The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-02

\ DAILY STATE JOUR.
Watres, State Director voiland, Sec
rotary Mohler and the defense organ
ization to have full credit for this"
Mr.. Capper is SO busy as governor of
the state and running for the United
States senate that there are doubtless
many things which appear in his pa
per of which he does not know.
The Capital is being used as de-
fender of the Nonpartisan League. an
organization declared seditious and
disloyal by Governor Harding of Iowa,
and Governor Ne, lie of Nebraska.
Only ten days ago the Capital made
bitter attack upon the state Jour
nal, thru it's La Dor Column" because
the State Journal exposed the fact
that James Q. Stevic, president of the
Topeka Industrial Council. is a pro-
moter in this community of the Nom
partisan League and a troublemaker,
along with his supporters. Vice-Presi-
dent Trap of the Chamber of Com
merce and a man named Brown,
Trap printing a vile paper which is
| Haunted into the faces of the Chamber
Of Commerce members on the bulletin
boards of the Chamber of Commerce,
hand Trap and Brown jointly printing
I a vicious alleged labor organ.
| In all article in the Topeka Capital
| of June IT, one of the defenders of
| the Nonpartisan League admits this
| amazing statement in these words:
| practically every commercial club.
every Rotary club. every business or
ganization in these five states do pre-
| tend to believe that Townley is dis
| loyal"
Townfey is president of the Nom
| partisan League and the five states
referred to are Minnesota, North Da-
kota, South Dakota. Montana and
Idaho.
In the Topeka Capital of June %.
| under Fact and Comment" in the
labor column" the writer says: Let
us begin by denouncing the other fell
| lows; then if they attempt to defend
themselves, call them liars" This was
said in spirit of irony. hut is carried
out by the alleged labor leaders lit
orally as above expressed.
The Topeka Capital of June 16 says,
in its labor department: 1T is a
| great mistake "a to assume that. the
progress of the labor movement of
Topeka can be halted or its purposes
thwarted by Misrepresentation Of its
representatives and leaders. When
there is an evident attempt to take a
smash at the labor movement CT a
| community over the shoulder of q
chosen representative it is the bust
| ness of the membership to resent it.
| L
| lutions adopted by the Topeka Indus
| trial council, expressing confidence in
| its president, James o. Stevic. and
| condemning the attitude of the To-
| peka State Journal in seeking to cause
dissension between orga nized labor
and the business interests of the city
The attempt of the evening paper to
| discredit. its representative naturally
| is resented by the central body as well
as the union membership generally: !,
| Which, of course, is vicious and un-
/ true.
| The State Journal has not misrep-
resented those whom the Capital labor
| department calls it's leaders,; neither
/ has this paper attempted to cause
| dissension between organized labor
and the business interests; the read
endeavored to STOW that these alleged
| leaders of the labor movement are
disorganizers and create dissension by
| vicious and untrue statements in their
j various organs and in the Topeka
Capital. >. 20 .,-s4cz - -
That the State Journal was way
| ranted in its criticism of Stevic Is
| based on the fact that Nonpartisan
men like Stevic are being arrested in
other states: they are being driven out
of communities in this state; they are
denounced by the governors of Ne
| braska and Iowa as disloyal and
| breeders of sedition.
In the Topeka Capital of June 10
a correspondent says: The people
are deciding the fate of the Nonparti-
san League in Kansas. The verdict is
against it.
Ernest CoryeIl league organizer in the
| Dakotas. admits: All of our state man
.Reffs.' - 'N'' ~
IL. p. Lynch. a league organizer. says
was thinking the move was for the peo-
hTvt f11H IL t1 f.,v,-C fox-- D1, 49,
Charles b. Gordon. district manager in
North Dakota. admits: H. S. Elliott. state
were filling MP the league and ali remun
erative positions must be filled with red
THE league is now admitted by its
own agents to be q Socialist sideshow
while Kate Richards o'Hare in her state.
upon her for sedition. termed the League.
| the most revolutionary phenomena of the
age She knows. for Arthur LIE Seur. the
| leagues chief adviser, defended her in her
trial: Mr.. Liggett admits that the league S
president and secretary have been indicted
W W. =
1.-THE records of the North Dakota legis-
lature show that the eighty-on members
of that body, under the whip of Townley
voted for measure which would have
struck out the words patriotism AMI
morality from the state constitution"
The renters of the New England
building, where Stevic has an office
were SO incensed that they petitioned
the owner to remove him from the
building. The Chamber of Commerce
still allows this man and his defend
ers and associates. ce-President
Trap and Brown, to push themselves
forward in the Chamber of Commerce
work.
This is the, man that the Topeka
Capitals labor column defends and in
the same paragraph condemns the
State Journal for its exposures.
Union men of this community disa-
vow actions of certain of the labor
leaders" named above