The producers news., 1927-10-28

of crowd of people. AS he was ad-
ministered a terrific verbal castiga |
tion by Rodney Salisbury at the Ka
Won Garage Monday afternoon the
crowd seemed to enjoy the discomfi
ture of the junior Senator.
Fireworks Start in KavOn Garage
1t appears that Wheeler, Salisbury
and Farmhouse all met in the Kavon
garage about the same time. Wheeler,
recognizing Farmhouse as his ques-
toner of the night before, walked to-
wards him, shook hands and remark
ed: "Hello neighbOr. l was getting
along famously with my meeting last
night until you started asking me
those questions" Then the Sheridan
County sheriff butted in by saying:
Senator l heard you said that Grim
inals were allowed to go unprosecuted
in Sheridan County. Can you give
any information in support of this
statement"
Senator Wheeler: ''No, can't.
was told that"
Salisbury: eyes, you were used as
a tool by those fellows to attack the
people who voted for you here five
years ago"
Wneelef: KNOW LnaC
Calls Wheeler a Crook
Salisbury: "You are fine man to
talk about corruption in the United
States or anywhere else-a man who
went down to South Dakota and used
your office as United States District
Attorney to hijack that poor farmer
and his son out of 1000"
Wheeler (threateningly): "What do
you know about that?
Salisbury: 81 was down there and
got the evidence. And / know how
you used your office to hijack Char
ley Baer out of enough money to
: build the Grand Hotel on a lot you
. stole from the Unions of Butte. Why,
you dirty crook you should be in the
penitentiary instead of the Senate"
Senator Shows white Feather
Wheeler here walked towards Sails
bury with clinched fists and Kissed
through his closed teeth:
"You can't intimidate me. You"
Salisbury bracing up to the Sena-
tor: wheeler if you want fight, I
will kick your head off right here for
you now"
Wheeler relaxing and stepping
back: 81 believe you could, l am not
a fighting man."
Salisbury: "And you said down
there that Wallace and Taylor got
/ money from the Anaconda Company
You know you're a liar, you are q
stOolpigeon of the Anaconda yourself
and resort to all the tactics of the
/ professional stoolpigeon-tha is call
I ing everybody a stoolpigeon to take
I the curse off yourself. Why you ev.
en- called Senator Anderson, your pri
Z vate secretary, an Anaconda stool
I pigeon"
/ Wheeler: "I did not. 1 defy vol
! to prove it."
Salisbury: 81 can prove it from
I letter | have written me by Senate
I I Anderson"
! Wheeler: "Senator Anderson wa
I misled by you before he wrote tha
letter. No he was not, you have no
X ability enough to mislead Senator Ar
+ derson."
: Supported BY Copper Press
( Salisbury: "You are inferior t
( Senator Anderson yourself. You talk
( ing about the Anaconda. You ar
< supported by the "Great Falls Tri
: bune", the 'Helena independent, tn
! Anaconda Standard, the "Lewistow
: News and every copper paper in tn
Z state.
: Wheeler: 81 haven't got the Butt
Post behind me-"
7 Salisbury: "And you haven't got
Labor or progressive paper in tn
state behind you"
Wheeler: "I have the Butte "Labo
News"
Salisbury: "You are liar. Th
Labor News is not boosting you''
Wheeler Wants Editor CIeaves Fire.
Wheeler: "If the Labor News doe
not support me I will have old Cleave
the editor, fired off his job.
Salisbury: Eyes, that is about tn
kind of low-down crook you are. Yo
would have an old man like Cleave
fired out of his job because he woul
not prostitute himself into supportin
lOw-down faker like YOU,
Wheeler: go, maybe old Cleavea
not so bad, didn't intend, didn
mean TO say, I would not have hi
fired. I will get the support of tt
liberal press.
\ Salisbury: "You won't even get IL
"New Northwest" in Missoula, whiC
supported you in the past. You W
( get only the Copper press behir
< YOU.
< Wheeler: eyes, I know l won't G
: the support of the "New Northwest
{ the Company has that now. -four
( Wallace was in Missoula negotiatiI
: for that last August. I know h
( movements about the state. Well
{ didn't get it. But he Company has
*t.- anyway, and it is all the same. B