THE STORY OF THE NONPARTISAN LEAGUE 



air" was the direct and typical result of the 

 mad schemes of the Nonpartisan League, and, 

 the explosion having revealed to the people 

 of the state the real nature of these schemes, 

 they had now abandoned the League, which 

 was rapidly becoming to them only a pain- 

 ful reminiscence. 



Accompanying this was an illustration of 

 mounted and masked ''night riders" armed 

 with guns or carrying torches, who were thus 

 made to appear as typical League members 

 out upon an errand of destruction. 



Meantime the Scandinavian-American Bank 

 remained closed on the orders of the state 

 banking board, but its officers and the League 

 had moved at once to have the case reviewed 

 by the courts. About twenty days later it 

 came before the state supreme court, which 

 heard arguments for and against the action 

 of the banking board, and on October 25, 

 1919, the court handed down its decision. 



It found that the bank had been solvent 

 when it was closed, that the state banking 

 board had no right to close it and appoint a 

 receiver without a report from the state bank- 

 examiner, and that the postdated checks were 

 good and legal collateral. 



The opinion said: 



"Further, the acts of the respondents [the 

 attorney -general and secretary of state con-, 

 stituting the majority of the banking board] 



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