The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1920-11-05

n~esota, Montana and North Dakota,
but / had never seer Florida. | was
reluctant to go into a project which
l had never seen. But Townley was
impatient. For Gods sake Jim, take
his deal off my hands," appealed Mr..
Townley. "You can go to Miami, and
take your wife with you," explained
Mr.. Townley, "and it will be a fine
trip for you. l will pay your expenses
and after you have seen the property
and gree to assume ownership of it,
we can come to a more definite ar
rangement. I've got to get Hastings
out of the deal and get someone else
to take charge of it,"
This was Townley's general line of
talk. finally agreed to go to Florida
and look his proposition over, and
agreed to assume proprietorship of
the property if it was as he and Brin-
ton presented it to be- provided
Mr.. Brinton would join me in it's man
agement as he was familiar with it,
and what had been done. Mr.. Town
ley and Brinton went back to Fargo
and secured a release or withdrawal
from Mr.. Hastings and Mox, as l did
not care to have any association in a
business way with these gentlemen.
This Mr.. Townley secured and deliv-
cred to Mr.. Brinton and | before we
left for Miami. 1t reads:
"Thos. P. Harvey, Miami, Florida.
Dear. Tom: This will introduce Mr..
Brinton, who is coming to Miami to
assume full charge Of the sisal propo-
sition and property and the two COM
panies which have been organized.
Please turn over to him all property.
records, files, letters, documents and
all the organization papers, etc., and
hereafter make all future range.
ments with regard to your employ
ment, expenses, salary, etc, with Mr..
Brinton, as Mr.. Box and myself are
Withdrawing from the enterprise and
turning over our interests to Mr.. Wa
tiers and Mr.. Brinton, Signed - J.. j..
Hastings"
Compare this with Mr.. Hastings
telegram printed in the preceding ar
ticle in which he said he was coming
to Miami. The telegram was dated
March II, 1919, and the above was
dated three days later, March IA,
1919. This shows how fast things
were moving. Speed was my instruc-
tons and secrecy my password until
we got Mr.. Townley relieved from his
embarrassing position. We looked for
a front page cartoon in the Fargo
Forum every morning showing a
"Townley pipe line" connecting Flori-
da and North Dakota, with North Da-
kota above and money like water
running downhill. | never refused to
help a man out in my life when /
could, especially one who had 22,400
acres of land that he wanted to
| turn over to me to hold in trust. |
had nothing to lose and | knew that
it was necessary to get Mr.. Townley
out of the land owning class and into
the "poverty-bankruptcy" class in
haste if he was to continue as the
leader of the Nonpartisan League
and at this time l had no objection to
his running the Nonpartisan League
and all its machinery. But later when
he commenced to take public funds
out of the State Bank and involve me
and my associates and the state gov
eminent, | changed my mind about
Mr.. Townley and his leadership.
Mr.. Brinton went to Miami ahead
of me, as | couldn't get away imme-
diately because of official matters
that had to attend to. Later, a few
days, | went to Fargo and got $1,000
at the Scandinavian American bank
which Mr.. Townley had arranged for
to pay my expenses, was Joined by my
wife and went to Miami and inves-
tigated the property. 1t is needless
to say that was pleased. Mr.. Brin
ton has already told you Of the Won
derful future possibilities for money
making In real estate in Dade county
Florida. | returned and again held a
conference with Mr.. Townley, with
Mr.. Brinton present who had returned
from Florida with me. Townley
agreed to pay me 100000 a year
and expenses to manage, help finance
and assume ownership of his project.
But at this time | discovered that
over $4,000 had been taken out Of the
Scandinavian American bank and in
vested in Florida, and one of the con-
sideration for which / was to be paid
was to take care of this shortage BY
raising the money and replacing it in
the bank. Mr.. Brinton attended to
this for Mr.. Townley by borrowing
money from Townley's farmer friends
up in Walsh county. One of the con
SlderationS demanded by Townley was
that should reorganize the company
and get anti-League bankers into the
company as additional protection to
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. t alloGys e T.
the political boss, and this was
promptly done and large ads were in
serted in the apti-Taapu DaOerS tOl