The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-10-28
COVERING UP HIS RECORD.

"A. G. Townley, president Of the National
Nonpartisan league, who is attempting to
dictate to the people of North Dakota
what kind of constitution they and their
children shall live under, and who is at
tempting to bring about the election in
North Dakota Of men subservient to the
will of himself and his Socialist fellow
workers." isn't willing that the voters Of
South Dakota, where also he is striving to
bring about Socialist regime, should read
the record he has made on the platform
when discussing the war.
Out of composite edition Of The Non
partisan Leader" being mailed to thou
sands of South Dakota farmers, four pages
have been torn and these four pages car
ried Mr.. Townley's speech as made at
jamestown, N. D., in June, 1917.
Some rather interesting declarations
were made in that Jamestown speech
which the ,Nonpartisan league politicians
have deemed wise to keep from the voters
of South Dakota. For instance, Mr.. Town
ley said:
Il want to say to you that this nation can
GOVERNMENT INSTEAD OF SERVING
THE INTERESTS OF THE UNITED
STATES STEEL CORPORATION and the
sugar trust and the beef trust"
This sentiment from the Nonpartisan
Socialist isn't looked upon today by his
political managers and by Mr.. Townley
himself as good doctrine to be giving to
the voters, so it is torn out of the campaign
documents proposed for circulation in
South Dakota.
But quoting Mr.. Townley again, in the
jamestown speech of June, 1917. TWO
months after the United States had gone
to war when this Mr. Townley was preach
ing the doctrine of war for the "rotton
rich
80 We demand here and and all the
time and will continue to demand from
this platform; from the roadside; from the
house tops, from the city, from the country,
If need be. from the federal pententiary, or
even from the galows-we will demand that
this nation, or the rulers of this nation.
fearing now not much for US and our
country as for yourselves YOU RULERS
OF THIS NATION, USING THIS WAR
NOW TO MULTIPLY YOUR MILLIONS Of
profits: demand of you, afraid of the
autocracy of Germany, II you fear that auto
cracy may come across the water AND ROB
YOU OF THE POWER TO ROB US; IF
YOU ARE AFRAID AND YOU WANT us
TO GO TO. WAR AND GIVE OUR LIVES
WE SAY TO YOU THAT YOU MUST.
YOU MUST SEND PROOF TO US THAT
you ARE SINCERE"
That is the side Of Mr.. Townley thot
Mr.. Townley doesn't today think wise to
permit the voters of South Dakota to sec.
"No wonder that Townley and his man
ayers now suppress these words--a mix.
t1lre of incoherences, of the baser arts of
rhetoric, of appeals to sympathy and senti,
ment, of questionable patriotism at any
time and peculiarly so i'll June, 1917 and
direct impeachment of the sincerity of the
war administration at that time and ever
SINCE" says the Peter Norbeck committee
in South Dakota.
No wonder, Townley managers in the in
terests of their political volunteers who
need the votes Of the Woodrow Wilson
Democrats, now suppress these words of
Townley and tear these pages from their
campaign literature.
"Where is the Democrat who will join
with Townley in his demand that Woodrow
Wilson send proof that, he is sincere in
fighting the autocracy of Germany