The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1924-07-11
CRESAPS RED BARRAGE
Continued from Page Four)
That was a purely illegal act.

putting the association over IN North
eastern Montana: it was to. me,
Charles E. Taylor, that Cresap came
in the spring of 1921, when he came
TO Northeastern Montana, and it was
| who came to his aid and introduced
him to Clair StOner. Art Reuber and
several others who together organic
ed this territory and made the AssO-
citation what it is today in point of
membership. The Producers News
rendered every aid possible to the
Association, and when The AssOcia-
ton through the Encouragement of
Cresap and StraWman was brought
into disrepute, it was the Producers
News and it's Editor that came in for
a lot of very violent criticism from
its best friends. The Producers
News has stood by the Pool idea 10y
ally, but it has felt keenly disap-
pointed at the complete failure of the
pool management: at what seems,
honestly, to me, of a conspiracy on
the part of Messrs. Cresap and
Strawman to discredit the pool and
destroy it, which theory / am still
convinced of.
The proposition to dissolve was
voted down and Cresap and Straw
man were fOiled in their design to
wreck the organization. Strawman
and CresaD felt sure that the men,
barship would vote TO dissolve. and
they were absolutely upset when the
idea failed. They wanted the prOpO-
sitiOn TO carry in order that the or
ganizatiOn could be liquidated with
out the election of new Board of
Directors, and without an accounting.
Cresap and Strawman are very I'M
willing to have an impartial audit,
end there is a reason for this-fOr as
/ as matter of fact, there is no $780,
/ 900 reserve or any part of that sum.
I But there is $50 600 lost through bank
] failures, for which loss Cresap and
! Strawman were wholly responsible,
/ for they were warned many times to
protect that money and that the
banks which they were using were alb
sOIutely insOlvent. The writer has
been informed that as a matter OF
fact, the pool owes money borrowed
on this years crop. | hope that this
is not true, but I believe that it is
only too true: and I believe that is
the reason that Cresap and Straw
man are making a life and death
fight to prevent the election of {
Board of Directors not under then
control who will elect a new man
agement, and order an audit. be
lieve that is the reason why Jewet
fled the State after a couple of meet
ings.
When the proposition to dissOlv
was voted down. those fighting 70
an election of a new Board of Direc
tors, got out msndamus papers, AM
went to Cresap and StraWman AM
demanded the calling of the election
! or 90 to Court. Messrs. Strawmal
and Cresap surrendered after protest
called a new primary for July 15tl
and the final election for July 31st
Realizing now that the only way t.
! save themselves, is to win the eleC
ton, they are using every means a
: their hands to win. They are cryin
for sympathy: they are using the AS
: sOciatiOn's publication in which t
: carry on their campaign; they ar
out speaking themselves and the
: have all of the employees of the AssC
e citation who can speak, out speaking
: at the expense of the Association,
4; prevent they say. the control of til
: Association from passing into til
j. hands of the Communists who the
say plan to use it for political pul
poses.
In speaking they are not answer
: ing the criticism directed againi
t them-nOr are they reporting the
e stewardship, they are crying red, re
: red and prOcIaiming that their defe;
a means red control, all of which is d
5, unwarranted falsehOOd.
=
They, Strawman and Cresap, a
> cuse myself and StOner and Ande
II son of wicked motives. They insin
ate that we want to destroy the A
ISOLATION when they know we wish
save it.
In the State Senate l did ever
n thing in my power to aid in the pas
y age of laws for the benefit OF Il
y Association, as did Rep. Clair StOn
in the house. And we don't belle
N that the farmers of Montana thu
81 any the less of us for attending t
O. st. Paul Farmer-LabOr cOnventiC
We believe the farmers do not Thu
any the less of us for being farme
h. labor party men, than they think
~ Strawman and Cresap for bel
20 stand-pat, died in the wool repub
an cans. The pool is not a political
ld sue, nor is the management of t
CHI pool political issue.
es THE MANAGEMENT AND POI
CY OF THE POOL is THE ISSU
2 The red barrage is the last resC
6 of the crook and the scOundrel-it
the last hope of the crook; it is us
6 only when there is nothing else tt
2 can be used.
A man who listens to red noise
9 fool.
In the "Wheat Grower" of July l
8 is story that is tissue of fall
o hood, under the caption, Equity N
Wants Control.
In this article, it says that Mar
he Nelson told certain parties cert
es. things and goes on to relate WI
these things were. All of this
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