The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1920-01-02
Sounds A Warning
North Dakota Man AdmoniSheS Our
People to Beware OF TOWnleyISm.

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the state wherein the Non Partisan
League has had its best success, and
thereby being in a position to give
facts and figures regarding such
control, j. D. Bacon. ef Grand
Forks, last Sunday evening gave an
address at an informal meeting of
Wa,ertown business men that prov
ed very interesting. If all the
things Mr.. Bacon told Of we're only
partially true it would set the
thinking man to wondering how
they do it and get away with it,
and in this connection it NAV be
well to say that Mr.. Bacon himself
does not know the answer.
In starting out his address, Mr..
Bacon made i: plain that he was
not against the proper organization
of farmers, but that he was absolute.
iy against their helping Townley
through an organization that is us
ing the farmers Of the nation as
catpaws in the effort to turn the
government over to socialists and
the red element.
He began with the inception of
the Towney movement in that state;
of how the general people took no
notice Oft until it was too late; Of
the tricks the Townleyites resorted
to in gaining control of the state;
and finally told of the battle they
are now being forced to make since
the people are getting their eyes
opened and are clamoring for re-
turn Of the state government to safer
hands.
''In this we believe we are going
to be successful, said Mr.. Bacon.
.'You remember Frazier's first ma
jority was over $4,000; the next
time it was cut to about 10000.
and in the last primaries their ma
jority was still reduced to about
5000. Those really honest men,
bers OF the league, Who were blind-
ed by the lies Towniey and his gang
of arch socialists told them. are see-
ing the light and are leaving the
league in large numbers. They
have just played big card in the
special session at Bismarck by
allowing the women more than half
mile from the voting precincts to
vote an absent ballot. The league
will have an army all over the state
on the next election day buttonhol-
ing the women in the country pre-
cincts but we believe we can whip
'em even under this handicap =
To show the ends Townley and his
cohorts have resorted to in the past
in their efforts to hoodwink the
farmers is shown by their assertions
that the farmers were skinned out
Of from $40 900, 900 to $50, 900, 900
in 1916 through grain grading.
The figu res hardly stand up when
it becomes known that the entire
value Of the wheat crop in 1916 was
only $40. 900, ,0OO,' said Mr.. Bacon.
He told how the people of his
state had elected Miss Nelson as
superintendent of public instruction
over the non-partisan candidate by
large majority, and how the
machinery was 80 worked that Miss
Nelson has been stripped Of practi-
.cally every ounce of power as such
official and how the very man whom
she defeated had been placed over
her in this department.
Ha told Of Governor Frazier's 8 ac.
tions in an effort to procure the
very strongest turnout of leaguers
at the special session; that two of
the legislators had died during the
year. and that Frazier had called a
special election in but one of the
counties. the leaguers believing
there was no chance Of anyone bu,
a member of their bunch being sue
cessful. However. the peoples
candidate won out ia this event
much to the chaRrin Of the league
mAnipulators.
He reviewed the recent disclosure
by an investigating committee from
the legislature which found thai
socialistic aud free-love books were
being given out to the people Of tn.
state through the circulating Ii
brary; books written BY such wartl
as Trotzky and Ellen Key. Pres
dispatches regarding this inciden
quote Representative, ,Burtness as 80,
that If the people Of the state knew
what was in those books they woult
be down here with shotguns.
The enormous increase in taxes
said Mr.. Bacon. are true, and b
stated that he had many descrip