Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1922-12-07
LEAGUE ORGANIZERS TO NE
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LEAGUE ORGANIZERS TO Me-,
y BRASKA
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las Nonpartisan Solicitors Abandon
Work in North Dakota
\; For Winter
Bismarck Capital: North Dakota
organizers for the Nonpartisan league
sre moving to5Nebraska and Kansas. =!
Already about ninety Of the men
who have been working in this state
during the last five or six months
have departed. Others are TO 60.
All told, 1876 men who have been
inducing North Dakota farmers to put
their money into the league will spend
the winter months in the states to
the south.
There they will join other organic
ers, all Of them working under the
direction Of a. C.. Townley, who has
not only succeeded in re-establishing
his reign in league affairs so far as
the state is concerned, but who SEEM
.ingly has -weathered local storms in
Kansas and Nebraska to the extent
that he remains chief Of the field
crews.
Winter activities, apart from the
two southern states, will be under
taken in Wisconsin, though work
there will be on q much more modest
scale.
Howell Victory Cited
i Organization work in Nebraska and
Kansas Is based on the proposition
that the league can create .. fol-
lowing that will prove the deciding
factors in elections two years hence.
In Nebraska, Mr.. Townley's much
discussed balance Of power plan Is
in operation. It operated in the last
election to such extent that Mr..
Townley is iii position to claim credit
for the election Of R. B. Howell to
the United States senate, and Chas.
Bryan to. the gn6ernatorial chair.
The claim may be meritorious, but
those who know Nebraska politics as
,sert that Mr.. HoWell has himself had
: tremendous following in the state:
for many years. This following he
:established through his own success
ful promotion Of and management Of
public utility enterprises within the
city Of Omaha, and it was so forceful
that Mr.. Howell has been Republican
national committeeman from the.
state. The point Is, Mr.. Townlsy's
balance Of power" may have been.
the deciding factor in bringing about
his election, and tha., again, it is just
possible hat Mr.: Howell would have
been elected without Mr.. Townley's
assistance.
At any event, the Howell election
has given Mr.. Townley q strong talk
ing point for the continuance Of the
balance Of power idea in Nebraska,
and Kansas :leagaers with the illus
|tration so close at hand, are regarded
siasmore than likely to give their sup
phi. 70 the theory and bring it into
actual practice in the elections Of
1872 rs +
Minnesota Problem Different
s Mr. Townley, while he devotes his
personal attention to winter organiza-
ton work, isn't overlooking the pos
sibility Of restoring himself to q posi-.
ton Of authority in league affairs in
Minnesota. Certain things that hap
ipened in the recent election have not
helped him ia that state. The elec-
ton Of Henrik Shipstead to the.
United States senate il Minnesota
was q direct. contradiction Of Mr..
Townley's plea that in Minnesota the
league, operating as q separate polit-
ical unit; couldn't succeed. Mr.. Ship
stead was named on the farmer-labor.
ticket; his name was on the ballot IN
b column apart from the Republican
and Democratic party candidates, and
he led Frank 3. Kellogg. the Repub-
|lican candidate, BY approximately s5.-
900 votes. ;ss7 4
III Ga tact leaves M. Townleyis With