The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-09-26

/ lSdEuG leaders, ana FGNGaIeu IOI
what they are to the farmers and the
labor men OF the cities-whom they
1 plotted to bring together in a political
| combination for their own aGgran-
dizement. f. G. Hall. president of
the Minnesota Federation of Labor
puts the matter plainly in these
| words:
'One easily can see the terri
| BILE menace to the organized labor
movement of such bats as the
out. To accept their overtures
and join a disloyal group would
be signing the death warrant of
the organization we have been
working for during forty years.
1T will never succeed, because
IS per cent of the union men in
Minnesota are so loyal that III IL
came to a question of either join
ing an un-American movement or
| quitting the labor union, they
would leave the union and cling
| fast to their Americanism."
I'm the matter OF loyalty the farm
ers of Minnesota are no whit behind
the labor men, and when they realize
/ the meaning of the Nonpartisan
| movement and the selfish purposes of
| the little oligarchy that runs 1t, they
| will quickly refuse to be made tools
| of. The league has shown it's hand
at st. Paul so plainly that 1t is bound
to fail"
Reckless Lies and Innuendo!"
Declaring that Mr.. Townley stands
convicted of the charge made against
him by Herbert Hoover, in the lat
ter's telegram demanding a retrac-
ton of the charge that he, Mr.. Hoo
yer, had ignored the leagues invita-
ton to address the st. Paul meeting
but had, instead, gone to Chicago to
1 a M
gamblers. The st. Paul Dispatch
comments as follows: =
''Of all of which A. c. Townley
stands convicted in respect of the re-
| cent disloyalty demonstration at the
auditorium, nothing places him in
worse light before the people than his
| deliberate attempt to misrepresent
| and discredit Herbert Hoover, who is
giving his unpaid services to the peo-
pie to prevent food profiteering and
keep food prices to the lowest posi-
att is vain for Townley to shrink
| behind the plea that he was incor-
rectly quoted by the venal press. He
told his auditorium listeners that Mr..
| Hoover had been invited to that meet
| ing and could not come, but that he
could attend a meeting of the grain
| interests in Chicago, and was there at
/ that moment. 1t was his deliberate
intention to impress upon his hearers
that Mr.. Hoovers interest and sympa-
thy were with the grain gamblers and
against the grain growers-that ne
had no time to attend the auditorium
meeting, but plenty of time to be with
the Chicago meeting.
"Mr. Hoover was not at the Chicago
meeting, and by wire he challenged
the Townley assertion, concluding by
saying: I am not prepared to believe
you wish to indulge in reckless lies
and innuendo, unless you confirm II
by failure to correct such statements
Townley has not corrected his state
ments, and has made no move to do
so. Apparently he is content to con
firm Mr.. Hoover's belief that he is
willing to indulge in reckless lies
and innuendo', for his answer Is TO
print his auditorium speech as paid
advertisement, including the asser-
tions which Mr.. Hoover brands as
reckless lies.
"As between Herbert Hoover, with
his long record of inestimable servic-
es in behalf of stricken Belgium and
his unselfsh and patriotic enlistment
without pay in this American crisis,
and A. c. Townley, who is busily en-
gagged in organizing the farmers Of
pose?-and in their name uttering and
encouraging sedition, let the patriotic
public return the verdict.
But what of the honest and loyal
farmer who is the backbone of the
northwest? 1t will be the most sur
prising feature of the whole occasion
| If, from the farmer and the agricul-
tural community generally, there does
not come a roar of reputation of the
entire Townley-Van Lear-La Toilette
spirit. The stigma of disloyalty which
| this trinity of seditionists has endeay-
ored to fasten upon the industrial and
agrarian ranks of Minnesota already
has been hurled back by organized
labor; an equally forceful and indig-
nant rejoinder by organized farmers
| is in order and expected"
"This Dreadful Government of Ours"
An editorial writer of The Mime
apolis Tribune, writing under that
head, makes interesting comment on
the Nonpartisan meeting in st. Paul.
The talk INDUCED in at st. Paul has
become so familiar to people of
North Dakota through their two
year association with the dema-
gogues who lead the Nonpartisan
movement, that they have become
more or less accIimated. The Tribune
says:
tisan league conference in st. Paul
about our war government and it's as
ally credited as the truth. we might
as well throw UP the sponge, declare
democracy a hopeless failure, kick
into limbo all those lifted by the peo-
1
| lapse back to the ways of cavemen.
The alternative would be to turn the
whole governmental shooting-match
over to the supermen OF the league
and their sympathizers-to the men
who combine in their hyper-phenom-
email beings all that is wise, honor
able, fair and patriotic.
I'm the keeping of Townley and
Frazier and Gronna and Young and
La Toilette and their kind every in
guaranteed, every step a step of JUS
tice and loyalty and sagacity. We
would have safety first raised to the
Nth power, love of fellowmen 1914
of alloy Our several feet would be
set firmly upon the approach to the
millennial bridge. As IL is, the poor
creatures who are now essaying to
run the government are dupes, or pol
troons, or crooks, actual or potential.
Some of them are serving without
pay, hence they are scoundrels. Some
of them are serving with moderate
pay, hence they are near scoundrels.
None of them knows or cares what is
rightfully coming to the farmer None
of them has any concern for the poor
man. Why should they care? Isn't 1t
q rich mans war? Aren't the pront-
GERS to be the only beneficiaries? DO
they want to be or are they expected
to be on the square?
what has the worldly wisdom of
Herbert C. Hoover, gained in suffer
ing Belgium, profited him or the
world for the Job he holds? He is
one of those who serve without pay.
Ergo, he cannot then be square, can
he? He has not lived regularly in
this country for several years, and so
he cannot know that the champions
of the profteers are binding him
with the dust Of untruth and hypoc-
risy while they prepare to bleed the
people white for ill-gotten gain.
Save for the hyper-phenomenals,
congress Is an assembly of dolts and
knaVes. In ignorance or iniquitg Ii is
forging chains of slavery and poverty
upon the masses. What does IL care
for the people who made the nag what
others when it's members are not