Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-11-01
FARMER" RIDDICk
TN A LAST HOPE of stemmin

TN A LAST HOPE or stenrning
the stampede to B. K. Wheeler
away from himself, Carl w. Rid
dick, republican candidate for the
United States senate, is appealing
to the farmers Of the state ito not
send another lawyer to the Uni
ted States senate" leaving the in
ference that he (Riddick) is a
farmer while, Of course. every one
knows that B. K. Wheeler is a
lawyer-and a successful one at
that.
Before the expose a few weeks
ago which disclosed that neither
Riddick nor his wife own a farm
in Montana and are o even tax
payers in this state, Riddick made
much of the fact that he was the
"only dirt farmer in congress" He
now has III this reference to him
self out of his speeches, for fear
some one will ask where the dirt
is located on which he bases his
p~retensions as a farmer.
Kiddick's tactics now are to hide
his own shortcomings behind a
meaningless smoke screen of at
tack on his opponents profession.
"Wheeler is a lawyer" says Rid
dick, do you farmers want an
other lawyer in the United States
senate2"
If that is the sum total Of all
the arguments Fiddick has to make
against Wheeler, the farmers may
we'll ask in return: rs it not as
much for the interests of Montana
to send a lawyer to the United
States senate-a mar who has lived
in the state nearly two decades,
a man who came here poor, but
has made a success of his busi-
ness and now owns much property
and is a big taxpayer, yet who is
and always has been a champion OF
the mass of people-as to send to
the United States senate a mar
who has lived in the state only 10
years, eight of which he has been
an officeholder, and who previous
to coming to this state was an edi-
tor and politician in the state OF
Indiana?"
In a recent issue of the New
York Times (Oct. 22), the politi-
cal writer Of that paper, in refer
ring to the Montana campaign:
said: Carl w. Riddick, the 1epub-
lican nominee, was until a few
years ago a politician of Indiana
In the Congressional Year Book
of 1922 in a biographical sketch
written by himself. Mr.. Rfddick
says: WAS editor Of the Winamac
(Ind.) Republican for II years
was secretary of the Indiana repub-
lican state central committee in
the campaigns of 1906 and 1908"
So, giving Riddick credit for act
ually working on a farm two years
in Montana previous to his getting
onto Fergus county's payroll, we
find that during the last 20 to rs
years, at least 1e years have been
spent by him either as an editor
and politician or as an officehold-
er and politician, but always q
politician!
The choice then, according to
Mr.. Riddick, is between a lawyer
or himself-and he points with
pride to his record Of service as a
, partisan editor in Indiana, a parti.
san worker on the Indiana republi.
i can committee, a partisan office.
holder in Montana and Washing.
ton and a collector of partisan
campaign contributions in Wash.
ington.
Over in Terry the other day, &C.
cording to The Tribune of tina
place, Riddick told the farmer:
: this: Farming is the bigges'
business in the nation and the only
t one that is not organized. In al
his dealings, seeking credit, buy
ing or selling, the unorganizee
e farmer must deal with organized
business" He continued in thi:
! vein to some lengthy leaving ths
: impression that he is a champion