The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1920-02-05
JURIST
FLAYS LEAGUE
FOR PAST ACTS
Judge Kenshaw Mountain Ian.
dis Says It Is ''Atrociously
I Out of Place"
SPEAKS AT MINNEAPOLIS
Would Not Support Any Candi.
date That Was Connected
With Nonpartisans
SPEAKS AT MINNEAPOLIS

udLc udI was OOuueCIeO
With Nonpartisans
Waying the Nonprtisan league
and its leaders saying it was "atrOci-
ously out Of place in the United
States" Judge Kenesaw Mountain
Lands, United States district judge
at Chicago and one Of the most ia
mous jurists in the country, made a
stirring address at Minneapolis Mon
day. The meeting was held under
Christian associat ton.
Among other things, Jud &c Lands,
referring to the league and its activi-
ties in North Dakota, said:
"Comipg nearer home to his Min
audience the speaker took up
the problems Of Minneapolis and the
'Now there's another concern
that's been hOssin' around here,
he said, "We don't have it in
Illinois, We have the flu and
the smallpox, but thank God we
don't have that. 1 refer Gentle
men. it's your baby, to the Nom
partisan league. l have not had
personal contact with it,"
YES" someone shouted in the audi
cnce. yet, repeated the speaker
with Il smile. Il know enough about
it to know it is atrociously out Ot
place in the United States. under
stand some politicians are actually
flirting with the thing
LEARN RECORDS
Nov l don't care whether man
wants to be elected to a city council,
and wants to be major, or whether
he has been major and wants to be
elected governor, that man expects to
get the greater part Of the votes OF
his own party and enough Of the votes
Of the other parties to elect him
When man seeks Office, if l were
you, l would learn his record and if
he has been flirting with this thing
ia forget all about the democratic
and republican, .-lrties and tell him
TO be cOntended with tle votes that
he can get from his own kind.
81 understand that in North Dako-
ia there is q governor and other Of
ticials, but that there sits in a room
in st. Paul a man who tells the gov
crnor and judges and others what
to do. Now ! am not the kind Of 4
man to be in office in North Dakota.
but. my God, I'd like to hold court
there for about week.
You'll suspect before I'm through
that l am not intending to run for
office in North Dakota
Judge Lands approved the convic-
tion and sentence in United States
court in North Dakota of Kate Rich
ards OHare who, in speeches, said
that mothers Of soldiers were mo
better than brood sows."
BAER INTERESTED
AS a result Of his speech. Judge
lands will probably feel the effect
of the wrath Of the /NOnMrtisan
league leaders. Congressman John NJ.
Baer. the leagues representative IN
congress, sent the! following telegram
to Judge Landis:
"Remarks attributed TO you during
speech at Minneapolis are grossly i'm
proper for federal judge. Before call
ing fer congressional investigation 1
want to know if you were correctly
quoted in declaring that ''the I. W.
W., the Socialist and the N0npartisan
leaguers all are in the same boat"
the statement being coupled with a
plain incitemcnt to mob violence.
IEAGUE SI'CCESSFITT 4
''1f you have been truthfully re-
ported. l want to know how you re-
concile this Incorporate assertion
with the facts. The I. W. W. aims
at the overthrow Of government thru
direct action. The NOnpartisan league
is political organization with a
definite program of public ownership
Of basic marketing facilities. Part
Of this program is being successfully
operated in North Dakota. Every
one of these measures was enacted
by lawful. constitutional methods and
every step has been ratified by spe-
cial elections and sustained and ap-
proved by both state and federal
courts.
"North Dakota is the first state to
start curbing unrest l'y removing it's
underlying economic auseS instead &C
paltering with effects. And that va
have been successful is proved by the
fact that not single resident from
North Dakota has been arrested in
the recent ''red raids. Instead Of
favoring overthrow of government;
the Nonpartisan league believes in
strengthening and extending it's pow
crs. We make good citizens by as
siSting them in getting homes and we
do this in manner that creates con.
fdence in the orderly process Of
American political institutions.
UNFIT FOR BENCH
"Your wholesale denunciation of the
loyal citizens Of North Dakota is a
plain perverSiOn of the facts. gross
insult to their patriotism, and assum-
ing you to be correctly quoted, evi-
dence of deep seated hysteria that
quite evidently units you to sit upon
the federal bench"
JUDGE Lands COMPETENT
However. many persons who are In.
timately acquainted with the splendid
record Judge Lands has made on the
bench are not worrying about Baer's
telegram, it is said. With reputa-