New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1919-12-03
CITIZENS DEMAND
End OF MOBBlNG
WORLD WAR VETERANS LEAD
WAY IN FIGHT TO END
SHAME OF STATE.
I Gov. BURNQUIsT AS USUAL RE
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FUSES TO ACT IN CASE 8
OF DEPORTATION.

FUSES TO ACT IN CASE
OF DEPORTATION:
From all parts Of Minnesota there have.
come within the last week. protests
against continuing the campaign of law
lessness that started in Minnesota dur
| ing the war and that. is being allowed.
4 to grow more serious.
/ to pay any attention to the latest case
LOT mob violence the deportation Of
1 former Congressman Ernest Lundeen
/ from Ortonville, MINI, last week with
/ the assistance Of local officials sworn to
/ uphold the law-4has added to the de-
mand for law and order" campaign
Lundeen, it appears, was on lecture
tour, speaking against the league Of
nations. He had said in opening his
address: Ladies and gentlemen, am
here to speak against the league Of
nations n" when he was declared under
arrest. Escorted by bowling mob
4 he was placed on board freight train,
on which he eventually reached Mime
I,apohs III
The deporta ton Of the former con-
gresham and the freeing Of the kid
.napers of John Meints of Luverne
4 hove on,,oo as 4ho5as o,,l,,, .,f -
series of riots, kidnappings, tar-and-
feather parties and at least one lynch
ing. Starting during the war the in
activity and implied support given this
mob violence by Governor Burnquist
land members of his administration
have encouraged its continuance and
{. today direct action as bad as the
worst attributed to, the T.. w. Wis
reported almost daily s'S-' e.
The Twin Cities daily papers, all
most without, exception, applauded the
deportation Of Lundeen, as they have
4 other mob violence in the state.
Burnquist AS Usual.
~ Governor Burnquist,. according to
the St. Paul Dispatch, Indicated after
i receiving complaint from Lundeen
that he would take no official action, =
and apparently received the 5Lundeen
complaint with ridicule.
4 In the face of this condition Of
affairs there is growing demand
I on the part Of the citizenship Of
Minnesota for campai gn for law
and order
i 1t is pointed out that the governor of
an eastern state, running on law
and order platform, got 100000 more
votes than he had received when he was
i elected a year before.
Like Oklahoma.
The last case OF mob violence that
can be compared with the Lundeen
case occurred at Ardmore, Okla, when
Senator Reed, also, speaking against
/ the league Of nations, was driven from
the stage by shower of eggs. The
4 Democratic governor Of the state re-
fused to interfere and said, in effect,
I that Senator Reed got what he deserved.
a congressional campaign was held
lin Oklahoma within a few days. Al
/ though the voters of the state were
supposed to be strongly in favor Of
i the league Of nations, prior to the
1 sArdnore riot, and although the state
lis normally erWhelmingly Demo-
cratic, the Democratic candidate, rum
I ming on a league Of nations platform,
was decisively defeated, and his Re-
publican opponent, running against the
i league of nations, was elected. The
result was not considered verdict
against the league of nations, however
/. IT WAS "A VERDICT AGAINST MOB
| LAWLEsSNEss, encouraged by the
governor Of Oklahoma
4 Governor Burnquist has given no ex-
Icuse for his failure to act against the
3idnappers of Lundeen. Both Burnquist
| and Lundeen are Republicans. Both
are against the league Of nations. They
belong to different factions of the party,
1 however, and, this apparently is the only.
treason Burnqlist will not act
Veterans Act.
The World War Veterans Of Mime
Isota, at a meeting held two days after
1.-THE Lundeen eportation, decided to.
take prompt action to start q flaw and.
order campaign. The Veterans plat.
i form declares for he enforcement
of the Constit tuition Of the United State
Lof America as it's written 4
Resolutions adopted by the veterans
declare that they intend to put this
slogan " into effect in Minnesota
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