Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-10-19

the bureau anu iiASu ~ II oo"
and why he permitted, without a pro
test, the house to cut the last ap-
preparation for seed gram from
5 5000 900, as the bill passed the sen
ate, to 81, SOC, 900?
Senator Walsh said in part:
mi. Riddick, 1 observe by some
of the newspapers, has been e%ndeavor-
ing to avert the effect of his sorry
record of absence, when these and
other important votes were taken, py
saying that /, too. have frequently
been absent,-on one occasion making
a trip to Europe, and on another, TO
California, Mr.. Walsh said. My re-
cord is quite irrelevant at this time.
It NAV at some time in the future be
of immediate importance and a pro-
per subject of inquiry; but it Is re-
l~atively unimportant in this cam
paign.
Walsh Explains Trips
"Mr. Riddick must run on his own
record. He cannot expect to be elected
on the weakness of mine, If 1t IS weak
nor ought to be permitted to divert
attention from the frailties of his by
| charges directed against me. how
ever. it may not be inappropriate TO
saw that Mr.. Rddick quite accurately
advises the people Of Montana that
| on one occasion, while congress was
in SESSION, l went to Europe, and on
another, to California. On the "Trip
last mentioned, I was accompanied oy
nv physician and a nurse. passing, as
T was. through the valley OF the
shadow. l got back to Washington as
soon as 1 escaped the min~lstratlons
| of the doctors, much sooner than, IN
! prudence. I should have returned to
work. I went to Europe in the summer
of 1921, sailing from New York August
3, and Cherbourg, on the return Trip
| September ., going as n of a group
If representatives of the United
| States senate to the annual meeting
~ the Inter-Parliamentary Union, a
world organization for the promotion
"Our special mission was to incline
| the delegates from the various par
| liamentary bodies attending to lndorse
the disarmament conference at WASH
ington, for which the call had 9ust
been issued. A formal resolution, Whlch
7 drafted and urged before the appro-
pirate committee and on the floor, was
adonted. expressing the cordial APP
nroyal of the union of the conference.
/ dare say. the people of Montana
loving peace passionately, will heartily
approve of my participation IN the
meeting.
Didn't Call RiddIck "Peanut"
perhaps Mr.. Riddick is excusable
for some of the petulance he exhibits
He saws I called him a peanut" poll
1icien. He has been misinformed. ]
never did. It must have been someone
else. However, he proceeds to all! ms
names-a style of argument IN which
can claim no excellence. He says L am
referred to in the senate cloak-room<
as "a fussy old grandmother" l dare
saw I have some idiosyncrasies which
NAV well provoke some g~Ood-naturec
r~aiiIery or ill-natured comment, but
whatever they are, "fussines' either
of the grandmotherly kind or any other
kind. is not among them. venture
to say that Representative Riddick in
vented that story-not knowing mt
sufficiently to appreciate what m!
~pecularities are. That he does no
know me is evident from what ha'
been given out as the speech he de
Iivered at Deer Lodge in which b.
COUPLES me up with Mr.. Wheeler ant
refers to US as a pair of Butt
LAWYERS. Either he knows that | an
NOT and never have been a Butt
lawyer (Which argues that he is no
familiar with the history of the stat
and the lives of its public mem or h
deliberately misrepresents the facts il
order to excite unworthy prejudices..
1.-THE congressman is taking specla
credit for his efforts in connection will
that legislation. which originated In thu
senate. in q bill introduced by Senator
NcCnmber. and, particularly, for tn
legislation by which farmers owing tn
government on account of loans mad
for the purchase of seed grain, ant
who suffered a failure of crops, wer'
released from payment. Again, th'
record is against Mr.. Riddick. ]
shows that the law last mentioned orig
mated in an amendment to the agri
cultural appropriation bill (Which wa
silent on the subject as it came from
the house), put on in the senate on tn
initiative of Senator Curtis of Kansas
The record shows no word on tn
amendment by Mr.. Riddick in the nous
or elsewhere.
Where MIR. Riddick Spoke
"He did, indeed, speak in favor o
. the seed loan act of 1921, which orig
mated in the senate, as my recollec
ton serves me. One or more Montan
representatives in that body have bee.
heard in advocacy of legislation of tina
CHdEdCttTy DuI LHfS hdNC nv
ly pr~ess-agented their services in tina
behalf. Moreover, the policy was es
tablished in the year 1918, before Nj
Riddick was a member of the house
when S5,0OO,000 was allotted throug
the efforts of those same representa-
tives. who. however, have not been, l
season and out of season, rcmindin
the farmers of Montana of the graft
tude due their official benefactors.
"Mr. Riddick attributes the activit
of my opposition to his candidacy to N
being nettled because of being worste
in every engagement with him. | al
not conscious of having ever engage
in any controversy of any kind wit
the congressman. 1t is true that Pre-
tests have frequently been sent to m
against the appointments of candidate
recommended by him for postmaste
These | invariably transmitted to tn
department, and in one particular
fragrant case, l laid them PERSONAL
before the senate committee. His rec
concentrations were invariably followe
~agreeably to the policy of the preseI
administration TO hermit members {