The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-02
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assist ztheir fight against the Nonpar-
tisan League. We have no inclination
to advertise the fact that the legion
was connected with the rough house
party to which we were subjected"
Every American Legion post in
Kansas will pass resolutions against
the action taken at Great Bend Mills
asserted. THE legion cannot main
tain an organization that thus takes
the law into it's own hands to the ex-
tent of inf1icting such indignities and
the disregard of personal rights and
property rights to which we were sub
jected. The American Legion will fall.
1t cannot remain a national organiza-
ton and continue to recognize such
unlawful action. However, the SOL
diers are not to blame. / don't be-
lieve that they had much to do with
it. They were influenced by others
who used them to fight the Nonparti-
san League. There is no lawful way
with"
Letter of Warning.
Stevic then produced the letter Of
warming Photographic copies of the
letter are to be spread broadcast, it is
reported: The letter follows:
Argonne Post No. $50,
Great Bend, Kan,
May, %, 1920.
George Klein, Nonpartisan League Or
ganizer, Ellinwood, Kan;
ing of our post here last night, at which
over seventyfive members We're in attend
ance, besides several members of the G.
A. r.. Spanish American war veterans and
members of the Great Bend Chamber of
Commerce, n decision was unanimously
reached that the Nonpartisan League
demonstration would not be tolerated at
Ellinwood next Tuesday. We do not de-
sire any violence and SO take this means
Of informing you of what we intend to do.
A delegation from here consisting of the
above, and many more, and OF legion men.
o6n 0tesr %seksTe
Clafflin, anil Larned will be on hand, to see
that the N. p. L. demonstration is not put
on as advertised, or in any other way.
If you will inform us that the meeting
has been called off it will prevent the need
of our m3 9kinge1 trip to your t4 Ty1Ey
Chairman Vigilance Committee.
Put in a Pig Pen.
"a group of farmers were holding
a picnic at Ellinwood," Stevic de-
scribed the attain. when suddenly the
committee came in and forcib1y took
us away. 1t has come to a pretty state
of affairs when a group of farmers
may not gather to have picnic and
a little speaking. 1t is a total dis
regard for law and government.
I'VE were taken to Great Bend in
motor cars and there subjected to in
Vulnerable indignities. We were put
in a pig pen. Representatives of the
law came later and we were marched
up the street to the office of the
county attorney. He asked US what we
were going to do and we told him 1t
was up to him. We were offered pro-
lection to get to the train. Protectors
were deputized from the mob. Witha
deputy on each side we were marched
to the station. We had not gone far
when the shower of eggs began. =
"See how they desecrated their own
l
American flag almost yellow with the
stain of eggs.
Kept Moving in HUTCHINSON.
At Hutchinson Stevic and his fol-
lowers are reported to have been
urged to keep moving when they
were met by former service men. Re-
ports also indicate the men were
loaded in motor cars and taken to
Great Bend, where they were herded
As they boarded a train the crowd of
800 people rotten egged the Nonpar-
tisan Leaguers, according to stories
from Barton county.
To Appeal to Allen.
Stevic and his followers will appeal
to Governor Allen for protection when
meetings are held in the future. 1t is
stated that a strong Nonpartisan
League following in Ellis county re-
Gently capitalized their standing and
strength when they advertised that
they would hold meeting in a state
park near the Hays normal school
Governor Allen is in Atlantic City to-
day. He will speak in Columbus
Thursday, but will not return to Kan
sas until after the Republican national
convention.
The Great Bend Story.
| Great Bend, Kan, June 2.-Former
service men today had effectively
4 barred Nonpartisan league meetings
from this section of Kansas, following
the deportation" of several scheduled
speakers of the league from the
county.
Three hundred former service mer
became aroused Tuesday when they
heard Thomas Mills and other speak.
ers were to address a Nonpartisar
league picnic at Ellinwood, Kan. The
men, attired in uniforms, gathered a
American Legion headquarters. They
decided a speech by Mills, alleged rad
ical leader and former head of the So
cialist school at Girard, Kan. meant
disgrace for Barton county. A raid or
the picnic was quickly planned and
carried out
After a lively battle. the gathering
| was scattered and the speakers. in.
GLIDING Mills and ]. o. Stevic of To
peka, assistant secretary of the State
Federation of Labor, were taken.
The would-be speakers were held il
the stockyards at Ellinwood for &
while. Later they were loaded into
motor cars and hauled away with
warnings never to return.
Fined $4,000 for Profiteering.
Syracuse, June 1.-THE John A
Roberts corporation of Utica, dealer,