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Show NEBRASKA LEGION TAKES 1 FIGHT Battle on Non-Partisans Featured Fea-tured by Bitter Denunciations Denun-ciations N ELSON. Neb.. Jan. 15. A mass i meeting sponsored by American le-irtoti le-irtoti members :it Cla- C nb r and de signed to combat activities of the Non- Partisan leaslie, has been callfd for tonight I" Clay Center ThlB w;us announced an-nounced following a mass meeting I here last night at which a resolution "urtrlng every farmer to investigate fully before affiliating himself with the Non-1'arils m league" WSS adopted. adopt-ed. w r.i. oi . i UXOR. LINCOLN. Neb.. Jan. 15. Governor JdcKelvie In oounsellhg no violent opposition op-position to the activities of the" Non-Partisan Non-Partisan league at Nelson, Neb ' has branded the organization as socialistic and asserts thatthc l''St thing law abiding citizens can do Is to let members work quickly, "for the faster ; they work the st inner the people will be rid of them.'1 i '-'You will be surprised to I ' hor quickly It wlllblow over." says the governor In a letter to .Robert Greenwood, Green-wood, of Nelson. He says there I- ! only one legal, way to combat : u.-h r- i gahlaations, "an.i that Is by fact and I logic ' The governor. In his letter, analyzed at considerable length the Icague-s activities in North Dakota and pronounced it a failure FIGHT LEAGUE DocTHIM NELSON. Neb.. Jan 15. A naas-s meeting of citizens of Nelson and Nuckolls county, called at the Instance of members of the American legion, was held b-re last night foV the purpose. pur-pose. It was announced at the meeting, meet-ing, to combat the activities of the Non-rrtril.snn league. promoters of that organization having arrived In the county In considerable numbers during the last two or three day.-. The meeting adopted resolutions declaring I In effect that any attempt at violence or efforts to compel the NOU-Par-tisan league promoters to leave the county should not be attempted but that a campaign of education should be sfarteil among the farmers in an effort to point mil to them whit was declared to he the dangerou l irlne of the league. The mass meeting decided to make the organization a permanent one. tow i.::y ENDORSED. HJSMVP.CK. N D., Jsj). IT.. Approval Ap-proval of the state owned Industrial program and endorsement of A. C. Townley, president and other national officers of the league, was .Icelan d ..: the meeting here last night of the state convention of the Noii-Fai tl.-an league At last flight's session Gov. Lynn J. Frailer, of North Dakota, spoke briefly brief-ly and WSS given an o at Ion v. hen he .told Of the refusal of the state Industrial In-dustrial commission, of which he Is a member, "to low to the dictates of the eastern bankers when their ultimatum ulti-matum on Financing the sta4edWned industries was presented." The committee on resolutions presented pre-sented resolutions which "reassert full confidence In the IntegTlt) bl the national na-tional executive council." which i-composed i-composed of A. C. Townley. William Lemke and F. B Wood The resolutions uphol I .n state m-djutrisJ m-djutrisJ comniission "for refusing to surrender the Integrity or th. state to the skite bankers recently, and Indorsed In-dorsed Non-Fart isan members oj thi legislature for endeavoring to Speed up legislation despite "obstructive tnctloe of the opposition h |