The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-12-18

1St and note It's contents. Replying
will state, I am sending you, under
separate cover, "The Farmer and
Townleyism," which is the first
pamphlet ! got out, also ga. (after)
C. CCash) Townley Smoked Out"
second, and "Townleyism Unmasked,"
third. These pamphlets should be
read consecutively, as they deal with
the operations of the Nonpartisan
League as they have happened from
time to time.
Do not get the idea that am fight
ing the farmer, for am one of the
largest farmers in the State of North
Dakota and have their interests at
heart, as much as 1 have my own in
dividual interest But this bunch of
imported renegade agitators, who
have gotten control of North Dakota,
through their agitation, and largely
by assistance from the farmers, are
men who are Socialists to the core,
absolutely dis1oyal, which was proven,
so far as Townley is concerned, at
Jackson, Minnesota, where he was
convicted by jury of farmers, all of
whom were satisfactory to Townley's
attorneys. And besides being disloyal,
he is a crook of the first water, as is
proven by his own testimony at Bis
marck in his bankruptcy proceedings.
But he is one of those hot-air artists,
who can talk to one class of people
and make them believe that he is low
ing them to death, and in the next
breath turn around to another class,
whose interests are directly opposite
to the ones he talked to in the first
place, and make the second group be
lieve that he loves them to death and
would fight to the last ditch for their
betterment. Consequently he has
captured both the farmer, and labor,
by his intrigue and stiffness.
Lynn j. Frazier, our Governor, who
is the mouth piece for Townley, has
made the statement that if labor did
not get their demands through the
ballot, they would and must come
through revolution.
Townleyism is the same brand of
Bolshevism as Trotzky gave to Russia,
and the imported agitators are doing
the very thing Trotzky requested
them to do, just before he left for
Russia, when he said, Encourage
strikes in every city over the United
CfofoS I1D+iI xyo,, bo11a oo14-oI ~ +L;o
rotten government, and I will go to
Russia and put on a revolution there
that will stop that government from
fighting Germany" The /. w. WIS
deliberate and unprovoked attack on
the American Legion in Centralia,
Washington, and the killing of several
service men, is the result of agitation.
We have had, through Townleyism
and League organizers, more thar
our share. People who make laws
protecting Radical Reds are, in {
measure, responsible for such crimes
The government should furnish t,
service men the same protection GU
service men gave over there.
It is up to every red-blooded Amer
lean to put his shoulder to the wheel
and do all that he possibly can to rid
the country OF this damnable. menace.
They took the words, Patriotism and
Loyalty" out of our Constitution and
refused to put them back when an
amendment was introduced to that
effect in the House. They would take
the Constitution of your State, tear
it into shreds, and cast it to the foar
winds, replacing it with a Socialist
Constitution, and they would do the
same thing with the greatest doc,1-
ment ever written, our National Coz.
stitution, and put the red flag in place
OF the Stars and Stripes, which We
inherited through our forefathe~s,
who gave it to US, undefiled, and wh:ct,
the best blood and sinew of America
fought for, preserved and returned to
US, with honor, many of whom lost
their lives in that struggle, and whose
death we deeply mourn, while these
pirates were giving aid and comfort
to the enemy. But we thank God for
the preservation of the lives of ali
who survived, for they are the ones
and especially the American Legion,
on whom we must depend to put down
the Radical Reds, and handle the at
fairs of our Government, so as to in
sure lasting peace and produce har.
mony out of unrest and chaos.
In this State, the payroll at the
State House has increased from S26,.
10000 per month to $4,000. OC
through the new offices created by
the Socialists, and there is not farm.
er on that new salary list They are
continuously making new jobs fol
renegade agitators. In the same issue
of the Appeal to Reason (the great
est Socialist paper in the country
where they advocate Eugene V. Deb.
for President in 1920, and Kate Rich
ards O'Hare for Vice President, anc
come out boldly in red letters anC