Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1914-12-03
TH ERlFIARMRRs or THE
NORTHWEST BETRAYED
Grain Dealers Defeat the Lever Bill;
Moss Bill Deception Exposed
ByJ. 4. KELLEY
Continued from last week.
Nelson's Perfdy

Nelson's Perfidy
II must be apparent to the reader by
this time that had Nelson the de-
cency to admit that he made a mistake
when he found himself in a position that
neither he nor n ybody else oulddefens,
We might at this time have full federal
grading and inspection Of grain. There.
ID; good reason to believe, and it was the
hope Of the committee, that the grain
dealers would pay no further attention
to the Lever bill. They thought it was
NIL right and were perfectly satisfied
whit, as was proven by the praise
given it by Senator Sherman of Illinois
in q speech in the senate last April.
But, as If Satan himself had been work.
ing in Nelson. he continued his TRADE of
lying until / was forced continually to
defend it in order to get the support of
our real friends; thus the grain dealers
began to Sit up and take notice. 1t did
not take them long to see that the
amended Lever bill had teeth in it.
Accordingly they set about to get the
amendments out, and they got them
out.
When I sent an article to disprove his
lying statement as to my being opposed
to federal inspection while at Washing
ton, he refused to publish it, and says
R.kns un~k - IN tho AmooNc nf tho oc.
ISOLATION claiming it vas abusive.
There was no abuse in it, but when
onesof Nelson's lies ia overtaken by q
fact such fact looks dreadfully abus-
i've to him. I consider Nelson utterly
beyond the pale of truth. Not only
did he lie about my being lined up
with the grain gamblers, and in a
later issue that / al against federal
inspection at Washington, but in q
dozen other ways.
In one issue Of his paper, rs he
now considers 1t, as he refuses all
contributions that do not correspond
with his narrow two-by-four soul. he
said that all of the other members of
the Farmers committee were fair
men and were willing to admit that
they were wrong OF made a mistake.
Yet when Mr.. Solem sent him an
article setting forth the merits Of the
amended Lever bill, he refused to
publish IT. Thus he lied about Mr..
Solem.
He has scarcely ever written q line
upon the subject that he has not
claimed Ira NJ Chryst as being
against the amended Lever bill. Yet
Mr. Ghryst helped to make the Lever
bill what 1t was, as amended, and
here is what he says in a letter to me:
Hudson. Wis. June %. 1914.
Nv dear Mr.. Kelley:
Yours Of recent date at hand and note what you
ny resarding the relative merits Of the Lever
and McCumber bills. / think your conclusions
regarding the two bills are absolutely correct. /
certainly can not understand Nelson's attitude
ON these bills. I
I do not know where Mr.. Nelson got his
Information regarding your attitude toward fed
ssAl inspection but he has certainly been very
grossly misinfOrmed.
When was In Minneapolis last March after
Our return from Washington, l told q number Of
The grain people just what had been done. and
tnsAtsd that the meeting take the necessary
steps ~ follow up the work that we had gotten
- nicely started but 1t seemed impossible to get
them 70 realize the need OF Immediate action.
IRA MI CHRYST.''
il will be seen from the foregoing
that Nelson lied also with equal
audacity concerning the attitude Of
nj. Chryst.
Had Mr.. Chryst's advice been taken
and someone kept at Washington to
look after our interests, l am salts
fied Ne could have won out, ia spite
ofsthe treachery Of Nelson and others.
Time and again hasSNelson claimed
IA the Herald that Mr.. Manahan did
mot claim absolutely. that the Lever
bill. ~ amended BY him and the Far
mers committee. stood for complete
Federal grading and inspection Of
grain: Here MI. Manahan speaks
III himself:
%sS S April Is. 1914.
ssss1f \ dear ~. Loftua: 1 have noticed on several
eseesaens that sycur good friend Nelson Of the
s0ps0perativsHerald has been criticising the pro
xieliDna ok ~ Lever bill AT the time 4 saw the
aass1t 81 ths Levsr bill and rave ii ny 10
seecyAl. itgsaserly provided for absolute inspection
ndlgsadin Is Grain ~ Neutrality-suspicious. opssat-