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Show Wilson Democrat? Candidate Can-didate for Governor in North Dakota, Brands Townley, LeSeuer and Other Nonpartisan League Leaders as Socialists and L W. W. Stephen IT. Doyle, President "Wilson's appointee as United States Marshal of North Dakota, who was given a vacation from that position so he could run for governor of North Dakota on the Democratic ticket Xtiainst Governor Frazier, the Nonpartisan League candidate, stated in a recent speech: TO THE PEOPLE OF IDAHO: If I am elected to represent Idaho in. the 3 United States senate, President Wilson will have no better supporter in his war measures than myself, The man who would not support President Wilson in his war measures would not support the boys in the trenches or the boys who are serving their country on the high seas. Such a man, to my mind, would be a traitor. I will fight for lower freight rates for Idaho The present rates are unjustly high. I have been fighting them for a long time and will continue the I contest on the floor of the senate. I stand for a safe and sane government in na I tion and state no Socialists, no I. W. W., no Non I partisan League leadership. 1 I stand for the industries of Idaho and for the I highest possible development of our 'state. made executive secretary of the Nonpartisan Non-partisan league. And so we have the president of the league, the chief organiser, or-ganiser, the state manager ana the chief counsel and executive scretary, radical Socialists. Connection With I. W. W. "I want to say just a word further about Mr. LeSeuer. This is the same LeSeuer who, in the summer of 1910, attempted to foist upon the farmers of this state a working agreement whereby where-by they should employ 1. W. Yf. laborers. labor-ers. In speaking of this undertaking before the 1. W. W. lodge No. 400 at Kansas' City, he said, 'If we (meaning the I. W. W.) can bring about this agreement, it will mean the transferring trans-ferring of the balance of power from the state government of North Dakota to the Nonpartisan league and the 1. W. W. ' You will remember that a series of meetings held in- this state to ratifv the agreement on the part of the farmVrs resulted in its rejection. Now. if there are any members of the league present, I want to ask you if you really believe that when LeSeuer was in Kansas City, trying to put through this agreement, telling the members of the 1. W. V . that it meant the transferring of the power of the state into their hands, he was really working in the interests of the farmers of North Dakota f Think it over and fee it! you can reach any such conclusion. con-clusion. ' ' "If there be any doubt as to whether or not an effort is being made in this state to establish state socialism in full bloom with one stroke, as it were, one need only investigate the lifelong life-long political affiliation and activities of practically every man who is in charge of any important work of the Nonpartisan league, or even in public office by indorsement of the Townley machine. The last official record of Townley 's political faith, prior to the birth of the Nonpartisan league and tho death of the Socialist party, is his own registration affidavit signed at Keach, N. D., on the 11th day of April, 1914. A. K. Bowen, Townley 's cuict speaker and organizer, was twice candidate can-didate for governor on the Socialist ticket. M. E. Elliot at one time published pub-lished a radical Socialist paper at Minot, N. D. Mr. Elliot was at one time state manager for the Nonpartisan Nonpar-tisan league in North Dakota, now employed em-ployed at headquarters at St. Paul and nis place here turned over to Axel Strom of Williston, another avowed Socialist. ''Most of you will remember that some years ago there resided in Minot, N. D., a Socialist lawyer by the name of Arthur LeSeuer, the man who took quite a prominent part in behalf of the I. W. V. at the time of the riots at Minot some yearft ago. LeSeuer was immediately employed bv Mr. Town-ley Town-ley as chief counsei for the league and Chief Executive, in the Midst of War Worries, Imposed On in the Interest of Nonpartisan League Leaders in Idaho. It is said that Dubois is returning to Idaho from Washington. All summer sum-mer Mr. Dubois spent his vacation here on politics. Just previous to his first political mission to Idaho he received his appointment as a member of the War Ordnance Board at a salary of $7500 a year. It must be clear to everyone in Idaho that Mr. Dubois has not been able to give that office any attention and that all of his time has been directed to assisting the. Nonpartisan leaders to carry the state in the primaries; and he is now busy! trying to elect their ticket at the coming election. Over in North Dakota you see Mr. Doyle, who was, before he became! a candidate, Marshal for North Dakota (a Democrat appointed by President Presi-dent Wilson), and he said that he has been given a vacation by the presi-j dent to run for governor of North Dakota against Frazier, the Nonpartisan Nonparti-san candidate. I AM SURE THAT PRESIDENT WILSON KNOWS NOTHING ABOUT MR. DUBOIS' VISIT TO IDAHO IN THE INTEREST OF POLITICS. EVERY FRIEND OF PRESIDENT WILSON IN IDAHO BELIEVES THAT HE HAS BEEN IMPOSED ON BY SOME ONE IN WASHINGTON. Treasurer Burke's letter places the administration at Washington squarely against the Nonpartisan League. Can there be any question that if President Wilson understood the situation in Idaho he would be against the League in this state? There can be but one answer. Read this page. NO ATTACK ON MEMBERS OF LEAGUE Never at any time have I cast any reflection upon the members of the Nonpartisan League. I know the farmers in Idaho too well. I know that they are loyal and true to their government. All of my fight has been directed against Townley and Arthur Le Seuer, the executive secretary of the Nonpartisan League, and their agents here in Idaho, who only answer my questions by dodging behind the farmers and saying, "See, Mr. Farmer, that man Gooding is throwing stones at us!" I KNOW THE TRUTH HURTS. THE ATTACK UPON PRESIDENT PRESI-DENT ROOSEVELT IS AN OUTRAGE AND A CRIME, AN ATTACK BY AGENTS OF TOWNLEY AND LESEUER. I am not talking about the farmer. I will give a thousand dollars to the Red Cross fund if anyone will produce evidence that 1 have ever attacked at-tacked the farmers of this state, publicly or privately. I have been making mak-ing his fight for years, and I am going to continue the fight for the agri cultural and livestock interests of Idaho to the end. Of course, the truth always hurts. They say that I framed up on Mann down at Gooding. I wonder who framed up on those other Nonpartisan League leaders just arrested in north Idaho for sedition? Why, they used to say I framed up on Bill Haywood! You know where Haywood stands convicted of treason to his ouin country and sentenced to twenty years in prison. FRANK R. GOODING. DUBOIS REPORTS Of IDAHO jmiTICS WASHINGTON, Oct. 19. Fred T. Dubois, meaiJ of the federal ordnance board, has returned from IdM where he has interested himself in Democratic politiJ Mr. Dubois states that he feels confident of a sweep1 victory in Idaho for the Democrats and the Nonpartia League. "I am confident," said Mr. Dubois, "that the enc Democratic ticket, including the state ticket named i the Nonpartisan League in the Democratic primara ' will be elected." Mr. Dubois, who is a member of the fedem ordnanee beard at $7500 a year, has pw several visits to Idaho ON POLITICS. El is known to have been i't conference irifjk McKaig and Scholtz posing as a DemocmA leader. x Idaho citizens, don't you see the connection?! National Democratic Administration Admin-istration Fights the Same; Nonpartisan League Leaders in North Dakota Who Are! Trying to Make a Nonpar-; tisan State of Idaho, Watch Out for Eleventh-HoJ Canards Remember, Idaho Taxpayers, the 73-cent Tax paying Nonpartisan Leagw Leaders. The campaign made by the Nonpartisan 3tf & leaders in Idaho has been one of vilification and gross less accusations. They are now preparing to spnj campaign falsehoods so late in the day they canned refuted. Watch out for these eleventh -hour canards They have presented no reason whatever why UT (their candidates should be elected. They have no j structive or beneficial program for the taxpayers of B ho. They do not pay taxes themselves. It is a nwj-of nwj-of record" that Townley and the other "Big Five" l partisan leaders of North Dakota pay .-v. .;verage oft 73c each in taxes, and still they want to spend youi;i I money. ! All doubt as to the national Democratic administration's stand with relation to the Nonpartisan Iauue has been dissolved by a letter written by United States Treasurer John Burke, one of the members of President Wilson's official family. In this letter Mr. Burke directed himself to the situation in iNorth Dakota. He mine out strongly in opposition to the re election of Governor Frazfer in that Btate for the reason that Frazier Fra-zier is backed ly the Socialists and "did not support the administration adminis-tration in the prosecution of the war." Governor Frazier is a candidate of the Nonpartisan League in j North Dakota and "is backed by Townley. LeSeuer and all the other Nonpartisan League leaders. THESE ARE THE SAME MEN WHO A K B BACKING THE NONPARTISAN LEAGUE CANDIDATES IN IDAHO, AND THE NATIONAL ADMINISTRATION'S CONDEMNATION OF THE NONPARTISAN LEAGUE RUNS TO IDAHO. THEREFORE, AS WELL AS TO NORTH DAKOTA. Mr. Burke expresses himself in a letter to W. K. Byerly, Democratic Dem-ocratic State Chairman ot North Dakota, in which he states the ad ministration's reasons for being opposed to the Nonpartisan League candidates MR. BURKE SAYS, AMONG OTHER THINGS, THAT GOVERNOR FRAZIER OF NOHTID DAKOTA. WHO took THE samp: position as his lhadkk. townlky, PRESIDENT OP THE LEAGUE, LINED UP AGAINST THE WAR THE SAME "AS DO THE PACIFISTS, TDK . W. W. AND SOCIALISTS,'' and added: "If everybody had taken the same DOBltion, we would have been unable to raise the money neees-mrv neees-mrv lo win the war. MORE EVIDENCE OF DECEPTIOI They Repudiate Roosevelt But Stick With Known Disloyalists I ask the people of Idaho to remember the direct charfjes of disloyalty made by the United States government, by Theodore Roosevelt and others, oth-ers, against Townley and LeSeuer and other Nonpartisan leaders. I ask them to remember the revelations I have made from official documents and from signed letters showing Arthur LeSeuer, the Executive Secretary Secre-tary of the Nonpartisan League, who directs the campaign in Idaho through McKaig and Scholtz, is an I. W. W., a Socialist and a traitor to his country. The only answer to this by the Nonpartisan League leaders in Idaho, is that LeSeuer is a great lawyer, but they say nothing about his Americanism Ameri-canism or his patriotism, for they cannot. There is no such thing in his make-up and yet he wants to control Idaho for Townley. None of these men Townley, L-Seuer, or even Bill Haywood, have been repudiated by the Nonpartisan League leaders sent into Idaho to cap ture this state and install a Bolshevik form of government, but they wer quick to repudiate Theodore Roosevelt and to even go so far as to say thu treat American citizen is disloyal. They stand for traitors and grafters ol nil kinds, but they damn true American citizens who have the couragt and the manhood to expose them. THE NONPARTISAN LEAGUE LEADERS ARE ATTEMPTING TO MAKE THE PEOPLE OF IDAHO BELIEVE THAT PRESIDENT WILSON IS WITH THEM BY PRINTING THE FOLLOWING: Washington, May Li. LI IS. I My I ear M r. Simpson : js n nie thai the federal unv eminent is praising Lho Nofl ' partisan League in anj maimer or thai the federal government eon jidera ii an act of disloyally to be a member of this leaguo, The federal (roverhnieni is nol oOncerned with the political, economic or i industrial beliefs of any organization al a time like this, Insisting only that every organization, as well as every individual, ahjill stand behind this war, believing absolutely in the justice Of America's position. The Nonpartisan League, by resolution and organised effort has given this pledge of loyally; North Dakota, controlled by this organization politically, has as fine a rooord of war support '' Lis anv other rommonwcall h in the Lnion. Mr. Itaer. Its rcproaentfl live In the lower llOUSe, has never been erilieied for a Single nllrr I, ,1,,.,, thai might be termed disloyal. Mr. 'Townley is Under indict menl in Minnesota, and there Is a yery bitter Eight being inadc ou I the league in that'state bj oortain groups; with this the govern f mcnl has nothing to do, rofusjng absolutelj to take pari In these local differences. Vers sincerely. , aiSORQK I'li'LLL. ( 'hail man.. BUT THIS IS WHAT CREEL SAID ABOg TOWNLEY THAT HE AND THE DENT SUSPECTED TOWNl t Y S L0V TY, FOR GOOD AND SUFFICIENT W SONS: "I hae never al an. lime :;n,n ol'lnial or u n o t" 1 ' of the Nonpartisan League or am other private el'STanl' P"lil ic:il inns I ;a ,. no a I I . : i , w i..:;e vv illl the , Nonpar: can l.rar.uc nor anv , onne, non dire, t or ni.';in'': , x SI IMKK IT CAM K TO ' 1 v rri-Al h Til VT TIL PARTISAN l,Ki!IT, W S MM' IN 1IKV,' Vv " 1 , , N TI vl. M l.-iv: ; w : :, . I' o w 1 1 ' i , ..one to Ion I insisted that he ..ill upon me '1 sen! him also to and look bun Inter to see I lie 1', esnlenl '. 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