Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-03-19
Chrusanthen1u,11s and Irish Confetti

worry about Tom. He'll grasp the
horns Of the dilemma with the same
skill and daring with which Carl graz,
bed the horns of the mad COW, ana
like Carl he'll get away with 1t. TOO.
You see-Harlowton Press (dem.l.
Wellington D. Rankin. attorney gen
eral for the great state OF Montana
has announced his candidacy tor tnit,
ed States senator. Montana can we'll
he nroud that she has a native son as
Young as Mr. Rankin who is qualified
for this great honor-Sanders County
lndependent-Led (ind.).
Our friend Rankin admits that he
may run for the senate, although he
has been too busy to give the matter
much attention, etc. If Wellington has
given his campaign little attention so
far we would like to see him perform
nfter he really turns his attention to
the subject-Chinook Opinion trep.).
ATTORNEY General Rankin has man
aged to get his name in the limelght
as candidate for United States sen
ator without cost and without effort
on his part and we take it that the
Young product of Montana is unlver-
sally popular and has an even show IN
landing the nomination on the republl-
can ticket.-Rocky Mountain Husband
man (ind.f.
Tom Stout. our own Tom, while not
rated as professional optimisi. is the
cheeriest bird that sings from Mon
tana's editorial pages Anybody. can
sing when the sun is shining and the
skies are smiling, but Tom Stout is one
of those who can sing in the ram. And
having sung through the wintry storm,
his spring notes are now hyeher than
eyer.-Anaconda Standard (dem.).
CONGRESSMAN Riddick, in answering
letter written to him by a farmer of
Montana, asking his support for 81 bill
in congress, says that he is the farm
er's friend" and goes on to prove it by
telling that he recently had his picture
in an eastern paper. Never once does
he say he will support the bill. Well,
Carl says he can get away with it. and
we guess he's right.-Sanders County
ndependent-Ledger tind.).
The campaign of venom. spite. hate.
TdHtOI dui shoe ~
being conducted by certain newspapers
of the state against Governor Dixon.
with view of discrediting him with
the masses of the people of the state,
is little short of criminal. Dixon may
be right OF he may be wrong in GER
tain measures that he advocates, but
as governor of the state of Montana
he is certainly entitled to as much re-
spect from newspapers as Is common
criminal He is not getting that much
from some sources.--Whitefish Pilot
(rep.).
The Billings Gazette quotes Colonel
John T.. Edwards as favoring the farm
er bloc in congress Considering what
we know of Colonel Edwards career
in public life, his extremely regular
attitude and his Discrimination to touch
the things that are" we are little
surprised in reading that he favors a
movement that is surely striking at
party regularity" in the national
house--and this is not expressing our
own view on the merit or demerit of
the bloc. Can it be that the erstwhile
cautious and conservative Colonel Ed
wards is bending to opportunism and
that we may soon expect him to de-
clare that he's dirt farmer and a
friend of the toilers," rs preliminary
gestures to the United States ssena
torial declarations Cut Bank Pioneer
Pr09S (rep.) }.