W. W. organization, which has publicly announced that it is its intention ultimately to take the farms from the farmers, whose headquarters since the commencement of the war have been raided by the federal government, and whose members are now taking refuge in such organizations as the National Nonpartisan league.
How, under such circumstances, the farmers of Minnesota, who have been threatened with the loss of their farms, who have time and time again been compelled to appeal to peace officers for protection against the members of this lawless anarchistic organization, can now join a league with promoters whose sympathies have been with this lawbreaking Bolshevik element in our society, is well known.
Another reason for declining your invitation is the possibility of construing my presence at your partisan campaign rally by some as an endorsement of your propaganda. It is, of course, the duty of the governor to be fair to all classes and to oppose any program which is apt to result in a division of our state into classes. Such arraying of class against class would be welcomed by the enemies of our republic, for such a course will tend to defeat our nation in this war and economic and political war.
I will eventually mean the dissolution of our form of government and the undermining of the freedom of our people. 