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Show Ctf EKE ENDED, SOCIALISTS ASSERT State Convention Ended Before Be-fore Broken Up by Police, They Say. MITCHELL, S. D., Jan. 24. Delegates ' to the state convention of the Socialist party here, which was broken up by the I local police yesterday by order of Mayor ! Wells on reports of alleged seditious ac- tivities which it was claimed were instituted in-stituted by William C. Rempt'er of Park-ston, Park-ston, S. D., executive secretary of tho South Dakota branch of the People's Council of America and a delegate to the meeting, announced that the work of the convention had been completed before the break came. It was said that no further meeting would be held, although city officials of-ficials gave notice to the Socialists that they would be permitted to reassemble. The Socialists were warned, however, that Rempfer would not be permitted to dominate domi-nate the convention. No official action had been taken against the "five unknown men" who seized Rempfer on the streets here yesterday yes-terday and drove him five miles out of town, where they released him with orders never to return. |