The representative., 1901-03-14
Hot STUFF.

Editor Representative: Can you tell
to travel over the country and exploit
his bogus farmer organizations?
/ Is it possible that he can travel upon
''bunco cheek" the same as he keeps
| UP his so-called national and world wide
organizations?
While lecturer of the State Farmers
Alliance l was forced to either allow
my name to be used to help exploit his
schemes, built upon wind, or resign I
chose the latter, although | had taken
great interest in the alliance and had
sacrificed much time and effort to help
build it up.
How much longer these sham national
and world organizations can be kept go
ing by this man Hanley, under the cloak
of being at the head of all those great
national farm organizations, depends
upon the duplicity of those who furnish
him the money
Who furnishes the president of the
National Grain Growers association
Judge Moran, with money to make his
trip to Europe to close up the big deals
Hanley started last summer?
Does this money come from the farm
ers via, railroad extortions?
If money is furnished so literally to
assist in exploiting bogus farmers or
ganizations that have never existed out
nf Dol
those parties never furnished a penny
to the genuine Farmers Alliance that
existed until 1894?
Hanley's cunning in manipulating his
annual meetings is. either original with
him as deep, unscrupulous scheme to
maintain himself in Office, or he has
borrowed from those ways that are
dark" methods usually adopted by
tricky politicians
Everyone, to obtain recognition as a
member of his meetings, must first pay
to him ST. but in none of his effusions
have | seen any mention of treasurer
or any other officer except his president,
Judge Moran who, he says, is now in
Europe
This Hanley being the whole cheese"
in every form of farmers organization
that his fertile brain can devise a name
for, now stands in the way of any effort
being made in the line of organizing the
farmers. 1t seems he is as fixed in his
farce orbit as the oldest planet and his
great and various names must have
been adopted by him to cover all posi-
BILE forms of organization that could be
devised.
If call could be issued for a general
meeting of farmers to meet either in
Minneapolis or st. Paul, some time in
June, and one-half of the farmers in the
state assembled there, what a small
crowd it would be should Hanley decide
to be there with his national and world
organizations? l see but little chance
for any farmers organization to be
started except as side shows to Hanley's
mammoth - associations, that receive
such liberal support from all great COM
blnations like railroads and shin SUBJ
sidy promoters. For one, l am willing
to assist in an effort to call a meeting
of farmers sometime in June, and at
this meeting thorough discussion of
the best possible way to organize farm
ers at this time
Even should the effort appear small
compared with those mammoth associa-
tions Hanley fosters and promotes with
in the walls of Room 400, Baltimore
Bldg. and his massive brain.
{; Let all who see the need of a genuine.
practical farmers association do all in
their power to obtain a large attend
ance of farmers some time in June. and
form an organization that means some
thing. more than wind blown through
Hanley's bugle.
1 believe much good would result from
such meeting and will do what can
to make it a success.
HAMLIN v. PoORE.