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Under Pressure: The Nonpartisan League In South Central Minnesota, Jonathan Soucek
Under Pressure: The Nonpartisan League In South Central Minnesota, Jonathan Soucek
Journal of Undergraduate Research at Minnesota State University, Mankato
The Nonpartisan League attempted to enter Minnesota politics in 1918, with Charles Lindbergh, Sr. as the League-endorsed candidate for governor in the Republican primaries. As the League moved into Minnesota in 1917, it hoped to achieve the same success it had in North Dakota. Unfortunately, the United States entered World War I in April of 1917 as the Nonpartisan League began to organize in Minnesota. The League opposed America’s entry into the war, but supported the war effort when the United States declared war on Germany. League opponents and much of the general public, however, labeled the Nonpartisan League a …