The Kadoka press and Kadoka reporter. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1910-1923, 1918-10-18
League. to spend as he wishes.

Ad1luludteS llOlllilldtcu ny lils
League are not the selection OF
the farmer members but are the
choice of this same Townley, with
the acquisenCe OF Lempke and
Wood.
From our association with the
: farmers of South Dakota, we have
, learned that there is nOmore pro-
9ressive and patriotic class of
people in the universe, and we
know that any farmer who is now
a member of the Non partisan
League has joined under a mis-
understanding of the operations
and the character and aims of the
men who have placed themselves
in positions of power with the
League, and the Press is anxious
to believe that the men who are
candidates of this organization
and who today are travelling over
South Dakota, stirring up strife
and trouble, instead of spending
their time with work that will
help with making possible the re-
turn of our yictOrioGs soldier boys
months sooner, we want to be
lieve that they are doing this from
mistaken judgement rather
than from ulterior and unpa-
triOtiC motives.
The leaders of the League are
all Socialists, Townley is known
tor his radical SOCialistiC ideas,
and every man who is actively
connected with the management
of the League must be a radical
socialist, and from all appearan-
ces it is but an attempt to toist
Socialist ideas and principals up
on the people of South Dakota,
through the medium of another
name. They tell us of their &C
CompliShments in North Dakota,
and yet it is fresh in the memory
OF everyone that North Dakota Of
tered a haven for unpatriotiC or
Ganizations and the |. w. WIS. un-
til the good people of the state
arose in righteous wrath and fore
ed the League officials of the state
to enforce the laws and clean out
these teaches that were sucking
the life blood of our country. To-
day Townley has hanging over
him an indictment for disloyalty
and he has fathered and protect
ed disloyalty, by the members of
his League. Arthur LaSeuer, sec
retary of the National Nonparti-
tan League is the Sa ne man who
has appeared as counsel for the |
w. w. in their trials in the courts
OF the United States. He is the
man who wrote in his letter to
VIM. d. Haywood, president of
the |. W. w. and who is now ser
wing sentence in the federal pen
itentiary for diSloyalty, that this
damed war had made impossible
the doing OF good organization,
work and that the only thing
they could do was to fight the
spy and ConScription bills" then
before congress.
Gilbert and Randall, two men
high in the councils of the League
and personal representatives of
ToWnley were convicted of dis
loyalty in order to save their mas
ter, and vet Townley sends this
same Randall to South Dakota.
and places him in charge of the
vile sheet they publish and call
the South Dakota Leader, a paper
that is sent broadcast through
this state in spite of the Govern
ment orders and demands for con
servation of paper. A paper that
is urging the people to rally to the
support of the League, to turn
against men who will stand every
test as to their citizenship and
Americanism, and to support men
that the League and its disloyal
leaders are supporting. A paper
that spends its every effort to be-
smirch the name of every person
who opposes its dirty work, and
uses no space to boost the sale of
liberty bonds. war stamps, and
to further the efforts of our gov