The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1924-07-18
NAMES NIELS CHRISTENSEN TO BEAT STONER

Dwight R. Cresap. notorious presi
dent Of the Montana Wheat Growers,
who a year age. fell into the hands of
the Minneapolis Chamber of Com
merce and the eastern grain gamblers
and who is now attempting to dis
rupt the Wheat Growers OrganiZa-
tion to the pleasure and profit of the
grain gamblers, has hired stool
pigeons in ali parts Of the state, ped
ding lies and 2uHshOeing for men
on the board of directors who are
willing to obey Creaap's instructions
and destroy the wheat pool.
1t was discovered couple of weeks
ago that there Was such a stool
pigeon in Daniels county by the name
of Day, whose business it was to call
on farmers, gather up ballots for
Cresap's candidates and peddle false
hoods and trumped-up lies against
Clair Stoner, the present director
from this district and who with an
other director from Valley county
were the only men who dared criti-
cize Cresap's and Strawman's incOm-
/ petent management Of the grain and
/ the money of the Wheat Growers.
/ This stool pigeon is travelling at the
/ expense of members Of the Wheat
/ Growers and is receiving a fat salary
for lieing and creating suspicion and
| confusion among the wheat growers.
This Shiny bird is very profuse
with his warnings against Chas. +.
Taylor and Clair Stoner, who he
claims are disruptiOnists and who
should be watched. He is advising
the farmers, it is understood. to vote
for Niels Christensen of Dagmar, who
must have accepted the dictatorship
of Cresap and Strawman and who
evidently is also willing to turn the
Wheat Grower organization over to
the Minneapolis Chamber cf Com
merce, which is obviously the inten-
ton of the present management OF
Th Montana Wheat Growers AssOci-
alton.
This stool pigeon, Mr.. Day, in com
pany with Ray Lang (and you vii
notice that birds of feather tiocE
together) attended dance at the
; Koskey farm in the Outlook terrltor!
; last Saturday evening where n
thought he had fertile field fci
his lies and propaganda However
no one there was willing to listen t.
him and he soon felt rather los
among a crowd of farmers who ar
not at all friendly towards crooks AM
stool pigeons. Clair Stoner happene'
! To be there and Day was asked VIII
J sent him down and paid his expense
! for the gum-shoeing he was doing
: He readily admitted that Cresap sen
: him down and that the Wheat Grow
D ers were paying his expenses an
salary and that he was campaignin
II against Mr.. Stoner, although he ha
j nothing to criticize about Mr.. StOI
: ers conduct as a member of tn
Board of Directors. He was jus
I gum-shoeing for Cresap and of cours
he had to do what he was paid tC
+ doing. He also admitted that Me
: Christensen of Dagmar was Cresap
4 choice from this district and thf
+ they would spend considerable SUI
for his election.
L Cresap has evidently adopted Il
L same stvle of campaigning as tl
MINNEAPOLIS bankers and gra
gamblers adopted in the North Oak
D IA recall election two years ago.
a Is TeDCrted that the Grain Gamble
ana the DIX DclIlhAIAS anu ms l.
terests hired hundreds of stools
- travel up and down the state in aut
mobiles and on the trains for Il
n purpose of spreading disrupting pr
j paganda against the farmer canC
dates. A favorite story was he
Frazier was embarrassing t
farmers and how he was rather L
in his moral duties. They spent m
lions in this manner which of couI
thew expected to recover from
workers and the farmers Of the sts
cf North Dakota. Cresap has align
himself with these interests and tn
have evidently instructed as to
nrocedure which they employed
successfully against the farmers cs
didates in North Dakota. and VIII
method Cresap is now. employing
: Montana.