The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1920-06-11
unjust burden on some, and relieve
others of their due proportion.

glme is conceded by all. A riot oi
profiigacy exists in nearly all de-
partments of the state.'
The Democratic platform declares:
1--WE deplore the fact that the control
of the state government of the state
of North Dakota has passed from the
hands of North Dakota citizens and
is now dominated by few alien So
cialist agitators who have no real in
/ terest either social or financial in the
state of North Dakota and whose
ideas of government are more in har-
mony with Soviet Russia than with
the great principles upon which tn,
government was founded and which
have made America the greatest Of
all nations"
| personally attended the Demo
! cratic state convention held at Far
go May 10, and witnessed one of the
most novel scenes in American poll
tical history when Rev. Allen O.
Birchenough, Republican, pastor os
the First Methodist church of st.
Thomas, North Dakota, and known
| throughout the state as the "fighting
parson," was called upon to deliver
the principal address to the ASSENT
ly.
In his opening remarks the eight
ing parson" declared "that North Da
kota under the regime of the Non.
partisan League has become the first
Soviet state of America"
"To the animated mind" he said in
conclusion" there is apparently n
outward connection between the ring
ing of telephone bell, light in a
bulb, the running of a trolley car, and
the operation Of a wireless plant, Blu
the initiated mind recognizes that
they are outward manifestations ~
the same centralized power-that be
ing electric energy.
"The Communist movement in
Hungary, the Bolshevist movement
in Russia, the Spartacan movement
in Germany, the Syndacalist move
ment in the British Isles, the One Biz
Union in Canada, the revolutionary
radical activities in the United Stat.
and the forces and leadership behind
the Nonpartisan League movement in
North Dakota are all peas in the
same pod. They are outward man e
feStations of the same centralized
pernicious energy, that energy being
red"
The campaign against Townleyi SIN
is apparently well-organized and is
being conducted by the Independent
Voters Association of North Dakota,
which is an amalgamation of all elias
ses of citizens of both Democrat
and Republican political faith. Every
section l have visited | have foun
visible evidences of the activities Of
this organization. In thirty years of
| political experience and newspapt /
work / have never seen the voters
aroused over any issue as they are
in North Dakota today, and the burn
ing topic above all other questions i,
the tremendous increase in taxation.
The work of the Nonpartisan
League forces is not so visible, bu-
this is presumably due to the fac.
that it is politically organized along
| more secret lines. 1t is admitted ty
even the most rabid AntiTownleyite
| that Townley mas perfected in North
Dakota the most efficient working po-
litical machine ever used in Anne i
can politics. 1t is also true that -
| one outside of the inner circle of the
| Nonpartisan League car tell the size
of the Townley 'war chest" 1t is
known that the League has collected
from the farmers of North Dakota in
excess of $4,000,O0O This is estab-
lished by their own records and re-
ports. Hordes of League organize IS
have also been collecting vast sums
of money from the farmers of Minnc-
| sofa, Montana and Washington HoT
| much of this money has been ex-
pended or how it has been used ha,
never been shown.
District meetings of the LeagLe
are being held all over North Dakc-
ia for the purpose of keeping the
membership in line for the Townley
candidates, but Townley himself i;
spending most of his time in cam
paigning the adjoining state of Min
nesota The League has endorsed a
full Republican ticket in Minnesota
| and is carrying the fight into every
nook and corner of that state.
The Independent Voters Associa-
ton has succeeded in attaching the
referendum to three of the measure
passed by the NonpaItisan League
egislature-the absent voters law.
the state sheriff act, and the stat
| investigating commission-and tn
people of North Dakota will vote o.
these bills in the June primary cleo
ton In addition the Anti-red flag
law, which the legislature refused 70
act upon, will be submitted tJ the vot-
ers as an initiative bill.