Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1918-04-25
SHERMANCALLS
WILSON CABINET
STATE SOCIALISTS
lllinoi. Senator, in Opposing
: Overman Bill, ] y Arraign. Will
son, HI. : Cabinet, ,.'l'i :Townley
and Nonpartisan League.
(By the'Assocfated Press)

ny ..
ent attack upon President Wilson
and some of the members of his off,
cial family. by Senator Sherman of
Illinois, republican, marked the last
day of unlimited debate in the senate
on the Overmans bill, which would
give the president general powers for
reorganizing geYernment agencies
during the war. s. .s,.
In long speech opposing the
measure and asserting that the exec
utive had not used properly author
ity already possessed the Illinois SEN
ator criticized particularly Secretary
Baker and Secretary Wilson, Post
master General sBurleson and George
Creel, chairmanzof the committee on
public information.
He declared the president had sur
rounded himself with socialists and
should scatter the bunch of econ
omic fakirs and bowling dervishes"
now III OulC0. t5~fet,s =
Democratic Urge Change.
Senators Ransdell, of Louisiana,
and McKellar OF Tennessee, demo-
Gratis, spoke for the bill, urging
many departments are working at
cross purposes under the present
peace time System and that red
tape. must be eliminated if maxi
mum results are to- be obtained.
Since the, president will be held res
ponsible for success of the nations
war effort, said Senator Ransdell, he
should be given the authority he
thinks necessary.
/. In an effort to hasten action, after
3 O'Clock this afternoon each sena-
tor will be limited A20t minutes on
each amendment obered. =
Senator Sherman said today Sec
retary Baker lis half socialist and
the other half pacifist," and = that
President Wilson and Postmaster
General Burleson are state socialists.
He also paid his respects to Assist
ant Secretary of Labor Post, Assist
ant. Secretary of Agriculture Vroo-
man, and inveighed against what he
called the spread of Bolshevik propa-
ganda in this country.
Attacks N. r. League.
Attacking the Nonpartisan league,
the Illinois senator said its president,
A. C. Townley, represents German
influence, and has got pro-German
money some place."
He charged that A. c. Townley,
president of the Nonpartisan league,
while representing himself to repre-
sent "the oppressed farmer" really
represents pro German influence.
Townley, he said, is influential with
miners in the Great Lakes iron re-
gion and that there will be a strike
there eventually.
During his attack on Townley,
Senator Sherman said that "he advo-
Gated the same principles in Mime
sofa that Frank Little advocated in
Butte" but they hanged Frank Little
while Mr.. Townley got a railroad
ticket quick enough so that he is still
head of the League"
well, maybe I've hung up more
snakes than l can kill now," Sher-
man resumed, when Senator Watson
Of Indiana interrupted: Does the
senator remember Mr.. Creel, and re-
member that Mr.. Creel took Townley
to the White House, and to make a
speech at-New York." Senator Wat
son queried.
.s 81, have paid my respects to Mr..
Creel," Senator Sherman responded.
..He ought to be where Lenine and
Trotzky are now"
Referring to the council Of ma ma
tional defense as "nondescrip" or
ganization, Senator Mcclellan, who is
q member Of the military committee,
said the president should be given
power to eliminate the zone dollar
q year men on that body; select
those who are efficient, and put them
to work at reasonable salaries. II
the government had 9 centralized
avatom FIR the purchase. Of supplies,