The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-10-06

them with lying about the proceed
ings. Il -" & Seldom has such an
acute attack of exaggerated ego been
seen in Minnesota as took hold of Mr..
Townley. 81 Mr.. Townley and
his followers were given much the
best of it by all the newspapers re-
porting the event.
Hutchinson Leader: If our govern
ment is as rotten, our officials as cor
rupt, everything as wrong and misfit
as the speakers at the Nonpartisan
league convention said, repeated and
reiterated at St. Paul, we might as
well quit. abandon this dismal earth
and all go Jump in the lake. Townley,
Frazier, Van Lear, La Toilette, Gron'
ma and many other lesser apostles of
gloom all painted pictures of black
despair without ray of hope.
Preston Times: Considering the
early attitude of this organization as
regards the war, and more particularly
tho sentiments Of the league cOnven-
ton at st. Paul last week in it's ap-
prevail of the near traitorous speech
of Senator La Toilette, the Times
would warn the patriotic farmers Of
Fillmore county to look we'll before
countenancing an organization which
is in any way open to the suspicion
of giving aid and comfort to the en-
envy.
Morris Sun: The sentiments ex-
pressed at the Nonpartisan league
meeting unless repudiated in the
strongest terms by the members Of
the league, will give the impression
throughout the country that the organ
ization is strictly pro-German and that
disloyalty is its main aim and purpose.
Farmers as class are just as loyal
to our country as are the residents
of our cities, and we are greatly mis-
taken If they do not strongly resent
the faint on their loyalty by the words
Of that arch traitor, La Toilette.
Winnebago Enterprise: The league
officials preach a doctrine Of unrest
and suspicion, and are prone to set
one class of men against another class
of men. This is not Only wrong fun
damentally, but it is also unAmerican.
Any agitator who strives to arouse
class hatred and class suspicion is
doing his country an injury and an
Injustice And you can bet your last
cent that these agitators are not actu'
ated by the highest motives, but are
looking forward to lining their wal
lets with greenbacks wrested from the
unsuspicious.
Long Prairie Leader: TOwnley is
: either drunk with political power or
else his head has been turned by the
socialistic poison he has been feeding
on. Townley called the convention
to Consider the high cost Of living,
and yet during the entire four days
the convention was in session there
was not one single suggestion by any
one as how to solve that problem or
any other problem. When the conven'
ton was not aprlauding disloyalist
speakers, it was getting what satisfac'
ton it could out of listening to speak
ers who whined, bellyached and found
fault.
Warren Register: Among the speak
ers were such patriots (?) as Senators
Gronna and La Toilette, Mayor Van
Lear and jim Manahan. The audi
ence was by no means composed who'll
ly of farmers. We doubt very much
if the actual tillers of the soil were
there in large numbers, but the men
who try to farm the farmers, the So
cialists and the l. w. w. were there
in full force. Two men made patri-
otto speeches, but they were received
rather coldly, the socialists and other
disloyal ones reserving their noisy
demonstrations of approval for the
knockers and traitors.
Wadena Pioneer-Journal: Headlin-
ing the unspeakable La Toilette, the
less mentioned The better Van Lear,