Gunnison news-champion., 1920-09-10
WHAT SORT OF A LEADER
Is A. e TOWNLEY.

To the Editor Of the e.,ews-Champion:-
The leadership Of any political or
gan atom designates the character of
ttai oFganiZation. II that organization
De- truly democratic IN its makeup 50
ihL. ne leaders are responsible TO the
--- q the membership some idea Of
the organization may BE- obtained
frgu = knowledge of the nature of
o.. Ueubership. But where the
..-a'Ehlp is autocTatic. we must look
10 the Leaders for an estimation Of the
rs.aEar'sr OF the organization.
IN the organizing Of the NOnparti-
an LHague, TOwnley, the man with
dream Of state socialism, constituted
l.u-s.l an autocTat He built ma
rrHa r.eh was separate and apart
.r.. mae Lsagle membership. A
...- r-a.DaF gt the members Of the
Laa-.- aTo honest. hard-woTking
farm. but Townley and his machine
ar. NOT IN the least responsive 10
fl.-s .amcrs.
TuauIFy Is a red-hot socialist, and
beng a man with great organizing
ah.ltg, Is the idol Of all those who
would tTample under their feet the
freedom Of Individual action and fas-
ten upon the people OF this country
the euslayement Of state socialism.
A real organizer strikes at the right
time, and so T0wnley has capitalized
certain complaints Of the farmers, not
for the purpose Of adjusting these
complaints, but in order to effectively
form an entering wedge for social
ism and to crafty his insatiable de-
sire FOR power.
hundreds Of Colorado farmers
N.. u M-.-v.ra1f IL.
has talked and worked among them
as an organizer for the Nonpartisan
League. So excellent an organizer
was Maxwell that he soon advanced
20 the position Of field manager for T
the League. So convincing a talker
was Maxwell that he was selected one
Of the Leagues national speakers.
He has addressed tens of thousands
Of farmers in Colorado, Nebraska,
South Dakota and North Dakota He
therefore has a thorough knowledge
Of all the details of the Nonpartisan
League
But Maxwell has left the League.
left II not because he has 4 personal
grudge to adjust or is relieving him
sclf Of any Crouch. 81 was not kicked
out, resigned of my own will and
accord" says Maxwell, land the mas
ter reason for my resignation is
found in the fact that ! am opposed
10 autocracy in all of its forms"
Maxwell in several articles which
he has written flays unsparingly A.
. Townlcy, the national leader Of the
League. He proves Townley TO be
man who has been loyal to nothing
but his own Unsuitable greed for
wealth and power. He, therefore,
shows Townley to be traitor to the
farmers, a disloyalist to his country,
and the builder of League machine
D. absolute in its sphere of action as
At one time was the iron rule of the
German Kaiser.
Maxwell points out how Townley,
a wolf in Sleeps clothing, has taken
millions of dollars in farmers money
and used il as he wished to WELD his
power and perfect his machine. He
has carried on a program of self
papers of the League his majesty is
Every little country editor who es-
pouscs the cause of the League, be-
cause Of principle, reward or political
pays his daily, weekly
DR. monthly tribute to this BOSS.
There is keen and far-reaching
in this" says Maxwell.
'Townley fills the eye and crowds in
% the mind Of the newly fledged men,
per. Finally he thinks that Townley
must be IT. He must be the League.
After time the member sees nothing
out Townley, and away off in the dis
.ance Townley is haloed with sun
yirdle, the member becomes hero
and anyone who attacks
rownley becomes to him a criminal
who ought to hang"
Townley, because of his desire for
wealth and big things tried farming
IN a large scale. He failed and drift
ID into the teaching of socialism which
merely represented period of depres-
ZION. His spirit was aroused from
his mood which nurtured his socialis-
ic beliefs by the prospect of a real
yame in the spotlight where he might
'ield great influence and have wealth.
But his own brain did not conceive
he idea. He stole the Nonpartisan
dea from man by the name Of Bow
n, according to Maxwell. III
Maxwell relates the incident as told
o him by Bowen himself. Bowen, he
tates, suggested the Nonpartisan
.eague idea in meeting which was
lttended by Townley. The latter said
o Bowen: Bowen, that was damn
d good idea Of yours, q winning
dea- You are a good speaker, but
'oor organizer. l can take that idea
4 yours and capture the State Of
North Dakota with it. The time Isl
ipe. Everything is ready. The old
'oiitical parties have failed. Thei
vord socialism frightens the farmers.
can take that idea of yours, old boy, /,
nd that name Nonpartisan and use
hem to sugarcoat the principles Of
ocialism, and every farmer in the
tate will swallow them and call for
aore will 20 aut and orUanize the