The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1926-09-17
vindicated last Sunday.

when he cannot refute an argument descends to
a personal attack upon the one he cannot answer
dare say that there is not now a man IN the
senate or has ever disgraced that body that ever
did or could stoOp to the low tactic resorVed 10
by the Valley county man who asplres to the heh
office of state senator from his county.
In his address Representative Ruffcom again
and again endeavored to incite his adherents TO
violence against myself and Mr. Wallace and only
failed because his adherents lacked the courage to
put Mr. Ruffcorn's desires into action.
may or may not be "dirty dog" but it was
evident that the facts which 1 disclosed hit Mr.
Ruffcorn where it hurts.
have served in the Senate of Montana during
all of the time Representative Ruffcon has been
in the House l have record there. Representa-
tive Ruffcorn if he desired to to divert the atten-
ton of his neighbors away from his record, might
have attacked mine, if he wished to attack me
concerning something that might have been OF IN
terest to the voters, though I am not candidate
there and he is but he did not, though he did at
tack the senate and tried to prove that am re-
sponsible for the acts OF that body.
No. Representative Ruffcorn preferred to de-
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worthy of a barroom bum than a person who as
pres to represent his county in the State Senate.
Mr.. Ruffcorn admitted that he voted against the
bank guarantee bill. He alleged by way of apollo
gv that the bill was defective. He was the chair
man of the committee on banks and banking II
was his privilege to correct the bill and report his
! amendments to the committee of the whole. This
he would have done had he been in favor of sucE
measure Then he said, "No guarantee act il
any good" The Montana Bankers Association
says the same thing. Mr.. Ruffcorn produced let
ters from other bankers and associations to prov
it. He then clinched his argument by saying tina
ice Hooking and Matt Murray had told him tina
they were opposed to the bill and justified his vot
because Senator Peterson had voted against tn
measure introduced in the 18th session.
will not Judge Representative Ruffcorn by on
bill or enc vote. Mr. Ruffcorn was the chairman
of the committee on banks and banking. Numer
Gus bills were introduced to correct the disgracefu
banking laws of this state Everyone of them
opposed by the bankers, many eff whose banks wer
insolvent at the time, were killed in Mr. RuffcOrn
committee and Mr. Ruffcorn did not raise his voic
in protest on the floor of the House where he wa
the majority floor leader.
spoke in favor of drastic banking legislatiO
and against bankers legislation in the senate ola
in and day out, but Mr.. Ruffcorn was strangel
: silent all of that time.
Hundreds of Mr.. Ruffcorn's neighbors have lo'
their all in failed banks in his cOunty-the acc'
mutations of lifetimes. Thousands of the lost dc
lars were deposited in these banks after they we
e insolvent, months and even years after the Sta
n Banking Department knew that they were insc
: vent; after Representative Ruffcom knew thu
e were insolvent if he knew anything AS a memb
of the banking committee he had access to Il
information. Did he raise voice against this co
o dition? Did he cast vote to alter the facts
He did not. The records show that he voted alc1
Y with the members controlled by the Copper cor
n pany and allied corporate interest, and the Mo
e tana Bankers Association to kill every act Gale
it lated to protect the depositors in these banks a
d the public He cannot in the face of the recor
It DENY this. Thanks to the act supported by N
/ Ruffcorn, repeating that section OF the old ban
\. ing code, making bankers punishable by terms
the penitentary for receiving deposits in insolvt
n banks, not a banker in Valley county will be pr
r ished for the fraud that looted the hundreds
farmers and workers Of their money.
Is it any wonder that Representative RuffcC
goes wild when anyone discloses this duplicity
his deluded constituents? that he calls such
p "dirty dog"
: But what kind of man is it that allows
I friends and neighbors, knowing the facts, to
zG led to the slaughter without protest, withou
warning and then asks them to send him to
senate because he says that he is a progress
~ and peoples friend?
wo Now Representative RuffcOrn says that ne
awfully sorry: that his heart bleeds for his UNI
IN tunate neighbors.
NE In order to head off any Of the proposed b
all LEGISLATION at the last session the Bankers Ass
ous alton, controlled by the big banks, had bill
PRODUCED and passed creating Banking Code
tty mission which commission was to study the b;
ing ing laws of the state and report proposed
led back to the goth Session. Governor Erickson
les commended the act. The Anaconda Company
and dorsed it. Representative Ruffcom supported
voted for it. as did all of the controlled menu
Governor Erickson signed it. And who did
use Erickson appoint commissioners? ExGov. S
me- art. the attorney for the Montana Bankers A
ne citation and two other bankers of and contr
ue bv that Association. These men are now draf
"O a Code which the same Association will prob
iia have defeated next winter as it is satisfied