Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-06-22
ONE THOUSAND
TOWNLEYlZl'E|D
WORKERS N.
Townley Carrying with Him
Paid Clappers to Lead
Cheering at Meetings.

dS1I Su80HOeFeU Oy In0 01AuleSOId ue"
feat Of the Nonpartisans has stirred
the Independent Voters association
of North Dakota to intense activity
during the closing days Of the cam
paign hat will end in the primary
election of next Wednesday.
On the other hand, the Nonpartisan
hosts. unsuccessful in the Gopher
state, and fully realizing that all hope
of continued %garnering of their SIS
fees disappears II the Steen ticket is
elected over the Frazier ticket next
week, r fighting with their backs to
intensely active campaign.
The whole state administration has
been thrown into the fray, the Nom
partisans drafting candidates for the
supreme court, members Of the state
tax commission, state officials. their
clerks, their deputies, and every avail
able man that be sent into the
field. Fully a thousand league organ
izers and oficeholders are engaged in
the campaign, with the result that
the league is making a lot of noise.
An interesting revelation today was
the fact that President A. G. Town
lney of the league, Is carrying with
him, on his tour, q group Of at least
20 paid organizers. These men are
scattered about the crowds Of farm
ings, and leadtthe cheering. The cap
pers are successful, of course, in
arousing the proper enthusiasm at the
league meetings.
John Steen forces. however, see no
reason for fear. They " confident
that the Steen Wicket will win next
Wednesday-they feel certain there
are nor voters in North Dakota who
are absolutely loyal, and want no sus-
picion of pro-Germanism attached to
their state, than there are voters
either pro- German, or thoughtless of
the effect Of a Nonpartisan league
success.
Within the last few days, the league
speakers and campaigners. evidently
grown fearful at the sweeping Steen
sentiment, have r%esurrected pleadings
made in a test action in the courts of
the state, in which the method of dis
posing Of certain funds held by Mr..
Steen as state treasurer Is at issue.
The league forces have been attempt
ing to twist the pleadings ito an at
tempt on Stems part to avoid pay
ment Of the money involved.
The Steen forces look upon this
eleventh hour desperate attempt to
blacken Stems character as an adj
mission of weakness.
Somewhat of a sensation occurred
Wednesday night at Mandan when
Attorney ]. F. Sullivan, a lifelong
democrat, counsel for the insurance
company in the case in question. took
the platform at a meeting addressed
by Congressman P. D. Norton, de-
claring that in the whole proceedings
Mr.. Steen had proceeded absolutely
according to law, and without intent
to in any way defraud anybody of
money Justly due.
Mr.. steen, said Mr.. Sullivan, had
declined to make any payment to
either the state or the insurance COM
pany, until such time as one or the
other established legal title thereto.
| Otherwise, he would have faced the
possibility of paying the money out
twice.
The Charles Lindbergh trip in the
state has been a bad proposition fol-
the league forces. People of North
Dakota are thoroughly aroused to the
Minnesota mans book. and the doc
trine it breaches, and prominent Non
partisans who seriously objected to
Lindbergh's being brought to the
state. are fearful of the consequences.