New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1920-01-21
HAS SMALL HOPE or 4
/. HOLDING MINNESOTA
.sLoYAL AMERICAN NEWS SEES
FARMER-WoRKER TICKET
VICTORIOUS.
POLITICAL ORGAN CALLS At
TENTIoN TO GROWTH OF
ToWNLEY STRENGTH.

Striking testimony of the strength of
the Nonpartisan league in Minnesota
| is given by the Loyal American News
Of this city in a lead article under the
title" Townleyism Overrunning the
State.'''
This magazine is the official organ
of the Loyal American club, new
camouhage organization to fight for
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. Per-
haps the veto of the tonnage tax and
consequent higher taxes. for general
business has aienated the business
! element.
The article in part reads as follows:
SIN the Daily News Of November 81,
J. Adam Bede, former congressman
from Minnesota, is quoted as stating:
1T is easy to bet right now that the
state of Minnesota will 60 Bolshevik.
This is not theory Of mine but fiat
certainty
"s'The Nonpartisan league will carry
South Dakota in the next election with
ease,' predicted r. F. Pettigrew, for
mer United States senator from South
Dakota. q.
Townley Strength Grows.
''The prediction of J. Adam Bede
and Mr. Pettigrew, strange and be-
wildering as they may seem, are very
likely of fulfllment, because in the
last campaign in the state Of Anime
sofa Townley's candidates carried ap-
proximately 80 per cent of the voting
| precincts of the state outside of in
corporated villages and cities. At that
time he was credited with having ap-
proxin.ately 10000 paid-up members
in the state. ss.MX
cit is well-known fact that at the
present time he has in the neighbor-
hood Of $4,000 members or 10000
more members than in the last election.
He has, at the present time, large
number of organizers working in the
southern part of the state, and without
a question of doubt he will add another
10000 or 10000 members to his present
membership. This will place behind
his candidates in the next election the
support of approximately $4,000 farmer
members of the League in the state or
nearly twice as many as last year sup
ported Townley's candidates, when they
carried 80 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 newspapers
supporting Mr. Townley's candidates.
At the present time there are approx
imately IS newspapers scattered through
out the state, vigorously boosting the
Nonpartisan league. That to this num-
Der there will be added Is or 20 more
papers would appear moral certainty.
This will give 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 Nonpartisan
league is credited with having approx
imately so per cent, or ESQ Of the 500
local unions Of the State Federation Of
Labor, with its $4,000 members, en-
rolled under it's banner at the present
time. That the organized workers of
the state are in full sympathy with
and Fundamentally supporting the Work
ing Peoples Nonpartisan league no
man familiar with the situation ques-
lions, much less denies. That the I'M
organized workers Of the state are
swinging into line behind the Working
Peoples Nonpartisan league is easy
to believe when it is remembered that on
Sunday, November 9, 800 lumber work
ers at Cloquet, MINI, stepped forward
and enlisted under the banner of that
organization. j a&
Heretofore, labor has never voted
as a unit; the workers have been divided
pretty evenly between the Republicans
and Democrats, but in the coming
election all the signs Of the times point
to the vote Of labor being cast solidly
for the Nonpartisan league candidates
Business Men Change.
a very Illuminating illustration 8
the status Of the business men Of tn,
state may be cleaned from the situa
ton at Long Prairie, Mimi, where til,
business men, led by Rudolph Lee
were for long time engaged in al
open pitched battle against the League
but are now openly and Of their owr
|volition supporting the League TIL,
loss OF business to the merchants ane
bankers resulting from an effectua
boycott of the town VI instipatad HI