Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-05-29
FARMERS MONEY USED T0DEFEND
BERGER, KATE 0'HARE AND MILLS,
SECTY. OF STATE HALL CHARGES
State Official Says He Expects Expose Whole Scheme
-Kositzky Attacks Printing Bill at Carson Meeting
League Pays Big Salaries to Propaganda Spreaders,
Hall Says.

Carson, N. D., May 29.-"1 am now
on the trail Of evidence which be.
lieve will prove that money collected
from North Dakota farmers was used
for the defense Of Victor L. Eerger
Kate Richards O'Hare and Walter
Thomas Mills. when they were indict.
ed as enemies of their country" Secre
tary of State Hall declared here last
night. addressing an audience of SOC
Grant county people, Of whom SO per
cent were league farmers.
Are you going to stand for that
sort Of things?" he asked his audi
ence. Il am not"
And the applause which followed
indicated that his hearers were Of the
same mind.
Hall stated that he hopes within
spring a complete exposure of the al.
legged expenditure of North Dakots
farmers funds in the defense of in.
ternational socialists.
Was Big Meeting.
The Carson meeting conducted By
Secretary of State Hall and. State
Auditor Kositzky was unusually sue.
cessful. 1t was arranged by j. G
Bell, editor of the Carson Press. The
Carson band turned out and gave q
concert before the meeting opened
District court was in session. and
jurors and witnesses were here from
all parts of the county. They all at
tended the meeting. making it yer!
Evans, an intusntial Grant count,
farmer, presided, and among ottsl
prominent citizens on the platform
was former Rep. Charles f. schick
twho lives near CarSon. = .s :ts's ~, :, - =
! Hall and Kositzky carried to tn,
rostrum with them large assortmen
Of public documents. Each announc
ed at the opening OF his talk that b.
had documentary proof for ever!
| statement he would make, and an In
vitation was extended any who doubt
ed to examine these documents.
Boosters On Salary.
Secretary of State Hall asked tn
farmers if they were aware Of th'
dues they paid into the league wer'
being used to pay an army Of 800 tt
500 boosters" on the payrolls of tn
league for $50 to 5000 per month ant
scattered throughout the state tt
manufacture .Townley sentiment
Senator ]. I. Cahill, he declared, wa
accepting as much as 5000 per month
from the league for acting in this ca
pacity. -.>s-
Our MI. FRAZER. .....'
Paying his respects to Governor
Frazier, the league secretary Of stat,
| said that the chief executive was hon
est but so weak that he permitted tn,
bosses to dictate to him. He cited II
this connection the governors ex
clusion from a pamphlet printed b!
the industrial commission at state ex
pense and purporting to give all tn
I. facts in connection with the leagu'
! program of Chief Justice A. M. Chris
tianson's dissenting opinion in re tn,
ratification of the leagues constitu
tional amendments at the polls las
November. He referred to the gov
ernor's recent notification of the ini
tiative petitions as another instance
in point, declaring the governor dia
this in spite Of campaign pledges t.
give the people chance to vote OF
the whole league program.
| Poisoned Publicity.
| Poisoned publicity" was a phras
coined by the secretary of state to de
scribe the propaganda with whicl
Townley agents are now filing tn
columns Of his press. If man doe
anything to displease Townley; II b.
hood, >Townley and his little buncl
of grafters raise the cry that he ha
! sold out to Big Business And tn,
men who are doing this are barnacle
who are not farmers, not even resi-
dents of our state, many Of them; ant
whose only interest in the state is II
the incubation of schemes for tn,
bleeding of our farmers"
Big Biz BOgey.
Hall went into the recent valle.
City bank reorganization in detail