The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-07-11
STATE CAPITOL WEEKLY
POLITICAL News Letter
Non-Partisan League Organizers in
Trouble. General Woods Funds
Accounted For.

Accounted For.
Membership in the Non-Partisan
League may soon be badge of dis
honor and possession of the same
menace to the innocent holder if the
verification of the disloyal utterances
credited to some of it's organizers
and officers is established by those
now hot on the job. Those interes-
ted are daily in receipt of things
that dangerously border on treason
and short shifts will be given to
the propogandists if the statements
credited to them are cinched. 1t is
known that federal officers and the
state safety commission are deep in
an investigation and the cleaning up
process may come any day. Only
this week one of the Leagues organ
izers transferred his Minnesota resi-
dence to the federal prison at Lea
venworth for open opposition to the
CONSUMPTION act. To explain, how
ever, it was as a member Of a Social
list organization pledged to fight the
draft and not as a member Of the
League that his arrest and incarcer-
alton came. That as a member of
the League and one of it's organizers
he permitted his views and feelings
to enter the larger field is to be &C
cepted. A. C. Towney, the head of
the Non-Partisan League, who has
grown immensely wealthy as result
of the new movement, was credited
with having stumped the state of
North Dakota in opposition to the
Liberty Loan. This charge he Wig
orously denied, but it is of interest
that while the loan was oversub-
scribed by other states of the nation
North Dakota contributed but two
and one-half millions of it's allotment
of ten millions. Some one certainly
did some knocking in that state.
The thousands of farmers have joined
the new movement and have each
handed over their SIG without a muir
muir, confident in the coming of the
promised millennium, is known, but
they would do we'll to from now on
sound out those who have so glibly
separated them from their money.
There are at the present time a few
things on file at the state capitol
that smell of trouble and it would
be we'll for prospective League men,
bers to investigate before tying up.
Those interested in getting the Of
fetal scalp of Adjutant General
Wood of the state military depart
ment are not making success of
the job. Reported shortages in the
department have petered out and
now there is a general scramble to
to get from under 1t looks as if the
scheme of making General Wood the
goat" would be dropped. General
Wood, who has long been at the
head of the department, received the
spot light when he was supplanted
by a military secretary created by
the governor and yelled statements
INDUCED in to the effect that he was
short in his accounts with the fed
eral government. 1t now develops
that $1,000 of the reported cash
shortage has been in the federal
treasury since last May while as to
several thousands of dollars worth
of unpaid bills, failure on the part of
those involved to submit the proper
vouchers alone has prevented their
payment. The mony is in the treas
ury and when those to whom it is
due make the proper showing it will
be paid. Military jealousy is about
the best explanation of the whole
thing.
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That aspirants to Senator Nelson's
Washington job, should her elect to
retire next year, will have to reckon
with Congressman Stevenson is am
ong the possibilities. Northern Min
nesota papers close to the ninth dis
trict congressman are booming him
for the job and it looks pretty mush
as if some of the propaganda in his
behalf was inspired. The argument
advanced is that Senator Nelson's
successor should go to the country
districts and with some the argu-
ment has assumed a demand.
AS the average citizen views it,
real "bone dry" as far as the pro-
hibited districts of Minnesota are
concerned, has been reached under
the federal act which went into ef-
feet July l. This law prohibits the