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Show COURT ORDERS TOWNLEY TRIED Nonpartisan League Head Faces Disloyalty Dis-loyalty charge. St. Paul, Minn A. C. Townley, president of the National Nonpartisan league, and Joseph Gilbert, league organizer, or-ganizer, must stand trial on charges of disloyalty, the state supreme court has ruled. The decision of the Jackson county court, overruling demurrers brought by Townley and Gilbert, who sought to have the indictments quashed, was sustained. ' The court ruled that the crime of conspiracy may he committed without completion of the act which was the object of the conspiracy. Gilbert is charged with having made public utterances designed to discourage discour-age patriotic cooperation in the war, and the Jackson county indictment holds Townley responsible for a Nonpartisan Non-partisan . league pamphlet which, the indictment holds, was a violation of the espionage act. |