The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1920-10-22
WHEELER RE- I.
AT WOLF POINT
CEIVED OVATION
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B. X. Wheeler delivered a telling
address and made a lot of votes, many
republicans declaring that they were
going to vote for B. K. Wheeler for
governor and the entire league ticket,
in order that the tax robbery existing
in Montana may be abolished.
Senator Anderson of Richland
county, life long republican, is
campaigning with Wheeler, support
ing Mr.. Wheeler and the entire
league ticket. Mr.. Anderson pro-
duced documents to prove that in the
last year Senator Dixon has
been on both sides of every question,
told the story of how Sen. Dixon and
tried to persuade him and r. c. Aim
old and other leaguers to endorse Sen.
Dixon, the senator actually soliciting
the nomination. Senator Anderson
said that while he was a republican,
that principle was greater than any
party name, and that when the demo-
cratic party declared for what he
stood for and the republican party de-
clarcd for reaction which he did not
stand for, then he supported the de-
mocratic party, at this point he was
cheered by a number of republican
farmers who belong to the league.
Senator Anderson called attention
that last summer Dixon came out for
I, constitutional convention, that now
he is opposed to a conventions; that
last winter he spoke against irriga-
ton bonds, that now he is in favor
of irrigation bonds; that Joe Dixon
had been Il "bull mooser" and a pro-
gressive for a number of years and
that now he is running on the most
Montana; that last winter he was So
Letting the nomination of the Nom
partisan league and the Montana La
Dor League and that now he is out
denouncing those. organizations as
Dangerous redS.'
SPECIAL TRAIN
Saturday the Wolf Point county
seat boosters put on a special train
and brought Wheeler and Anderson
to Froid for monster rally, Wheeler
speaking at Poplar, Brockton, Gull
bertson and Bainville on the way,
where they were greeted by nearly
thousand farmers, with goodly
sprinkling Of business men and which
meeting was pleasantly enthusiastic
and both Wheeler and Anderson spoke
to an interested and sympathetic au-
tlience.
WOLF POINT COUNTY SEAT
The special train that brought the
! farmer-labor candidates from Wolf
Point was named the "Farmer- Labor
| ci,J ~, L,,uo I,1rpn,.r ~, oorI, csIo
of the train, which was composed Of
three coaches, and on the banners
were also slogans boosting Wolf
Point for the county seat, thus de-
monstrating that Wolf Point wanted
the support of the farmers
! Wheeler and Anderson left after
the speaking by auto for Sydney, Sen.
Anderson's home, where the speakers
spoke to monster and enthusiastic
audience
| The dispatches: in the large daily
papers tell Of this meeting in the fol-
lowing language:
Sydney, Oct. 1S.-One of the most
enthusiastic receptions thus far giver
in the campaign in eastern Montana
was accorded to Montana's next gov.
ernor, B. K. Wheeler Of Butte, when
! he spoke Saturday night to two mon
| Sydney. Arrangements had been
! made with the local opera house for
the meeting to be held there, but the
crowds were so large that an "ov-
erf1ow' meeting was held in the
| courthouse, after the meeting in the
opera house. Truly, the meetings in
Sydney were the best attended Of any
political meetings in the history Of
this part of the state
Mr.. Wheeler was accompanied by
Senator Anderson of Richland county,
/ and this being the senator's home
county, the people were more than
anxious to head the speakers. Time
after time. applause broke the in
, tense silence that prevailed. Mr..
Wheeler showed where the farmers
| and the laborers had an interest in
common, and not antagonistic az the
republicans would have them believe.
he showed where the profits were
going when articles of food or cloth
ing We're being passed over the coun-
ed that the farmer and the labor
were both victims of the common
enemy of both, the "profiteer." He
ridiculed the idea that the farmers
and the labor rs were believers in
free love- and voiced the opinion
that if there were such a thing as
free love" in North Dakota, the
male population of Montana would be
materially depleted.
demonstration Of approval greet
ed his pledge that "the candidates of
the democratic party will carry out
the promises that they make to the
people of the state of Montana
Senator Dixon spoke in Sydney
last Saturday evening and there was
a marked difference in the attitude
the audience took. Dixon knew. and
the audience knew that he was a
beaten candidate. His talk lacked
sincerity. the directness that char
acterlzed Mr.. Wheeler's. Richland
county will go over the top for
Wheoler and the entire democratic
state ticket. The two thousand peo-
pie who heard Wheeler in Sydney are