho Sugar company, has been “ex- oncrated” by Secretary of War Bakefg for exempting his three sons from war service. Mr. Hart, to- gether with two other members of the exemption board, was kicked out by the government in 1918 for the exemption of the sons of two of the mem- bers and also.for exempting the son of Frank R. Gooding. Idahoans take exception to “clearing” Mr. Hart of the charges against him and believe it is nothing mere or less than political “whitewash.” An inside fight in the Republican party, has been developed and at this time it is hard to say who will have -a chance of being the mominees at the Pocatello convention. Forces are attempting to ‘eliminate, Frank R. Gooding and also Governor “Davis, who is responsible for a 326 per-cent increase in taxes, while these two gentlemen control the Re- publican machinery and are determined to force themselves on ‘the people of the state through a controlled convention. : - WISCONSIN APIDLY the Nonpartisan league state ticket is becoming the storm center in Wisconsin politics. " Politicians in this state have af- fected to regard the Nonpartisan league impotent. Within the past two weeks, however, the League ticket has drawn the fire of practically ev- ery upholder of the prof- iteering system. Sena- tor Roy P. Wileox, who has claimed to be part progressive. and who is now a candidate for gov- ernor, was the first to as- sail the League, He was followed, on July 4, by " Governor Philipp, who “'pointed to the League as ‘a “menace,” and declar- ‘ed the only remedy for profiteering was greater production. 'While the ~League ticket has drawn the fire of the big busi-. ~son, Homer Cook, N. S.. .~ Minnesota National Guard ¢ . know who was responsible editorial strongly indorsing both the League pr - gram and its ticket. The Wisconsin Federation. of Labor will meet at La Crosse on July 21, and while a radical Socialist element may prevent the indorse- ment of the League ticket, on the ground that the ‘Socialists also have a ticket in the field, it is gen- erally believed that the great bulk of the labor vote will be back of the farmer-labor ticket. The Nonpartisan league in Wisconsin, though this" is the first campaign it has made, promises to make as lively a fight this fall as has been made either in. Minnesota or North Dakota. Headed by A. E. Bowen, chief of the national speakers’ bureau, a big crew of League speak- ers of national reputation are billed .o invade the state July J18. Besides Mr. Bowen' the speakers will include O. M. Thoma~ - Randall, Brofessor Wilson, Claude Townley and E. R. Meitzen. . One. of the League candidates in Wis- consin will be routed with each speaker. ] Wisconsin members of the American Legion learn- = - ed from the Wisconsin Leader that Dan E. Rich- - ter, who assailed the Non- partisan = league -at- the Legion convention ‘at - Green Bay, was a home guard soldier who had been dismissed from the “for the good of the serv= ice” Now the Legion- naires = are wanting to for bringing such aman to Wisconsin and why. : Senator Robert M. La Follette returned to his home near Madison ‘on . July 6 from the hospital at =~ Rochester; Minn. While the senator will be unable to take an active part in poli- tics during the primary campaign, it is the general belief that he- will have something to say soon on ; Wisconsin politics—and that what he says will not hurt the Nonpartisan league ticket. ; o MONTANA HE producers’ annual reunion at Belt on July 4 was one of the best illus- trations to date of the solidarity be- tween- Montana labor and the Non- partisan league. Lewistown, a large labor center, has come into the labor league and many other towns are on the way. Miss Crone, a woman organizer, recently secured 100 memberships in seven days. Louis F. Irvin, a fighting attorney from Browning, has accepted indorsement / for attor- ney general. He will make a real campaigner and - a competent and - fearless state official. copper crowd of a ¥e- monstrance peti tion compensation act has fooled a number of voters during. the past two weeks, but after learning - that they have been The - circulation: by the® against the 'workmen’s ness element, and of the ° politicians who cater to it for votes, it has gain- This is the goal of the Idaho farmers, who are s campaigning in a tent a la circus, moyving from ed the support of power- ° ful - elements. Hearst’s Milwaukee daily, . the Milwaukee - News, on July 8 appeared with an ’ place to place on a truck. So many towns and cit-- ies” have locked: their. halls against the farmers ‘that ‘a tent was purchased, to be set up in farm- yards just outside of these hostile towns. The. - “picture is of “the Idaho state capitol.. ' -tricked it is evident that :they -are going to be ~ hugely indignant~ and never again gullible. This stunt, as usual, will be another boomerang - for _the copper crowd. g . B. K. ‘Wheeler, League ~ PAGE :SEVEN - We'll Stick amf We’ll Win and labor candidate for governor; M. McCusker andgA. C. Townley were greeted with crowds ag- gregating 12,000 at Avondale and Medicine Lake July 3 and 4. ; 2 - ‘OKLAHOMA HE kidnaping of Cecil G. Mason, a League organizer, at Liberal, Okla., by a lawless ele- ment of the state branch of the American Legion has aroused the ire of the organized farmers here.. Mason, who is a returned overseas soldier, was stopped in the streets of Liberal after conspirators had “planted” radical literature in his ‘B. K. Wheeler (left) and R. C. Arnold (right) are the leaders on Montana’s Nonpartisan league ticket. Mr. Wheeler was a victim of a mob recently at Dillon, Mont. Copper trust agents are spending ‘huge sums in M?ntana.to keep the League from electing Mr. Wheeler, who incurret_l then‘. enmity while United States district attorney, as governor, and his running = mate, Mr. Arnold, as lieutenant governor. - suitcase at the hotel there and kidnaped to Guynam, Okla.; after forcing Mason to turn over his receipts and lists of League members to his abductors. At Guynam, Mason, who had been gassed in France, was overcome by the shock and became unconscious. His captors called a physician and for three days ‘Mason was kept under the influence of morphine and sleeping powders, he reported. After recovery; the gang took Mason to Stratford, Texas. At Stratford, the captors turned Mason over to another “committee,” which ‘drove him to Dalhart, Texas, to appear before the commander of the Legion post _there, according to Mason’s report. ' There they. compelled the organizer to sign an affidavit that he would no Jonger organize for the League. Mason later found his automobile in a garage at Dalhart. Reports have reached the state office in Oklahoma City that threatening letters are being sent to the farmers whose names appeared on the list taken away from Mason. An appeal to the authorities to prosecute the kidnapers has been made. : - . MINNESOTA UDGE JOHNSON of Red Wing is expected to hand down a decision shortly in the contest made by supporters of Congressman Volstead against Rev. O. J. Kvale, Leaguer, victor in the recent Minnesota primary election. Volstead supporters asked the court to disqualify Rev. Mr. Kvale because they said he had intimated in the campaign Volstead was an atheist. ‘Other trumped- up charges against Rev. Mr. Kvale were abandoned by the lawyers for Volstead as soon as the hearing got under way. If Judge Johnson should decide against the League man and the supreme court should uphold the decision, Kvale will make the race again in November. Leaguer, in the recent primary, Judge Johnson was defeated.g - for supreme court. justice by George L. Siegel, -