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that he should be willing at all times to sub- 

 ordinate his own interests and his own am- 

 bitions to the good of the cause. This was 

 required absolutely of him, in any conflict of 

 this kind, that laying aside his vanities and 

 his selfishness he should be a genuine Soldier 

 of the Common Good. Soon after the election 

 of 1918 two of the League's successful candi- 

 dates, the secretary of state and the attorney- 

 general, elected in 1916 and re-elected, broke 

 away from the League program and launched 

 an opposition. The state auditor followed 

 them. Naturally the appearance of this re- 

 volt was hailed fervently by the elements that 

 from the beginning had fought the League's 

 every proposal and maneuver. There was 

 probably more joy in the old political machine 

 and the Minneapolis Chamber of Commerce 

 over these manifestations than over anything 

 that had happened since Townley led his 

 cohorts into the open. The delight of these 

 Interests, it may be believed, was much ac- 

 centuated when the attorney-general objected 

 vigorously to the bill creating the Industrial 

 Commission upon which pivoted squarely the 

 bills providing for the state-owned elevators 

 and flour-mills and the state bank. For these, 

 of course, were the measures most hateful to 

 all the influences that for so many years had 

 dominated the state. As North Dakota had 

 a fairly mobile and workable referendum law, 



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