The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1918-10-18

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predominates. Pregressivaa
LINK that this connection would naIs
nlm friendly to the steel trust inter-
eses' which progress1ves saw. have No,
the interests of ALI +ba
people In the past. Wheaton has .1so
soes'epped the prohibition and suf.
ments. seaee-
mus II Is evident that Evans WIFI,
get the united progressive sunnart
wnne the reactionary strength will he
oislaed between Wheaton and pnrn.
eoist. In terms of figures tbis- wiI,
mean that the election result iii 49,
something like this: Evans. 16s Ooo.
81, nurnquist, 10000; Wheaton. $4,000
ms conclusion Is based upon primary
prosressives Have 10000.
progressive strength was measured
IN the primary by over $50, oeo votes
cast Tor the Nonpartisan league can.
uioate. This strength came from or.
sanizeo farmers and some organized
WORKERS. But in the primary. the solid
strength of the Minnesota Fedaration
OF Labor was not in the fiebt NJ
lapor mas unequivocally indorsed Dave
Evans the independent progressive
league and labor candidate. Many. Ia
boring men and farmers in the nri.
mary Wavered before the bitter
trumpeo up assaults made upon the
loyalty OF c. A. Lindbergh, league can
dldate, and these threw their strength
away from him, because they had been
mlsled into doubling his LOYALTY.
Ihere can be no assailing of the loyal
~ OF Dave Evans, so that he is as,
sureo or this strength. Because he
was Comstock Democrat, in the pri-
mary, ne is certain to get all of the
$4,000 votes which Comstock polled
he Will get all of the Lindbergh vote. I
hence the estimate that he will get
100000 votes is very conservative. /
Republicans and Democrats both adj i
NIT that they were forced to combine |
In the primary on Burnquist to defeat /
The league candidate In the primary /
Burnquist got 100000 votes, but 80 /
200 Of these were Democratic votes.
These Democrats will 60 back to their
own party In the fall election. Wheat
ON got only few over 10000 votes in
the primary, the result between his
vote and that of Gomstock being very
close. These $4,000 votes will, there II
fore, be taken away from Burnquist /
In the fall election, giving him 100, 900
and will go to Wheaton, giving him
$4,000.
Minor Parties Will Help.
Over in the Burnquist and Evans II
camps it is being argued that some
of the vote polled by Lindbergh came II
from Nationalist and Socialists, who, H
having no contests of their own, threw
their vote to Lindbergh. These dope H
sters console themselves with the
thought that this strength will not go
to Evans, but to separate candidates
Of these parties. H
Progressives deny this. They point
out that minor parties always realize ,
that their candidates have no chance.
With sharp lines drawn in the fight
this fall, such as have already mani I
tested themselves, they say that the /
minor parties see the necessity Of CIV H
ing Evans their support to exclude /
This they will do. They
further cite that the lifelong prohibit
ton record of Dave Evans will be suf-
ficient to attract united support Of the
Nationalist to him. II
Hence the political situation is seen
to resolve itself into two divisions
and reactionaries. They I
are called by other names, and the
of the elements in the
fight does not vary on different state
the clear line of distinc-
ion remains. And the powerfully sig 4
aificant feature of the situation is that
he progressives are united on one
man Dave Evans, to win, while the Fl
are divided between
8urnquist and Wheaton.