Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-09-22
Arrest LaFollefte''Is Cry Of
Twin City Editors; TOWnley n
Bitterly Assailed for Meeting

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Editors Of Minneapolis and
ST. Paul Denounce a, g.
Townley and His League
m no Uncertain Terms
LaFollette Bitterly At
tackled.
eral Trade commission found when
lhe said that every idea advanced dur
ling the conference for an equitable
redistribution of the burdens OF war
1among the people had been acted up
on or was under studious consldera-
ton by congress.
"LaFollette was cheered when he
denounced congress as false to the
trust Of the people; when he said
lAmerican passengers had no business
aboard the Lusitana when he declared
1.-THE nation had no proper cause to go
to war; when he shouted that there
is something fundamentally wrong
with the government.
Any Hope Of Republication.
1.-THE Townleys, the Van Lears, and
their kind, these are the men who
hope to gain control next fall Of the
affairs Of the state Of Minnesota.
Will the citizenship Of this common
wealth suffer such a dire thing to
happen? It is uncomfortable that
this conference Of malcontents re-
/ Anrfn1 = van I cnyo$i, - to q1~~a-
ers and wage-earners Of Minnesota or
that it showed the measure of their
loyalty.
as a league, Townley or no Townley,
reupdiate the doctrine preached by
LaFollette at a gathering called and
held in the name Of the league?
s""'Win it proclaim to the world that
1t was lured to march under q flag
that falsely represents it's conviction
and bellies its heart, or will it permit
itself to rest under the odium Of APP
proval Of utferances that were rauc-
ously out of tune with the resolutions
adopted and sent forth as the eense
of the meeting?
There is a very deep feel
ing of resentment in the Twin cities
today over the disloyal meeting held
in the st. Paul aditortum. It is the
AESSly cApTSSSSu. OplLlOu that II SuCu q
meeting Were ATTEMPTED again 1t would
not get as far as the first outbreak of
Senator LaFollette. To show the feel
ing as reflected in the press OF the two
cities today am quoting editorial
comment and news story leads from
the evening editions.
From the Minneapolis Journals
evening edition, Friday, September 81:
LaFoIIette,s Fire In the Rear.
Robert M. LaFollette, fugleman OF
sedition, was permitted last night in
st. Paul to make a speech more dis
loyal, more reasonable, than the ut
terances that have landed lesser pros
Germans in prison and sem them into
Iinternment.
THE privilege Of a United States
senator, which makes him account
able only to the senate for what he
says on the floor Of the senate, did not
protect him last night. He went to
the extreme limit of anti-Americanism
and pro-Germans. He denounced the
war and every important step that
has been aiken in supporting It.
FIFE, justified the sinking OF the
fLusitana and strove to make 1t APP
pear that America is In the war be-
cause of that act. He repeated the
familiar German sophistries that the
Americans murdered on the L~usitana
had no right to be there, because she
carried munitions. But he ignored
the numbers of other cases Of Amer
lean ships carrying no munitions that
have been sunk. He had nothing ia
say of Germally's final notice SO that
he would sink ships, enemy or neutral,
whatever they carried and whitherso-
ever bound, that entered a certain
area. f&
i n. I, .EE.S. rEfHsrrElE ~
Addressing a conference which had
Just adopted with cheers a set of
resolutions supporting the war as ..our
war n endorsing the presidents
llette ELECTED more cheers by his Wild
and whirling words of treason. Yet
he was mot stopped. He was not
arrested. His defense Of the agents
OF h government went unrebuked.
why?
Three governors refused to permit
the Peoples council to hold its con
gress OF treason. and loyal Americans
everywhere approved. Yet n was to
utter exactly this sort Of sedition that
the Council planned its gathering. n
expected to have this same LlaFoilette
present to deliver the same false and
bitter speech he has now uttered with
out hindrance.
What is the purpose OF LaFolIette's
talk at this timer It will not stop the
a II will not alter the determine
tten OF the American people to see
matters through. 1t canshaye but one
purpose, to give aid and comfort Ia
the enemy, and that is treason. It wifi
pc used to fool and mislead the Ger
man people as to American sentiment,
the backs of the American soldier
4 who have gone and uiIf ~ - -
front. M
Has not the time come to put an
END to this sort of thing 2"
me st, Pioneer Press yester-
day morning, in the lead Of the emo
on the auditorium meeting, said:
Senator Robert d. LaFollette OF
Wisconsin, whose services to the
Kaiser are said by Charles Edward
Russell Of the American Commission
to Rrssia TO be worth an entire army
corps, continued his offensive at the
Auditorium last night, where he
spoke to a crowd,No about $500 &
sons. under the auspices of the Non
bipartisan league. 1t was the CLOSING
session Of the three-day conference
and leaders had announced 1t would
be a patriotic demonstration.
ia Follettee said frankly that III
was opposed to the war. He admit.
ted he thought Germany had beer
pretty rough with the technicaI
rights of American citizens, but he
did not think that the exercise 81
thbse technical rights In travelling OF
b~eligerent merchantmen laden witt
Iammunitton was worth going to wal
about.
And, to make sure that he wa
fully understood, he added, yer,
loudly, that he was still Of the same