Grand Forks herald., 1919-12-31
! Tells !, u ]! Large Crowd That Com
\. mittee Will Have Right To
1 Investigate Anybody
Opposing Radicalism; De-
clares Bill Is One OF Most
Vicious Ever Passed. II
Especial to The Herald. j,

n r. Especial to The Herald.)
Jamestown, N. D., Dec s1.-Ds-
claring the bill creating a smelling
committee to nose out enemies Of the
league zone Of the most vicious ever
passed by a North Dakota legislature,
Attorney General LANCER, addressing
a big audience at the jamestown
auditorium last night, paid his re-
lsspects to legislation of the special ses-
!. sions and the legislators responsible
TOR It.
+ Referring to the smelling commit.
men with red blood in their veins IN
i this state who dare say one word
against Townley, Walter Thomas
Mills, or against any Of the rest Of
the whole damnable outfit, this man
will be Immediately investigated
Why they can haul citizen Of this
state from one end of Moth Dakota
to the other under the law which
have quoted above; they can go into
the private dealings of any citizen;
can go into his vault, into his safe,
his banking account, even into his
love letters. In the palmiest days Of
the car Of Russia and the xaissr Of
Germany they never had anything
worse than this. H.
Some Of you Nonpartisans in this
crowd who figure this is good law
just close your eyes and imagine tha.
you are living two or three years
hence when Townley and his outfit
will not be in power, AND THY
MOST ASSUREDLY WILL NOT.
Just imagine whole lot of reaction
aries in there, and you having the
courage to go out and say that come
OF the state officials are not all they
should be. Under the provisions Of
this law. they could haul you from
Jamestown to Williston. simply ty
sending you registered letter. and
1t you didn't go, unuer the provisions
OF this same law you would be pun
ished by fine of not less than ono
nor more than five thousand dollars,
or by Imprisonment for not more
IL you refused to produce any corfe-
spondence you may have written m
your private affairs. &
There is nothing in the law which
says. these men shall keep informa-
tipn they obtain secret. 1t is q club,
my friends, to be held over the head
Of. any honest citizen Of this state,
he hates rfdonl, the more he
despises ana abhors autocracy, the
worse, he is going ts be. treated
NY friends, tt is Il spsiolls
kind which absolutely disgust a man
Of any sense of honor or fair play. It
lis actions OF this kind which maize
/. one 50 absolutely sick Of Townleyism
in all it's disgusting features. 4
movement sooner or later is pretty
much like the fellow who is at the
head Of it, and If the man at the had
Of a movement is a fellow skimming
over, the edges Of truth. is q fellow
who; is not very careful of what he
says, even under oath, you cannot
blame some Of his followers for get
. Townlcy's Testimony.
!, The speaker reviewed at length the
testimony Of A. c.. Townley before
the committee on military affairs Of
the United States senate on May l.,
1918 showing that in answer to d1-
rect examination from Senator Reed
. Townley had testified that he was
not socialist, that Wood, LeSueur
and Gilbert were not socialists. apd
movement whom he believed to be a
socialist was a man in the publicity
department whose name Townley be-
lieved to be Lggett.
. II have here in my hand" said
,Langer, ''the North, Dakota Blue
BOOK for the year 1918. Turning to
page %, it gives here the socialist
Organization of the state Of North
Dakota The very first thing you see
the men representing the state Of
North Dakota in the national organ
ization Of socialists. is none other
than Arthur LeSueur. The next
thing you see is that s. Az Smith of
Beach, is a member Of the state or
sanization. This is the same man
Townley tried hard to get in as
strom of Ray, in williams county,
the man ip charge Of the league
headquarters at Fargo. known, as I
remember it, as the state manager:
: Next YOU find w. G. johnson of Far
70, mixed UP with the United Con-
sumers stores Go. And Townley
knew when he testified that he. him
self, had been, a state organizer Tor
the socialist party in North Dakota"
q s.l,s Socialists Named.
LANCER then added long list Of
names prominent in state and nation
al LEAGUE circles whose Affiliations
with the socialist party. he said,
."rownley forgot about.
tion between Townleyism and the
radical movement in. America in
support Of the Bolsheviki when they
\ first assembled to power in Russia,
{ and he concluded! I'm your own
state capitol, here whore us fellows
inside OF this farmers organization
are doing all we possibly can to car
~ out its original program: doing
everything possible in protecting the
farmer against any profiteer or gam
bier, we find in our state library
books Of which, men like Trotzky are
authors. AND I SAY THAT WE
PEOPLE. OF NORTH DAKOTA
WANT NO TRUCK WITH ANYONE
WHO WANTS TO q OVERTHROW
sTHIS GOVERNMENT. Trotzky can
call it a damned. rotten capitalistic
government" IL he wants to. but, my
friends. the good y old Stars and
striues, the United States Of Americas
are good enough form and I would
I not change this government for eith-
ers Trotzkys Russia or Townley's In
.dIstrial democracy"
Il BOOSTING MORROW.
louisville, KY. Dec, 1.Republi-i
/. en- leaders in Kentucky are grooming
sGovefnor Edwin p. Morrow a. q vice
1IseSidential candidate, according to
! &announcement' here today 4 'ts, 4.
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