The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1920-06-26


for governor on the Nonpartisa
FARMERS THROWN ASIDE
S. @. Ford, candidate of the
farmers, was put aside, the far
mers in the convention protest.
ing. But Dunn, together with
Alfred Budden, the Nonpartisan
league manager, ran over them
and wiped out the farmers pro
gram with the plain consent OF
the Townley leaders.
Wheeler was former United
States district attorney for Mon
tana, but was compelled to re-
sign under fire during the world
war for his failure to bring
prosecutions and his general in
difference to enforcement of the
sedition and espionage laws. He
has since been attorney for
Dunn and others in seditiOn
cases and has made a fortune
as a radical labor attorney.
The defeated candidate of the farm,
ers is present Attorney General ana
is not connected with the rest so
cialist gang in Butte.
Following the meeting in Great
Falls, when the farmers were betray-
ed by the ,!NOnpartisan league man.
ayers and their convention made a
farce by Buen, McGlynn, Martin, Ko
rab and kremer, who readily con-
ceded to demands Of Butte reds, Dunn
openly laughed at the trimming he
had given the farmers in naming
Wheeler instead Of Ford.
Convicted Of sedition
Dunn is editor of the Butte Bulle'
tin and was convicted in district
court during the war of sedition, be-
ing given a new trial on technicalities
by the supreme court. Wheeler has
been his attorney and chief lieutc'
nant.
Three days ago the department OF
justice announced that it had received
a copy of the Bulletin in which a
demand was printed for one big
union. The day following Samuel
Gompers, head of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor, gave out an inter
view in Winnipeg, Canada in which
he denounced the one big union idea,
Gompers has successfully beaten Of
a fight in the American Federation
of Labor of red radicals who have
been called by Gompers "enemies
of labor from within" declaring they
seek to destroy the federation and
install socialism and turn labor over
to the l. w. WIS.
PROGRAM Of |. W. W.'s
When Wheeler was nominated the
Nonpartisan league manager and
Butte agitators gave him a banquet
here at which numerous inf1amma-
tory speeches were made. Dunn de-
clared Wheeler would be elected but
Big Biz would assassinate him be-
fore he could take the oath OF Of
fce..
The program of the !Nonpartisan
league in Montana thus becomes the
program for which the |. w. WIS
have been fighting and is not farm
ers' program. 1t is in reality de-
mand for the confiscation CT the great
copper mines of Butte and turning
them over to collective ownership
under the socialist plan. 1t includes
a demand for the release of all politi-
cal prisoners, including Debs, such
as was made at the socialist national
convention in New York, repeal OF
all sedition laws, public ownership
of all the means Of distribution and
production. including the state owner
ship of all farm lands and a minimum
of one dollar Per hour for an eight.
hour day on the farms. Dunn and
Wheeler openly advocate the four
hour day, sabotage by slowing down
and the dne big union in industry.
Farmers in Revolt
AS a result of the NonpartlsaA
league convention the farmers who
were deluded into joining the league
to secure benefits for the farmers
of the state are openly in revolt
against TOwniey and the men to whom
he has trusted the management ci
the league in this state.
WHO MCDONALD is
Duncan Mcdonald. who is now
speaking for the Townley organiza
ton, is known as one of the Butte
radicals. A former president of the
Illinois Federation of Labor he is
said to have broken with Samuel
Gompers and other leaders of the
American Federation of Labor and
since has thrown his lot with the
socialistic radicals. He is leader
in the Civic Library League in Butte
Montana, along with w. F. Dunn, the
man who controlled the rNonpartisan
league convention and threw down
the farmers of Montana, according
to a dispatch received by The Trib
une today.
Mcdonald spoke to a crowd col
lected at the Mckenzie hotel corner
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