The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, August 4, 1919, Page 9

progress. the League was making in Nebras- ka. : . At the time I left Omaha to come to Lin- coln McGrath assured me that I would receive bet- ter pay than I had done before. However, the increased salary never - materialized and I wrote to McGrath several times asking about the prom- ised increase, but I was unable to obtain any sat- isfaction in the matter. The situation finally came to an end when, in January of ‘this year, McGrath came to Lin- coln, After a further dispute on the wage question I resigned fram the- service. While in Lincoln I met J. P. Palmer, who was in charge of the first inves- tigation, several times. He told me that he was still trying to organize a national association to defeat the League program, but he acted as though he did not care to have much to do with me, owing, in all proba- bility, to my connection with the Thiel agency. However, Palmer offered me a better position with look at stated the day was Bupgday.and KANSAS CITY, Dec. 27,1918, Mr. R. A, Moore, P. 0. Box 502, Lincoln, Hebr, Dear Sir: In regard to the operation which you are handling at present time I feel that 1t is necessary for me t write you in regard to the matter of expense, while on operation item in particular while you up $6.00 mixing expense on a your report covering B on the work.and had not connected with subject, of this kind are not -going to might as well know it now as Your bills ' at Farabault and St. Paul were exhor- bitant and were reduced to proper figures, per f I notice one were ‘at 'Farabault that you char certain date, when I came to this day I found that you that you had done nothing Matters be passed by me and you at a later date. For the work: which you are now engaged upon you will be allowed $3,00 per rallroead fare, day expenses, It is my understanding also from General Agent McGrath .that you are to receive s this not including salary of $150.00 per month as a field man for ‘the Non-Partisan League. I would 1like advice from you as to when. this salary started as ged enson in there that would make him stand right up on his head. There also is something in there about Olson that would prove beyond a doubt that he really did make many disloyal and unpa- triotic remarks during the summer. He said also that there was con- siderable space in the book allotted to Mr. Ream, chairman of the executive committee of the Nebraska Nonparti- san league and head of - the state Grange, charg- ing that Ream was a So- cialist. The book also contained, Palmer said, copies of correspondence which Quigley claimed he had had with Ream, and also with other members of the committee. In this book Quigley made charges of lack of patri- otism against O. S. Evans, Jesse Johnson, Greenwood and, in fact, all the League leaders in the state. These charges, through my connection with the League, I knew to be absolutely false. QUIGLEY WANTED $25,000 FOR BOOK In his conversation a higher salary if I would leave the Thiel agency. After I severed my con- nection with Thiel’s I met Palmer again, and, ‘when he learned of my action, he seemed very pleased. “Well, now, we’ll get together on this proposition of fight-' ing the League,” he told me enthusiastic- WHW=3, ally. “I’ll see Cor- liss, Davidson, ¢ Charles - Talmadge, L Joe Barker and Wattles of the street car com-. pany just as soon as I get back to Omaha, and before I leave Lincoln I'll talk to Hurtz of the telephone company and Gooch of the Star about the investigation.” At that time Palmer was in Lincoln a large part of the time. The legislature was in session and Palmer was lobbying for several large Nebraska corporations. Shortly after seeing Palmer I called on Hurtz and told him that I had quit the Thiel service. % He also seemed very much interested in continu- ing the fight against the League. He assured me that he was perfectly willing to contribute his share of the financing, and asserted that during the noon hour he would see Herbert Gooch, editor of the Lin- coln Star, and other men in Lincoln, who, he was sure, would be willing to help finance the investiga- tion. He said it was necessary that the fight be continued, as it was to the interests of the corpora- tions that the farmers be kept from organizing. He asked me to call again during the afternoon, when he promised to have three or four of the men in- terested present. PLANS TO RENEW FIGHT ON LEAGUE I arrived at Hurtz’ office at the appointed time, and met only Gooch there with Hurtz. The latter told me that he had been unable to see all the per- sons interested, and suggested that it would be best for me to call again on the following morning. He promised that, in the meantime, he would take up the matter with Mathewson of the telephone com- pany. When I called on Hurtz the next morning he asked me to return in'the afternoon. I met Mathew- son_that morning, however, and he said that he expected to see -several persons at the Commercial club at lunch, and that he would have them there in his office later in the day. However, when I called again, Mathewson told me that Hurtz was very busy and that he expected to leave that day for New York. I saw Hurtz for a short time and he said that he was ready to leave, but expected to return in about a month, when he would take up our ~conversation again. the arrangement made with client . turn in $100, per month, This is oae}of the last letters that City ‘office of the Thiel Detective agency. _ ceive a double salary, one from the Lea the detective bureau demanded t . the plan with him. me, wished me good luck and said goodby. Respectfully, When He said that while in New York he expected to discuss with business men there Palmer’s proposal of a national association to fight the League. Pal- mer, he said, had been at the office and discussed Hurtz then shook hands with I then returned to Mathewson’s office. He said during the noon hour he had talked with several Lincoln business men who were interested in fight- ing the Nonpartisan league. He advised me that these men had decided to leave the entire investi- gation in the hands of Mr. Palmer. He suggested that I keep in touch with him, and promised that "he would do anything that \was in his power. “There is no doubt,” he told me, “but that the business meén are going to continue the fight against the League this summer, and my advice to you is to keep in the confidence of the League officials be- . cause we will need you in a very short time, prob- ably in the next few days.” I saw Palmer again shortly after this and he in- formed me that W. E. Quigley, former League or- ganizer in Nebraska, had written a book, purporting to “expose” the League. He said that Quigley had called at his office in Omaha on New Year’s Day and attempted to enlist his help in marketing the volume. . Palmer said to me that as he knew Quigley to be theroughly unreliable, he had refused to help him, and declared that the book could not do the interests fighting the League much good. Quigley, however, according to Palmer, - was so insistent that it was impossible to get « rid of him, finally appealing to Palmer to help him get expense money to return to St. Paul, where, he said, he could readily market the book through Fred H. Carpenter of Minneapolis - and Jerry Bacon of Grand Forks. Quigley told him, Palmer said, that he had only $2 in his pocket, and appealed to him as a “brother attorney” for a loan to return to the Twin Cities. Palmer said that before he realizéd what he was doing he had given Quigley $150 and had taken his note for the amount. “But-you ought to read Quigley’s book,” Palmer: told me. “He’s got some stuff about Attorney Sor- PAGE. NINE was . that you were to wage credit and retain the $50,00, ‘passed’between Moore and W. H. Ware, manager of the Kansas it was learned that Moore was to re- gue and one from the de‘ective bureau, le“Ho’s share of the extra money. with Palmer, the latte wanted $25,000 for the' publication rights of the . book. He said that Quig- .ley, on his return from St. Paul, told him that Jerry Bacon and Fred Carpenter had - - offered him $3,000 cash for all rights to the book. Pal- mer asserted that it was A his belief that the book wasn’t worth 30 cents and, as a matter of fact, would be a detriment to any business man who attempted to publish it. He declared that all Nebraska business men knew Quigley to be unreliable, and said he was confident that Quigley would be unable to publish the volume in Nebraska. When I went to Nebraska after the St. Paul meeting there seemed to be a dissatisfaction over my reports to the central office of the Thiel Detec- tive agency: As a matter of fact, McGrath told me frankly, after examining my report of the conven- tion, that the clients would not’ be satisfied with this report, and demanded to know whether there was not something with “more pep” in it that we could submit to them. I told McGrath that I had told him everything that had happened at the con- vention, but he was still dissatisfied. He took the report that I submitted and started to rewrite it, but I never learned what he had placed in the statement. ‘ Throughout my connection with the case and until my break with the service, McGrath made . frequent trips to Lincoln, urging me to put more “stuff” into my reports, since the clients were complaining that there was nothing being learned about the League and that they were . paying the bill. I tried to impress upon Mec- Grath the fact that I was unable to give him anything except what actually occurred, but McGrath said the clients must be satisfied. Shortly after this I was informed that my ex- pense account was to be limited. When it canie to the actual break, McGrath warned me that my pres- ence in Lincoln, should I break with the service, would not be tolerated, and reminded me of the facilities which the Thiel agency had to “railroad” a man who refused to “behave.” I told McGrath flatly that I' would not be driven out of the state that was my home, and invited him to go as far as he could with the attempt to “rail- road” me. my decision. I had already decided to return to farming, and refused all his offers. : Since that time I have devoted all my energies, when not absorbed in farm work, to promoting the i activities of ‘the organized farmer. (THE END.) told me, Quigley said he' McGrath then urged me to reconsider