The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1924-10-24

So when the people of this district
elect a judge, they elect a judge for
all other districts as well, for Judge
Conner has set at one time or another
in practically all of the districts in
the state.
The office Of Judge is the most pow
erfUl, the most important, of any Of
flee that the voter is called upon to
fill-it is an Office giving the power
of life and death, almost, over the
people of this district, and the people
of the state.
And when the voter goes to the
polls, Tuesday, November 4th, he
must elect a man to exercise the king
ly power of judge: he must select one
of the three candidates: either S. E.
Paul, j. J. Gunther, or L. J. Onstad.
S. Z. Paul is the man who should
be elected
J. J. Gunther, when this district
was one county in the fall of 1918, de-
feated l.. J. Onstad, after Onstad had
served one term, for the office of
County Attorney. J. J. Gunther
made an Indifferent county attorney,
but at that he was a much better
county attorney than L. J. Onstad,
during whose tenure of office some
of the most blazen county robbery ev-
er occurring in the state, occurred
Onstad must have been fully advised
as to what was going on, buS he did
not take one step to prevent it, but
rather stuck up for and defended. the
men who were looting the county,
while he put in his time promoting a
reign of terror in the County, by
dragging some of the best citizens in
the County before the Council of De-
Tense, threatening them, abusing
them, and questioning their patriot
ism, and forcing them to borrow
money at IL per cent to buy bonds,
which most of them afterwards sold
at 16 per cent discount. While he
closed his eyes to the scandalous rob-
berry and graft that was going on,
he brought prosecution for sedition
against some of the best citizens in
the county.
L. J. Onstad was a member of the
old gang, and is a member of it now.
He was and is at the present time, the
local private attorney of G. J. and T.
L. Beiseker.
AS personal attorney of the Beis-
ekers, he has done everything that
he could do to aid and abetted the
Beisekers in defrauding Sheridan
county out of the quarter of a million
of dollars which was illegally deposit
ed in the defunct Sheridan county
State Bank, which the county may
never recover.
During all of the prosecution of the
county hooters, L. J. Onstad was the
attorney for the looters, and appeared
for them along with George Hurd I'M
til they were finally turned "scot
free"
L. J. Onstad's only law practice
now is the foreclosure business of the
Beisekers. He is the Beiseker can.
didate for judge.
J. j. Gunther, the candidate on the
democratic ticket, is a much better
man than L. J. Onstad. While he is
slow and poke, he is a man of bet
ter character, and is so far ahead of
Onstad in learning, and disposition
that it would be much better to elect
him Judge, than it would be to elect
Onstad-for to elect Onstad would be
a calamity. But the man who should
be Judge is S. b. Paul, a man qualified
by learning, temperament and char
acter for the important position: a
man who will be on honor to the
bench in the State: a man whom Sen.
b. X. Wheeler, Farmer-LabOr candi-
date for vice president, saws is the
best qualified man for Judge in the
district and the man whom he urged
the farmer-labOr forces to get behind.
S. Z. Paul will carry Sheridan county
by a thousand majority, and Daniels
county by three hundred majority and
who will break even in or carry
Roosevelt county.
S. E. Paul is the man to be entrust-
ed with the power and authority Of
Judge in this district.
ONSTAD'S CONNECTION
The people of Sheridan county have
a memory of the record of Onstad-
a memory that it will never forget,
and they are vitality interested in the
election of a man to succeed Conner
who is honest, capable and courage
Gus.
In order that the voters may not
forget some of the things that oc-
Cured in Sheridan county, the Pro-
ducers News recalls for the considera-
ton, some of the history of the coun-
ty, with which L. ]. Onstad is very
closely associated:
LOOTING OF SHERIDAN COUNTY
Sheridan County, upon its forma-