The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1922-05-12
.ACAIN--SAVE
THE PRIMARY!
DEMOCRACY IN MONTANA
AGAIN ATTACKED BY ANA
CONDA COPPER COMPANY.

Eternal vigilance is the price, not
on Of liberty, but of every right ano
privilege which the common people
have wrested from the industrial and
financial powers who necessarily make
war against the well-being of the hu-
man race. They have the wealth
they have the publicity, they have the
organization, they have the desire, ano
they never sleep.
The direct primary system has done
more to harass and defeat the political
sway Of these enemies of society than
any other reform of political nature
They know this, they feel it. They do
not rest under the singing defeat
which they suffered in past years in
their efforts to destroy the primary
They hate the primary, they are de-
termined to crush it.
The copper-mailed fist has reached
out seventy miles from the Hennessey
building in Butte, and pushed out on
the stage cluster of jay-town pup
pets in Dillon, Montana,to enact bur-
lesque on popular governments. These
small-town flunkies of the system
who will start anything, from lynch
ing party up, at crook of their mas
ters finger, and now masquerading as
the nucleus of popular demand
for the primary law repeal. Their
avowed object is the return of the con-
ventlon system. Comment is needless
These are the facts.
Men and women who think they
have a right to select their own can
didates for office, and not have them
~, 4oS I,1, roll
way companies, and criminals Of
great wealth, should not be lulled III
to security by their past successful
campaigns to save the primary.
They are weaker and fewer and peol
Ell than ever before The emmy is
just as storong. He cannot he salk-
ed except by effective @kGA MIA
TION.
An organization is now being
formed to place On the ballot for
next\ November two Just and irerit-
orous measures decent soldiers
c improvisation law whica places the
burden only upon the excess war
prctits Of the very rich. and a stiff
law against the Intimidation of >vot-
ers By bankers and employers. Tie
Political Coercion law. 'Fhe people
who are backing these two measures
the World War Veterans and 0 ga
nized labor-are one hundred per
cent against primary repeal They
will cooperate, and-they will form
that much-needed instrument, an ef-
fective organization which viii carry
on the battle to preserve the direct
primary.
The time is short, and the need is
great, for concerted effort. No de-
cent citizen would deny the soldiers
reasonable COMPENSATION. No decent
citizen but is opposed to intirziidatien
of voters by financial pswer. No DE-
cent citizen not obsessed with anti
duated prejudices, favors a return To
the convention system. Then go and
get these decent citizens, form them
into a powerful organization. put ov-
er the two initiative bills, and save
the primary once more from threat
ened destruction. And do it new!
Many Thousands Of signatures must
be got before Jaae 18th and many
rust oooneEate. Get net mere
eight per cent of the voters. but f1f-
ty or sixty per cent, and get them
quick.
The N. P. L. as an organization In
Montana is not what it was when o1e
primary was rescued before. SO get
behind the soldiers and organized Ia
ber. and organize, or the fruit OF
many past victories viii turn to :'shes