The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1924-10-31
ticket.
Sincerely yours
j. W ANDERSON.
COATS MAKING MAR.
Vicious RUN FOR
SHERIFF in ROOSF.
WELT COUNTY RACE

VIM. Coats, prominent on5
popular farmer of the Froi3
country, who filed as a candidsto
fer sheriff of Roosevelt CONT,
last week in the Independent
column is making a marveIons
run.
Probably there never has been
a candidate for sheriff in Roose.
welt county, whose candidacy i
: receiving such mass support as l.
rallying to the support of VIM
= Coats for sheriff.
1t took Coats a long time to
= make up his mind to throw his
= hat in the ring this year He
= had been a candidate with the
= Nonpartisan League endorsement
in 1920 and had nearly made the
= election. In 1922 he was again a 8
= candidate on the democratic tic
= ket, but his opponent, John And
= erson, was the republican nomi-
= nee with the Nonpartisan League
x endorsement and with the sun
pert of the Producers News of
Plentywood and the Roosevelt
County Independent support Of
Poplar, the two Farmer-Labor
papers circulating in Roosevelt =
County, dat in the face of all
these handicaps, and the rush Of
votes to the so-called clean house 3
ticket, Bill Coats received over g
100 votes to his successful oppo- =
nents 2O36, which was a remark =
able tribute. to his popularity.
VIM. Coats did not feel like
= making the campaign until COM
mittee after committee of cih-
> zens of the county and numerous
of his neighbors, becoming more
and more disguised with the pres
ent administration Of the sher-
= ifs office, called upon him and
urged him to make the campaign.
= Finally he consented to run. 1t
was too late to get his name on
as a regular nominee. The dem
= ocrats wanted him and so did the
= Farmer-Laborites. So petitions
= were circulated and in a few
= hours more than sufficient names
y were on the document and he was
filed in the Independent column.
His neighbOrs are for him al
= most to a man and he will come
out of the election with large
r lead out of the eastern part OF
the county. The farmers want
Bill Coats for sheriff. In Wolf
x Point, since the Larson frame-up
+ the railroad workers are for Bill
i Goats to a man, and Coats will
= come out of Wolf Point with a
= fine majority. He will carry
X Poplar, Brocton, Culbertson with
= three to one votes; he will carry
= Bainville and McCabe and Ffold
\ with small margins. 1t looks like
= Bill Coats will have a large ma
jority.
= tired of the present administra-
+ ton of the Office Of Sheriff
= While Anderson has made big
y claims in the way Of economy
y no still has to travel a long way
i to make the record Of the Sner-
4 iff of Sheridan county, and dur
= ing his regime, the county mas
x been running wide open and no
= ATTEMPT has been made TO even "
: regulate the business OF LnS
* booze vendors in the county NOT
4 has anv sincere effort been nla4e
to enforce any other law or 70
y poliee the county. SheriH An
derson makes a pretense Of pe,
= ING member of the clean nous -
ACCUMULATION, and just as soon ~
he was elected he appointed ON
x of the most notorious menlOels s
Of the old gang in that county lli "a az
his undersheriff, ana ,.' olis.-ias
Council is not only underIss.,leIlf.'
| 4 b,1t he is the whole sherIH ~
(: fee John Anderson dares no'
* oven ever have thought Of his own ,
Tost nee oeonle think that John does
not even know Of the stun dor o,j,
Is going on in his Office 4 T71le1
= Co1nciTs directions az -oo
, friends Of Anderson want 70 ~
, = him me nersonally to tell him amy any,
= thing or to talk ma ~ o+ even ~
with him, Council will n o. e foi-
4 lot 'i him out Of his sight, but Lol,
lows him about as a pIl ,Yov.
3 Guard In fact Anderson Is pia3f
""i f n mari in the sheriHs or f
= flee of a monkey on lne eii PEG
an organ grinders chain. I N
n n are growing disg1sted WV, WIN,
HE f.? Kind of stuff. They NlOo y
tbaf while Pat Macy was .bis
Cll% ,os |eI' he had nothing on TINS
= man Council. -, ,,,stand-
mo man He is a man %llG NO nd
l,,S zoe and conviction; ne + ~
c ;ol1ITfsT IF he IS elected y y
= saws: ct viii admln .yS., &c ss It is
free lust as economically al, Z; : at
= administered now. ana J w on1,ptv.
f 1u''e come time police the e .ut;ce
mes sal iov, wi, violators to JqsIl .,;Ii
o oTlRg I W Will be the sheriff. ort "o u
= clean the old gangsIeIs ~
the Office" s.roers and
VIM VIM. O eov are the kind OF
WoL [l tbo,, 9% vent for sheriff. 4
> And 1T reaily -, 80 n be electel