party of national prominence. Arriving in St. Paul off the train he met and was received by governor Floyd B. Olson, the titular head of the Farmer-Labor Party, who said. "Welcome aboard." He bought an old press and established a weekly newspaper of which he was both Editor and Publisher. It was called the "Mid-West American". They moved the paper from Bemidji to Rochester and finally to Minneapolis. At first, getting back into his element in Minnesota, Liggett was fired with admirable zeal. But he was soon dismayed by evidence of rampant corruption in the Farmer-Labor Machine that had developed during the twelve years that he had been in the east, and barnstorming around the country engaged in muckraking journalism. On Labor day, 1934, after the announcement on the radio that Floyd Olson had chosen a certain lawyer, John Hougen to be his campaign manager for his 1934 re-run for the gubernatorial seat, A.C. Townley the founder of the Nonpartisan League called for a meeting of the old "Wheel-horses" of the Nonpartisan League at the armory in Benson, Minnesota. The meeting and the subsequent internal "Revolt" were all written up in the "Mid-West American". A.C. Townley and his following were concerned about the blatant corruption in the Leadership of the Farmer-Labor Party centering in the person of the titular head of the FLP, governor Floyd B. Olson and his political "Machine". From September of 1934 until December 9, 1935, Walter Liggett, with his little weekly newspaper, fought the Olson Machine fearlessly in an alliance that was called the "Liggett - Townley Revolt". Liggett had become disgusted by what he saw as mounting evidence of corruption within the Farmer-Labor Party, of which the 'elder Lindbergh'-Charles A. Lindbergh, Sr.- A.C.Townley, and he himself had been among the chief founders in 1918. In a series of articles in the "Mid-West American", Liggett accused senior Farmer-Labor politicians of collusion with organized crime. He especially focused on their alleged connections to the North Minneapolis crime family of Isadore Blumenfield. He made accusations of corruption against Minnesota Governor Floyd B. Olson and said that Olson deserved to be impeached and prosecuted. In response, Blumenfield arranged a meeting with Liggett and allegedly offered him a bribe to stop his exposés. Liggett refused to accept the money and said that if he did it would make him even worse than Blumenfeld. Considering himself disrespected, Blumenfield and his associates