Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1918-10-31

you really tried, but it took you a long
time 10 make up your mind to try.
The general opinion is that you began
to try too late to save your political
bacon.
You practically ordered your appoint
ees TO violate the constitution and to
suppress free speech and peaceable as
scmbly, when YOU presumed" tina
they woul stop MIR. Townley's message
in the face of the fact that MI. Town.
ley had been cleared of all charges by
the courts and stands as clean and ma
triotic rs any of you. But when you
saw that 0 had slapped public sen
timent in the face by your autocratic
ukase, you very gracefully turned a
! back somersault and reversed your Or
der, and began looking for some ether
pretext to prevent. your opponents from
being heard.
] notice that you in common with
many other politicians who have moth
ing invested in the League, are very
much worried about what becomes of
the money, and o question the in
tcgrity of The committee which invcsti.
gated and made a report OF the fl
~nances, making the false charge that
/ the committee was appointed by Town.
! ley. The fact is that the committee
was elected by the delegates to the
state convention, as is the case in all
the states. 1t was hardly to be eX,
pected that the report of the committee
would suit YOU, and it might rave been
better for your purpose if the delegates
had allowed you to select the commit.
tee. The people who a invested the
money in the League. and whose bisi-
inCSS it is what the money is used for,
are well satisfied that the money is
being used for exactly what it was put
Tin for, M exactly what you politi-
clans do not want it used FOR, namely,
the spreading of the propaganda of real
democracy and the securing of govern
ment by the people, The money is
hitting the "bullseye'' every shot, and
that is what worries you. In North
Dakota the League administration has
saved the people over SGl,A00, 900 in
two years, or an average Of S915 for
4 'NNiS 1ti iiASi III ~ oSaiS> Wv
took over the state government from
the old crowd 1886 asa in debt, and as
shown BY the state auditors report for
July l, 1918, there is cash on hand Of
S2G5.173.49; a gain of $531,53S.S2 in the
general fun in one and one-half years.
WHY are you politicians so much wor-
rfed FOR fear the farmers will lose the
E1Isi i,SN,oct cHl i11fE INA r a,yy,,n .f S-o., la.
4 not seem to be worried over what they
are roobed of by insurance sharks,
grain gamblers, packers and other
profiteers.
Inasmuch as you have presumed to
ask about matters in which you have no
financial concern, might 1 not be par.
isdoned for asking "a few questions about
OF my business?
If yot: believe in the program Of the
Nonpartisan League, as Sou pretend to,
EWfly did YOU donate 5000 - fight that
program in North Dakotae And might
l ask, what became of the money?
What becomes of the large slusn
fund raised by the millers and grain
HSa'itplSio >, anu - CClllEIDuJSQ 10 DS-Af1fen
OF your stripe, to fight the Nonpartisan
IIeague, as was recently admitted On
the witness stand by; Goocll, the big
miller of Nebraska.
a nd why are men of this stripe so
much s I interested in killing OFF tho
Ksague? These men fought tie
League just as hard before t.ae war as
they do now, except that since the war
e have added the charge Of pro Ger.
nanisin to the other choice epithets to
Nprejudice the people against the move
fffent. Does this not prove that lie
patriotic cry against the League is
mere camouflage for political effect?
You have made so many misstate-
f@fnents, and false accusations in Yolr
publicity letter addressed to ne that
it is Impossible To consider them ali in
brief letter. Suffice to say, thYt If
the League and its officers and sr.;ail.
Nizerss are as sdisloyal as you say they
Fare, why are they not all in Jail Moth.
ms is more certain than that you Eel
flows ant them there. And You have.
1sthe avs to put them there, IL YoIas
EGHAItGES ARE TRUE. You must
sftlierefore plead guilty to one OF two
ilthings: Either your charges and state.
fIaents are DAAINABLY FALSE, or
Eelse Q are lax n your duty ana woe
fully impotent TO enforce 8t;ae law,
which yousare elected and sworn to do.
The sum Of the Whole matter is that
TINS Eight against the League is polit-