Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1918-07-13

THE BEGINNING OF TOWNLEYISM
Following further extract from the pamphlet of Bacon North
Dakota dealing with A. c. Townley h the National NonParsan
League
Before ineigently judge
within months assumed the character of
organization which interested investigators believe be
menace to the very portion our people LOT peheh was "
been originated quite important to look into the
history
and seek clearly learn the results and the possible trend and
organization
Nonparsan
partisan Political league as was he st oowlng among
ana executive machinery OF the sae 10 the END ha the
could obtain the of laws providing financing
possibly -four mills that
could market the great wheat crop OF the ae aepnden OF the
-four mills commission the principal marketing
Minneapolis st Paul. Duluth and Chicago
Through the whom the farmers believed
having their these
Fifty Millions o per year.
The of the state North Dakota had
State Constitution
Under the Constitution provide
and method for the construction of this terminal
The legislature 1915
advisabity entering upon
legislature with the
refusal
attending farmers meeting the capital city Bmark held
nation meeting the capitol building but failed to change the decision
the Legislators.
FRAZIER VETOED TERMINAL ELEVATOR BILL
of proper
this
governor Lynn Frazier in veto message In March 1917 killing
elevator bill the Nonparsan legislature virtually
the given the of the special
committee Of the 1915 legislature opposition the aewed terminal
proposition.
spring 1910 wneh the next e was ABOUT pen were IN
state of mind that ripe proposition that seemed
the terminal elevator financed
This situation when
innontookng proposition unite
the with which he the
become members organization with
THE sELFAPPoINTED AUTOCRAT
At first the membership fee 2o but this the
ante raised and raised again. until the farmers paying 50
for membership and there 10000 enrolled
With rowney
ne getting into his hands well wealth
ne sole ruler the dictator the ear All authority the league was in his
he did a particle
He the selfhosen leader president and executive He
the disposal of the fund that rolling
his assistants and organizers
of he
for years his work of agitation for the Socialist
radicals
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE FIVE
There executive committee of five the
by Towney The big Five" A.
were the men who were
gathered together by Townley with Arthur Lesee and
few other kindred spirits had
The executive committee was composed of Towney b Wood
O. Evans T. Nelson and A. Bowman Towne
and the majority Socialists
Nonparsan league likewise Towney
dominated body
the league in each precinct day
the impression being
the men who were to the convntion.
But the county conventions held
district
able to send trusted gathering different
conducted the convention and that the
the Inner circle composed of 40
When
showing talent and
passing of resolutions to keep the farmers interested
But the Inner circle" elsewhere personal direction
OF Townley and there the ticket
When the slate completed Towney
delegates to the
the convention adjourned
In
organization and
possibly control the actions legislature
has attracted the attention
particularly politicians
in the spells, or add to their political strength.
Still the Nonpaisan league absolutely Towny
stuted
ceedngs and control
wisely Towney administered
possibilities
muaed for evil In the states which operating
this pamphlet consider
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