Willmar tribune., 1920-02-25
hENkE STILL hoWltNG.

The folly of attempting to force
Henke of the Dassel Dispatch into an
argument is plainly apparent to us
now. He simply sits back and ahurls
epithets and foul insinnuations, and
carefully avoids discussing issles or
real facts concerning the farmers or
ganization. Either he has not brains
sufficient to enable him to make an
attack on the farmers program, or
else his hackers do not permit him
to do so. The following is his last
attack on us in full:
(Fails to Justify its Course)
The Willmar Tribune goes on, at great
length again in last weeks issue In
vain effort to justify It's position as one
Of Townley's kept press" and to deny
tn the aecnsat11n OF rae uspaScn t rdar .hae IT II
towillfully mislead those whom it ought
to inform as to the real purpose Of So
and uner
farmers movement"
The Tribune raves on thru the length
! of two long columns Of very small type
facts that were produced and which
have pilloried the Tribune as being in
sympathy GIya with the & apSlosists for Der Berk-
Berger, the +. W: va policy adopted
and maintained by the Townley press
under the constituencies control of will
ing tools employed at headquarters in
The Tribune takes refuge behind what
it calls farmers movement, 1t
knows full we'll that it is the Tribune
and nothing else 1t is we'll known
| fact in Willmar that it is the policy of
| the Tribune to play both ends against
ade hs OF
yelps about political jackals while
everybody knows that the Tribune is
day in an day out, always with a wealth
| er eye out for the protection of it's own
| selfish purposes.
facts it might be worth while answering
some. Of it's long winded and rather la
bored REPLIES" Nowhere and at no
fa na9f of Gso1sy SsiqSed hs The
! the dodge that is used by the Townley
press when they want an excuse for fol-
| lowing and defending the numerous dis
| are. trying to use the farmers and la
boring people to play their own game.
The Tribune cannot fool it's farmer read
are full of cases that tell the story bet
| ter than columns of printed articles. The
| Tribune knows it if it wants to know
anything.
Thruout it's entire reply" the Tri-
| bune cunningly and maliciously falsifies
| by substituting the word "Nonpartisan"
OF farmers movement Tor the word
socialist" wherever we used it, always
playing the Townleyesque game Of Gre
atlng prejudice, malice and passion to
deceive its readers and becloud the is
| sue. We stated that the Socialists
blocked and hindered the government
during the war. Their records and their
platform prove it. They do not deny it.
They glory in it. Every Nonpartisan
leader is socialist. They now boldly
| state that their real purpose has been
| socialism. They deceived the farmers
| into joining them and now the Tribune
| joins in further betraying it's readers
! into Sociaistic hands.
1T has been proven beyond a. shadow
| OF a doubt that the Tribune has failed
| to Justify it's course and that 1t Is de-
| Hberately playing into the hands of q
| gang OF cheapskate bankrupt politicians
| and enforcement roughnecks, many
| OF whom are now on their way to their
| beloved ideal. the Soviet.
Editor Lawson knows this govern
| ment and it's ideals we'll enough. He is
! also well enough informed as to the pur-
| poses of the leaders of the Nonpartisan
| League and it's associates as shown by
| undlsputed evidence and records. It is
| about time that he made the choice be-
| tween the two and did something to un-
| deceive those who have been misled and
lead the way for them into a better un-
| derstanding of the blessings and. oppor-
tunities Of the best government in the
world. The Townley program is one