The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-01-10
TO FIGHT T0WNLEYI
DR.. T. 8. Morrison of Capitol
Post Goes To Salina.
Governor Allen DenOunces
Work of Nonpartisan League.

DIR. T. S. Morrison, vice commander
of Capitol Post No. 1. American Lee
g;on, left Sunday night for Salina,
where he will represent the local post
of the Legion in the citizenship or
ganization which is to be formed there
this afternoon to fight the Nonpar-
tisan league organization in the state.
Fred voiland, who had been invited
to attend the meeting, was unable, for
business reasons, to leave Topeka to-
day. No other business men have
gone to the meeting, SO far as is
known.
sKeith Clevenger, secretary of the
state Chamber of Commerce, left SAT-
urday night for Salina to attend the
meeting.
Plan Legislative Session.
The plan of holding a joint session
of the two houses of the legislature
to hear the speakers on the Nonparti-
san league. who have been asked to
come to Kansas from Minnesota and
North Dakota, is still under way, it is
understood. 1t is earnestly desired by
the men leading the fight against
Townsleyism, that the legislators hear
these men.
Works on Prejudice.
"Townleyism means merely the eff
fort to work upon prejudicesf for the
purpose of creating a class warfare
which will benefit no one, except as
| it may enrich the pocketbooks of
Townley and has crowd to the extent
of the membership fees.
1t is an effort to spread to agri-
culture the same spirit that Nv.
W'ism has spread to labor.
In this state for months its state
organizer has not been a farmer, but a
labor agitator, who performs no other
labor.
1t is merely another effort of those
VINO do not farm to farm the farmer "
In these terms Governor Allen has
sided with the American-Legion of
Sallna against Townley and Townley-
ism. In formal statement the states
chief executive denounces the head of
the Nonpartisan league vigorously, and
bers.
While these American Legion. boys
We're giving up everything that youth
heid dear and sacrificing their lives
at the call of the country, Townley was
under the restraint of the government
they were fighting boldly a terrible
enc ny at the front, Townley was
among those who worked to defeat the
country at home. He represents a
| class more difficult to deal with at
nome than the Hun was in the open,"
with his specious appeals. to Glass
hatred he opposed every effort that
the government was making to prose-
cute the war. He and his tribe op-
posed appropriations for the war sup
plies and war materials upon which
the very lives of these American Le-
gion boys depended in that hour. In
the early days of the war their atti-
tude discouraged voluntary enlistment,
discouraged the selectiye service law,
and tendedsto prevent the government
from meeting all its obligations to the
kperiod.
They fought every war drive, OPP
posed the sale of liberty bonds. refused
contributions to the Red Cross. Lack
ing the courage to go to~war for Ger
many, they became in effect German
ernissaries in the rear, and If Towniey
and his crowd of socialistic and an
archistc agitators had won their fight
at home while the American Legion
boys were abroad, Germany would to-
Gay be victor over the liberties of the
world and the cause for which these
lads, who are now standing by Ameri-
can principles fought, would have been
lost