The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-06-19
HORDES.
U / LEST
DAKOTA REPEAT
MINNESOTA ACT
steen Strength Grows And
ToWnley Men See Meal
Tickets Slipping
FIERCE ATTACKS =
ARE BEING MADE
Loyalist Forces, With Is
sue Clear, Stand Firm
! Against Assault

Fighting with a desperation born
OF the fear that their stingino de-
feat IN. Minnesota Presanes SINH
lar result in North Dakota when the
Republican voters of this state 90 TO
the polis next Wednesday, Nonparti-
aan, league organizers. and those
political Profiteers who have either
edecsgd TO stand by the league be-
cause they are honest in their sup
port ;of Its propaganda or those who
have accepted it az smeaga to an
end have placed uader B way the
most ruthless political drive the
state has witnessed. 80
Everywhere along the line. the
IoyaIist ranks of the state are hoId-
ing fast against the wave of assaults
practiced by ToWnIey and his hun.
dreds of agents. paid either out of
the league funds or by the state
and with another week of the cam
fpaisn, remaining independent cam
paigner8 are satisfied that June 25
will witness the return of North Da-s
.I<ota to the ranks of the "safe and
sane" states-and that all doubt Of
its loyalty will be wiped away uns
der a tremendous ma jority for the
John Steen Independent ticket
LoyaIiste Are United.
Heartened' by. the Minnesota re-
suit, where the Townley forces con-
Quoted an intensive drive, stirring
up hatred, causing riot, and inject
ing a. bitterness into politics that
state has never before known, the
sloyalist forces Of North Dakota are
confident they can hold out against
es%L ,,aIrr "a
Socialists, the Bolshevik and the
UP solidly in support OF Governor
Ruthless Drive.
The ruthless TownIey= political
machine, that takes candidates for
the supreme court into the field and
compels them to become intense
partisans, that drafts the state tax
commission members with the
threat of removal II the members
fall to heed the call, will stop at
nothing, in the opinion of those who
have witnessed the work Of the past
few days. and are more or less
familiar with the still undeveloped
plans Of the league leaders.
The eleventh hour attempt to
blacken the character OF John
Steen. candidate Of the Indepen-
dent forces for governor. by
ralcing up pleadings made in a
law suit, begun as a friendly ac-
ton to determine the legal
method OF disposing OF interest
funds not covered by law, is re-
garded in many quarters as the
4 last desperate attempt of the
league agents to stem the tide Of
voters that set in toward John
Steen several weeks ago, and
that seems to gain strength with
each succeeding day. The law
suit the league men now are att
tempting to use was started two
years ago-but not until the last
few days Of the campaign have
the league men used it-but not
until Town4eys speaking at
Hillsboro Tuesday night, have
they dared charge that Steen
was attempting the theft Of the
money involved in the suit.
why didn't LANCER prosecute
him IL there is anything wrong
about the insurance money is
sue?" Is the question that re-
y peatedly is asked league speak
ers when they attempt to spread
the poison. They haven't an-
swered 1t yet.
Bran Of German Support.
Loyalist ticket hackers were to-
day pointing to the results in Min-
nesofa as proof conclusive Of the
fact that "all pro Germans are with
The Nohpar tisan league" The only
city in Minnesota that gave ma
jorLty to james Peterson, convicted
OF sedition and under a four year
sentence, also went heavily for
Iindbargh, as did Brown county,
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