Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-08-27
STOUT SEEKING
TO REPRESENT
ALL INTERESTS
Candidate Here on Way Home
to Close Campaign in
Senate Race.

Tom Stout. editor of the Lewistotvn
Democrat-News and one of the candi-
dates for the democratic nomination
for United States senator, arrived IN
Great Falls Saturday night, having
come over from Helena, where he
stopped for a few hours enroute from
Missoula. Mr.. Stout expects to re-
main in the city the greater part OF
today and will leave this evening for
his home in Lewistown. thus virtually
closing his campaign. The Lewistown
editor expressed the utmost satIsfac-
ton with the situation affecting his
candidacy.
Il am going home at the end of an
active campaign entirely pleased with
the outlook for my nomination by the
democrats of Montana next Tuesday,
said Stout Saturday evening. 1T does
not lie within the ability of any person
to predict certainly what the voters OF
Montana will do this year, but it is
my honest belief that my candidacy
has been given a decided impetus dur
ing the past ten days and that ! am
not in the least danger of being de-
feated by any of my competitors IN
the race.
Regular Democrats Awakening
Interest in affairs political has not
been pronounced until within the past
week. Even now, there are many
thousands of voters whose intentions
regarding those whom they will sup
port for the major offices next week
are wholly unknown to the most astute
politicians. | take encouragement
from the apparent awakening of regu-
lar democrats everywhere throughout
the state to the practicability' of try
ing to nominate men who stand the
best chances of election. The expert
ence of two years ago proved to them
how futile it is to give their primary
support to candidates who are most
likely to be Overwhelmingly defeated
at the general election in November.
There has been considerable dis
~cussion as to how this or that group
is going to vote in the primary. The
attitude of the so-called labor group
has come in for most of this discus
sion. Some candidates for the sena-
toriaI nominations have made and are
making elaborate claims to the labor
vote. Thus far, | have sedu!ously re-
Trained from making any appeals to
anv particular class or group OF voters.
During q campaign, all candidates are.
of course. the heartfelt friends of
labor. friends of the farmer, friends
of each and every group containing
any considerable number of voters.
have thought, however, that the genu-
~ineness of such attachments may be
shown best by acts instead of declama-
tory promises.
Will Match Records
"And since the matter has been made
so prominent in this campaign, ! am
wiling to match records with any OF
nv esteemed competitors. During
four yeaSs spent in the national house
of representatives / voted for the
eight-ho u bill. the child labor bill. the
CLAYTON act and such other measures
as were proposed for the industrial
and social welfare of the men and
women who are enrolled in the ranks
of labor.
For IA years past, / have employed
union labor in my printing establish
ment at LewistOwn and during that
time there has never been even the
lsemblance of disagreement or misunder-
standing over wages or working con
ditions. My shop was the first to put
into effect the A hour week in this
lstate. am not Boosting of these
things. They were voluntary acts
performed when there were no votes
at stake, when ! honestly thought that
/ should never again be a candidate fol
office. | mention them now because
others have been setting themselves
forward as the only champions OF
organized labor in this contest
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