Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1919-08-28
COMMENT


| of education with the non-p PARTISAN
league as the subject for study but
the following article was recently sent
/ out by the Kansas Anti-Bolshevik
ICampaign and is worthy of considera-
Ition regardless of which way you may
/ believe regarding the non-partisan
league. Here it is:
ssWhen the so-called Nonpartisan
/ League made its first appearance in
the political arena of North Dakota,
it was pooh-poohed and scoffed at by
the alleged thinking people-just as
/ in Kansas. Even on election day, 1916,
the banker, the business man and pol
itican were positive that Townley
wouldn't carry single county.
.sThe next day, when the final re-
turns came in, $4,000 votes out of a
total of los, 900 cast went to the Lea
que candidates
That history repeats, and that
North Dakota has no monopoly on
Solid ivory is proven by the fact
that, although the Town1ey agitators
are working overtime IN every labor
/ center and farming community IN
Kansas, the a1-wise bankers, business
men and politicians are pooh-poohing
the Non partisan League.
'sThis situation lends interest to an
| article by Chas. Edward Russell in the
August Reconstruction" entitled:
.sNonpartisan League Growing so
4 Rapidly that it May Decide Next
Presidency" He says: .sThe National
Non-partisan League is now organic
/ ed in thirteen states and has more
| than 25o,000 membersIt is in
absolute control of the governing ma
s chinery of one state, and, SO far as
fallible human vision can detect, it is
| surely on the way to the same kind
of grip six eight others.----I
| think it no extravaganza to say that
if it wished it could so hold the ball
/ ance of power in 1920 that it could de-
eide the next Presidency Scan
shake off the deadly clutch these gen
t1emen (old parties1 have secured up
on our governing machinery without
disturbing the party label.
Because there is the Primary!
"In other words, in Republican
state, if you get possession of the
primaries you can nominate a Repub-
hcan ticket composed of men that are
members of the League and pledged to
carry ont its program, put these in
Office, seize the whole machine and
chase the interests into the swamp.
4And in Democratic states you can
do the same thing with Democratic
ticket"
That there is great unrest among
the 1aboring classes and the comm on
people of the United States, and of
the world, there is no doubt. That
there is cause for it, there no
doubt There seems to be-no unrest
or apparent uneasiness among the
wealthy manufacturers and other cap
itafsts of the United States IF the
non-partisan league is growing sc
rapidly that it will likely decide the
/ next presidency it must be because
3 there appears to be offered through i
a some sort of relief from present con
> EDITIONS which explains it increasing 81
rapidly in popularity. Even those whs
are opposing the non partisan league
are admitting its rapid growth Ths
! Inon-partlsan. league is classed as rad
g Icailsl11 II the meneyed interests o:
the US. wish to head off form:
Il of radiealism which are evidently de
s Ive1oping they had better get busy am
!. make some sort of concessions which
will make conditions more favorabl
for the poorer class of people. 4
panic or crash in prices should b.
r avoided and moderately rapid return
& to pre- war prices viii greatly remed,
conditions, but if they are pernitte,
= to continue at the present rate a cal
amity is sure to come in the near fut
ure- People will not stand it mucl
longer.
There may be some radica1ism il
the foregoing paragraph but am no
: radicalist. I am advocating tina
II those who can do it should do tn
things to head off radicaIisn but an
stating that If they do not do tI1os
things radicalism viii have its way.
The Rev Taylor, who condacted tn,
camp meeting recently held here,
from bismarck NJ orfh Is-lxofa IT ask