The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-10-21

Will remain in the state until the
election. Both NOrbeck and Sterling.
it is contended, will receive the votes
Of many loyal democrats.
Norbsek Counters.
A strong effort has been made TO
dIscrcdit Governor Norbcck among
farmers because a few Townley
meetings have been held up by loyal
lists and because OF disturbances in
Gregory county and few other To-
calities. The governor has replied
in an open letter TO his opponent.
Mr.. Bates, in which he offers to es-
cort him over the state. Il should
certainly like to travel with you"
he says. I'VE could discuss the po-
litical issues, each using half the
time. Then Mr.. Townley will have
trouble 10 invent mobs. We will not
take any professional troublemakers
along-only candidates"
At a Bates rally I'm Gregory county
the governor took charge in person
OF the home guards which had been
called out to protect the meeting.
The governor also has pledged safe
conduct through the state to Town
ley and his lieutenants so long as
they refrain from utterances which
smack Of disloyaIty. In this connec-
ton the governor delivers the follow
ing body blow:
THE league leaders do not want
protection. They live and grow on
trouble. When trouble is not real,
they proceed to manufacture it.
Mobs are not a South Dakota
product, but when mobs fail to ma
terialize Mr.. Townley or his agents
proceed to invent them. This creates
sympathy in the minds Of men who
mistake Townley's fiction FOR fact"
Explanations invited.
The governor calls on his opponent
for an explanation of the record of
league leaders who have been foisted
upon the state by Mr.. Townley.
Mr.. Randall alrady was under
sentence for disloyaIty in Minnesota,
where he had made sedltious
speeches, before he was placed at the
head of the league paper for South
Dakota" he says. Mr.. Duncan, un-
til recently the South Dakota man
ager for the league, Is the deposed
mayor OF Butte, Mont, and his /. w.
w. record has been published and
never denied, while Mr. Bowen, the
present power behind the South Da-
kota league, is a socialist. Our farm
ers are not socialists. They do not
believe In state ownership and oper-
alton of farms. They want their
farms for themselves and their chill
dren. They are not willing to share
their land with hoboes who have
frittered away their time and money.
You might also explain" con-
tinues the governor, that plank in
the league program which calls for
an eight hour law for all labor, in
Guiding farm labor. South Dakota
miners now have the eight hour day,
and also have the packing houses.
l maintain that an eight hour day
for farm labor is unfair while the
farmers and their wives are work
ing from II to 16 hours a day and
even the children are working long
days. Was not this a concession to
the selfappointed heads of the
league? Certainly the resident hired
men on the farms Of this state are
not asking for it."
Tewnlsys Speech Censored.
The league has taken steps. 1t is
said to circulate $4,000 copies of the
Nonpartisan Leader among nonmem-
Der farmers in South Dakota. Pages
II, IL, Fl and % and the date OF
publication, it 10 declared, have been
torn out and stricken from this pub
LEGATION. A checking up system has
revealed that the missing pages were
devoted to an address which Town
ley delivered at jamestown, n. D.,
June 9, 1917 under the title, "Patri-
OTIS and Profits" The department
OF censoring evidently has undertake
en- to turn out a campaign document
for use and consumption in South
Dakota only, where Rthe early ideas
spread by Mr.. Townley do not set
well and would do his cause more
harm than good. Excerpts from this
address by Mr.. Townley, which the
league censor has decreed that 1t
were best South Dakota voters
state of mind endures, are az fol-
lows:
why should you labor to raise a
big crop until you have attended to
the distribution Of that crop?"
This country is working, not to
beat the enemy. but to make more
multi milIionaires. That is what we
are working for. 49,
Il want to say to you that this ma
ton can never succeed in war unless
this is your government, instead of
serving the interest of the United
States Steel corporation and the
sugar trust and the beef trust-thls
country can never succeed in war I'm
til it governs the business Of trans
porting your products and wipes off
the face of the world the gamblers in
food products and the necessaries of
life"
U. S. Sincerity Questioned.
$50 we demand here and now and
all the time and we will continue to
demand from this platform; from the
roadside; from the housetops, from
the city, from the country. IL need
be, from the federal penitentiary, or
even from the galloWs-we viii de-
mand that this nation, or the rulers
OF this nation fearing now not so
much for us and our country as for
yourselves, you rulers of this nation,
using the war now TO multiply your
millions Of profits; we demand OF you.
afraid OF the autocracy Of Germany,
lie you fear that autocracy may come
across the water and rob you Of the
power to rob us; IL you are afraid
and you want us 10 20 to war and
give our lives we say 10 you that you
must, you mugt send proof to us that
you are sincere"
League Candidate Biscredieed.
The Aberdeen News Is doing some
effective bombing OF the league line
defenses by the publication of letters,
which are copies oI government exc