The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1924-09-19
dixon WARNS REPUBLICANS Of
CORPORATE MOVE FOR CONTROL
November Election to Test Whether People Foreign
Corporations Shall Govern Montana, Governor Dixon
Tells Republican State Convention at Helena
Sounds Keynote for Republican State Campaign in
Montana.

government can De UfhlhlhluSu III MOL
tana, or whether the state shall be SUI
rendered to foreign corporations cor
trolling its mining and power resource
will be tested at the general electio
on November 4, Governor Joseph N
Dixon declared in his address to tn
Republican state convention at Helen
on Saturday, September 6.
"While it is true that In the recen
primary election, the big copper mining
companies, by the expenditure OF ten
of thousands of dollars, are now boast
ing that they have nominated a demo
cratic state ticket Of their own choos
ing from governor down, 1t is likewise
true that in their attempt to capture
the Republican state primary nomlna
tions they were disastrously defeated
Governor Dixon said.
His address in full follows:
Again the constituted delegates OF
the Republican Party of Montana have
met In party conclave.
Thirty years ago this week, sat for
the first thine as delegate in Mon
tana state republican convention. The
party leaders of those days-Sanders,
Power Botkin, Carter, Mantle, Rick
ards, Hartman, Gordon, and others,
have mostly passed into the Great Be
yond. Their names and fame are still
cherished by those of us here assem-
bled today.
During these 80 years, I have seen
the fortune of the great political organ
ization, to which we owe allegiance,
ebb and flow. l have seen it in the
high flush of victory and in the gloom
of defeat. No human organization is
perfect and no political party ever has
or ever will register in its platform de-
clarations or its leadership the COM
plete aspirations of all its votaries.
Party organizations can only approx
mate the composite views and judg-
ment of it's individual membership.
Having said this, | now want to
further say that looking back through
the 68 years intervening between the
presidential nominations of John G.
Fremont and Calvin Coolidge, the re-
publican party has on the whole held
the allegiance of the great majority of
American citizens.
At close range to the great schism of
1912, 1 personally followed the flag
of it's heroic leader, Theodore Roose-
Welt. Again as a delegate to the Nat
ional Convention in 1916, l saw the
two wings coalesce and come within
the narrowest of margins of winning
control of the national government. |
No matter how acutely men may differ
as to the wisdom of governmental pol
cieS. I have faith to believe that no
great political national organization
las ever yet named as leader any man
Who in his inermost heart did not hope
o achieve betterment in government
al conditions.
No place for Abuse
The bane of public service is the
lntempered denunciatiOn of opposition
,arty leaders in order to achieve tenn
,orary advantage.
While we, as republicans, have con-
idence in the calm considered judg-
nent of Calvin Coolidge, tempered by
lis long years Of public service,
through all its grades from member
hip in the Massachusetts Legislature
lp to the presidency itself, and hold
n high esteem his well known integ- :
1ty of purpose and courage of conyic-
ion, we do not necessarily, therefore,
ave to denounce John w. Davis, who {
likewise has to his credit many years {
# creditable public service as Con- {
FRESHMAN and Ambassador to Great t
Britain. We do legitimately hold men t
al reservations, however, as to the !
vowed intent of his heterogeneous
amp followers of Tammany Hall and @
he Bourbons Of the Solid South. f
Personally, believe that Senator La t
Gillette, as Governor OF Wisconsin, led t
great movement to free Wisconsin
rom the long thralldom and overload
hip of corporation control Of that
ate. Without in any way subscribing
legiance to some of his ultra advan-
ed views in government, as a matter
: fairness, he also is entitled to full
edit for clearing the Augean stables n
his own state. NJ
While have no doubt that the Nov ~
nber election will show large major II
Y in the electoral college for Presi-
mt Coolidge, 1 also believe that the q
ce for second place in the popular :.
ting, both in Montana and the =,
alton, lies between Senator LaFolI- =,
tie and Mr.. Davis.
The republicans of Montana now en- "a
r the state campaign for the contin- o;
ID control of state government. in 81
der finally to complete the work Or
at is so nearly accomplished.
Situation Four Years Ago wv
-Four years ago | was elected Gov oil
nor of Montana. When I took the
tn of office, it was with no Illusions
the magnitude of the difficulties in Fl,
lived, If any constructive work was TO
accomplished to relieve the impend- nm
2 bankruptcy that threatened In both
lvate and public affairs. l speak
t met" nhoricallv. hnt in terms .of
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Tie aftermath Of the war had piled ST