The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1920-01-29


vention to be held at Bismarck, jan
uary 2S. Mr. Mckenzie, it states,
has been in retirement ever since the
league won it's first election. Any
opposition to Townley has been due
to the activity of others, it states.
This proves the charges which
have frequently been made that Alex
Mckenzie and A. c. Townley, at a.
bout the time of the first primary
election won by the Nonpartisan
league, entered into partial agree
lment with the league chief without
knowledge. of the membership of the
rganization, and that it was at this
time that Townley's interest in the
farmers program began to lapse and
the financial possibilities of political
control revealed themselves to him.
a perfect working agreement,how-
ever, was not perfected until after
the fall election in 1916, because at
this election the only candidate sup
ported to any extent was Governor
Frazier. This was shown by the vote
in Bismarck where the gvernor was
the only nonpartisan to carry the Nc
Kenzie-Patterson wards.
Soon after the combination was per-
fected and the results were notice.
able. The Mckenzie hotel, operated
by Ed. Patterson, McKenzie's politi-
cal pardner, was selected as the
league headquarters at the Capitol
City for the first session and has ever
since remained so. At this time
Townley, Lemke and Brinton also
withdrew their support from the
Public Opinion, a newspaper at Bis
lmarck, purchased by a corpora ton of
I league farmers, and gave it to the
Palladium, owned by Mr.. Patterson.
In this connection it is interesting
to note that the League was made
possible because of it's supposed op-
position to Mckenzie. In the early
days the Townley editorial writer's
on the Nonpartisan Leader could not
find enough adjectives in the diction-
ary to express their contempt of him
but gradually the hard words were
replaced by softer and still softer
ones and soon nothing derogatory OF
Mckenzie could be found.
The fake Republican convention is
called, it is alleged, by the League
Mckenzie mbination in the inter.
est of General Wood.
Resolutions which ring and bristle
with hatred of the red flag doctrine
with resentment at the act of Gov
ernor Lynn j. Frazier in urging up
on President Woodrow Wilson the
pardon of the seditionist Kate Rich
ards O'Hare, have been circulated
in Bismarck by the War Mothers and
the Women's Auxiliary to the Amer
lean Legion.
These bodies secured copies of let
ters written by the governor urging
the pardon of the woman who said
the mothers of North Dakota soldier
boys were brood sows, and who was
convicted and sentenced to five years
for seditious utterances.
A scathing indictment of the
Townley mouthpiece and the main
tool in the machinery of socializtion
of North Dakota was passed in the
resolutions which were unanimously
adopted and hundreds are signing
protests against the release of the
o Hare woman by the president.
Mrs. O'Hare was an officer of the
socialist party when she came to
North Dakota in 1917 on speaking
tour, and since the beginning of her
term in Leavenworth, which was con-
firmed by the supreme court of the
United States, Mrs. O'Hare has been
made the nominee of the socialist
party faction represented by the Ap-
peal to Reason for Vice President.
Governor Frazier wrote President
Wilson under date of September 13,
| 1919, as follows:
"My Dear Mr.. President:
Enclosed is petition which is
self-explanatory.
I am somewhat familiar with the
circumstances in this case and am
very confident that politics and spite
work played the major part in the
prosecution of this woman. Any ac-
tion that might be taken upon this
petition would be greatly appreciat-
ed by large number of people who
feel that an injustice has been done
Very respectfully yours,
| LYNN J. FRAZIER" Z"
''Hon. Woodrow Wilson,
President of the United States,
Wa chinpton n CD