Belt Valley times. [volume] (Armington, Mont.) 1894-1977, 1921-12-15
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the west, arriving ldtc III Tux dAeci
noon. brought Ripley.
The conditions all along the lint
are almost revolutionary" was Rip
ley's summing-up of the situation
Generally speaking, the public Is moi
holding us responsible as yet. though
of course there are croakers who are
saying that 1t is entirely a railroad
move. and predicting that we won't
do anything to interfere with the new
graft"
sCantrelI says the public. sentiment
is altogether on the side of the c. s.
& w. strikers" the boss put in.
at is; angrily so. There Is hot
talk Of a boycott to be extended to
everything sold or handled by the
Hatch syndicate. / hope there won't
be any effort made to introduce strike
breakers. In the present state of af-
fairs that would NEAR arson and riot
ing and bloody murder"
81 wired you because | wanted TO
consult you once more about those
ground leases. Ripley. Do you still
think you can made them hold?"
III Hatch breaks the conditions,
we'll give him the fight of his life"
was the confident rejoinder.
"But that will mean a long contest
In the courts. The Supreme court is a
full year behind It's docket. and the
1deiayEw inevitably multiply your
few ~scroakers' by many thousands.
But that isn't the worst of IT, Hatch
has q better hold on us than the laws
delay" And to this third member OF
his stan Mr.. Norcross told the story
of the political trap into which Col
IIngwood and the New York stock
johbers had betrayed the railroad man
agement.
Ripley comment was a little like
Hornackis; less profane, perhaps, but
also less hopeful.
"Good Lord" he calculated. $50
that is what Hatch has had up his
sleeve? / don't know how you feel
about 1t. but l should say that 1t is
all over but the shouting. If the Dun
ton crowd had been deliberately try
ing to wreck the property. they couldn't
nave gone about it In any surer way"
THAT is the way it looked TO me,
at first but I've had a chance
TO sleep on it-as you haven't. The
gun that can't be spiked la some way
has never yet been built. / have the
names of the eleven men who were
Hatch was daring enough to
give them to me. Holding the nfii-
which they were foolish enough {
to give him, Hatch can make them
swear to anything he pleases. But If
could get those afidavits I'd go to
.hese men separately and make each
me tell me how much he had been
,aid by Bullock for his vote
well, what thenT' !,
saThen l should make every mothers
OF them come across with the full
mount of the bride. on pain of an ,
xposure which the dirtiest politician :
d this state couldn't afford to face. !
hat would settle II. Hatch couldn't !
Tork the same game a second time" ,
We were closing our desks to go to s
inner when Fred May came in to say :
nat q delegation OF the payroll men a
as outside and wanting to have a !,
ord with the big Boss" Mfr. Nor !.
ross stopped with his desk curtain !
alf drawn down. o
"What is II, FredT" he asked.
81 don't know" said the Pitts n
IT should call II q grievance
!.
don't seem TO be mad about any
ing. Bart HoskIns is doing the talk )
z for them" :
"Send them in was the curt COM h
and, and a minute later the inner h,
lice was about three-fourths filled u
with a shutting crowd of 2. S. L.
en-. 4,
The chief looked the crowd over. HI
here was a bunch of train and engine v
en-. a squad from the shops, and a o,