Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-08-28

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outlined by two candidates for the dem
ocratic nomination for United States
senator, Tom Stout and Burton h
Wheeler. at the picnic at Great Falls
park held Sunday afternoon under the
auspices of the Cascade Trades and
Labor assembly.
Stout gave his as "a squar deaP'
and Wheeler's. as outlined by him, was
similar. He said that he war with
labor in all it's problems when labor
was right, if it ever were wrong in Its
legislative requests, labor could' not e6-
pect his support
Other speakers on the program of
the afternoon were X. NJ. Lord, candl-
date for the democratic nomination for
representative in the state legislature,
and George MerkIe of Belt, candidate
for the democratic nomination for state
senator. Joseph Kirschwing. candidate
for the democratic nomination for state
senator, was chairman Of the meeting.
Wellington ID. Rankin, attorney, gen
eral and candidate for the republican
nomination for United States senator,
was to have appeared on the program,
according TO arrangements made with
his manager, but was unable to make
the engagement.
Each Is for Winner
An important part VI lHt LdihS ~
the two candidates on the democratic
ticket for senator, according to dem
ocratic hearers, was that Stout prom
ised his support to Wheeler, should
Wheeler win the nomination. Many
parts of Wheeler's talk were similarly
interpreted.
Stout's address was of 80 minutes
duration. He talked earnestly and
f~luently upon general political condi-
lions in the nation and the state. In
part, Stout said:
THE backwash of the greatest war
in the history of the human race has
left us with many problems of tragic
concern to be faced by the people of
our own land and to be solved, If pos
sible. by the statesmen of this republic.
1t is not a task for weak men or of
men whose thoughts are conferred upon
the demands of expedient craftsmanship.
Thus far, many of the greatest states
men OF the times have failed utterly
to find the key to the riddle of post
war conditions and as a result, we flnd
the world, including our W country,
more unsettled insofar as its political,
social an industrial relations are con
cerned than on the day the armlstlce
was signed.
Must Forget Partisanship
The ends of claptrap craftsmanship
will have TO be forgotten while we Sc
lect men for high public places who
are to be entrusted with the job OF
bringing our country back ito that state
of prosperity and contentment which
was ours before we became involved IN
the World war. ] make no claims, my
friends, to any exalted talents OF states
manship. | do not present myself as
one ideally fitted for the heavy tasks
which will fall to the lot of the man
selected next November to represent
this great state in the senate OF the
United States. | simply offer the adj
vantages gained from four years ex-
perience in the American congress and
the promise which comes from q care
full study of national affairs and the
earnest desire to give all there is in
me toward the solution of our prob
lens.
'This being a gathering of labOring
men and women, | feel that it may not
be immodest for me to refer to facts
which have already been given some
pubIicity-the facts that my record in
congress indicates my willingness to do
all that may be honorably Ion TO aid
that section of our citizenship and that
nv record as an employer of iabor
proves nv earnest desire to contribute
toward the just treatment of the men
and women who comprise the army of
toilers in this state.
Desires to Represent All.
"In conclusion, permit me to say
that I nave no ambition to go to the
senate of the United States as the rep
resentative solely of the .laboring class.
or of the farming class, the banker
class or any other particular class Of
our population. | desire to go to
Washington. if at all, as the represen-
tative of the 100000 men and women
and children who live out on the farms,
In the cities and towns of this state.
7 believe that / know something Of
their needs. / nave seen the tragedies
which have been enacted here during
four vars of misfortune. | have in
my heart the purpose to represent
them. every one of them, u~prightly and
with fidelity in the halls of the Ameri-
can senate and upon that ground alone
do / base my appeal for your suffrage
at the polls next Tuesday"
Wheeler made an attack upon the
republican party, saying that it had
failed to pass legislation for the work
ing and farming people.
"You people have always got just
what you voted for" he said. "They
haye tod you farmers what they were
gong 10 40 Tor you anu LOT lHe ldDoT-
ing men. 1t makes no difference what
republican you vote for. They have
to line up with the republican admin
istration. / tell you that no matter
what they tell you, when you elect a
republican and he goes to Washington.
he has TO get right behind the Harding
program. So it is that on the republi-
can ticket You have one who calls him
self a progressive republican, one who
says he is a LaFollette republican. one
who says he is a Harding republican.
There is only one man on the republi-
can ticket who deserves your support.
Anderson is the only man who is en-
titled to your vote. He should be on
the democratic ticket for he is for the
COMMON people"
He outlined his position in opposition
to the Esch- Cummings bill guarantee
ing the railways six person on their
capital stock.
'"That is not on their actual valua-
ton but on all the stock they have
issued" he said. you haven't found
the republican administration guaran-
teeing the return to the farmer, the
merchant. coal men or bankers"
Taft Is Criticized