The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-06-21
sedition Forever Buried.

Duluth, Mimi. June 21.-Repudi-
alton Of Townleyism, cloaking pro-
Germanism, pacifism and Bolshevism,
Is declared by The Duluth Herald
as a death blow for Townley's poll
tical aspirations. The Herald says:
'Lindbergh was stingingly rebuked
and humiliatingly defeated in Mon
days primary election. but far more
important things than that happened
on that day.
THE Townley bubble of sedition
and dissension and demagoguery and
class bitterness and quack Socialism
and BOlsheVism was exploded, for
one thing.
and the beauty Of it is that much
as they would like tO-they would
willingly have spent half a million Of
that mighty campaign fund to frame
1t so-the Townley junta cannot say
that the cities did it, under the dom
ination Of big business and the kept
press
"Lindbergh and TownIeyism lost
every congressional district and most
Of the counties. The majority against
them outside the three large cities is
larger than the majority against
them in the three large cities.
"Rut even at that, the show
ing made at the polls for Town
Ieyism is far larger than it is en-
titled to on the merits of it's
cause. The TownIey candidates
had the Socialist votes almost to
a man. They had every secret
enemy of Americas war for lib
erty. They had unfortunately,
the votes of many union labor
eympathizers who, mistakenly
we are sure. held Governor Burn
quist to be an enemy to union
labor. IF the vote for the Town
ley candidates were stripped of
all these elements. the, residue Of
actual members of and sympath-
izers with the TownIey Nonpar-
tisan league would be astonish-
ingIy small.
1.-THE most casual glance at the
election returns by counties, with ref
erence to the communities that have
been suspected of pro- German lean
ing, will show the character of much
Of the LindbeTgh support. The very
close relationship in many communi-
ties Of the vote for Lindbergh to the
vote for James A. Peterson, under
New Ulm, thhe scene Of the
Pfaender- F'ritsche demonstration of
q year ago, cast this vote: For Burn
quist 234; for Lindbergh, sol. For
Senator Nelson. 424; for Peterson,
487. New Ulm so far has the dis
tinCtiOn Of being the only commun-
ity in the state to give James A. Pet
erson a majority.
Loyalty triumphed signally over
these forces of dissension and sedi-
ton. Minnesota proved not only that
1t is loyal, but that it can see through
a hole in a ladder.
Minnesota had a housekeeping
job to do Monday. and it did it we'll.
If there are a few corners left to be
swept, that will be done in November.
Minnesota never has been a fertile
soil for disloyalty; 1t never will be a
fertile soil for disloyalty. Minnesota
Is not a safe port for Bolshevist ad-
Venturers. That was demonstrated
Monday, and If necessary it can be
demonstrated again in November.
THE Republican party has nomi-
mated for governor J. A. A. I&Jrnquist,
who as governor and as a patriotic
American citizen has made good. The
Democratic party-though obviously
many of it's members sunk partisan
ship in patriotism and entered the
Republican primaries to cast their
votes against the menace Of Lind
bergh and Townley-has nominated
a good citizen and sound patriot,
whether his name is Wheaton or
COmstOCk. The contest in November
will be a contest between Ameri-
cans, with no threat Of sedition in it.
All is well in Minnesota"
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