Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1920-10-26
500 WOMEN HEAR
MRS. BOWLER

EXPLAINED NONPARTISAN
LEAGUE AND LEAGUE
OF NATIONS
Mrs. Edward Bowler, of Sheboygan,
Democratic National Committee wom-
an from Wisconsin. spoke Monday
evening before an audience of over
400 women at Castle hall.
ut is woman's fate that her very
first election is concerned with one of
the most serious state issues in the
history Of Wisconsin" she declared.
1T is, therefore, exceedingly import
ant that every woman familiariZe her
self with the candidates records and
what they propose to do if elected.
The issues are beclouded because a
socialistic organization known as the
Nonpartisan League has endeavored
to capture the Republican party on
the plea that it wishes to do some
thing for the farmer. Very few of the
Nonpartisan members realize that the
machinery back of this program is
thoroughly socialistic, and that many
of its plans reach even beyond that to
| the position of Emma Goldman.
Among these Socialists are Walter
Thomas Mills, Socialist teacher i'm
ported by the Nonpartisan League,
Kate Richards O'Hare who has just
been released from prison, and fifty
others more or less prominently
| known who are acting for Townley
and his gang in various capacities
| such as writer's, editors, teachers, field
| organizers, solicitors, etc. The ulti-
mate, purpose of this gang is to re-
| construct society, break down the safe
| guards and ideals that have made our
| land prosperous and establish a So
| cialistic state.
| Methods Dishonest
| "The method of the Nonpartisan
| League is dishonest in that it travels
| under a Republican name in Wiscon-
| sin, under the Democratic banner in
| Montana and Colorado under the guise
OF Republicanism in Minnesota and
endeavors in each state where it oper-
ates TO capture the dominant party.
I'm order to judge what their pro-
| gram is one need but go to North Da-
kota where they have been in COM
plete control of the legislature and of
| the state executive offices since 1918
| We find there that laws incorporating
the principles of state socialism have
been enacted at the command of
| Townley, the dictator of the League,
who sits in st. Paul, the most auto
cratic power in the United States to-
day. He, with two others who do his
bidding, form an executive committee
that have never been elected and can
not be removed by the members of the
NoDpartisan League Thrice Town
ley was bankrupt, before Debs and
Mills showed him how to insinuate
socialism into North Dakota without
having the farmers suspect his pur-
pose. Today he has amassed a for
tune from the farmers through the
Nonpartisan League newspapers, the
Nonpartisan Leagne banks, and the
Nonpartisan League memberships.
State Bank
Zone of the laws dictated by Town
ley for North Dakota is the law estab-
fishing the state bank of North Da-
kota under which every dollar of pub
lie money whether it is county, city,
village, or township, and every cent
of the school fund must be therein de-
posted under penalty of imprison-
ment should the several treasurers re-
fuse so to do. They have established
an industrial commission with power
to build various state enterprises
from flour mills, stockyards, and ele-
vators, to bakeries and markets not
only in North Dakota and various
parts of the United States but even
in foreign lands This commission
consists of the governor, a puppet of
| Townley, and two other members, but
the governor must approve every
member. They have passed printing
and publishing bill which has made it
possible for Townley and his gang to
capture the newspapers of the state
and to throw sixty Independent news
papers into bankruptcy. They have
passed a so-called administration bill
which gives appointees of the COVER
nor complete control of the universe
ties, normal schools, high schools and
common schools and the circulating
libraries of the schools so that they
are unhampered in introducing and
forcing upon the various school COM
munities such textbooks and such
library books as they please to INSTALL
They have taken away absolutely the
powers of the state superintendent of
schools because Miss Minnie Nelson
refused to do their bidding.
Destroy Secrecy
"They have passed an election law
which absolutely removes the secrecy
of the ballot and makes corruption
easy and almost certain.
'In securing the control of the
newspapers they put no money of
their own into the establishment but
inveigled the farmers into paying for
the same, but the profits are divided
that where the farmer gets Z per cent
of his money the Townleyites get $50
per cent. The Consumers United
Store Company has but $1,000 in ac-
tual money in it, but with this Town
ley, Lemke. Wood, and the others have
been able to gather over million dol
lars of the farmers money without
giving them any control whatever in
the management of the stores. The
testimony of Townley before a con-
gressional committee revealed that
this coatery of Nonpartisan leaders
have made 30,940 per cent on their or
l1glnal thousand invested in their store
company.
But it is evident that TownIey will
soon go down, for many of his former
adherents have deserted him. In the
last primary he failed to nominate
two OF his candidates for Congress.
his candidates for state treasurer.
secretary of state, railway commits
sioner, and justice of the supreme
court. Over half of the officials elect
ed by the Nonpartisan League in 1918
have repudiated Townleyism. among
them being William LANCER Hall, Kos