The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1918-08-23
Tales of the Office Cat

In some manner the usual canned
editorials from the "Powers That Be
did not arrive for the "pie-near" last |
week and the able literary gentleman
who acknowledges himself to be the
editor of that sheet was compelled to
employ some school boy to write a
long TRADE upon the very interesting
subject of Bolsheviks, Pro-Germans,
etc. This was set in perfectly good
type and printed upon nice White
paper. After reading the dribble the
reader is at loss to know what it is
all about. The persons attacked in
the article, with the possible excep-,
ton of the editor of this paper, have
long resided in Sheridan County AMI
the general public knows their repu-
tation and likewise knows the repu-
tation of Little joe" Further COM
ment is unnecessary.
A great number of vacancies that
require relatives of prominent poll
ticians to fill are now evident at the
Court House. The Clerk and Re
corder's office can pay $85 per to
any of your young relatives from
now until election if you have any
political influence to trade. Incident
ally, if you have just coolies of infiu-
ence and can control the votes from
some big end town perhaps you can
"cop" $125 per for your good will
between now and the closing Of the
polls. Of course this is the taxpay-
ers' money and the approval OF the
County Commissioners is necessary
but they are all good fellows. If you
doe not believe it ask "little joe."
It would sure hurt if you had fol
many moons flirted with an outfit Of
BoIshevikis, Pro-Germans and So.
cialists in the hope that somehow
they could be induced to support yor
for the office of, for instance, Coun
ty Attorney, and then have them IN
dorse some person for that particu
lar office who was practicing Law
when you were a school boy. Yo.
would probably then be so mad tina
you would forthwith meet with ;
gang of "paytriots" and eloquent.
and tearfully refer to all those VIII
do not think you are the wisest ant
cleverest person in the communit,
as "Pro-Huns." You would the
buster and snort about 100 per cen
Americanism and other interesting
subjects that the Montana Stat
Council of Defense says shall not b
used as campaign matter.
Of course, no person is doing any
thing like we have sSetched abov'
but it might happen "doncherno."
Jack Leonard has been induced t
become a candidate for county CON
missioner by the citizens of VOL
Point. Just how much inducemer
it requires to force Jack to become
candidate is not stated in any of tn
reports. He has unsuccessfully a:
pired for county Office IN this sectio
for so long time that the word il
duce is painfully appropriate.
Beware of the fellow that tells yo
that the League ticket is all O.
with one or two exceptions and WI
then proceeds to tell you somethin
about those exceptions. Someor
else is telling some other Leagu
the same story about some otht
candidates and in that way the gan
hopes to save something from IL
wreckage of their machine. II
story-teller may even claim to be
member of the League and may sho
his credentials but the only CR1
DENTIALS THAT ARE ACCEP'
ABLE AT THIS TIME is A WILL
INGNESS TO BE BOUND BY TIL
WILL OF THE CONVENTION A
WELLIVER AND A DETERMINE
TION TO STICK.
Bob Ntzhugh, h e Hamlet-ll
curbstone statesman from the ia
city of Culbertson-is consoling h
fellow Democrats with fatherly a
vice. He says that as the Repub
cans, Socialists and "Non-participa
ing fellows" (Bob's own words) ha