The producers news., 1926-10-22
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By CHARLES E. TAYLOR -
THE CANDIDATES FOR THE LEGIS-
LATURE

There are two representatives to be elected to
the State Legislature this year, and the Farmer
Labor Party have placed before the voters the
names of Robert Larson and P. J. Wallace
P. j. Wallace is editor of the Producers News
and one of the best known men in the state
Although comparatively young in years, Mr.. Wal
lace is one of the old timers in Montana and saw
with his own eyes the farmers come into the
state and take the place of focks and herds and
turn the wide open spaces into fields of waving
grain. In his more than % years residence in
Montana. Mr.. Wallace has followed many occu-
pations. First, as a cowpuncher, he rode across
what now is Sheridan county before the modern
cities of today we're built In the closing davs of
the Amalgamated-Hinze fight in Butte he found
employment there as a miner and later as sta
tiOnery engineer. One of the most aggressive of
the young radicals who challenged the control of
state and county government of Silver Bow county
by the Copper Trust, he earned their enmity and
was blacklisted by the mnions of that corpora
ton. For while he worked in the smelters of
the state and then took trip abroad for two
years Returning again to the state he took up
land in Choteau County and was one of the first
to join the Nonpartisan League When the
farmers put up their ticket in that county in
1918, Mr.. Wallace was the candidate for State
Senator: he got the highest vote on his ticket and
nearly won out, despite the fact that he was vi
ciously assaied by the organ of entrenched privi-
lege
Going back to his farm he started to study
law, finishing his legal education in the Atlanta
Law School and getting the degree of LIB from
the Minnesota College of Law. He practiced law
for time in Great Falls and then became editor
of Town Topics and later before coming to Plen-
tywood he started the Montana Labor News in
Butte under the auspices of the Silver Bow Trades
and Labor Assembly.
From the days of the bitter political battles of
the past to the present time Mr.. Wallace has
acquired an unrivalled store of knowledge of
men and events and the inner workings of the
political life of the state. Time has somewhat
mellowed the bitter feeling some of the politi-
clans had against Mr.. Wallace and most of them
now who do not admit that he was always politi-
cally right admire him for his sterling honesty
of purpose and his unwavering allegiance to the
cause of the workers and farmers While acting
as editor of the Producers News he has given
free legal advice to farmers in distress and saved
the roof over many poor mans head when some
greedy loan shark wanted to grab the farmers
crop for some abstentee mortgage company.
As able as speaker as he is fluent as a writ
er the presence of P. J. Wallace in the next ses-
sion of the legislature would be an event that
would prove satisfactory to the thousands of op-
pressed farmers and workers in the state that
know him.
P. J. Wallace and Robert Larson will make a
team that will be heard from in the House next
winter and the writer feels that if reelected to
the Senate, that he could not be more ably coop
Grated with in the House than by these men.