The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1926-08-13

elected to the senate. Two yeOrs be
fore he had declared from the plat
form again and again: OF YOU
EVER SEE THE BUTTE MINER
SUPPORTING M E, YOU Will L
KNOW THAT l HAVE SOLD OUT"
In 1922 the Butte Miner supported
Wheeler vigorously against Carl Rid
dick. j. Bruce Kremer director of
the "a. G. NJ Metals Bank, support
ed Wheeler. The Anaconda Stand
ard, owned by the A. C. NJ, printed
his picture on the front page; it did
not stultify itself by retracting its
venomous attacks of two years pre-
vlous, nor explain why Wheeler had
changed IN its eyes. It is an axiom
that no man ever went to the senate
from this state since Clark retired,
except with the consent Of the Ana
cOnda company. WHEELER WENT
Whereas in 1920 the copper press
seethed and boiled with anti-Wheeler
Trades. In 1922 there was silence.
Such was the promise. What has
been the performance I defy any Of
Wheeler's apologists to produce one
public utterance of his in criticism
of the Anaconda company, or any pub
III uJbCA clAlNCo VI Tile AudCOliNlcI CO4ll
pany against him, since the beginning
of his campaign of 1922. S ON e
change indeed when we remember his
hec,lc days as U. S. attorney and fol-
lowing crusade as farmer labor choice
for governor.
Came 1924. Wheeler attacked
Daugherty, as Mr. Hamilton states,
and some large independent cil inter
ests. In this he was the right bower
and protege of Espionage Act Walsh.
But the Oil interests were NOT
Standard Oil, whose owners, the Rock
efeller family, own the Anaconda
company. They were the Sinclair and
Dcheney interests immensely rich, but
puny in comparison with the Rock
efeller Industrial empire. These in
terests were working in competition
with the W n r of the Anaconda.
They were buying up the corrupt re-
publican politicians in Washington.
Thus raising the price the Standard
Oil had to pay for GOODS the pol
iticians could deliver to them.
Then what happened?
Why, Walsh was turned loose on the
Sincliir, DOheny interests and Wheel
er, with the backing Of the Vanderlip
millions, made in Wall Street, went
after ID q u G h r " a n Fall. Did
Wheeler attack anybody remotely con-
nected with the Anaconda interests F.?
Did he pry into the Airplane n d
Shipping deals of John D. Ryan when
that gentleman worked for a 81 a
year for the government? Did he
say any hing about the millions of
income tax the A. C. M. defrauded
the government out of?
Why did he oppose the tariff on
the foreign properties Of John D..
Ryan and Con. Kelly?
Again, | ask Mr. Hamilton to use
his microscope in the congressional
record in an effort to find where the
Hon. B. K. Wheeler ever said an in
furious word against the Anaconda
company.
B UT THE RECORD IS NOT
LACKING OF INSTANCES WHERE
MR.. WHEELER ATTACKED PER
SONS AND INTERESTS WHICH
MENACED THE PROFITS OF THE
PEOPLE WHO OWN THE ANA
/ CONDA.
We remember his politico legal adj
venture wherein the harrassed repub-
hcans exploited the intimacy of the
notorious Eddie Booth with our money
loving junior senator. The martyr
dom of Wheeler was never in human
probability potential result unless
the Anaconda company (the Rookie
Teller group desired to let him be
thrown overheard. He ives rescued by
their trusty servant, 7. J. Walsh.
Did he for this service give a con-
sideratiOn? Some say he did. At all
events, he is supporting, cheek by
jOwl with the same T. J. Walsh, the
world court project thereby sever
ing his last connection with the mil
] liant groups which backed him in