The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1920-10-11
0'C0NN0R GAINS
AS FIGHT GOES
TOWARD FINISH
Fusion Ticket Candidate for
Governors Campaign ~
Makes Headway
LEAGUE SPENDS THE CASH
Fusion Committee Urges Per-
sonal Work to Combat
League Money
LEAGUE SPENDS THE CASH

The final three weeks of the state
campaign is entered upon with J. T..
Y. O'Connor, fusion ticket candidate
for Governor, gaining strength rapid
ly, according to reports from various
parts of the state. y f..
In spite of the lavish expenditures
of money through organization work
paying speakers and distributing pro-
paganda, the Townley forces are run
ming against a lot of snags. Glass
hatred is being fonented in a more
pronounced sdegree than in any pre-
vious election by the TOwnley forces.
Many people have indicated they are
tired of these vicious attacks, many
of them proved to be entirely false
and others exaggerated to suit the
authors, which has made enemies OF
good neighbors, forced people to move
from communities, and drawn deri-
sion on North Dakota from the out
side.
While denying that the. league is
socialistic the league leaders are bus
lily engaged in sowing seeds OF dis
trust and implanting socialistlc pro-
paganda on every hand.
A short time ago William Lemke's
Courier-News admitted that it recelV-
ed financial aid from the Nonpartisan
league.
Aids Socialists
This organ has become subscriber
to Victor Berger's Federated Press,
the socialistic press service and is
featuring it's dispatches, practically
all of which are designed solely to
further the interests of the socialist
party. e,
This same propaganda news service
is linked with the London Herald, a
radical organ which is said to have
under consideration an offer of large
sum of money from the Russian So
Wet to join in spreading the soviet
propaganda. 1t has been very friend
ly to Lenin and Trotzky.
Mr.. Townley's new Minneapolis pa y
per- also is featuring the Federated
Press and it's socialist propaganda.
Religious Issues a
The religious issue also has back
fired on the league leaders. They
have used it to a more pronounced
degree this fall than ever before,
chiefly through foreign language
newspapers. .
Mr.. O'Connor's promise of square
deal for all, his record in the legis~
lature as friend of the farmer and
his promise for constructive legis-
lation, avoiding viciousness in his
speeches, has redounded to his benefit.
Many farmers in the, state have
suffered through blind reliance upon
the advice of DR.. Ladd and J. A. Nc
Govern, and have lost 80 to 60 cents
a bushel by following their advice.
Value of Cooperation
Mr.. O'Connor has pointed out with
telling effect the value of co-opera-
ton among farmers to advance their
interests. He has related in his
speeches the great strides made by
the fruit growers of California, the
farmers of Nebraska and other states
along this line in business organiza-
tions which are dominated by the
farmers themselves and not by social
istic leaders such as now head the
Nonpartisan league.
The primary showed that the COM
bined strength of the anti-ToWnley
forces in the state is more than that
of the league. The joint campaign
committee, unable to spend money IA
vishly on organization as the league
is doing, urges upon all anti-Townley
voters, both men and women. the
necessity Of personal work between
now and November g