Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-08-10
O'CONNOR SCORES
BUREAU
RAPS RUM LAWS
Senatorial Candidate Says Nor.
ais Cannot Be Voted Into
the People.
Special to The Tribune.

Special to The Tribune.
Kalispell, Aug. ?.-Judge j. F.
O'Connor, democratic candidate for
United States senator and chief
counsel in the Conley case. reiterated
the platform upon which he seeks the
support of the voters, i'll an address
delivered here Monday.
Judge O'Connor developed at length
the taxation problems of the state ana
dwelt upon the alleged uselessness OF
the many commissions and bureaus re
Gently created and declared that sncn
organizations created by the last i've
congresses had cost the federal gov
eminent $4,000. OO0,O Referring to
government by bureaus, he said: we
are gradually transforming this re-
public into a government by bureau
which is wholly inconsistent with re-
publican institutions" Referring TO
the proposed Smith-Towner education
bill for which the judge claims the
proponents are asking $1OO,OOO,OOO, ne
said, The American people should
step on such invasions of their nights
on the part of these fanatics, as such
an institution would be un-Amerlcan.'
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Touching on the Volstead act and
prohibition, the speaker frankly de-
clared for modification, claiming that
the present law was breeding laWless-
ness and Hypocrisy, and that any at
tempt to legislate morals into the PEG
pie could not be done successfully;
He added that "in my Judgment 1t woule
be helpful to the people and relleve the
intolerable conditions existing II the
Volstead act were modified so as to
permit the manufacture and sale OF
wines and beer consistent with the
spirit of the eighteen amendment and
sold under government supervision and
control"
Disclaiming any desire to try the
Conley case out of court, Judge
O'Connor declared that the governors
statements in this respect should not
be permitted to 60 unchallenged and
showed that the claim that the state
had paid Conley SOL 900 for hay and
oats was not supported by evidence
nor did it show that work was done
for the state highway commission and
that the prison had been reimbursed
by that department.
He also alleged that the governor
bad mis-stated facts in connection with
the expenses incident to the use OF
Conley's autos and trucks.
Arraigns Commission
The state highway commission war
also arraigned by the speaker, who said
that there were 115 men drawing sal
aries totaling S240.0OO annually who
did nothing but build roads on paper"
and added that neither does the gov
ernor tell you that the chairman of the
highway commission is drawing a sal
airy of $1,000 per year for work that
was done by Mr.. Conley free of charge
to the state"
Referring to the governors state
ment that certain people were not pay
ing their share of taxes, Mr.. OConnor
referred to the fact that the governor
is a member of the state board Of equal
ization and as such should have pre-
vented the condition which he (Dixon)
criticised.
The judge pledged himself to a pro
gram of tax reduction both nationally
and in the state and in making his fina'
pleas for support said: Let us wake
up. We are taxed too much. We are
governed too much. We are the most
b~e-governed country on earth. Let uE
u~nstrap the American people and put
them on their honor. Teach the boy
and girl the responsibilities of aD
American citizen and then let them
live their own lives. conduct their owr
business and affairs in accordance with
the principles of a republican form of
government. and let the democratic
party be the emancipation Of American
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