The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1918-08-09
INTERNAL REVOLUTION.

4sAoA0e W ISSVs M6AWo1Sl l0Go al OkB6AiZoT
manager and speaker Of the Nonpartisan
League, giving inside history Of the or.
ganization. In bis discussion Mr.. Max
we'll says that the Nonpartisan member
ship and objects are alright but that
Townley's kaiserism is all wrong.
The particular point of this writing is
tnat Maxwell's testimony is to the effect
that the Nonpartisan League manage
ment is breaking up, mostly from the
autocratic despotism of Townley.
The Pioneer Exprsss many months ago
pointed out that promoter and organl-
zer required certain abilities, while man.
agement after the promotion was some-
thing entirely different and that few,
men have ever succeeded in filing both
roles.
Mr.. Townley has proven himself sue
cessfu1 promoter, but he already shows
signs of failure as manager. He has
already made several critical errors. In
legislation he attempted entirely too
much of revolution at once in the be.
ginning. He tried to break up the
whoh financial system Of the state at
one blow with his "bill a." Itwas too
rank even for many Of his own followers.
His arbitrary system Of naming all can
didates himself has brought the natural
fruits Of dissatisfaction. Financially
while he has succeeded in collecting
vast sums Of money he has failed id tel
ling the subscribers what he has done
with it. In both these latter cases pol
icy should have taught him
that at least some sort of showing
should have been made to satisfy his
members. While he did hold caucases
and conventions everybody knows that
they we're only ratlfying bodies with
practically no power Of protest or sub
stitution. A little more latitude in this
direction would have helped rather than
hlndered his personal power.
Financially. it would have been easy
for an apparent accounting to have been
made; sufficient at least, to silence the
discontented, but none has been forth
coming. Whether the Nonpartisan
League and Mr.. Townley are; one or two
things financially, has never yet been
divulged.
Politically in the Minnesota campaign
he spent very large sums Of money in
attempting to elect man as governor
whose record as 9 disloyalist WAS written
in 3 book Of which he himself was the
author. Townley thought that by en-
yeloping Lindbergh in . Nonpartisan
cloak that he could force this known
disloyallst down the throats Of the peo.
pie Of Minnesota.
.Townley At the beginning OF the war
troubles was distinctly against the war.
He mpted then and still attempts to
warp war issues To- partizan benefit. Il
was IN furtherance Of this idea that he
made the political error ia bringing La
Toilette to address the Nonpartisan
meeting at Minneapolis 4 year ago.
Later he hIhself. finally discoyered
that dlsloyalty Ii d bad political plat.
form in this country and rs has been
more careful % his ntterances and meth.
DDS.
Personally, We do not believe that
ToWnley siS looking for money ior his
Own pocket. He IL ambitious for politi.
cal power and II takss money "a carry
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