Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-11-02
RECORD CROWD Turns
OUT TO HEAR WHEELER
Hundreds Forced to Attend Overflow Meeting II
u. Capitol Theater; Riddick's
i Policies Scored.

country. they not only would return
SATISFACTORY earnings to- the owners, put
wonld pay a living wage to their EN-
ployes-and at the same time grant q
cut in the freight rates. ~ Tue oa
cannot sustain themselves. h1es ehouidd
be taken over by the government anu
run without profit in the same way
the postoffice is conducted, ne, sL
Judge Jackson, the first spSSaker'
declared that the electorate OK tne
state is thinking and that the Jhas-
ment of the people always is righ-
He believes that in the coming election
the power of the people will be returned
to them-"where it belongs tie sara
that woodrow Wilson was the greatest
champion Of the people since Abraham
Lincoln and that when the history OF
his administration finally is written !.
| will show that he guarded against the
turning over of the government for the
few to pilfer.
Calls on People.
'aThe people this fall have the right
to put the stamp of approval on tue
present administration if they do ap-
prove it." he said, ''but if they desire
to repudiate it, they have a magnificent
ing B. X. Wheeler to the United States
senate and 2. B. Moss to congress; II
| the signs we read now mean anything
November z will see the greatest iand-
| slide to the democratic party ever en-
joyed by any party in the state.
The courts, said the speaker are
kept out of the center of political strlfe
and function for the benefit of the PEG
pie in seclusion. But, he said, the
courts are the last bulwark of liberty,
1t is there that the rights of the people
are guaranteed. He referred to the
late Chief Justice Theodore Brantly
feelingly and declared that the state
never had a more brilliant mind, a man
Of greater courage or honesty mar Tue
late Justice. If elected, he said, ne
would endeayor to strive to follow the
way pointed out by Justice Brantiy.
Tom Stout referred to Riddiek as a
candidate who claims to have been the
onlv Simon pure dirt farmer in con-
cress. but characterized him as a "dlrt
farmer without a farm" He said that
Riddick bought some land in Fergus
county on contract and, "as lo,U0U
! better men have done" failed to make
ia success of it. At another location,
however, he kept 40 acres of land,
which the assessor "over-valued at
S325. This land. he said. was never
farmed. and finally a machinery ON
Dany forecl0Sed on II ana ielt IAS III
congressman without a farm OF any
description"
Stout Flags Riddick
In northern Montana Riddick appear:
to be so intimately acquainted VII
the president that he calls him War
rem" said Stout. He told them VI
there not long ago that he noticed the
price of wheat had dropped. so ne gust
autographed to his friend Warren aoou'
it and within a day or two called at.
~tention to the fact that the price o.
wheat had been restored"
}, He urged the election of Wheeler
saving that he had known him since
they served together in the state sen,
ate i years ago, when Wheeler kept
his promise to support Il, J. waist
:. for the United States senate through
the bitter fight waged that winter II
the state legislature.
J Jackson and Stout left Immediately
), after concluding their addresses tor thtt
J, Capitol theater and spoke there Wit
!, H. Il. Mitchell and w. H. Ludlow K
| the overflow audience.