The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1920-07-16
SAME TICKET IS
DECISION MINI.
n. P.L. FARMERS
Many Prominent Speakers prescn.
and Discuss Problems and Issues
During Fail Campaign
Great meeting in Minneapolis
Auditorium Decides ON Eli
nancing PLAN
lBy Fred A. Earding)'

tBy Fred A Earding)
MINNEAPOLIS, Min.-Over a
thousand representative Nonparti
isan league farmers and members of
the Working People Nonpartisan
Roliticai league in Minnesota, meet
ing in Minneapolis July :. voted
unanimously to make d campaign
on the farmer-labor ticket this fall
for Shipstead and the other League
candidates indorsed for the primary
campaign providing an adequate
campaign fund is raised to Offset
the slush fund of the steel trust.the
milling trust and other big business
combines opposed to the League.
Leaders among the farmers at the
massmeeting agreed to contribute
500 to the campaign fund and So
licit. their neighbors who can afford
it to do the same
The massmeeting was originally
scheduled for the assembly room of
the Daily Star building in Mime
apolis. This hall was found made
quate before the crowd had fully as
sembled and the melting was ad
iourned to the Richmond halls. the
two biggest labor halls in the city.
The afternoon session had to be held
in the municipal auditorium in order
to accommodate the audience.
A. c. Townley. president of the
National Nonpartisan league. Thom-
as Van Lear former labor mayor OF
Minneapolis; Thomas v Sullivan
candidate for attorney general. who
was counted out by the steel trust
and Rev. o. j. kvale who defeated
Congressman yolstead in the Repub-
lican primary. were the principai
speakers.
Enthusiasm was at high pitch
throughout the meeting z
HWE'IL STICK" THE CRY
The meeting was called by George
Griffith. state manager OF the Non
partisan league. to decide what steps
would be taken toward putting on a
campaign for the general election.
When President Townley had
shown the futility of putting on q
campaign unless property financed
and asked if the farmers and labot
were ready to lay down, pandemo-
MUM broke loose.
Well Stick they yelled.
s'If | could make you realize what
this fight means to your enemies and
to you there'd be no doubt as to the
result of the next election Mr.
Townley said. "You are doing tho
most difficult and most important
work that men ever tried to do. You
are lighting to free yourselves and
your children from the clutches OF
those men and groups of men and
concentrated wealth that hold the
people on the farms and in the cities
within their control. This is not a
new battle 1t is the struggle OF
those who toll against those who dc
not toll History is full Of this bat
tile.
s.The big g-business-owned press
says We lost in the primary cam
paign. Two years ago We carried 80
counties. This year we carried 54
Politically. we haven't anything tt
| lose, but there is a good chance TO
our enemies to lose. They've got tt
| lose before We do They will lose {.
| you men and women here will maxi
this campaign business proposition
\ You are going into the hardes
/ political battle in the history o
| America. There is nothing your enc
mics won't do to defeat you. if the
dare. They would use guns if the
dared They will start the revolu
tion il one is started. We don't hav
to use guns We have the ballots.
EAGER no AID FINANCIALLY
/ When Mr.. Townley asked member
| Of the audience to express shemselve
on financing the campaign, scores o
farmers leaped to their feet Th
situation dramatic.
L. T. Thompson OF Black Due
E;eltrami county. a negro, who ha
settled in the cutover barrens 0
northern Minnesota. sounded tn
feeling OF, all when he said:
'sThis here League means every