Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1920-06-17
Langer Speaks at Linton
LARGE CROWD THRONGS PARk
TO HEAR LANCER, MEESE
AND STREETER

On Saturday last the greatest body
Of men and women ever ass embed
together in Emmons county to listen
to political speech, gathered at See
man Park to hear Attorney Ganernl
William LANCER. The Linton Band
gathered on the street about one
o'clock p. M, and enlivened things by
playing a few selections which were
enjoyed, especially by out of town Wis
itors. The crowd then went to the
Park and enjoyed game of base
ball played by Linton and Hazslton
teams, after which the crowd gather
ed around an automobile under the
shade of the trees of TIE Park, pre-
prepared to hear why Townleyism.
Bolshevism and Socialism as repre-
sentcd by the Townley forces was
wrong. Not only was the Attorney
General present, but also Frank
streeter, the editor of this paper and
candidate for Lieutenant Governor,
and Senator Meese, of Morton county,
the man whom Townley told to ego
home and lie to his constituents like
a horse thief"
Streeter first addressed the crowd
FOR short time, calling their atten-
tion to the fact that he first became
suspicious of the Nonpartisan League
and it's sincere desire to help the
farmers when he found that the or
ganizers carefully avoided the town
and tried to keep their work as quie,
and unknown as possible. That Wher
he realized the Socialist party ha
disappeared as such, and become abb
sorbed in Nonpartisan League, whose
teachings and principals were being
moulded and fashioned by such people
as Thos. Mills, Kate Richards O'Hare
and other red and rank Socialists hs
Immediately made up his mind that
the Nonpartisan League was not g
good thing for the farmer of Emmons
county and the principals of Democra-
cy and freedom which the American
people so dearly loved. That he then
began to fight against the League
and events j'howed he was right.
If elected as Lieutenant Governor Of
the state. he promised the audience
he WOULD fight against anything and
everything with he believed to be
wrong and against the best interests
of the people of this State. evev
though he had to make the fight
alone
At the confusion of Streeter's ad-
dress, Senator Mees was introduced
who frankly informed the crowd that
he had been Nonpartisan Lacquer,
was eAected to the legislature twice
by the party. That he still stood
for the original aims and principals
of the party. He refused to be a
tool of Perpetual Motion Commit
tee of three men who held the policy
and members Of the Nonpartisar
League in the hollow of their hands
Senator Meese then asked how many
of the Nonpartisan League member.
present had ever read the Constitution
of the Organization? The senator
then read from the Constitution OF
the League and showed beyond ques.
tion that the members have practic.
ally nothing whatever to do with the
League or its Executive Committee
That this Executive Committee orig.
inally consisted of Townley. Lemke
and Wood, who had the power to fill
any vacancies occurring in the Com.
mittee, either by resignation or death
These have amended the Constitution
of the Organization and framed its
policies. The Senator told frankly
why he had broken with Townley and
his gang, by stating that at the first
term of the Legislature when the
Leag1e had majority of the Repre-
sentatives only, caucuses of the
League members were held at which
every bill proposed to be passed as a
Law was allowed to be freely dis
cussed by all the members and the
Public, but at the second session of
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