The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-24

tndl tnele WASH any trouble telling East
ern gentlemen FUN Western gentlemen. Here
and there been railroadin' the West for
twenty years and the Northern Pacific, the
Union Pacific. the Great Northern and the
Milwaukee and st. Paul look pretty much
the same to me. But, shucks the Western
gentleman Is more Eastern than the Eastern
gen leman Is now. The only man who rides
wild and wears trick clothes nowadays is the
Fastener who comes out here for his health
or somethin and when he gets to feelin'
peart again he goes gallivantin around like
he thinks Western folks do And the other
Fastener comm out in the summer time to
see the West secs the Easterler and SHOUTS.
"'Oh see the cowboy Amt he pic
turesque. though. Wonder what ne thinks
OF tenderfeets?"
The West Is far more openhanded and
comrady than the East. There's no doubt
about that. They have just as many faults,
shortcomings and vices as we Fasteners
have to be sure, but they seem to cloak
and dissemble them less. They seem to take
life less seriously, too
To illustrate the latter point. There is
reporter on the Anaconda {Montana) Stand
ard who, two years ago, was nominated for
Governor by the Socialists of the State To
be nominated for Governor on the Socialist
ticket In Montana is just about as impress
sive as being nominated for the Presidency
of the United States on the Single Tax ticket
The Anaconda StendGrd is owned by the
Anaconda Copper Mining Company and 1t
cannot be said to be a radical organ. The
reporter, having thought the situation over,
went to Richard Kilroy. editor Of the Stand
ard.
Dick" he began, II guess I'll have to re-
sign"
why, George?' queried Kilroy.
Iv1IT
nominated me for Governor and guess I'd
better get out, because you know We So
cialists are knocking the Anaconda pretty
hard and it wouldn't seem fair for me to be
writing politics for you and bawling you out
at the same time you know"
"Oh, forget It," replied Kilroy. BE SEN
sible. George. You won't be elected. You
know that You'll need your job and you'd
better stick. Just 60 ahead writing the
truth about the situation. We don't want
you to be a propaganda. Go right ahead
covering the news and I'll see to 1t that
you have your nights off to campaign In.
We're good friends and there's no use let
ting little thing like political belief or
utilization separate US. Go to It, old man.
Have a good time"
The reporter surrendered to the philos-
ophy of his chief He wrote a story inn
mediately for the Standard. The Socialists.
he wrote. had committed the colossal blunder
OF nominating an unknown incompetent"
for Governor. 1t was great error on the
part of the Socialists" This man upon
whom they had decided for Governor was
unworthy and untitled" The Socialists
were, all things considered. pretty poor
pickers and were due for tremendous lick
ing at the polls"
Georges story continued thus to the ex-
tent of a column Of newspaper space. 1t
was O'Clock when he had finished the ar
ticle and turned It over to Warren Davis
his city editor.
I'm to address a meeting at $3.50. War
rem" said George, "and won't be back to-
night"
Good luck, George, and don't let the nasty
capitalists slip anything over on you was
Davis's rejoinder.
block away from the offices of the
Anaconda STANDARD George mounted soap
box. A crowd of a hundred or so sur
rounded him and for an hour he held them
enthralled as he dissected the Anaconda
Copper Mining Company and It's mouth
piece the Anaconda Standard His reiiow
journalists led the cheering for the pro-
letariat and the jeering of the plutocrats who
owned the richest hill on earth, where cop
per, gold and silver are mined In fabulous
quantity. He read his own newspaper story
of the Socialist nomination and wanted TO
know whether that was fair. The crowd
howled it's derision at the libellous article
and then, George having descended from his
rostrum, dispersed to its several homes feel
ing much better.
But George went back to the Offices Of the
Anaconda STANDARD and wrote the story of
his own meeting
why" testifes Kilroy, had George writ
ten that about any man except himself wed
have been sued for libel and would have had