The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1920-10-28
THE ISSUE ovERsHADowING IN MONTANA
Billings Starr

Billings Starr
The coming contest in Montana is not merely a party
issue. No intelligent man can long mistake the issue.
Joseph M. Dixon, backed by every big corporate interest
in the state, backed by men who for years have ~plundered
the state and held Montana up to the shame of the world,
backed by every merchant profteer, is seeking the votes
of the people on the ground that he alone can sweep away
"the over-shadowing North Dakota menace" In his
speech at Helena he screamed, while his hands trembled
and his eyes seemed to burst from their sockets:
Gentlemen, call it what you will, temrosize with
it as you may, but this is the beginning of revolution
airy government in America! 1t is only the kinder
garten course in the full program that Lenine and
Trotsky have put in full force and effect in Russia"
For many months Joseph M. Dixon has been telling
the Nonpartisan farmers that he stood shoulder to shout
der with them in their fight against greed and monopoly.
Many months ago he wore overalls, MIXED COWS and tos-
sed hay to his ~purebreds, he told the red followers of Lee
nine and Trotsky, as he now calls them, that he was IN
thorough sympathy with their great movement.
When the Muscular was crying aloud that the Non
partisan farmers should not be allowed to desecrate the
city with their presence and Dick Whitaker had thrown
open to them his ranch on the hillside, Mr.. Dixon was de-
nouncing the infamous Muscular and offering to throw
open the ample grounds of his palatial home to these now
'disIoyal" men who will as soon as they gain power sieze
the rein of the government by force, murder the rich and
prosperous, and establish Soviet Russia in the land of
George Washington and Thomas Jefferson and Abraham
Lincoln.
Will MI. Dixon deny that he sought by all the artful
means of a politician to secure the support of the Nonpar-|
tfsan league? Will he deny that he went to Mr.. Alfred
Budden, manager of the League in Montana, for the pur-|
pose of persuading Budden that he alone in Montana was
able to lead the farmers organization to victory and to
humble that brazen thing, the Anaconda Copper COM
pany?
Because the farmers knew his record and could not be
induced to trust him, because they wanted to select their
own man, the Nonpartisan farmers rejected Mr.. Dixon in
spite of all his eloquent appeals for consideration. Will
the Muscular deny this?
Will MI. Dixon deny that he sought the aid of Bill
Dunn and the men whom he now denounces as fit com
panions of the Bolsheviks of Russia?
Mr.. Wheeler has at least been honest and consistent.
He has had the courage to take a stand, the courage to
fight in the open light Of day, the courage to champion the
interests of the farmers and workers and to tear the mask
from the exploiters Of the people.
The defeat of Dixon is not a party issue. 1t is a ques-
ton of the public veal. Joseph M. Dixon now stands I'M
covered in all his deformity in the blazing public opinion.
He now stands for everything that the law-abiding, God
fearing, Woodworking people of Montana have struggled
long to overcome-we mean the invisible government of
money. B. x. Wheeler stands against this invisible gov
eminent. He is fighting to put into place a government of
the people, for the people and by the people. Our appeal
is not to democrats only, but to republicans, to socialists,
to the men of every creed and of every party who love
their country, to join Wheeler in the high task he has set
before him: eff elected governor of Montana | will not
put the A. c. M. out of business. But | will put them out of
politics"
Not a destructive but a constructive statesman, Mir.
Wheeler appeals for support to all good citizens.