Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1920-08-06
Washington State Senator Tells
Why He Opposes N. P. League


The sensation of the debate on
"Nonpartizanism Versus Republi-
canism." between H. H. Stallard
Yakima county organizer of the
league, and State Senator Edwin r..
Conan of Spokane, candidate for the
republican nomination for governor.
came in Senator Coman's reply to
Mr.. Stallard's rebuttal when he
read, amid tremendous excitement
and applause not unmixed with hiss
ing of Stallard supporters, a letter
written by Stallard to his socialist
comrades in Washington" ridicul-
ing the nonpartizan league and clos
ing with yours for the revolution. :"
Senator Conan used the letter to
Illustrate his claim that the league
was seeking to foist on the voters
of the state OF Washington an i'm
ported propaganda, fed by radical,
itinerant carpet baggers.
The following letter was written
by H. H. Stallard, while he was
preaching undiluted socialism and
before he Joined the dual unholy
alliance with the nonpartizan league
The Nonpartizan league is now so
sufficiently inoculated with social
ism as to be acceptable to Mr.
Stallard.
Mr.. Stallard. who closed the de-
bate, did not deny the authenticity
of the letter. which follows:
ITO the comrades of Washington: ::
l take this opportunity to return my
thanks for the kind treatment I re-
ceived from the membership. l had
the pleasure of meeting many loyal
comrades during my four months
work in the state. From what am
able to learn from the various
states, Washington is forging
ahead in organization work and
that is the thing that counts am
now in Idaho and am sorry to re-
port that many good comrades have
been misled in going into the non
partizan league. can't see how a
socialist could be fooled into paying
S6 to the league and leave his own
organization to suffer.
Socialists believe in democracy
and IL there ever was an autocratic
organization on earth 1t is the non
partizan league. You pay your Sc
in and that is all you have to say
as to what becomes of the money
They say If you will visit headquar-
ters at Minneapolis you can look
over the books. Well that may be
all right t T some, but for me, give
me the old socialist organization
that is worldwide and financial
report of all money received and
how 1t was spent is furnished to the
humblest member. We have no Sc
crets.
Socialism is the issue throughout
the civilized world and you should
stay with your organization and
build 1t up. l wish In conclusion to
congratulate the comrades Of Wash
ington for being SO fortunate as to
have Comrade Emil Herman in the
state office. or all the comrades I
have met In the socialist movement.
none is more devoted. and his
knowledge OF the peculiar conditions
in each locality makes 1t a pleasure
to follow his routing. will return
later and fill the dates l have pro-
missed. l am on my way to Oklaho-
ma to help establish daily paper.
The Milwaukee Leader company Is
enlarging the company and Is estab
fishing paper similar to the Mil
kaukee Leader. We must have
daily papers.
Again thanking you for your
kind treatment, l hope you will
leave nothing undone toward push
ing your organization to the front.
Yours for the revolution.
III. II. STALLARD"
Mr.. Conan further attacks the
socialistic principles of the Nonpar
tizan League as follows:
Fortunately for us, these social
istic experiments are being tried out
in one of the long-suffeing COM
mon wealths OF the UniOn-North
Dakota.
"The farmers assessment has
been increased from $213,137. 7.140 to
,653. or an amount great
er than the entire assessed valuation
of the state of Washington. This
comparison becomes the more start
ling when you realize that North
Dakota has less than half the popu
lation of the state of WASHINGTON.
no large cities. less railroad mileage
and no expensive terminals such rs
exist in Spokane. Seattle. Tacoma