The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1918-09-12
MUST UNITE AGAINST THE COM
MON ENEMY.

AIRY campaign a. - a pNbitS ifNAhN ~
the Nonpartisan league and f. +.
Samuels, the Nonpartisan league cam
didate for governor, spoke from the
same platform at Moscow. In the
course of his speech Mr.. Townley
used this language
THE Nonpartisan league pays
the campaign expenses of its can.
didates, and when they are elected
they are the employees of the lea
que and must do it's bidding"
This statement from Townley was
not merely an assertion for which he
alone was responsible, although that
would probably be sufficient in view
of the fact that he is the dictator of
the organization, but it was based up
on the actual requirements of the
league. Every candidate who accepts
nomination for office at the hands Of
the Nonpartisan league is required to
subscribe to a pledge which, after re-
citing the name of the candidate his
age, occupation, previous occupation
whether married or single. native born
or naturalized, and income outside Of
farming, contains this clause:
Il hereby pledge myself to the
following:
THAT | will allow6my name to
be placed on the ...-.,..... ticket
to be voted at at the ....,... pri-
maries and II nominated will con-
tinue TO act as the farmers nom
partisan political candidate until
after the polls close on Noyem-
Der -. 1911. And If elected will
at all times work and vote for
those measures and amendments
that will assist in getting justice
for the farmers of this state as
from time to time shall be outlined
by the league
II should be self evident to any
right thinking American scitzen that
any candidate for public Office who
subscribes to that pledge deliberately
violates in advance the obligation
that rests upon him and in his heart
betrays the people he pretends to de-
sire to serve 1t is only fair to assume
that when H. f. Samuels accepted the
nomination of the Nonpartisan league
for governor, he subscribed to that
pledge but whether he did or not in
writing, he virtually did so before the
assemblage at Moscow when in his
presence Townley stated that all can
didates when they are elected are the
employees of the league and must do
its bidding" He did not deny the
truth of the words of his chief, but on
the contrary he joined in the applause
that followed them. The history of
politics in America fails to disclose a
case comparable in brazen moral de-
pravity He comes before the people
asking them to elect him to an office
in which if elected he will be con-
trolled, not by the interests of all the
people he Is supposed to serve, but by
the few who dominate the organiza-
ton to which he owes his election,
The possibility of electing such
man to the chief executive office of the
state should impress every citizen
with the danger of the situation and
unite all in a determined effort to save
the state from the impending disas-
ter. Disaster is the right word, for
the success Of Samuels and the Nom
partisan league in Idaho would mean
the enactment of impractical and vi
cious socialist laws, class legislation,
destructive blow at industrial enter
prises, and loss of confidence in the
state as a field for Investment of
capital The issue presented through
the success of the Nonpartisan league
is one that should draw together all
intelligent and thoughtful citizens in
united opposition to the common en-
envy of the state.