The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-08

lin COLORADO AID
COX CAMPAIGN
Radical Farmers to Wage
Fight for Democratic
Ticket.
ORGANIZATION READY
Automobile Loads of Spell
binders to Visit Each
County.
10000 VOTES CLAIMED
Both Old Parties Defeated in
Primaries and Election
Jesuit in Doubt.
10000 VOTES CLAIMED
BIZ staff Correspondent Of THE HERALD.

ii DENVER, Oct. ITO get the proper
4 perspective on what the Non-Partisan
II League is doing in Colorado you must
consider how the leagues members
II are gong about it. Consider their
methods and strategy and decide for
II yourself what the possibilities are.
II Whoever assumes to forecast the
coming Presidential election and COM
\ pile, incident to that forecast, lists of
1 surely Democratic, surely Republican
and doubtful States must place Colo
RADIO in the lead of the, last class. for
certainly this States political decision
is not to be presagcd offhand.
Within week of to-day $50 auto
mobiles, each containing three or four
farmers-men and women-will be
touring the sixty-three counties of
Colorado in the interests of the Demo-
cratic ticket. Each group will have its
assigned district to cover. Each dis
trict already is organized to receive
these campaigners Each will have it's
carefully prepared programme and
schedule. and the way for them is
being blazed by preparatory meetings
and propaganda campaigns that are
nothing If not astounding.
1t is said that these farmers Gall of
them members of the Non-partisan
Ieague) are to crusade in the interests
of the Democratic ticket. That is true
TO a great extent. but so complicated is
the Colorado situation and so different
~ hn cit, haf
unqualified statement regarding it is
pen to successful attack.
Raid Both Parties.
The truth Is that the Non-partisan
league raided both the Democratic and
Republican parties in. Colorado The
league went into the Democratic pfl-
nlaries on September 1s and captured it.
As n result the Democratic organiza-
ton is all but defunct. With the sup
port of organized labor the league was
successful in nominating every one OF
its hand picked candidates for admin
istrative and executive offices except for
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. And now 1t has In
oorsed the regular Democrat who won
that nomination, Morrison Shafroth, son
of John Shafroth one time Governor
and United States Senator.
But in Its earnest quest for dom!na-
tion Of the Legislature the league first
picked it's man in each district, then
asked him what his old party affilaton
was, then went into the proper primar-
ies and nominated or tried to nominate
that man. Some idea Of how successful
the scheme was can be seen in the fig
ures The league managed to put over
thirty-four candidates out of sixty-five
for the lower house of the Legislature
and eighteen Senators out of thirty-five
The league leaders admit they are not
at all concerned about the national cleo
ton They say they can fail to elect
Tulley Scott to the United States Sem
ate to take the place of Senator Thomas
and not blight their political future.
And they add that they will not look
,pon failure to elect Representatives
from the First, Second and Third dis
tricts as a demoralizing setback But
they do want to defeat Gov. Shoup, who
seeks recollection on the Republican tick
ct, so that their own State leader. James
NJ Collins. who says that first, last and
always he Is a Non-Partisan Lacquer.
and a Democrat only incidentally. may
become Governor and lead the fight for
the conversion OF Colorado to the pre-
cepts of Arthur Townley.
TownIey Started Move.
The conditions that created the psy-
Geological moment is necessary to a
full understanding of the situation.
Three years ago Arthur Townley. reaiz-
ing that he must spread out to strength
en- his position In North Dakota, came
TO Colorado on speaking tour.
He made no attempt to organize the
farmers here. Gradually the agricul-
tural interests of the State had grown
10 greater Importance than the mining.
The farmer was representing $500, 000,-
600 year. The mines we're producing
= = mr. "a
30 farmer unions In the state and $50
grange locals. They had not been or
ganized into n political entity. Town
Icy went about preaching his well
known doctrines that the farmer who
is being robbed at the grain elevator.
tho mill the markets and the banks
COR who thought that he was being
robbed) was n fool because he did not
use the weapon that circumstances had
thrust into his hands.
Townley told them that the farmer
spends fifty weeks year raising crops
and two weeks marketing them: that
the farmer can strike when others may
not; that the farmer can live for year
or two on his farm while the public
would starve TO death I'm a month II
the farmer decided 10 strike.
The farmer unions and the grange
locals got together and. talked Il over.
They decided 20 call In Townley's or
ganlxers. Came "A succession OF labor
battles on the properties OF the Colorado
Fuel and Iron Company. the Denver
Tramway Company, the railroads. the
silver, lead and copper mines. and the
Great Western Sugar Company was hav-
ing continual disputes with the farmer
over the price of beets.
Seized Every Advantage.
THE insistence Of the J. X Mullen in
terests that Colorado wheat did not as
say as high rs Kansas wheat and there
fore was not worth as much money
added TO the general turmoil. None OF
thls escaped the calculating eyes Of the
Townley organizers. They worked along
lines of least resistance. No sooner had
rect farmers begun fighting with the
Great Western people than the organi-
yers called meetings I'm the beet coun-
nv. The same steps were taken to
cantura the wheat farmer who was In
rirtinr that Colorado wheat was as good
MS any other.
In June OF this year tho Non-Partisan
league called a convention here In Dem
vor. IL was shown that 10000 farmers,
each head OF a family, had Joined the
league. This was represented an mean