Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-10-23
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"Once more. and it is a habit, Gov
|ernor Dixon's familiarity with the con-
|ditions in the state" says the Miles
City Star (Rep.), enables him to make
ia practical suggestion, which is couched
in the form of a request for action to
supply jobs for settlers in the regions
Iof the Milk river, Sun river. and Flat
head United States reclamation prof.
lects. Work on the canals
Icould be done in the winter time as in
any other season, is the belief of the
governor. who is unable to find any
reason why labor cannot be started at
once. The request, or appeal, is
very reasonable one, besides being prac-
teal"
Prominent among the t'cat calls and
jeers' thrust at the governor is ban
ner headline in the Producers News at
Plentywood. which has succeeded the
Montana Nonpartisan as the official
state paper of the Nonpartisan league.
The headline runs: ..Administration
Brawls While State Plunges to it,
News are short but ferocious. 1t says:
promised if the Nonpartisan and La
Dor league won have occurred and oc
Cured in his administration. What
has he done about it? What will he
do about it? Nothing. Why? Be
cause Governor Dixon never intended
to do anything. Because Governor
Dixon does not know enough to de any
thing. He not only does not know
what should be done but he is not
statesman enough to do anything if he
did know. The administration is dead
locked in a political brawl for pef and
place. and carries on drunken fish
wives fight while the agricultural and
industrial interests of the state are laid
to waste by ruthless hands. Nero fid-
dies while Rome burns"
Governor Dixon and Attorney Gen
eral Rankin" says the Bozeman Chron-
icle (Oem.), ARE passing the cempli-
ments of the season to each other at
every opportunity in way that in fur
nishing the Democrats on the side lines
pl1nty of amusement. Each one is ac-
cusing the other of playing politics on
virtually every move that is made.
/. There are some people in Mon
tana who are slightly inclined to believe
that neither of our distinguished state
officials are losing sight of the fact
that next year United States senate.
is to be elected
Governor Joseph NJ. Dixon" says
the Glasgow Democrat DEM.
seems to be able to match a daily
scrap with the members of his official
family at the state capitol. He scraps
with the state treasurer. the auditor.
the secretary of state and the attor-
ney general. In fact he doesn't seem
to get along with any but those whom
he appointed to office. Now, when
Sam Stewart. an unregenerate Demo.
crat. was governor. he got along with
about the same hardboiled bunch Of
Republicans in the incest possible way
There never was an unkind word
spoken, ...... 1t may be that Gov
than Dixon. Maybe, Sam spoke softly
while toting big spiked club. $3.50.
We certainly miss the fine statesman
like harmony which. like the mantle of
charity, perfect trust and real brother
~ love. so enveloped our state ad-
ministration when Sam Stewart was
governor"
The Chotsau Acautha Ind.) says the
discordant notes in the state capitol
must be a source Of good deal OF
satisfaction to Montana Democrats who
see in Republican party strife an
opportunity to reverse the order OF
the last election the next time the
electors Of the state 90 to the polls. If
the big men Of the Republican party
do not begin soon to heed the signs
and patch up family difficulties. the
entrance Of the discordant note may
well be the beginning Of the swan song
for Montana Rerubhcanism. No public
faith in wordy protestatien Of party
virtue can endure indefinitely with no
benefits accruing to the account OF the
taxpayer"