The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1927-10-07
THE DOUBLE-FACED JANUS

1t is sOlemnly told by many of those who now
support him, that in the 1920 campaign, when
Wheeler was the candidate of the Nonpartisan or
ganlzatlon, for governor the democratic ticket
with Bill" Dunn and "Red Flag" Taylor on the
stump speaking for him, paying their own ex-
penses, and raising the money to pay Wheeler's
that after he had delivered what seemed to him
to be hard boiled" radical speech that he would
slip around and have nip" with the bankers, and
strive to calm their fears by telling them not to
take him too seriously, that he was not dangerous
but rather safe and sane that politics are politics
after all and that he was out to get the votes that
ne had to talk that way to get them so that they
could vote for him with the greatest confidence
that they would get "a square DEAL" Then that
evening ne would pan the Anaconda, rave about
the usurers and the grain combines and the rail-
roads, and tell the exploited and robbed farmers
that they could look for relief when he was gov
ernor, then close by telling his Mary Ann story
ABOUT Hanna Jones and Anna Jones and that there
were not 1.-TWO bits difference between the two
old parties, anyway
over at the labor union halls he was the original
Labor Union man, and that in his college DAYS he
was charter member of the hashers' union in
a Niger restaurant; that his heart beat in
sympathy with the aspirations of the workers
linen ne went to midnight lunch with the 'open
shoppers and told them not too take him too
serious that politics are politics"
Now this gentleman weeps because his tactics
are beng exposed and the dear people are becom
ing lamlllar with his Andy Gumps campaign tao
TICS, because his sins have found him ont and ba in
ss'S 'nat ne Is being abused by "stool pigeons" of
the great interests
FROM 1918 to the spring of 1922, when he was
running for office he never lost an onnort,ni+,, -
attack the Anaconda Mining Company and the
Clark interests In every speech he said. after do
nouncmg the kept press" a term he learned from
MS radical associates, "when you see THE He1enar
independent and the Anaconda Standard and the
quite Miner supporting me, or running head lines
favorable to me, or reporting my speeches in a
favorable way or printing my picture on the front
pages then you will know that have sold ont r.
Tie company and no doubt about it,"
Well the "Helener Independent, and the manned
Dln campbell started to support Wheeler in the
Ian OF 1917 and has done so consista,,ty slue
mat paper has printed his picture on the front
page as has the Butte Miner, and the Anaconda
Standard
We state advisedly, that every copper controlled
paper IN this state every railroad subsidized pub
hcatlon, every member of the so-called "kent
press are now supporting Burton K Wheeler. the
erstwhlle champion of the oppressed and never
nm or his speeches, to laud him on the least
provocatiOn. Even the official bankers publica-
zion OF this state, "The Montana Banker. spealxs
well of him. s~~
In 1924 Wheeler while running for vice nrasi-
dent with La Toilette, supported Walsh for the
senatorship, the man who is famous as a reaction
airy labor hater and pleader of STANDARD Oil
interests IN the United States Senate.
All of the Kept Press" in Montana also SIM
ported Walsh and Dawes and Coolidge.
So out of Wheeler's own mouth l. bo o0,,-io4.
OF going over to those whom he once nretendod -
denounce. N0U ~
Now this man, Wheeler, with no regard for con-
sstency goes about the state calling his old friends
ana supporters, "stool pigeons" and "Radicalsn
ana takers and "decOys," and all of those things
'hat the Junior senator is so adept at CALLING any,
one VINO opposes his ambitions to advance him
SELL he is SO simple and disregardfu of facts
aS 10 go up and down over the state saving and
mslnuatlng that Wallace and Taylor are "companv
sVool pigeons In the employ Of the A. M q to
ueStroy hm-this in spite of the fact that tbo
"a y M and Its press and every man under its
influence in this state are supporting Wheeler.
sounds reasonable doesn't it, that the great
a y M, who donates so literally to Wbeeler,s
campaign fund, whose press and underlinos s,,n-
port MN SO loyalty, should at the same time bo
Infng stool pigeons to destroy their good and
faithful servant anu
Iell 1t to the Man in the Moon, Burton, he be-
r~I N--Out the people are not so simple as you
thnk-even though they have fallen for Won
Yes, the junior senator is Jams +u,o
laced individuals, who all things to all peonla
VINO VIII 90 anything, matter how crude ~ bu'
mllatmg' to advance himself and in his eaoor-
ness to serve himself he is blind to all sense =
consistency or decency -
wheeler is so conscious of his own inpratitrda
ms own betrayal of his friends and those VII
made him, of his own servility to the great ;n+or
ests OF the state which now support and laud hin,
OF his own "skulduggery'' in connections with tbe
the Sheridan county graft case, that like Macbeth
he sees. blood upon his own hands, he sees ghosts
OF the past rising to accuse him, he imagnes
there are dangers where there is none-so he con-
cocts bare-faced lies about those who criticize
him, and libels and scandaizes those who have the
goods on him and might expose him. in order to
destroy them and the public confidence in them so