The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-08
TOOLS OF KAISER
That Is the Way Zimmerman
Brands NOnpartisans.
He Tells Chamber of Commerce
of the League.
SEES NO GOOD IN ITS WORK
Organization Same as That
Which Ruined Russia.
Kate O'Hare and TOWnley Were
Bitterly Denounced.
SEES NO GOOD in ITS WORK

Introduced to the diners at the
Chamber of Commerce this noon by
President George P. McEntire, Phil
E. Zimmerman, of Lindsborg, plunged
into a recitation of the purposes of the
Nonpartisan League and then proceed
ed to flay the League leaders and
hang their hides on the fence to dry.
At the time of the organization OF
the Nonpartisan League zimmerman
was a travelling salesman in North Da-
kota He watched the growth of the
League in that state from its inception
until the present time and was an eye
witness to what he himself calls the
travesty of 1awmaking as pract1ced by
the North Dakota legislature in 1914
The drive now in progress on the
western front in Europe IS leo by tne
kaiser, Won Hindenburg, Ludendorff,
A. c. Townley and Bob La Toilette,
declared Zimmerman this noon as
sort of range finding statement. he
then told of the organization OF the
Nonpartisan League in Russia undeI
the name of Bolshevikism and painted
the picture of the rape of RUSSIA
thru the Vaccinations of the Red
Rag Socialists sent over to the Wnite
Empire by the express order OF the
German high command
Zimmerman came from the portray
al of the fall of Russia to the story
of the big Nonpartisan disioyalty
convention in St. Paul, Mimi, Wnere
La Toilette was the principal speaker,
and where he made his memorable
declaration that cit is perfectly proper =,
for Germany to sink the Lusltanla.
"Another speaker of prominence at
this meeting made the statement that
the stream of liberty flowing from the
mountains of America is nothing put
contaminated mud" he said.
Hearers Cheered Speakers.
Zimmerman said that the delegates
to the Nonpartisan convention cheereu
both of these statements to the ecno.
Touching on the significance or TINS
convention and the psychological ef-
feet of it on international politics, I'm
norman said: ''Townley always knows
inst what the kaiser wants. AT the
time this convention was called the
Argentine national assembly was con-
sidering the declaration OF war on
Germany. At the close OF the con
yention, after the news of the speeches.
made there had been cabled TO all
parts of the world, the Argentine as
sembly-led to believe that the con-
vention expressed the sentiment of the
great American people-proceedeo TO
decide against war"
Zimmerman laid the collapse OF
Russia directly at the rect OF "A. =;
Townley, president of the National
Nonpartisan League and declared that
''Townley is a willing agent of the
kaiser in spreading sedition and class
hatred and discomfort among the peo-
pie of America.
Townley branded the Nonpartisan
League as the organization which
stood sponsor for the infamous Kate
| Richards O'Hare in her speech-mak
| ing tour of North Dakota. This
| female scorpion of the kaiser is the
| one who, in a public speech, declared
that the American woman who sends
| her boy across the sea to fight for
democracy is nothing more than a
| common brood-sow.'
| He Quoted Townley.
! In almost the same breath thinner
| man declares that President Townley
| of the Nonpartisan League at one
time said that this is q war of the
rotten rich and 1 refuse to urge our
members to raise more crops or to
make extra effort in planting great
| eT acreage
| "Townley is the man who said of
| the first liberty loan that the liberty
| loan is not patriotic asserted Zim-
norman.
HE is also the man." continued the
speaker, who took Kate Richards
o'Hare to North Dakota to make
speeches of a disloya1 nature. In
! these speeches one Of her favorite
remarks was if we had loaned money
| tic Germany as we loaned it to the
allies we would today be fighting for
Germany rather than against her."
| At one point in his speech thinner
man spoke of the way the newspapers
of the state are standing on the Non
partisan League question. "Only two
papers in the state are defending the
League" said Zimmerman, land one
of these is the Appeal to Reason
Cries OF that is not a newspa per but
an organ" We're heard all thru the
dining room. After the close of his
speech Zimmerman in an interview
said that the other paper referred to
4 was the wichita Eagle
Zimmerman closed his speech with
an appeal to the Topeka Chamber Of
| Commerce to look carefully into the
matters of the Nonpartisan League
and to take definite action on their
findings"