The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1922-09-29

the iIl-will of the taxpayers against
the old grating gang of Roosevelt
county, who looted the county ano
put it bankrupt, ean be now directed
against POPLAR, because chat city has
been the temporary county seat ane
the. home of some OF the grafters
and that it can capisallze the sseoo
will it made among the taxpayers IL
the fight against the gang in August
to its benefit in November. But It is
not likely that Wolf Point can do that
for cold reason will disclose the naked
truth that Wolf Points fight against
the grafters is not and never was sim
cere, but is only strategy made use of
in its fight for county seat, and which
will never be heard Of more after the
7th day of November.
The. "Gang" in Roosevelt, county
does not reside at Poplar--it resides
all over that benighted county, it.
sides all over Valley county, it resides
all over Daniels county and big por-
ton resides all over Sheridan county,
and big chunk Of. it resides in Wolf
Point itself, so the effort to make
Poplar a member of the gang is most
ly pure piffle-the flies gather around
the honey, and when the honey is at
Wolf Point, there the flies will be.
Wolf Point, like Mr.. Gump, is now
100 per cent for the people," and
"Wear no mans collar" but last
election, the business men of Wolf
Point elected the master mind Of the
gang of northeastern Motana, Frank
Weinrich as a perusa! of the vote of
that city will show. Wolf Point bust
ness men, those who are 100 per cent
of The taxpayers" voted also for Judge
Conner for Judge of the district court
and double crossed the farmer candi-
date, Arthur Stangeland. Judge Com
er is the keystone of the gang in
nor '.leastern Montana and every Wolf
Point business man knows it and
knew it two years ago. Wolf Point
has got just what it voted for
two years ago. Wolf Point has not
taken one step to bring any one to
justice-it has not petitione1 for
Grand Jury, it mas not hired attor-
neys, it has not brought prosecutions
against wrongdoerS, it has only howl
ed and made lot of noise when that
town has thought that it could make
bullion out 81 prejudice for its own
mint. It is not likely that Mayor
Moore of Wolf Point would ever go
beyond the CAB stage in his cham
pionship of the down-trodden taxpay
er, and even as the leading gabster
he is playing a strange and unfami-
liar role-for Mayor Moore is known
of yore: he is one of the most bitter
farmer haters, one of the nastiest la
Dor haters in northeastern Montana
and his interest in taxpayers in the
past, has been Identical with that of
Frank Weinrich, Of whom he is a
close friend, just what he can get out
of them.
So much for the big county seat
fight and the great game of kidding
the public. It will go on and in the
end the county seat will be located In
one town or the other-if it is moved,
the taxpayers of the east end of the
county will pay for the moving and
they will pay about $500 extra for
every service made by the sheriff in
the east end of the county, if it is in
Wolf Point rather than at Poplar.
Following is the story of why the
county seat should be at Poplar, ap-
pearing in the Roosevelt County In
dependent last week; the Wolf Point
story will appear in these columns
next week, in order that the public
may have both sides of the great
fight:
COUNTY SEAT SITUATION
e In presenting Poplar's bid for
the permanent county seat of
Roosevelt County, we choose to do
SO purely upon the merits of the
cause, and will at all times dur
ing the campaign endeavor to
stick to the real text of the issue.
Poplar's arguments are backed
by solid facts and appeal to the
common sense of every voter.
, Plenty of idle propaganda will be
used to becloud if possible the
real question. All we ask is that
the intelligent and thinking folks
of Roosevelt County carefully
analyze such matters and having
done so, we have no fear of the
ultimate results of the November
election. POplar's contentious are
founded on the bedrock of indis-
putable facts and we need ask no
quarter nor need we give any
quarter.
This is question now to be
finally decided, once and for all.
Therefore, it behooves every citi-
zen, voter and taxpayer to give
the matter the most careful con-
sideration and not be swayed by
groundless propaganda. Poplar's
chief claim as the logical place
for the county seat rests upon its
ideal central location. Poplar is
in the center. 4 county seat
centrally located Is not only most
accessible to a majority of the
people, but is also most economic
ally conducted by reason of that
very fact.
Thousands of dollars yearly are
saved to the taxpayers in a NUM-
Der of ways by centrally locating
their county seat. The saving
lies partly in mileage of witness
es, jurors, sheriff's fees and the
mileage of other officers. Mileage
under the law is computed 1t the
rate of ten cents per mile or
twenty cents coming and going.
Wolf Point is % miles west of Il
TIC That means SlIl in extra