Show COURT ORDERS TOWNLEY TRIED nonpartisan league head faces disloyalty charge st ran paul glnn A C townley president of the national nonpartisan league and joseph gilbert league organizer ga nizer must stand trial on charges of disloyalty the state supreme court lias has ruled the decision ot of the jackson county court overruling demurrers brought by townley and gilbert who sought to have the indictments quashed was sustained the court ruled that the crime of conspiracy may be committed without completion of the act which was the object of the hie conspiracy gilbert Is charged with having made public utterances designed to discourage patriotic cooperation in the war and the jackson county indictment holds To townley NAnley responsible for a nonpartisan league pamphlet which the indictment holds was a violation of the espi espionage act |