, 1922-05-10
THE SCHEME IS
FULLY EXPOSED
PLAN TO STEAL THE WYOMING
LEGISLATURE OF SOCIAL
IsT INCEPTION.

"
In order that the people Of Wyo-
ming may better understand the move
of nonresident radicals to capture po-
litical control of the state. and SC con-
troll of its revenues, a move that was
inaugurated last summer with the or
ganization of the Nonpartisan League,
a few facts in history will be interest
ing.
Away back in 1895 the Socialists,
t.Ien directed in their activities from
n foreign country just as today they
are directed in their activities from
another foreign country. sought con-
troll in this country through a political
organization of the wage-earners, and
there came into existence the Social
list Labor Alliance of Industrial Work.
ers. Lacking leaders and immature In
plans. after ten years trial 1t was
found to be an utter failure because
the plan openly taught disloyaity to
this nation.
The First Triat.
So In 1905 the same men, the same
influences with the same purposes,
met in Chicago and there formed the
Industrial Workers of the World, COM
monty known as the /. w. w. Bill
Haywood was placed in command. 1t
was the idea of those who formed this
movement to engage in political ac
tion," but Haywood, who had gained
his standing in certain circles through
the use of brutal tactics, thought he
could intimidate the nation into adopt
ing his ideas and so he engaged in
strikes, riots, murders, sabotage, etc.
AS the nation was not to be intimi-
dated, and Haywood's plan u failure,
last July the Socialists, officially,
through a resolution, again concluded
TO try another scheme and there re-
suited certain conferences in Chicago
in Febraary of this year.
To inspire them with hope for this
third trial they had the North Dakota
plan to guide them. In that state, a
few years ago, the Socialists changed
the name to the Nonpartisan League,
went to the farmers, for the great ma
jority of the voters in that state are
farmers, with the pretense that the
2 movement was one Of the farmers, for
the farmers, and by the farmers.
Political control, the thing the Social
had been seeking for years, was Sc
cured. At last in one state they We're
next to public money-for that is
the whole purpose-and with a reck-
l~essness never before known they spent
that money. The bonded indebtedness
of the state previous to the control by
the Socialists Under the name OF the
Nonpartisan League, was around $780,
900; now it is between 100000 and
$S,0O0.O0O.
Idea Appealed.
However this gave them an idea
the idea Of Stealing party m and
organization-and so the February
conferences at Chicago, attended by
delegates from all the radical organ
izations in the land. adopted the Town
ley scheme, which he now calls the
balance OF power Idea. To give the
conference weight with those who
might not know its real purpose, and
the leaders from experience well know
the public pay little heed TO such con-
ferences, it was called a conference of
farmers and workers" The farmers
end of the game vas handled by A. C.
Townley of the Nonpartisan League
with Ben Marsh, equally as radical,
and the labor end was handled by Will
liam Johnston, William u. Foster,
James Fitzpatrick n others of their
kind, confessed communists.
To Gain Legislature.
: The plan adopted was to call the or
ganization the Conference for Pro
gressive Political Action and the
work was placed in the hands of a
committee of fifteen, headed by Jay
G. Brown, chairman OF the Farmer
Labor party, and Frederic Howe. a
well known radical writer and propa-
gandist. This committee is empow-
cred to pick up any and all organiza-
itions in different states through which
1t can work, select as men for the Leg
islature especially those who have
pledged themselves in advance While
running under an old party name, and
on an old party platform, to abide sole
ly by the will of the committee and
stand for only such measures as the
committee propose. Then with such
men pledged-in some Instances Dem
ocrats and in some instances Repub-
lHcansEall in the combine to go into
the primaries of that party and so nom
mate their candidate as the candidate
of the party in question.
Thst is what the people Of Wyoming
are facing at this minute. Radicals of
the worst type are directing and advis-
ing. and those so directing and advis-