Knowing, as I do, the political ambitions of your organization and the false charges that some of its leaders and agents have made through your official newspapers against honest and patriotic public officials, I cannot believe that back of the invitation you have sent me is any sincerity of purpose. The failure on the part of anyone to turn over the state government to those of your officers who have assumed the organization of the alleged Nonpartisan league and the control of the millions of dollars collected from its members, will undoubtedly create opposition, but I know that such men, pretending to be friends of some particular class and deceiving some well-intentioned people, cannot long continue their policy of deception, for the patriotic farmers in the country and the loyal laboring men in the city know that their true friends are among those who strive for the maintenance of law, order, and justice, especially in this, the most serious hour of our history, for that unity of the American people essential to the successful termination of the war. Very truly yours.
J. A. A. BURNQUIST.
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