The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1922-03-16
1ONNLEY EXPLAINS
HIS POWER Plan

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Bismarck Mar. President a. g
ToWnley today addressed an audience
composed of delegates from half i
score of counties, and numbering more
4 than four hundred men and women
3 Mr.. ToWnIey explained the Balance sof
Power method Of campaign for the
coming election, and asked that the
counties vote up. on the Power Plan
at the comfy conventions to be held
/ the 10th. Whatever may have been
! the Outcome of other meetings held in
the state, ToWn1ey scored a winner
! at Bisn arck. Practically two thirds Of
his audience went to the meeting op-
posed to the plan, and convinced that
! it was q move designed to sell out the
I League. AT the close Of q three and
one half hour speech, Mr.. ToWnley
had convinced his audience, and tho
many expressed themselves as being
sorry the Plan need be adopted, none,
denied chat the need existed and that
unless the plan was adopted defeat
was certain in June. Mr.. Townley
clearly showed that he had been mis-
represented in the Courier News ar
ticless appearing on the power plan,
and opened his speech BY saying: II
hope that the delegates to the League
convention are sent uninstructed as
they have not been correctly informed
as to the details of the plan and / feel
that / should be given an opportunity
to present the proposition SO that the
delegates will be enabled to decide
fairly and impartially as to its mer-
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Mr.. Townley's chief point, and the
one that appealed to his audience the
strongest, was that only by education
could the Industrial Program of the
League be successful, and that under
the present order Of things, the farm
ers were given no opportunity to talk
on the program, since as soon as they
did SO, politicians Immediately switch
ed to personalities and forced their
candidates to debate the campaigns
not on the program, but on free love,
socialism and other irrevelant issues.
speaking on this subject Mr.. Townley
said: Now People you are never go-l
ing to put over any program fully
and thoroly except insofar as you can
educate the people about that program
mot about free love, the red flag
and Hagan's loan. We must get the
people to talk and think about the i'm
portant things, about the program it-I
self, because if we talk about these
issues set up by the Opposition, these
lest the politicians. have 1T IN their I
power to repeat that lie 10000 times
while we are denying it once. If wei
debate on these lying issues they
force us over on a fight where we
cannot defend ourselves. We cannot
educate the people on our program by
the red flag. We cannot
educate the people on oru program by
talking about socialism and the I. W.
WIS. We must keep the people talk 1,
ing about the program, that's the i'm
portant thing. Now let me ask you I
something. If we could fix it SO that
these politicians would not lie to us,
I do not say we can, but If we could,
wouldn't we have more time to talk
about our program ? IL we could fix
it sd that they would not lie about
us we would not have to spend our
time answering their lies, then would
we not have more time to talk about
our program? lie we could fix 1t so
they could not lie against us, then we
should certainly have more time. to
talk about our program. Now let us
suppose we could fix it SO that half
the politicians would talk for the pro-
gram, would lie in favor Of it they
wanted to lie at all and not against
us suppose we could do that. Here's
where the revolution comes In,
where the new plan >comes in, if we
could fix it SO that these politicians
would actually talk for the program,
would say good things for the pro-
gram, if we could fix ii 30 that only
half the machinery worked against us
and the other half for us, then wei
would have the majority Of power and
fine chance to win our fight. Wheth-
er we success depends not upon wheth-
er we get into Office but upon the edu-
cation of the people. Education IS the
very foundation Of our program In
and out Of government. That educa-
tion does not consist in talking about
the red flag, free love and other equ-1
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fair discussion Of the program. This
II the Plan-I ask that the farmers
stay out Of the fight for governor, at
torney general and United States Sem
ator. ! am urging them 70 concentrate
their fight on the Legislature and one
member of the Industrial Commission,
and two or three state officers, and
let the /. ". AS, which one Of them,
shall get the other offices. / think IL