OCR Text |
Show D' R. VON HAIMHAUSEN, last of , tho Huu envoys at Versailles, I who has rstunied to Eerliii to report I on treaty signing. - ' !.; . :-q i: V " - i ilW - - , V, i WITNESS SCORES; LEAGUE LEADERS Says Townley Organizerj and Speakers Seemed to Him "Disloyal' JACKSON, Minn., June 30. Sheriff O. C. Lee, of Jackson county, testifying testify-ing this afternoon at the conspiracy trial of A. C. Townley and Joseph Gilbert, Gil-bert, declared upon cross-examination he would not class the "Nonpartisan league as a whole as a disloyal organization, organi-zation, but that I believe some of the speakers and organizers of the league were disloyal. ' ' Sheriff Lee testified he came to this conclusion as a icsult of incidents and inf ormn tion he obtained from serving as sheriff and as a member of the Jack son county draft board. Sheriff Lee testified he attended one meeting of the Nonpartisan league during dur-ing the war period at Ewington, Minn., in October, 1917. Irving Frcitag? a league organizer, was the principal speaker, Lee testified. ''I did not consider that any of the remarks made at the meeting were seditious," the sheriff testified. "The principal theme was nn attack on capital and profiteers. I considered tho meeting ill-ndvised and I did not think it was right for the Nonpartisan league speakers to stir things up at a critical time ' ' A. Fj. Anderson, of LakefieM, a painter, testified regarding the speech which Gilbert made in Liikeficld, January Janu-ary 23, 1918. "Gilbert said: 'Your boys are better off at home than in the trendies fjfJOO niih-s away, ,? said Anderson on direct exa mination. |