Gunnison news-champion., 1920-08-13
JUDGE STONE TELLS WHAT HE
THINKS OF NON-PARTISAN
To the Editor of the Gunnison News
Chamnion.-

To the Editor of the Gunnison News
Champion:-
In former communication stated
that it was my desire to submit for
publication in the columns of your
paper an article or letter concerning
the so-called Nonpartisan League.
Accordingly / am presenting a few
facts which should cause thinking
people to realize that Red Russia is
not SO far away. that this horrible
thing called Bolshevism is not q ter
ror that reigns on far-off shores, and
that it is not political disease pecul-
iar to a particular people, but that 1t
is surely finding root in our own fair
land.
There is an able discussion Of the
Nonpartisan League in an address de-
livered in New York by Charles Pat
teYson, entitled: sstseds end Radicals
in America" / believe that I can
make no better presentation of the
subject under consideration than by
a review of that address. Mr.. Pat
terson spent three years making q
close study of radicalism in this coun-
try and speaks as an authority.
After showing that the Nonpartisan
League represents Socialism under
another name and that it is impossible
for Radicalism and Socialism to live
in conjunction with and in harmony
with the great fundamental institu-
great, he tells something of the life
of Townley, the organizer of the Nom
partisan League.
"There lived" he ay, "in the twn
of Minot, some five years ago q man
by the name of Townley, who had
ventured into bonanza wheat and fax
raising and had unfortunately not
made success of ID. He became the
paid Organizer and Secretary of the
North Dakota Socialist Party, which
was at that time under domination
of a man by the name of lie Sueur,
a brilliant and able attorney who
had appeared in numberless trials
as the defender of l. w. w. and Red
Socialist malefactors."
! Townley and lie Surer were close
friends and co-workers. LIE Sueul
was for a time president of the So
cialist institution, the Peoples College
, at Fort Scott, Kansas. He was also
the paid counsel of the l. w. w. and
a warm friend of Mr.. Haywood. Al
the time LIE Surer was president OF
this college, Eugene v. Debs was its
Chancellor.
Concerning the latter individual
Mr.. Patterson states:
Eugene v. Debs, the Chancellor OF
| this institution, the friend of Le-
Sueur,, who is the advisor of Townley
said when he went to prison: from
the crown of my head to the. soles
of my feet I am a Bolshevik, and
proud of it. The day of the people
has come. enter prison as a fam
ing Revolutionist, my head erect
my spirit untamed, and my soul un-
conquerable."
And SO it is readily seen that Town
ley's organization and his activities
lead back to the very center of radi-
calism in this country.
1t seems impossible that dangerous
, extremists of this kind could so far
befool the former as to entice his hard
earned money from his pockets and
lead him to take the first big step
that must ultimately result in the
confiscation of his land and property.
But in few short years this extre-
mist, Townley has organized and cap
tured the state of North Dakota.
Mr.. Patterson says, concerning this
unfortunate state which eventually
must be a sole outcast in the Sister
hood of States, unless the great and
loyal people Of the state can be brot
to see whittier these Red Radicals are
leading them, as follows:
No longer is there Republican
form of government, because rs the
central organization, and the central
organization Of the Socialist party
demands that the members in Albany
shall obey their absolute behest, %
does every man in the State House II
North Dakota, in advance sign his
pledge, that he will abide by the com
mands Of the caucus o. that organise
tion and that caucas b ct III times
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