The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1922-11-23
ACLINCHER TO THE
LOGICAL ARGUMENT
WASTE-GENIUS GOES
UEREWARDED


Prior to the last election it i
doubtful if the people of this count,
realized the all round efficiency O.
the set of officials elected two year.
ago, commissioners and officials some
Of whom are not only willing to aci
in the capacities of their offices bu
as Judge, jury and counsel. They are
ready to go still further and perform
the functions for the voters them
selves.
To men of such remarkable, newly
discovered power, and the willingness
to use it, selecting county seat OF
a justice of the supreme COZ +, OF
other officials, for the electors, is
merely a passing incident. Disfran-
chising 800 voters, reversing results
and establishing startling new pre-
cedents are mere INCIDENTS in the
DAVIS work with men like Patch and
Tidland and those who uphold them.
The statutes of the state are no OBJ
sticle to them, and the penal institu-
tions hold no terrors when they set
about with heroic determination
their "duty' to perform. If the peo-
pie had only known they had in their
service men of such mold the results
of the August primaries might have
been quite different.
The events of the past week, in
Of fb O
canvassing board will be a revelation
to the men and women of the county
who fancied that as citizens of a
republic they possessed the right of
suffrage, a right that the error of no
official, no matter how arrogant or
trained in the art of politics, could
take from them. But these simple,
confding, credulous people, in the
vernacular of the day have another
guess coming. They do not realize
the ability, resourcefulness and ver-
satility Of the officials at the former
county seat who have sworn to serve
their constituents.
The ordinary, average citizen
knows the rights of voters, the duties
of county boards of commissioners
and vote canvassers, the offices of
attorneys and the powers and pur-
poses of courts. But Roosevelt,
please understand is no ordinary
county. In this county officials say
to their masters" the voters an
instructive law regulating elections
has been violated and you have lost
you constitutional right to a voice in
the matters decided at this election.
We do not care to listen to the coun
sci of attorneys whose business it is
to advise us, and we cannot wait for
the opinion of courts. An error has
been made in your precinct and it
matters not that the error is ours,
your votes are thrown out. In one
instance these wise officials with the
newly discovered powers, by their
acts virtually say to voters, you voted
at the exact place you were told to
vote at but it was the wrong place
and your votes were lost. If you had
voted some other place your votes
would also have been lost because 1T
would not have been the place where
you were told to vote. You fellows
might Just as we'll have stayed home,
you never had chance. And it
serves you right. If majority of
YOU suckers had voted the way we
wanted you to, your votes would
have been counted without question.
This is the sort of raw stuff The
popIar Standard calls an explosion |
of T N T in the Wolf Point camp.
Yes. indeed, quite a shock to the |
sensibilities of law abiding people |
all over the county. But look out,
Poplar, when the debris comes down.
The Poplar gang is not quite heavy
enough to tip up the laws and the
courts of the state of Montana. After
the echoes of the mighty blast of L
N T have died away the only perma-
nent thing it will have accomplished
will be the clinching of the basic ar
zument of the campaign that Poplar
was. not a fit or safe place for the
county seat If anything more was
needed to drive home, in the minds
IF a still larger majority of the vo-
ters the absolute truth of this con-
.ention. the acts of the majority of
he official canvassing board, perpe-
rated at Poplar, have supplied that
hing. These men are residents of
Poplar and were before they were
elected. They have been encouraged
md upheld by other citizens of Pop
ar. Thus does Poplar the vanquish-
d as completely as Poplar the vic
orious, prove herself unworthy of
he confidence of the justice loving
,eople of Roosevelt county.