The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, November 17, 1919, Page 13

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WS:fithe: £ exrsln-ac]lmgl the world, ash Epe of pu; in for tme lm of tha . 1. C. Bou. U. S. chernnenl lnspeded S e ey c B contagi WRITE o UM e —TODAY— FOR FREE BOOK &' . "The Hog from Birth to Sale™ ) THE L. B. SILVER CO. R 602 SALEM, OHIO Hogs Flemlng’s Fistoform b “&"fimmfl.. toaay: i Floming Bros., m Vaneos Catoage Wl Mention the Leader When Wrmnc Advertiaera -nrv l& i Mobbed Orgahizer Sues Nebraska Ring Felver, Threatened With Death During Reign of Terror, Asks $250,000 Damages of 23 Defendants BY SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT =IN ECHO of the reign of terror in Nebraska a year ago, when League farmers were outraged as a result of a campalén of vilification, the incep- tion of which was exposed in the Moore articles in the Leader a few months ago, was heard when a suit for $250,000 was filed against 23 prominent Nebraska men by Beryl A. Felver, former League organizer. The defendants in the suit are: Mike Shonsey, Gerald Shonsey, Wil- liam Alton, William Campbell, F. K. Spires, Elmer Watson, Harold Mor- ris, Ross Noble, C. A. Phelps, John I. Long, Jerry Shayahan, Jesse P. Pal- mer; Joseph Barker, J. P. McGrath, Charles Clancy, Charles Talmadge, Horace M. Davis, O. G. Smith, James E. Davidson, Gurdon W. Wattles, Le- roy Corliss, Herbert E. Gooch and Leonard E. Hurtz. Wattles until recently was president ,wz of the Omaha Street Railway com- pany and Corliss is president of the Waterloo Creamery company of Oma- ha; Barker is vice president of the Foster-Barker Insurance eompany of Omaha; Clancy is an insurance man and lobbyist; Gooch is owner of the Lincoln Daily Star and a big miller; , Hurtz is general manager of the Lin- coln Telephone company; Davidson is president of the Nebraska Power com- pany of Omaha; Palmer is an Omaha attorney; McGrath is head of the Thiel Detective agency, which hired Moore and sent him into Nebraska to spy on the League; O. G. Smith is head of the New Nebraska Federation, Nebraska commissioner of agriculture and recently elected head of the fake “farmers’ .congress,” and Davis, for- mer postmaster, is secretary of the New Nebraska Federation. Palmer is the man who hired Moore and who di- rected his work against the League, as told in the Moore articles. TELLS HOW SLUSH FUND WAS RAISED How the business interests of Ne- braska raised a huge slush fund to fight the League organization in Ne- braska is told in the complaint, in much the same manner as Moore re- counted it in his article. The .document tells how, by appeal- ing to the passion and fears of big business men and corporation direc- tors, Palmer and his backers raised a buge slush fund with which to hire men to vilify the League and its or-. ganizers and to incite- the people of Nebraska to acts of violence against League workers and members, and to poison their minds against the farm- ers’ organization. Smith was used to work up this bitterness as a writer of letters to newspapers, containing false state- ments and malicious innuendoes against the League. How a reign of terror was skillfully worked up through the use of this money is also told. This campaign of lies and ha- rassing was carried on for several months before it bore the fruit of ac- tual violence. At the time, Felver was engaged as an organizer in Platte county. His success had caused the local hench- men of the Omaha “Business Men’s Protective association” a great deal of worry. Chief among the agitators against the farmers was John I. Long, editor at that tune of a paper at Clark, Neb. Long is now editor of the Co- lumbus News. The Palmer crowd was anxious to “make an example” of some organizer, and they chose Felver in an attempt to terronze all other orgamzers m the: state. A gang was hired to incite and lead a mob against Felver. Accord- Jing to the complaint, Mike Shonsey, Gerald Shonsey, Alton, Campbell, Spires, Watson, Morris, Noble, Phelps, Shayahan and Long were chosen for the work by Palmer and the others. On May 28, 1918, the gang waylaid Felver, who was on the way to visit the home of a farmer near Clark. Felver was in his automobile. He was stopped by mobbers and taken by force to Long’s newspaper office in the village. Pushed and kicked all the way, Felver faced his accusers. They used threats to drive him out of the county, and they failed. He was kicked and beaten, and the gang threatened to kill him unless he left the county. They placed Felver in his automo- bile, and with repeated threats order- ed him to leave the county at once and never to return. Yielding to these threats and intimidations, Felver turn- ed his car toward Lincoln. However, the mob was not yet through with him. They followed him, and just as the or- ganizer was crossing the Platte river, they caught up with him again. At the point of revolvers they ordered him to stop. Felver was pulled from the machine and led by the mob to a small island in the Platte river. Jeering and in- sulting the organizer, the mob told him that he had only a few hours to live, and ordered him to “make peace with the Almighty.” The gang placed a rope about Felver’s neck and began to drag him toward a tree. The organizer pleaded with the mobbers, but only got jeers and in- sults in reply. The mob told him he would be hanged as an “example” to other League organizers in the state. Some of the members of the mob flung one end of the rope over the limb of the tree. Felver fainted. When he regained consciousness he saw other persons on the island trying to dissuade the mob from killing him. The mobbers then searched Felver’s pockets, confiscated all his literature and burned it, and placed him, more dead than alive, into his automobile. They ordered him to continue to Lin- coln, sell his automobile and enlist in the -army. His experience at the hands of the * mob has permanently injured Felver, according to the complaint, the nerv- ous shock incapacitating him from at- tending to his work with the same de- gree of energy and capacity which he formerly enjoyed. The effects of the mob spmt raised by the defendants in Nebraska, have not yet passed. The Omaha riot, in which the courthouse was burned, the mayor of the city nearly murdered and two negroes lynched, has been declar- ed the direct result of the terrorism practiced against the farmers during the war which state officials made no effort to check. At Beatrice a farm- ers’ meeting was broken up and some of the spectators assaulted by hood- lums. In the latter case, the gover- nor refused flatly to act against coun- ty officials who refused to give the farmers protection. THE LEADER’S JOB Chicago, IIl Editor Nonpartisan Leader: Copies of your newspaper were re- ceived and read from cover to cover with much interest. 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