The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1924-04-02

'ommittee formulated a definite plar.
Of campaign.
10 accomplish its success, the COM
mittee made w. S. Mccormick Of
hailspeli, representative from Flat
mead county and chairman of the ao-
rlcultural committee in the house. it,
general chairman and placed him in
charge Of the work of carving the
measure before the people for thej.
verdict in November.
headquarters in Helena
headquarters of Mr.. McCormick's
committee will be established in Hell
eha Tor the purpose of directing the
circulation of petitions, and 10 look
a1ter the details Of properly initial
ing the measure and finally to con
duct the campaign for its adoption.
Chairman Mccormick has extended
an invitation to all citizens to join
In the campaign to initiate this
measure. Those who desire petitions
Tor circulation, will be supplied if
they will make their application to
him IN Helena, Mr.. Mccormick a
The committee formed by the legis-
iators after the session of 1929 made
Calvin Crumbaker, president; = r.
Harmon vice president; R. c. Brick
er, secretary, and selected an exec
Utive committee consisting of Albert
Johnson, H. D. Myrick, w. VI. Ruff
corn, James Griffin, w. E. Harmon
and John Oliver.
Gallatin Represented
That Gallatin county is well rep
resented on the citizens committes
which is advocating the passage o,
the initiative measure, and against
which the entire battery Of the anal
gamated mining interests will soon
be directed in one Of the hottest po-
ltical fights in the history Of the
state, IS seen in the fact that State
Senator w. E. Harmon, of Bozeman,
is both vice president Of the legisla-
tive committee, and a member Of the
executive committee, of which Hon.
w. S, Mccormick, of Kalispell. is
chairman. The name of H. S. Buell..
of Bozeman also appears on the list
of names on the representatives com
mittee.
The Gallatin county citizens com.
mittee is composed of George NJ
Lewis, Manhattan; Thomas S. Kirk
Bozeman; Chris Mikkelson, Manhat
tan; John NJ. Walton, Belgrade, and
w. L. Stockton, Charleston.
Letter of the Chairman
The letter of explanation to tbs
Courier from Chairman w. S. NJ
Cormick, of Kalispell, which accom-.
panied the receipt of the initiative
petitions, descriptive Pamphlets, etc.
is as follows:
Enclosed you will find a copy of
Metals Mine Tax Bill, q brief state
ment or summary, together with
list Of the committee and a partia
list of those who have associate,
with them who are undertaking T.
initiate the measure at the COMING
election.
AS the committee is initiating this
bill almost entirely with the hely
OF those who are volunteering theil
services and the committee is no
making any effort to rails a am
paign fund we are going to ask yo.
to give the matter as much public
ity as you possibly can.
In your articles we would be yer,
much pleased if you would mention
the fact that any person desiring t,
circulate these petitions can get .
copy or copies by communicating
with the headquarters at Helena.
1t is needless for me to say to yol
the many of the larger papers ar
owned and controlled by the larg,
interests. We naturally cannot ex
pect publicity from papers which ar
either owned or controlled so we hav
to look to the publisher who is FIRE
for help in this matter.
l know that 1 am asking a grea
deal to request free space and the
ask you to send US a marked cop
Of the paper containing the articl,
but as l have said before cur fund
are practically nothing and cur work
ing force is small so your articl
, might be overlooked if you did no
l send US a copy.
, Very truly yours,
: w. S. Mccormick,
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