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Show CM HPS mswm Stafford Man Is Mistaken for Nonpartisan League Organizer. STAFFORD. Kan.. Nov. 7. Mistaking a Stafford farmer for a Nonpartisan league speaker, a crowd wh eh attempt to break up a meeting here last night kidnaped Jay McFadden, took him In an tutonmb;ie several miles out of town, and. discovering its mistake, released him. The meeting was wail under way. Mc-Fadrien Mc-Fadrien having introduced O. B. WikhJ of Lincoln. Neb.. Nonpart laan league organizer, or-ganizer, when about ffty men entered the hall from front and rear. In the confusion. McFadden wss m 'stake n tr r Wood, a sack was slipped over his head and he was taken from the building After quiet had been restored Wood finished fin-ished bis speech and remained here over-nigh'. over-nigh'. Although it was a:d that statements made by W'.-od had angered the audi-I audi-I Once, bringing on the disturbances, ofh-j ofh-j ers In the audience declared Wood's speech wss conserx'atlve snd Inoffensive. Inoffen-sive. Sheriff R W. Welch ssld today that be had not been called on for aid Snd that an investigation by a deputy Indicated Indi-cated thst, after breaking up the meeting, meet-ing, the crowd bsd dispersed |