The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1919-10-31
RADICALS MAKE
POOR SHOWING
OnIy Non-Partisan Cult in few
States Attracts
Farmers.

SAYS the Washington CORRESPONDENT
to the Portland Oregonian. Except
for those farmers in some. three or
four states who have joined the Non
partisan league, bolshevism has little
hope of encouragement from the ag-
rictlturists generally.
The radicals were the first to open
headquarters in Washington andl
they may have been making some
Roadway when those old-fashioned
farmers who always have been al
steadying influence in this govern.
ment got busy to provide safe and
sane national leadership. The ex-
tremists call their organization in
Washington the Farmers National
council, and on various occasion
they have announced to the world
that they represent 10000 farmers
This latter statement has been ques-
toned a number of times by mem
bers of congressional committees be-
fore whom their representatives have
appeared.
Grange Names Used.
The heads of this movement are
George p. Hampton and Benjamin G.
Marsh. The biggest organization
which they claim to represent is the
Nonpartisan league, and there is lit
tie doubt that they do represent it.,
because they breathe every principle
of radica1ism and state socialism adj
vocated by the non-partisans of
North Dakota, Minnesota, Idaho and
Washington.
They also carry on their station
cry as members of their organization
the state grange Of Washington
Oregon and Idaho. Whether the
rank and file of those oranges know
they are so represented is doubtful.
because before house ,cammittee re-
Gently Benjamin c. Marsh hesitated
to say that his organization repre-
scented more than the state masters
of those oranges who are William
Bouck, Washington; c. E. Spence
Oregon. and w. w. Deal, Idaho.
Bouck, master of the Washington
state grange will be remembered as
the man who was arrested during
the. war on charges OF violating the
espionage act.
AS to representing the Nonparti-
san league the relation would appear
to be very natural one when one
couples some Of Benjamin c, Marsh's
public statements just before war
was declared with what happened
recently to A. c. Townley, president
of the Nonpartisan league and his
fellow officer, Joseph Gilbert. who
recentiv were convicted of sedition
4 in the Minnesota courts.
lie Seuer Is Active.
Marsh calls himself publicity di-
rector of the Farmers National
council. as well as managing editor
Nof The Farmers, Open Forum. a
propagandist organ of which George
P. Hampton, his associate. calls. him
self publisher.
Another well known figure who
has worked prominently with Hamp-
ton and Marsh is Arthur lie Seuer
of Minnesota, former secretary OF
the NonpartiSan league. who, on the
dav before congress voted war. wrote
a letter to William D. Haywood
head of the |. W. W.. RENDERING 2
statement for expenses in connection
with some radical work done at Des
Moines. Iowa.
lie Seuer and Hampton wers
named by the Farmers. National Re
construction Conference. another
Marsh and Hampton invention. held
in this city last winter. as Farmers
delegates" to the peace conference,
at Paris to help President Wilson
frame the peace treaty. Someone
complained the other day that th;.
government denied them passports
perhaps not knowing that copy Of
the lie Seuer letter to HAYWOOD wa.
furnished to the state department
along about the time the Farmers
Reconstruction Con ference" adj
journed.
1t is only short time since press
dispatches told of the conviction o.
A. c. Townley, president of the Non
partisan league, and Joseph Gilbert
an organizer. by the Minnesota
courts on serition charges.
Conservatives Declare War.
The conservative farmers organi
cation in Washington is known a.
the National Board of Farmers Or.
CARNATIONS and has started out b,
declaring war on bolshevism and al
sorts of radicalism. One of It's lead
>ers is Charles S. Barrett of Geor.
gia, president of the National Far.
mers' Union. and others are a A
Elmore and A. D. Cross of Spokane
leaders in the farmers union o.
Washington state, and w. v. Swift
of Baker. Ore, president If the Ore
gon State Farmers union.
Mr.. Elmore is raising money
among the farmers TO build $1,000
ono Temple of Agriculture in this
city. and has made remarkable
Roadway to the extent that val
liable downtown site has already
been purchased with money which
he obtained.
Malo d. Campbell. of Michigan is
president of the national board. and
Charles A. Lyman of this city is Sec
rotary.