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Senator Weeks:-l move that. we
bury the calf. (Laughter.)
Senator Weeks:-Has the Nonpar-
tisan League nominated a ticket in
Minnesota for next fall?
| Mr.. Townley:-Yes, sir.
Senator Weeks:-Is Mr.. Lindberg
their candidate for governor?
Mr.. Townley:-Yes, sir.
Senator Weeks:-Has he issued a
pamphlet or book or something of
that sort expressing his views?
Mr.. Tow'nley:-Not since the NOM
ination, that I know of.
Senator Weeks:-Are you support
ing Mr. Lindberg?
Mr. Townley:-I certainly am.
Senator Weeks:-I have here few
extracts from his book. Let me re ead-
one Of them.
Mr.. Townley:-Have you his book
may I ask?
Senator Weeks:-I have not got the
book here. These (ndicating) have
been furnished me. They have been
copied and they may not be correct.
The next step was to resort to con-
scription of men. In some states even
women are forced to register The con-
scription is intended to raise, by force,
if necessary, armies to take across the
seas to fight in foreign lands-did
not dare to submit CONSUMPTION to a
vote Of the people, so that Congress
voted to conscript men for that pur-
pose.
Do you approve of that sentiment !?
| MI. Townley: - do not know
whether that is a part of the book. l
do not know the context. I could not
express an opinion. I have not read
| it.
Senator Weeks:-If that were true,
would you approve of it?
Mr.. Townley:-In so far as that in
terferes with enlistment or draft, 1 do
not approve Of it.
Senator Weews:-Don't you think
that would have tendency to affect
the carrying out of the selective draft
act?
Mi. Townley:-This is part of the
book. It is paragraph, word, OF
a line. The context would have a
very material bearing upon the mean
ing of the part that you have read.
have not read it in the book or in
pamphlet form or in newspaper.
| Senator Weeks:-Have you seen
the book?
| Mr. Townley: I do not know
whether l have seen the book OF not
However, Mr.. Lindberg is not q
leader of the Nonpartisan League. He
is man indorsed for governor.
| Senator Weeks:-He is candidate
for governor. You usually consider
him O. leader?
MI. Townley:-Nobody charges Mr.
Lindberg with being disloyal.
Senator Reed:-I simply used his
name as an example of leader. That
is really the only thing we are con-
sidering now-what the leaders have
done and said.
Mr.. Townley:-Yes, sir.
Senator Weel1s:-That is the only
thing this committee is interested in
M. Townley: - If Mr.. Lindberg
wrote such book, he wrote it when
he had no connection with the Non
partisan League at all.
! Senator Reed:-You nominated him
in view Of or after he had written this
book?
Mr.. Townley:-I presume so.
Senator Reed:-I would like to ask
if you agree with this statement in
his book:
We have been dragged into the war
by the intrigue of spectators.
Mr.. Townley:-It depends on where
the spectators are. understand
there are some spectators in Ger
many.
Senator Reed:-Do you mean to say
that Germany got into this war be-
cause there were spectators in Ger
many? You do not mean to say that,
do you?
/ Mr.. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., to state it
in another way, the German military
power
Senator Reed:-The German mill
tary power are not industrial specu-
lators or financial SPECTATORS.
Mr. Townley:-I never lived there.
My understanding was that Germany's
idea was the acquisition of territory.
Senator Reed:-You think that is
what is meant by this expression:
"We have been dragged into this war
by the intrigue Of spectators" Do
you think that the German military
power did that?
Mr.. Townley:-I think We went in
to protect ourselves against German
military intrigue.
Senator Reed:-We were not drag
ged into it by the intrigue Of German
spectators, unless they We're in this
country. Didn't that mean financial
speculators in this country?
Mr.. Townley:-I do not know what
it means.
Snator Reed:-Let me read this:
I believe the problem could have
been settled without war or the sac
rifice of national honor.
Do you agree with that?
Mr.. Townley:-I do not know. May
I ask question about that?
Senator Reed:--Yes.
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