El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-09-14


For while the Non-Partisan league
y captured the legal machinery Of the
Republican party in North Dakota
and the same Ncu-Parrisan league
plus the labor elements in Montana
seized the Democratic machinery in
the state primaries this year and
nominated their own man for gov
Iernor-B. X Wheeler, formerly United
states attorney, whose record Of
friendship for the radicals and / w.
W. during war time caused the VIII
son administration 70 fail TO reap
point him when his term expired last
year. 1t so happens that Gov. Cox
received ar Wheeler on the train
while campaigning IN Montana last
week Although this pledged the
Non-Partlsan league Democrats Il
made the old line Democrats and con
fservative element in the state swallow
hard The feeling is so acute that
while the Democratic state ticket Of
Non-Partisan leaguers has officially
Endorsed Gov. Cox. much as the Nom
I formally approved or Harding ana
Coolidge. this has little bearing on
1 what the rank and file viii do For
I instance. while the Democratic politi-
clans who had the party machinery
I Wrested from their grasp at the prl-
maries may hesitate for the reason
Of eEpeuiency 20 say publicly they
] VIII support the Republican candidate
for governor, who. It is rumored, VIII
I be United States senator Joseph
z Dixon. The truth IS the regular
] Democratic vote VIII be split and only
a part OF il viii 60 20 the Nou-Par-
tisan league Democrats
Angry at Intrusion.
Z Party lines are disappearing IN the
/ snimosity the Democrats and Repub-
/ licans cherish against the intrusion
I in Montana affairs OF Townleyism or
. cha North Nrnfm nTrmnHfUr In
I radicalism.
1t is bad enough to have three
I crop failures in succession and It's
hard luck TO waste millions Of dollar1
[ in seed and have the whole state re-
I tarded in its growth and develop
I ment by factors over which there
I is no human control. but when q set
Of persons deliberately throws
I monkey wrench in The struggling
{ VvheelinEs Of an infant state like
I Montana, the furroWed brows OF the
I business men, big and little. the
property owner and the pioneer are
z thoroughly comprehensive 1t hurts.
] The Democratic press. which pre-
I dominates in this state, is either luke
warm or hostile TO the state tickets
/ in the primaries. For a while IL
/ looked as IL the Non-Partisan league
would select the Republican state ma
chinery as its prey IN the primaries
I Just as in North Dakota
Z There are some Democrats who are
I interested il national politics who
think the utilization with the Non
z Partisan league absolutely assures
7 the state 20 Cox But there are others
who wonder IL much OF that Non
I Partisan league vote viii not 90 70
{ Christiausen. the labor candidate for
president. or Debs-
In Butte. after talking with some
Of the radicals the writer got the
{ impression that a large vote would
I be cast for both Debs and Christian
sen IL their names were placed on
1.-The ballot It takes 5000 signatures
10 do this. something quite easy 20
do in the mining camps. But II would
Z take counivance on the part OF the
3 eSon-Partlsan league and labor chiefs
TO start such a movement ana Lue
I consequences might be 1atal 70 me
chances OF Mr.. Wheeler and the Nom
I Partisan league state ticket For the
latter cannot win the state By their
vote alone. They must acquire al
least half Of the regular Democratic
vote.
Wheeler Called Radical
Anything that savors Of a desertion
Of the Cox national ticket would be
met by Objections among the old line
Democrats who are holding their
minds open on the subject OF Ar
Wheeler's candidacy.
moreover MUCH o. -AAa AsA-A
OF Debs strength is the normal So
cialist vote. Probably az heart Mr.
Wheeler is as dangerous a radical as
the organization surrounding him.
Bis radicalism iB said 70 be the re-
suit OF resentment over the criticism
leveled at him while he was United
States attorney.
IN the Democratic state convention
at Helena a few days ago Mr. wheeler
went out Of his way to say that he
was and Is a Jeffersoniau Democrat
and that he hoped the people Of the
state would recognize a distinction
between a man like senator D-1ons
who, he alleged, had sought the Non
Partisan league Endorsement in sup
posed Communication with IoWnley,
while he. Wheeler had received the I
voluntary support Of the Non-Partisan Z
me soeausd filtration between 1fr- /
Dixon and the Nou-Partisan league I
has been indignantly denied, while ]
1Ir. IYTheeler's use o. the word vol I
uutary" has been questioned These ]
admit that he didn't 60 to North Da- ]
kota to get Townley's support, but I
effected an understanding which was I
lar more important to the labor lead I
ers Of Montana on this IoHniey I
has been relying for the creating OF I
a farmer labor alliance in this state 4
that would carry out the Non-FarIi-
san league program
OF course, the radical movement IS I
dfscoucerting. but Montana and North !
Dakota do not furnish the same op-
portunities for success 70 radical /
program like that attempted by 1
For one thing. North Dakota is a ]
homogeneous unit Of farmers. Here 4
labor saw an altogether different set I
Of aims. Moreover. the big copper d
companies, with billions in wealth .
and assets. are not amateurs IN the I
ways Of the fighting radicals They /
have a strange way Of taking radicals
10 their bosoms and while the BUSH
ness interests OF North Dakota have I
finally organized TO fight the Non
Partisan league and have already /
scalped q few state offices the con-
servatives and money power in Mon
tana Is already well equipped 60 I
handle the Non-Partiszn league even I
IL IL should happen TO get possession
Of the state government next 1alL
Neither the cox nor the Roosevelt 4
trip set this state on fire with eI-
element politically. Criticism Of the \
speeches and the texts chosen for I
Montana was heard by the writer /
not only among Republican but .
Democrats. Some Of the radicals who /
are supposed 70 be supporting the I
Democratic national ticket weren't /
won by Gov Cox's boasts about his .