Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1918-10-23

mans and the Swedish And still
I1.tlRe MCGEE heads the Safety Com
mission. Every voter who believes
the above statement Is substantially
true should endorse 1t with his vote
and support Burnquist. Those who
hold that Judge McGee's remarks
were q monstrous libel upon this
great loyal commonwealth and base
SANDER upon a majority Of its citi-
zens, should indignantly repudiate 1t
by voting for q man who AZ the drst
act Of his official career It elected
Governor will fire MCGEE from the
Commission This pledge alone ought
to insure the election of Evans, II the
people have not lost all sell respect.
In all the history of the past, when
did the organized farmers ever stand
for bad laws or wicked government.
Judge, name any legislation II you
can that the farmers or working men
have favored, that is not right and
justice. Are the Primary laws, the
non-partisan election laws, the Amend
ments to the National Constitution
providing for the election OF Senator'S
by a direct vote and for an income
tax, the laws regulating the railroads,
the parcels post, and free rural dew
cry Of mail, bad measures? Well, the
orean1zed farmers have stood for all
of them as we'll as others Of similar
character, l have not the space to
mention.
Say you stand pat editors, who
seem to think the farmers are several |
different kinds of fool for putting |
| SIG into the League, when Hartman, |
the railroad wrecker, who raised a |
quarter of million paying most OF It
out Of his own pocket for q campaign
fund or George Gould, son OF another
railway exploiter, put 100000 cold
cash into the same pool, did he know
| what he was doing? Didn't each OF
these liberal and eminent patriots
! know that he who finances a thing
owns it and has a right to use it?
If these very wise and experienced I'm
anciers were willing to trust such
| large sums to be expended by cam
paign committee and never ask for
an accounting, why cannot a farmer
trust a measly little SIG to be used in
| a. like manner?
/ warned the Safety Commissioners
that if they undertook to deny to Lea
que farmers the great constitutional
. rights to peacefully assemble and dis
: cuss public questions, that they would
:, drive the entire Agricultural population
|. Into the same political band wagon and
that they would all take ride to the
polls together. This has happened as
, predicted and the Evans vote in the
rural precincts as whole will be at
!, least double the League member
ship. A farmer who would not defend
these great rights with his ballot is
= not worthy the liberty he enjoys.
|, President Wilson truly says, HE
q who encourages or in any way counte-
I nances mob law is no true friend OF
q Democracy but rather it's betrayer.
n His appeal was addressed to the Gov
4 errors and didn't he have his eye right
e on minnesota? Hasn't this state the
/ proud (?) distinction or having had
more riots, disorder and manifestation
of the mob spirit than all other states
2 combined. And hasn't every instiga'
( tor or participant been follower or
e supporter OF -Burnquist?
l. oh yes, the organized farmers are
e disloyal, says the kept press. But IN
q North Dakota where they are on top
t. and in control Of things, President
d Wilson has had the most loyal and
g ! answering support in the sale OF lib
ri erty bonds and Thrift Stamps and in
e ! Red Cross activities: And it was the
It only state in the union that put the
g Stacker acres owned by non residents
l. to work to produce food for the boys
r in the trenches. I say, Hurrah for the
e organized farmers of North Dakota
r and their great big brainy farmer Gov
r. ernor who does not deny that he
# "Slops the hogs" and who is going to
It be reelected by a rousing majority and
II is likely to carry every county In the
Il state.
g AS long as President Townley IL
o Systematically vilified and abused by
the Kept press and it's hired liars, we
may be sure he is on the right track
and is working for our interests and
l. when they begin to say che is pretty
IS good fellow and is not half so black
O as he is painted etc." If they ever do
r then it will be time to begin to get sus
If picious. The trouble is that Mr.
t.. Townley is a deep student OF econo
j. mic problems and sees plainly where
It we are drifting and has discovered q
J. sure method of restoring the govern
8 ment to the people and putting them
e in control of their own affairs, and fur
L thermore he is not going to be divert
e ed from his great purpose or turned
e. aside by flattery, bribery, persecu
tons, violence or anything else. >
Is The Senatorial situation is about
g this way: Big Biz has planned to send
70 Clarence Miller, Congressman from TIKI
ID Duluth District to Congress to sue
y coed Senator Nelson, who wishes t.
d retire as he is now II and feels his
It age keenly. But the interests" got
y cold feet and feared to breast the ris
ls ing tide of public sentiment at THU
1t juncture so they persuaded Uncle
r. Knute to allow his name to be used
y again: They didn't calculate thai
- Douglas, his home county, where ht
is best known, would turn him dowI
e, so emphaticaHy. Fortunately the vot
~ ers who do not desire to return to thu
v. Senate an old man who has been vot
g. ing re-actionary and against all pro
'e gressive measures, have in w. G
ID Calderwood his only opponent mag
le nificent specimen of vtrile American
b. manhood, an able and courageous de
=. fender of the rights of the common
10 people and an implacable foe OF graft
e. ers in public life.
le Big Biz has already got one ablt
lg champion in the Senate. Now let thu
le Epeople have the other. Calderwood !,
n running ON the National Party ticket
10 but the label means little. Vote fol