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Show COURT ORDERS Till m Nonpartisan League Head and Organizer Will Face Disloyalty Charges. ST. PAUL, Minn., May 2. A. C. .Town-ley, .Town-ley, president of the National Nonpartisan league, and Joseph Gilbert, league organizer, or-ganizer, must stand trial on charges of j disloyalty, the state supreme court ruled j today. The decision of the Jackson county coun-ty district court, overruling deruurrars j brought by Townley and Gilbert, who sought to have the indictments quashed, was sustained. The court ruled that the crime of conspiracy con-spiracy may be committed without completion com-pletion of the act which was the object ot" the conspiracy. Gilbert is charged with having made public utterances designed to discourage patriotic cooperation in the war, and the Jackson county indictment holds Townley responsible, for. a Nonpartisan league) pampJdt which, the indictment holds, was a vi'oiation of the espionage act. j Gilbert is charged with having used seditious language in an address at a meeting at Lakefield, llinn., January 22, 1917. Gilbert's attorneys contended that Gilbert's remarks were not intended to be disloyal and were merely a discussion of various phases of economic conditions in the United States. .Sustaining the order overruling Gilbert's Gil-bert's demurrer, the supreme court ruled tii at if Gilbert did utter the statements charged against him -the language would have tended to develop an impression that the United States did not have just cc for entering the war, and that Buch a tendency migb t have discouraged enlistment en-listment and interfered with the raising of war funds. |