The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1922-06-23
Passing Of the League.

"o0AAA6 Va NV ANS6NSs
A convention representing about
one-half of the counties of the state
held a meeting in Great Falls last
week at the call of Dewey Dorman, or
g~anizer of the Nonpartisan League.
Some farmers of the state who have
been active in league circles were pres
ent and many quite prominent poll
ticians who have played the league
game during the past three or four
years were there.
The convention appeared to be d.
vided a. to what stand the league
should take during the present cam
paign and the differences of opinion
were so sharply drawn that the rem
nant of the league was split in twain.
League headquarters will be moved to
Billings from Great Falls, where it
has been since the organization first
came into the state and the official
publication of the league, suspended
soon after the last campaign, will be
revived and published at Billings. A
new campaign for membership will be
launched at a reduced rate and an eff
fort will be made to secure 10000 ac-
tive paid up members for the organ
ization. One faction of the league pro-
poses to follow the "balance of power
plan," fostered by A. c. Townley in
North Dakota and the other faction
headed by the new state chairman,
Clair Stoner Of Sheridan county de-
sires to have the league enter the pri-
mary with an endorsed ticket similar
to the plan of the league in the cleo
lions Of 1918 and 1920.
It would be hard to say what will
come out of the rumpus within the
ranks of the league and what effect
the break up will have on the elections
this year. But is apparent at this time
to the casual observer that B. X.
Wheeler, the Nonpartisan candidate
for governor at the 1920 election has
forsaken his political friends of the
last election and desires to return to
the regular Democratic fold in suf-
ficient time to attempt to gain the
party's nomination for the United
Senate.
: The League in Montana is no more
It cut a considerable swath while il
lived and some counties in the state
will continue to be dominated by tn,
Townley followers, but as an active
state organization it has passed init
history along with the other politica
movements that come from time t,
time, serve their purpose and cease t.
exist. The league has finished it's pc
litical career, not because there wa
no just u for it's existence, but be
cause of faulty leadership and lack o
a sound program. The farmers of tn
state, at least a great many of them
joined the league because economi
conditions in the state were unfair t
them. They have left the league be
cause they refuse to be pawns in tn
hands of a few self-seeking politicians
Dewey Dorman, Chas. E. Taylor, Al
thur Fisher, R. M. Lord and a few 9th
err leaders in the movement will max
every effort to keep the organizatio
together for the simple reason tina
their livelihood depends upon an effor'
but without the support of the far
mers their effort will go for naugh
and the former league farmers wi
again attempt to settle their politics
. rights and wrongs through the med
ium of the two old parties.
The Nonpartisan league has joine
, the Bull Moosers, the Populists, tn
Greenbackers and all other politics
. elements in the "happy huntin
| grounds" of political parties. May
r rest in peace.-Sidney Herald.
In our opinion, the recent meeting E
Great Falls is a counterpart of tn
: last Bull Moose national c~onventic
: held in Chicago in 1916. At the la:
gathering of the Bull Moose clan III
thing vas accomplished and the de
egates returned home to solve IL
4 problem of getting back to their o.
a political connections the best way the
could.