The Carbon County chronicle. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1924, 1924-07-23
AFTER THAT RESERVE FUND,


There is functioning in this state very
healthy and effective organization known as
the Wheatgrower's Association
This association was organized several years
) ago and now has membership of more than
10000. To qualify for membership one must
be a wheat producer and also must market his
wheat through the association.
The banks furnished the capital for starting
the institution and do yet to large extent, but
by good management the association has ac-
cumulated reserve fund of about Sl5O,0OO.
One of the strict tenets of the association is
entire freedom fro mpolitics but this fat reserve
fund has attracted the greedy attention of
some professional politicians and they are en-
deavoring to get their hands on it by throwing
out the present efficient managers of the as
sOciation.
Most of the readers of the Chronicle have
no doubt heard of Senator Chas. Taylor of Plen-
tywood, publisher of the Producers News, and
Senator J. W. Anderson, of Sidney. Both are
professional politicians of the radical type. The
are the chief opponents of the so-called Farm
er-Labor party, a more or less radical political
organization.
These gentlemen conceived the idea of over
throwing the present management OF the
Wheatgrowers association by initiating a tick
ct Of directors of their own choosing. This mi
tiatory law is great stuff for radicals anyway.
They figured that they could get control of the
association, employ lot of radicals to work for
the association, ostensibly, but who in reality
would go about the state preaching the propa-
ganda of the Anderson Taylor combination and
work for the election of the Farmer-Labor
ticket
Right here it might be stated that Taylor
has given it out that he and Anderson are going
to run for Congressman and u. S. senator Tay-
Tor, at last reports was going to give Anderson
his choice of the two positions on the ticket and
take what was left for himself
But some one gave the snap away and as a
result the Taylor Anderson combine was bust
ed almost in its embryotic stage.
The WheatgroWers association publishes
newspaper for the benefit of its 10000 members
semi-monthly and we take the following para
graph from its columns, which explains mat
ters little further:
"One of the petition candidates whose cam
paign for election to the board of the Wheat
Growers associations being managed by Aug
ust Nelson is Senator ]. w. Anderson of Sidney,
In Richland county. Mr.. Anderson is a close
political associate and follower of Charles Tay-
Tor, it will be remembered, is the man who was
chosen permanent chairman of the communist
convention recently held in ST. Paul; his cleo
ton being an Overwhelming majority over his
farmer-labor opponent. Clair Stoner a direc-
tor in the Montana wheat pool from Plenty
wood, was delegate to that convention, pledg-
ed to the support of Mr.. Taylor. 1t was the hope
of the organizers of the Montana Wheat Grow
ers association that it would be an economic
movement, and would be kept free from politics
Apparently the only objections to this program
comes from the territory served by the Plenty
wood Producers News; the supporters Of Chas
Taylor, Clair Stoner and Senator Anderson
These members of the association polled the