Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-08-12
Bible Thought for Today
DOES NOT LIKE IDDICK

The Boulder Monitor does not
like the campaign methods OF Carl
Riddick. It is not used to Indiana
strategy, and calls for a return to
the Montana methods. The Boul-
der Monitor is a republican news
paper and we should judge that it
favors the candidacy of Attorney
General Rankin for United States
senator, rather than the candidacy
of Carl Riddick. At any rate it
objects to a lack of modesty on
Carl's part, in assuming that he is
the only pebble on the republican
senatorial beach who has the ap-
proval of President Harding and
the administration, and that a fail
ure to give him the nomination of
the republican party for senator
would be equivalent to shaping the
president in the face and kicking
the administration in the seat of
its pants. The Boulder Monitor
hollers for the chairman of the
state republican committee to come
to its aid and make Carl Riddick
behave, and stop telling voters that
that whole republican party rests
on him and his candidacy, to the
grief of all the other candidates
for the job. These claim to have
sone stock in the G. O. P. them
selves and entitled to dividends
thereonI We don't think the chair
man Of the republican state central
committee will accept the job urg-
ed upon him by the editor of the
Boulder Monitor. In fact if he did
he would not have much c in
reducing the swelling in Carfs
head. 1t is a hopeless case-incur-
able. Of course we are willing to
extend to our Boulder contempor-
airy our sympathy under the aggra-
waiting conditions of which he ON
plains, even if it is none of our
business, strictly speaking. Per-
haps he will become reconciled to
it later as he gets more used to 1t.
Meantime the best we can do for
his relief is to pass his complaint
along to our readers. He says in
the issue of August s.:
Carl w. Riddick, contending. in
the republican primaries for the
nomination for United States SEN
ator, gave out an interview in Mis-
soula last week for which he
should be brought to a sharp ac-
counting. If he is correctly re-
ported in the press the chairman OF
the republican state central COM
mittee should publicly reprimand
Mr.. Riddick for his u%tterances. And
every republican newspaper in the
state should insist that every aspir-
ant for party honors should con-
duct his campaign SO that we can
20 into the finals in November with
the greatest possible party harmony
and chance of carrying the fall
election.
Mr.. Riddick, judging from his
Missoula interview is doing every
thing but this. From what he says
he is the only simon-pure republi-
can now asking for the nomination.
He reads out of the party prac-
tically every other candidate and
makes the pronouncement that the
one and only issue is the election OF
a senator who will do as President
Harding says for the next six years.
He says, in substance, that he is
the only candidate who can and will
do this.
Mr.. Riddick's uncomplimentary
remarks about the other candidates
are not in good taste and are not
true. And certainly he, of all can
didates, places himself in a most
peculiar position when he adverts
to the non-partisans. For the
record discloses that in his former
campaigns he courted the support
of non-partisans and held up his
hands in more or less serious alarm
when discussing the dangers of
non-partisanism when talking to
their opponents.
Mr.. Riddick will make no hit
with his constituents in Montana
when he assumes to employ the
yardstick of comparisons. Compar-
isons are sometimes odious. What
ever may be the qualifications of
the other candidates running in the
it. is fair to assume that
each is entitled to a courteous con-
from all the others. At
least that's the Montana method.
And we prefer that to the Indiana
or any other method. And 1t is