The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, January 21, 1918, Page 7

' Quigley was - told that, for some " that quite suited the opposition had . Deen discovered. Further details” about f the pamphlet Qulgley was to wrwe-' were available. Quigley says that, as a matter of plain truth, he was congratulated by -officers of the League for offering his services to his country. ‘While Quigley was in the office, Brown telephon-‘ --ed to H. J. Carpenter, brother of F. H. Carpenter. E. J. Carpenter was out of town, but an appoint- ment was made for Quigley to meet F. H. Car- penter. ; 2 Quigley met F. H. Carpenter in his office in the McKnight building, Minneapolis. Carpenter said that for some time he and other Republican leaders and “other persons and interests opposed to the League”. had been seeking for some means: of breaking up- the. organization;, or stopping its fur- ther growth. He said that the America First as- sociation of Minnesota had been started originally for the purpose of being used to fight the League, but that that object of the association was not be- ing accomplished—in fact, had fallen flat. After talking with Quigley, and being assured, he thought, that Quigley would furnish, FOR MONEY, such affidavits and other matter as the opposition wanted, Carpenter called up some other persons while Quigley was in the office. Quigley did not catch-their names but was told by Carpen- ter that they were representatives of the steel and grain !nterests in Minnesota. CARPENTER SAYS HE ACTED FOR REPUBLICANS The following evening, Quigley, under instruc- tions.from Carpenter, met Carpenter and Ed. Smith when further details of the plan to buy Quigley’s services were discussed. Quigley says that Smith was an attentive listener during the conference but had little to say. Carpenter, however, explained that he and his associates would take up the fight on the League, using Quigley as a lever, not in the interests of big business but in the interests of the Republican party. Carpenter said that he was not acting for the big business interests of Minnesota, but that he-was anxious to discredit the League and stop its further growth so that the Republican party of Minnesota could be preserved. He said that the Nonpartisan league had swallowed the Repub- lican party in North Dakota and that they did not want anything like that to happen in Minnesota. He said that there might be a lot of money in it for 'Quigley, because he would take the matter up with the national Republican party and the nation- al committee of the Republican party might become interested. Quigley returned to Nebraska, but, in a short time, was again summoned to Minneapolis. On December 6, Quig- ley again met Carpenter in the latter’s office. Carpenter said that they now had a definite plan' worked -out,: and here the name of Rudolph Lee of Long Prairie, Minn.,. was brought in. Car- penter suggested at this meeting that Quigley go to Grand Forks, North Da- kota, and get in touch with J. D, Bacon and Tom Parker Junkin, which he im- mediately did. The details for the issuance of the pamphlet and haw it was to be pub- lished were discussed at Grand Forks with Bacon and Junkin. = Junkin claimed to have much inside informa- tion about the League himself. As a result of the conference with Bacon and Junkin, both of them, together with Quigley, went to Minneapolis. Bacon stated that he would interest a lot of other influential Minnesota people in the plan.. On arrival at Minneapolis, all three. put up at the ‘West hotel. Bacon, Junkin, Carpenter and Harry W. Hunter, editor of the Minneapolis Tribune, and others, held a luncheon, so Quigley says, where they discussed plans for the drlve against the League. R PAMPHLET TO MASQUERADE > AS LEGITIMATE DOCUMENT " That night, Bacon, Junkin, Carpen- ter, Hunter and Quigley met in the’ office of Carpenter, Some time later time, Burns detectives had been seek- ing to get something on leaders of the League, and, while a mass of “evi- dence” had been accumulated, nothing is being worked' out. writer, or let his stenographer do it. If there has been any doubt as to who it is that wants to break up the move- ment of the organized farmers, or why they want to stop the Nonpartisan . league’s work, the statement and evi- dence made public by the League and reported on this page and the opposite page ought to make the facts perfectly plain. League members and others will be intensely interested in every word of this exposure, The details are sensa- tional. This attempt. to throttle the farmers’ organization shows how peo- ple’s movements everywhere, always, have been discredited. Because the Nonpartisan league is alert and alive to the issues, and has the leaders and ma- . chinery to counter the opposition’s plots as they develop, it was possible for the -League to get the data printed here. The publicity the League will be able to give the plot and the plotters will effectively quash this new plot. No plan like ‘‘the gang’’ tried can be suc- cessful in the open. It must be hatched in secrecy and carried out sub-rosa. Therefore publicity is the ‘antidote. were discussed. Later a large stack of “evidence” gathered by Burns detectives and others was hand- ed over to Quigley to use, with what information he had himself, in writing the pamphlets. At one conference, the matter of how the pamph- let was to masquerade was also discussed. It was decided that in some way the pamphlet would have to show a revenue of its own, so that the League could not charge that -anybody was putting up money for it. It was said by Carpenter and others that, unless it was so. arranged that a reasonable source of income for the pamphlet could be shown, the League would “make the people believe that big business was financing it.” At this point Jerry Bacon agreed that the Grand Forks Herald would print 50,000 of the pamphlets. Quigley, who is lawyer by profession, -was to have a law office opened for him on money furnished by Carpenter, F. H. CARPENTER LUMBER CO. BUILDING, MATERIAL ‘BUILDERS SPECIALTIES MeKNIGHT BUILDING - MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. . W. B. Quigley, #1600 “C" Street, 'I.inooln. NebY, Dear 3ir:- T have yours of the 23rd. on ‘a plan which may result in somsthing before long. Yours very truly, ¥. H, Carpenter. . This is more of the evidence in the hands of the League in connection with the sensational plot of the opposition to discredit the farmers’ organization. is a letter from Carperter to Quigley saying that the plan to break up the League To be safe, Carpenter signed the letter with his type- But later he wrote a notation on the bot- tom of the etter in his own handwriting, apparently forgetting his desire to play safe.. The notation in his handwrltlng asks Qulgley If_he can get a copy of an ‘alleged “plodge" League candldaten make. - further deceive the opposition. November 30, 191%, I am now working I cane not aay at this writing, Just what I will be able to do, If anything developes in the immediate future, L will wire you. et al., and he was to pretend to practice law in Minneapolis as a blind, but was to continue to write stuff and handle publicity against the League. In order to show a revenue for the pamphlet, it was decided to put a price of 10 cents on it and to state that this 10 cents per copy, which the public “paid” to buy it, covered all expenses. Quigley was given a large sum of money, as part payment for the dirty work he was supposed to do for the opposition. Later, on arrangement, Quigley spent two or three days in Grand Forks, writing pamphlets to He concocted ev- ery sort of lie he could think of in what he wrote, to-make it strong enough for Jerry Bacon, et al. Later; he turned over these pamphlets to Carpen- ter. - They were supposed to cover the history of the League, the officers of the League and the organizers, and there was to be a pamphlet on the League’s finances and other phases of the organ- ization. Quigley wrote voluminously and made it strong enough-to satisfy those who thought they were buying him to “deliver the goods.” PLANNED FAKE COMPANY TO CIRCULATE PAMPHLETS On December 31 Quigley conferred with Carpen- ter and discussed further what compensation he was to receive. He had already obtained a letter from Carpenter stating that they would pay him $200 a month for a year and all office and travel- ing expenses. A rough draft of this agreement was made in Carpenter’s hand writing and, with other papers and documents of a sensational char- acter, is in possession of the League. Later, at another conference, Carpenter said that it had been decided to form a corporation, or to use some other corporation then existing, through which Quigley was to receive his pay. He also told Quigley that the plan for the Grand Forks Herald to issue the pamphlets had been dropped; that it was the plan now to form a new corporation, called the “Pamphlet Publishing company,” or some such name. This company was to pretend to be in the business of publishing pamphlets of a general na- ture—on the high cost of living and other sub- jects. Among them were to be the pamphlets that Quigley was to write over his signature. By pretending to be in the pamphlet publishing business and selling all kinds of pamphlets, the company could pretend to have a source of in- come, and this would be an answer to any charge that the League might make that big business or politicians were financing _the deal. ; Carpenter stated that this was not being done as a deal of the Republican state central committee of Minnesota, as the members of the state central committee were divided as to the merits of the League, some thinking it a good thing and some thinking it not a good thing. At one time Quigley was -told that Carpenter and his friends only wanted the copyright on his pamphlets for North and South Dakota and Minne- sota, and that Quigley could sell his pamphlets in the other states where the League was organizing and make - what money he could out of them for himself. However, he was later told that Carpenter and his friends wanted- rights on - the pamphlet in ALL STATES and that they would make Quigley’s compensation greater pro- portionately. QUIGLEY TELLS THEM DIME NOVEL STORY Quigley was getting to the end of his rope. He was expected to sign the contract for his services, details " of which had been agreed to. Also, his employers were constantly hound- ing him for “inside facts’ that would nnect the League with German plots or money. They complained bitterly to Quigley that he had not discovered stuff of this kind, which Burns detectives had not been: able to dig up. So far Quigley had advised wlth League officials, but at this point he invented on his own initiative a story to tell Carpenter and the others. The This (Continued on page 23) story he faked up to tell was so im- probable and its supposed details so- ! | i