Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-08-27
STATE HOUSE QUIET
As INTEREST TURNS
To PRIMARY TASKS
Business of Capitol Set Aside
While Officials Seek to
Boom Candidates..
(Tribune's Helena Bureau).

Helena. Aug. 26.-Business relating
10 the affairs of the state is at a low
ebb at the capitol due to the nearness
of the primary election and the wide
spread interest that is being taken Ivy
many of the state officials in the re-
suits of the contest.
Eleventh-ho appeals to the voter
are being made both personally and by
mail and great quantities of campaign
letters and circulars are going out from
the capital city. The busiest places in
the city Saturday were the rooms of
the New Era club, which is back of
paign, the Montana Democratic club
which is handling the publicity work
of the present minority and incidentally
fighting the governors program, and
the campaign headquarters of Attorney
General ". d. Rankin, candidate for
the republican nomination for United
States senator.
Dixon Out Campaigning
The governor is out of the city on
a campaign mission, having gone to
Huntley in Yellowstone county to ad-
dress a gathering of farmers on Sat
urday and a meeting in Billings, Sat
urday evening. Jerome g.. Locke,
chairman of the industrial accident
board, returned to the city Saturday
after a tour of the state, winding up
his campaign for the republican nomi-
nation for congressman from the
second district, and Attorney General
Rankin is in the city directing the
final work of his campaign.
Several other of the lesser lights
among the states official family are in
the field pulling every wire that may
result in some benefit for the candi-
date or candidates they are repre-
senting.
Congressman Carl Riddick, who
seeks the republican nomination for
United States senator, left Helena
Friday night for Great Falls. after a
brief visit here following a tour of the
western part of the state on which he
was accompanied by ROLAND J. Hig-
gins, assistant Z. S. district attorney,
and will finish his campaign in his
home county of Fergus.
State Senator ]. NJ. Anderson, of
Sidney. likewise a candidate for the
nomination on the republican ticket
for the U. s. senate, was in Helena
q left Saturday morning for Mis-
soula for q hurried visit in the west
side,
p Expect Light Vote
, Former Congressman Tom Stout
arrived in Helena, Saturday from Mis-
soula. and left Saturday evening for
Great Falls with the intention to going
back to Lewistown Sunday.
1t is the general belief that a very
light vote will be cast next Tuesday
and that in the country precincts the
vote will be especially light. 1t is rom
tended that the farmers are busy in
their harvest fields and .hat ,hey are
not sufficiently interested in the out
come of the preliminary contest to
take the time to travel to the polls.
Most of the vote is expected to be
cast in the cities and towns and even
in these it is expected the vote will
be much lighter than that If the
primary election Of two years ago.
The contest between the Dixon and
the anti-Dixon forces is expected TO
bolster up the republican vote but
considerable of a slump is looked for
in the democratic totals.
Because of the anticipated lightness
of the vote and the apparent dis
interestedness of the general voter in
the candidates it appears at this stage
to be anybCdy's race and no sure thing
for any one of the candidates for the
leading offices.