The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1918-05-10
|OWNLEY LAYS BARE
| MOTIVE OF SENATOR
Vicious Assault on
President, And League
Draws Reply.

cert assault on President Wilsn anc
the administration in an attempt o1
the reactionary interests to defea'
tl1e Overman bill granting the Pres;
idert increased power in the conduct
DE the war, A. c., Townley, president
Sf he National Nonpartisian League
issued statement bitterly resentine
this vicious assault on the President
lit critical time" and charging il
WAS made for the political effect and
'because the administration war
program threatens the profits of Big
Business"
1n his speech which asserted that
the President had not properly used
his authority and that the admin
lstration consists largely of "buncn
of economic fakirs and bowling der
tisI1es," Senator Sherman charged
that the head of the National Non
paffisian League represents pre-
German influences and his German
money somewhere" The following
IS Mr. Townley's reply:
BRANDS STATEMENT
AS LIBEL.
SENATOR Sherman's reported ac-
cusation that I am Policeman and
chat the National Nonpartisian
League is financed in part by Ger
lsian money is a malicious falsehood.
II h8 will repeat this libel off the
Senate floor where ne is not protect
ed hV his senatorial privilege will
refflte his lying statements in a court
pf sW. Senator Sherman probably
has Seen talking to Judge McGee of
the Minnesota Public Safety Com
a1alssion and therefore is. only parrot
Ine lae long exploded charges made
by pefty politicians of the North
He Department of Justice has
zsla n1ore than a year to investigate
Nonpartisan League. 1t has in
Ef'stl ls8ted the League and it's invest
afaan disproves Senator Sherman's
s91le zlanders The National Non
ftisian League is financed by it's
sen1bess, the loyal and patriotic far
els of the Northwest, and does
Nt aepend upon either German mon
81 Big Business contributions for,
I IS n3Hpaign funds. | doubt if Sem
ptg Sherman derives his own cam
Si8n funds from sources so clean.
I1IKES PRESIDENT
IIkDUGH LEAGUE,
eTsonally l care little about
1sse charges. The NonpartisianI
8 cue has grown in the face of SIM
ma attacks and it will continue to-
skoW So long as these attacks are
sae by standpatters like Senator
: herman, for this shows that we are
pose0 by elements which the people
1--we good cause to distrust. My
= Hnplacency is increased when / find
/ yself assailed in company with
sesiaent Wilson, Secretary of War
OVa VaxeK md other high-minded and
G. sgeressive government officials.
- las plains part of the animus be-
= Senator Sherman's attack. He
paaHs not dare accuse the President of
ms no German, so he attacks the
~ nparxisian League because it is
the Pres dents policies.
ATYACK PROMOTED
Al BY INTERESTS.
But do resent and every patri-
clt1xen should resent Senator
- vicious assault upon the
at at critical time when all
h p z1erlcans should be supporting.
o2efnment. This untimely at
p Made partly for political eff
Ilipt ane partly because the admin
~ ak1oas war program threatens
- plof8s OF Big Business. Senator
i. aaa Is one of these supporters
~ f5le BUSINESS who would rather
val lng the war than to see real
aQeaey extended into either poll
Na 81 industry. The President
aa.Ee power to fully carry his
fam into effect and Senator
nd us one of the reactionaries
n locked this action. Senator
e mar you'd not hesitate to place
'ah efs In the hands of the Prs,
bas e did not know that Wood
leL 7'zon VIII use them for the
epR IS 5s management of the warl
serving the interests Of