The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1922-11-02
Irainmen Who Expected to Use Absent
Voters Ballots Cut Off From Their
Rights = Railroaders Doublecrossed
By Poplar---Lovers Of Fair Play are
Disguised

Monday morning Oct. 80 eight full days before the
polls of the 1922 general election open the official
ballots of the three precincts of Wolf Point city, and those
Iof precinct 81 which surrounds Wolf Point, deliver
led at the four polling places in the city and Odtown
22 miles by the highway from Poplar matter of As to
100 minutes by auto and 35 minutes by train There
three trains day between the cities
Thus through another piece of fine handiwork of Pop
lars gang of experts large number of railroad will
be cut off from their right to vote.
AS is well known to everyone, many train men, and
other railroad employees are kept away from their pre-
cincts by their duties election day. Many trains leave
"a terminal like Wolf Point every day and the must
be away from home several days before another call brings
them home The present busy calls for the maxi
mum of trains and crews.
1t to preserve the constitutional rights of voters in
Just such occupations that the absent voters law put
the books But has to be pretty foxy law that the
Poplar gang can't get around. Long experience in po
itica piracy has made the mgood and they seldom
look chance. But they pull off stuff in the
open if they can avoid it. In case like the present one
when they are desperate in their determination to keep
grip the handle of the county money chest and there
chance to cut off bunch of opposition votes, they
will resort to the rough stuff What could voters and tax
payers expect at their hands they had the county seat
safely anchored in their Poplar camp?
Remember that this county is 80 miles long and that
Poplar go miles, by road from the east end of it
and only 22 miles from Wolf Point Excepting or two
the Wolf Point precincts closer to the county office
building than any Of the rest Of the 81 polling places
But the Wolf Point ballots taken away from the clerks
office first of ALL eight days before election
The law provides that any voter expecting to be away
from MS precinct and county on the date OF elecIon may
make application and receive ballot which may be voted
before notary at distant point, and mailed to the
Clerk and Recorder of the voters home county, or that
ballot may be voted at the Clerks office. Many of the
Great Northern rainmen expected to vote in this manner
and a few had done Then the coup sprung and
several raroader who drove to Poplar Monday forenoon
came home without voting disappointed but wiser to the
ways of the political game played by the raroaders
friends at the temporary county seat.
The suspicion that the railroad boys not going to
vote according the gangs wishes certain officials
we'll county seat doubt had big influence in de-
Gliding the gang for this bold stroke with the ballots In
the primaries when the gang wanted votes for Macy
they took good of the railroad boyskep the Pop
ar-Wolf Point road Cat 25c per mle) with their
attentions But things different now.
The whole deal is rotten that it smells to the sys
1t incredible that such things happen in the
great State Of Montana in the Land of Liberty Yet they
do it and usually get away with it. This gang, by the way
ations.