The Devils Lake world and inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1915-1920, 1916-03-09

EVILS LAKE WORLD.INTE
come out against any Of the candidates
of the league. AS everybody knows,
Der Staats-Anzeiger is the official Or
gan of the Liberty league, and it has
for years advocated the calling of a
constitutional convention whereby the
Liberty league and and its paper ex-
poets to do away with our prohibition
laws. It is further stated that ae-
cording to this agreement Der Stats
Anzeiger at the expense of the league
is sent to such Of the leagues German
speaking members as prefer the booze
party's organ to the Socialistic Pear
sons Magazine.
It may not be amiss in this connec
ton to ask: Do the Socialists Town
ley and Bowen intend to force the sa-
loon upon the people by means of the
machinery they have created for them.
selves in the? Non-Partisan league
Is it to prepare the ground that they
have called the chief speaker for the
Liquor Dealers Association, Attorney
Clarence Darrow of Chicago, to come
to the state? Or has Townley and
Bowen wholly abandoned the ideas
they so bravely championed within the
Socialistic party in North Dakota.
Bossism at the, Helm.
It was understood from the begin
ming that the Non-Partisan league
was to act absolutely non-partisan in
politics and 8 it's power and money
to secure the nomination of good men
on the different party tickets. This
working plan appears to have been
thrown on the scrap heap, and judging
from the information obtained by rep
resentatives of the Normanden it is
now the purpose Of the league to put
it's own ticket into the field.
With this in view there have already
been held precinct. meetings, where
delegates to, county conventions were
elected. As regards the precinct meet
ings, Director Wood of the League de-
flares that only members of the league
were admitted to the meetings. When
the meetings were called to order, all
those present had to show member
ship certificates, and those who did not
have them were asked to leave the
hall. Then the doors were locked and
the necessity of keeping the delibera-
tions secret was impressed upon the
gathering. 4.
They were told not, to tell any OUT
siders what took place or whom was
elected delegate. They were told not
to discuss the affairs Of the league, or
the plans or programs, with anyone
who was not already initiated in the
secrets Of the league, and it is reason
able to suppose that the elected dele
! gates to the county conventions will
not know or meet their co-delegates
until they arrive at the convention and
are taken in hand BY the, representa-
tives from the head office. This rep.
resentative will he the leading spirit
at the meeting.
Working Plan, Continued.
From this it will be seen that every
thing is done to get a convention Of
unbiased and non-inauenced" dele
gates whose sole object is to obey or
ders. To give the trusted agents o.
the elmer council"-and there are moi
very man of them a chance to bt
present and control these county con
ventions in case the delegates SHOULD
be So insane as to act according tt
their conscience and sound sense, these
conventions are spread over a perios
of several weeks. These dates ar,
kept very secret, at any rate up unit
the time this is written.
The Normanden is informed, how
ever, that these meetings will be hell
from March z till March Is. 1t ha:
proven impossible to get all the dates
but the following conventions are Sc
for the following dates:
Barnes county, March z.
Stutsman county, March 9.
Kidder county, March 10.
Eddy county, March 13.
Griggs county, March IA.
Benson county, March Is.
State Convention March 29.
The date for the state convention
when the crown is to be put on all TIN
achievements, was also to be kept Sc
cret, except for the few selected. l
is to be held March 20, however. TIT
same s~ecretive methods will be follow
ed there. The delegates to the con
vention will be taken in charge BY tn
directors and guarded as conscien
tiously against corrupting influences
as the inmates of a harem. They viii