The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1920-01-16

LOYAL AMERICAN NEWS SEES
FARMER-WORKER TICKET VIC
T0RIOUS.

nlony of the strength Of the Nonpar.
tisan league, in Minnesota is given by
z the Loyal American News, Of this
city in a lead article under the title
"Townleyism Overunning the State.''
This magazine is the official organ
of the. Loyal American club, new
camouf1age organization to fight fo1
reactionary politics.
It's article is especially directed to
business men and gives evidence that
the independent business Of the state
is no longer supporting machine pol
itics. as the politicians would like.
Perhaps the veto Of the tonnage tax
and consequent higher taxes for gen
eral business has alienated the bust
ness element.
The article in part reads as fol-
lows:
''In the Daily News Of November
81, j. Adam Bede, former congress
man from Minnesota, is quoted as
stating: TT is easy to bet right now
that the state of Minnesota will go
.Bolshevik. This is not q theory Of
mine but fiat certainty
The Nonpartisan. league. will
carry South Dakota n the next cleo
ton with ease predicted r. F. Petit
grew, former United States senator
from South Dakota.
TOWNLEY STRENGTH GROWS
The prediction Of j. Adam Bede
and Mr.. Pettigrew, strange and be-
wildeEng as they may seem, are very
likely Of fufillment, because in the
last campaign in the state of Mime
sofa Townley's candidates carried APP
proximately 80 per cent Of the vot-
ing precincts of the state outside of
Incorporated villages and cities. At
that time he was credited with having
approximately 10000 paid-,,p men,
bers in the state.
'It is a well-known fact that at the
present time he has in the neighbor-
hood Of 10000 members or 10000
more members than in the last cleo
ton. He has, at the present time,
large number of organizers working
in the southern part of the state, and
without question of doubt he will
add another 10000 or 10000 mem
bers to his present memberships. This
will place behind his candidates in
the next election the support Of APP
proximately $4,000 farmer members
Of the League in the state or nearly
twice as many as last year supported
TOWnley's candidates, when they car
ried so per cent Of the voting pre-
cincts outside of the cities.
LEAGUE PRESS INCREASING
During the last election there
were in the neighborhood of 20 news
papers supporting Mr.. Townley's can
didAtes. At the present time there
are approximately IS newspapers
scattered throughout the state, vigor-
ously boosting the Nonpartisan
league. That to this number there
will be added Is or 20 more papers
would appear a moral certainty. This
wilIssgiVe the League approximately
four times as many newspapers to
go into the next campaign with as it |
had in. the last election.
LABOR WITH FARMERS
The Working Peoples Nonparti-
san league is credited with having APP
proximateiy SO per cent, or $50 of the
500 local unions of the State FEEDER
alton Of Labor, with it's $4,000 mem
bers, enrolled under it's banner at the |
present time. That the organized !
of the state are in full SYM
pathy with and intellectually sup
porting the Working Peoples Non
partisan league no man familiar with
the situation questions, much less de-
MES. That the unorganized workers
Of the state are swinging into line
behind the Working Peoples Nonpar-
tisan league is easy to believe when
it is remembered that on Sunday, No
vember 8, 800 lumber workers at Clo-
quet, Mimi, stepped forward and en-
listed under the banner of that or
ganization.
Heretofore, labor has never voted
as unit; the workers have been di-
7ided pretty evenly between the Re-
oubicans and Democrats, but in the
coming election all the signs of the
lines point to the vote of labor be-
ngi cast solidly for the Nonpartisan
eague candidates.
CUISINES MEN CHANGE
"A very Illuminating Illustration of
he status of the business men of the
tate may be CLEANED from the situa-
ion atrLong Prairie, Mimi, where the