The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1927-02-11
IN TIE

RUFFCOBN is a name that has fig
ured before in this column. Most of
ms readers now know that it is not
the name of a breakfast food intend
ed to relieve constipation but the
cognOmen of the Senator from Val
ley county. When the editor and
the business manager of this paper
last faIl undertook to point out to
the voters of Valley County that
Lets be Fair" Mr.. RuffcOrn voted
against the Bank Guarantee bill,
that gentleman got very hot under
the collar and called us dirty dogs"
But the electors of Valley County
who lost thousands of dollars in
closed banks which would be saved
to them if the bill RuffcOrn voted
against were passed. exercised their
privilege of voting Pete Peterson,
farmer out of office as State Sena-
tor and VIM. RuffcOrn. ex-law book
peddler and grain dealer, in. His
strongest supporters stated that be-
cause of the fact that he was Repub-
lican floor leader in the lower house
during the nineteenth session that
the fair Mr.. RuffcOrn would cut
EUNAE Hm 1AA HI lAElCAAds Duk the
high expectations have not been re-
allied. RuffcOrn is the prize boob
of the Senate. After being caught
redhanded in an attempt to pass a
bin which is an exact reproduction
of q law at present on the statute
books he rises in the Senate and
abjectly prOclaims: 81 am ignOr-
and" Northeastern Montana repre-
sentatives blushed with shame when
they heard that ono of their num-
Der committed this act of legislative
plagiarism. And the small boys of
Helena point the finger of scOrn
and laugh when the "fair'' Mr..
RuffcOrn walks down the street lug
ging a law book under his arm.
But although we uD here in the
Northeast corner must stand the
gaff and Dut uD with the sarcastic
remarks of the more sophisticated
Senators from the western part of
tho state, we should not get sore
at poor RuffcOrn for bringing dis
grace on this section When he de-
livered that dirty dog" speech at
Av0ndale we knew that his early
environment was not conducive to
good manners. We knew that he
was socially starved and we philO-
sophically excused him. But we did
not know at the time that he was
another victim of Joe DixOn's hyp-
notic power. It has since come to
the knowledge of the writer that
poor RuffcOrn wandered one day in
to the office of the former GOvernO
and that that gentleman after ascer-
tanning that the Man from Valley
County started life in Montana as a
law book peddler, remarked, ''TOm
Carter, our greatest republican SEN
at0r, started life in the state like
you, Mr.. RuffcOrn. He sold the foot
prints of time and graduated into
the highest office in the gift of the
people of this state. ! can see that
you are treading in the footsteps of
our great Senator and predict that
some day the people will call upon
you to step into his Shoes" The
Glasgow man fell for the subtle flat
terry and ever since has been burn
ing the midnight oil trying to as.
similate arid stuff between buckram
covers and trying to be the mara.
thOn prize winner at introducing
bills covering every subject from
splitting on tho sidewalk to defining
the day and hour people should ge
off their binders to vote at the Pri
mary election. The Man from Val
ley is not to be blamed. Any stu
dent of psychOanalysis could tell tina
some one planted the germs of "De
mentia PublicO" in his system. H
wants to be something big eve
since that day that Joe Dixon pu
him in a hypnotic trance.
THE GOVERNORS MANSION i
Helena is the subject of much com