The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-08-04
N0NP ARTISAN GROUP
IN M'HENRY COUNTY
CASTIGATES LANCER
Scores Establishment of Lead
er and 'Extortion' From
State Employees
CALLS COLLECTIONS LOOT
Other Executive Committees
Asked to Express Views
on This Question

Branding collection Of five per cent
Of highway workers salaries as Eek
tortion unworthy Of any person or
persons in public trust the Nonpar-
tisan League executive committee of
McHenry county Thursday called on
perpetrators Of the outrage" to re-
turn the money.
The newspaper placed under fire Is
the Leader, organized by Governor
William LANCER and declared by the
McHenry county committee to be q
purely personal enterprise, calculat-
ed to further the ambitions of per-
son or persons.
The resolution asserts that it Is i'm
possible to sell subscriptions to the
newspaper and. as a consequence, en-
ployes who contribute five per cent OF
their pay find it impossible to get
back the money.
Asks Others to Follow
Nonpartisan executive committees
in other counties are asked by the
McHenry county group to follow It's
lead In condemning the Leader and
demanding refunds of the money
wrested from state employees for Its
maintenance.
The text of the resolution follows:
Whereas it has come to our
knowledge that the employees on the
highways in McHenry county as well
as elsewhere in the state have been
approached by emissaries Of the state
administration and asked to sign a
contract calling for payment Of S per
cent or more Of their annual salary
purported to be used for publishing q
Nonpartisan League newspaper. and
Whereas the Nonpartisan League
state executive committee has given
out, public statement to the effert
that the Nonpartisan League Is not
sponsoring any newspaper at this
time, and
Whereas the signatures Of afore-
said employees were obtained under
the impression of being laid off and
replaced by others if they refused to
sign, and
Whereas these employees rather
than to be thrown out of employment
did sign, thereby unwillingly became
a part of a machine to solicit sub
scriptions to said newspaper, and
Whereas in view of the statement
given out by the state executive COM
mittee this newspaper must be a
purely personal enterprise calculated
to further the political ambitions Of
a person or persons, and
Is Pure Extortion
Whereas in this time of depression
it is next to impossible to sell any
subscriptions for cash, it appears to
us that these contracts so extracted
from these employees Is pure ex-
tortion unworthy of any person or
persons in public trust, and
Whereas this course taken by the
state administration is highly detri-
mental to the cause of the Nonparti-
san League in McHenry county, and
Whereas this committee has the
cause of the Nonpartisan League at
heart aiming to stand for clean poll
tics only, and
Whereas we feel that we are ex-
pressing the sentiments of majority
Va VIC PCOP4V Va NAN41CAIIy COuA1ey WIN
cast large majority for the League
candidates at the last election, now;
Therefore be it resolved that we
are unalterably opposed to and do
hereby condemn such course taken
by the state administration as being
both unprecedented and un-American
and utterly against public policy and
decency. Be it further resolved that
we hereby call on the perpetrators
Of this outrage and demand that they
return the loot already collected to
the highway employees Of McHenry
county forthwith and be 1t further
resolved that we call on other county
executive committees In the state to
express and voice their opinions on
this most important matter"