The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-03-10
4 Zinc Coz Sole Thought

League in Kansas have been well
camoufaged, and the effort has been
made to conceal its present campaign
under the disguise of the name
"Farmer-Labor Nonpartisan Commit
tee," but every one familiar with the
personnel of the leadership knows
that the League and the Committee
are practically one J. o. Stevic is
the state manager of the League and
one of the chief members of the ex-
ecutive committee of the Farmer
Labor Nonpartisan Committee"
There are other "interlocking direct
ors' of the double-named organiza-
ton.
In the August primary every pre-
cinct in Kansas, where the Nonpart-
isan League was strong, the Howat
candidate got strong vote. In some
precincts in Barton, Mcpherson and
Sedgwick and many other counties
the League has obtained foothold
and in those very places there was a
very noticeable vote for the radical.
League members are pledged to sup
port the candidates picked by the
League bosses. This is no mere guess
work. The primary returns bear re-
markable testimony to this fact. In
remote districts the Leaguers voted
for the Howat candidate, though he
was utterly unknown to them
The Nonpartisan League is so I'M
popular in Kansas that it has been
forced to travel under a different
name in some cases, but is has a con-
siderable voting strength in its own
name. The members may be limo
cent of the things that the leaders are
trying to bring to pass, but the lead
ers of he League, who were disloyal
during the war and have been at
tempting to bring upon this nation
form of Bolsheyik rule, have a ,defn-
lite program in mind, and if they can
get the innocent members to vote
their way they will win.
This program includes a dictator
ship of the coal mines of Kansas by
Alexander Howat, who is a radical of
the most pronounced type. Alex
ander Howat contributed money to
the defense of the 1. W. w. at the re-
cent trial. His gang has encouraged
the establishment and maintenance of
the Communist party in the coal fields
and this party is unadulterated and
brazen Bolshevism Howat is now
taking the stump in person, and is
urging the people of Kansas to defeat
the present state administration
What shall be said of any one who
denounees the I. W. w and allied
radicals for pay,& when the issue is
not critical, and then gives aid and
comfort to the same element or its
helpers when the state stands at the
crisis? Is this Americanism?
The Nonpartisan League in Kansas
is running true to form. In North
Dakota its president defended the red
flag, and in Kansas the League rad
icals are fighting shoulder to shoulder
with communists and preachers of
anarchy.
Do not be deceived by pretended
scattering of forces under different
names. Names mean nothing when
purposes are alike-when the intent
is to defeat the government of the
people and replace it with direct ac-
ton and radical exploitation.
The fight has come to a climax.
The decent forces of Kansas have
been fighting Nonpartisan Leagueism
and 1. w. W.ism with especial vigor
for three years. Kansas wants none
of the North Dakota form of insanity.
The whole three years fight will be
wasted if Kansas surrenders now. It
does no good to fight three years and
then weakly submit when the final
test comes. Is Kansas ready for the
Observation-Disclosures, Wichita (Kas.)
Beacon.