The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-01-19

this fall and therefore became auto
matically deprived of his right to be
Police Magistrate and Town Clerk of
PlentywOod on January 1st. Howev-
er, no change had been made at the
last meeting in December and If is
| plainly evident that Grave does NOT
want to make a change at all, but on
the tlrst meeting in January he did
appoint temporarily, Justice of the
/ Peace Geo. s. Wheeler for Police
magistrate but insisted upon retain
| ing Belanski as clerk in spite of the
fact that they have an ordinance in
full force and effect at this time
which bars him from being Clerk, and
the Council really has no clerk at
this time, and when he signs ANYTHING
as such clerk he is doing something
contrary to the Ordinance in such case
made and provided. According to this
ordinance there are only two parties
IN PlentywOOd that are eligible to fill
the position, and that is either JUS
tlce of the Peace George S. Wheeler
or Justice of the Peace L. S. Olson.
Grave informed the Council that
he had discovered a law that it was
not necessary for Justice of the
Peace to be Town Clerk and Police
Magistrate but that the Council could
appoint some other person as such
Clerk and Magistrate and informed
the Council that in any event "they
would HAVE to repeal this Ordin-
ance" so that the proper arrange
ments could be made. He takes a
mighty different attitude here than he
did on the dog ordinance. He wanted
the Council to stick to that without
deviating a fraction of an inch, but
here is a bird of a different color, be- !
cause it affects his supreme control OF /
the affairs of the city and he does not |
have any kindly feeling towards eth |
er Olsen or Wheeler as he knows that |
neither of them will become subsidized |
to his bureaucratic and Czar-lilke rule,
and that whichever one should happen /
to land the office would not take any
order from him unless authorized by !
the rest of the Council. He is deter /
mined to keep Belansld on the pay
roll, and he has also said that if it |
was necessary to keep another Police
that it would be necessary
for the Council to make an apprOpria-
ton of $4,000 more so that they
could pay Belansh $4,000 per year
the same as the latter had received
for both offices, for some years past,
as Belanski had informed them that
he would not do the work for less
than that, so it is plain that he does
not want to lose his good friend Be
lanski from the Council rooms. How
ever, we understand that the Council
told Grave what was what after the
crowds had dispersed, and that they
would pass ordinances and make
in spite of Grave or
no Crave, and that he could consider
MS former absolute control a lost
cause. He is in about the same boat
hat Matkins is. He has lost his pow
er- and still such people as Grave
and Greer wonder what makes boil
sheviks. We will say that the domi-
leering attitude that Grave has
used and did attempt to use at the
asst meeting in spite of the wishes and
demands of the general public, to
'hwart the will of the majority, when !
le is vested with certain amount of
power, is what makes people digusted
With old political games. The report
S going the rounds that if Grave has I
he temerity to run for Mayor again
his spring that there will be a land 9
lide against him and it won't be I
necessary for a recount to decide the
election either.