The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-05-18

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NALE.ai" LaEation" of May 9Th carried an
The - entitled entitled presidential Posi-
aTtl:ls'g aTT.I;O5g written by Mr.. Oswald Gar
blllleSy Willard The article was lau-
TlsGn !, Of the public record of Sen
talloT1 alD J. Walsh of Montana; Mr..
yiII.rd SiTl took as his text the following
'lllanr 'lllsarranb which appeared in the
pai;aneIight" column of the Producers
News some time ago:
9TH arLor there is the Honorable Tom
u.i.b l' We are all familiar with the
VAST Malsnt Dome affair. The Standard
az dtSPCs P%suted DOheny and Sinclair re-
nuod vi from the field of competition
en. IaU'v yaInable government leases, and
T"m IT,, was nut on the job backed by
~" H." DubIicity of the oil and copper
u.oss sne Thus Tom was made quite
po-o in the minds of the bOObery.
Put @ there are some who remember
Eic Tory prOclivities during the war;
H. fatberhOOd of the Espionage law;
he General Leasing Act of 1920 un-
dor which the oil interests looted the
mblic domain; his support of the
World Court and other Wall Street
forpign policies; and his lead in the
iigbt to give the valuable Flathead
nower site to his straw bOss-The
Montana Power Co. There is an i'm
untant difference between Al and
Tom. All believes in setting up a
State authority to operate and devel-
OD the hydro electric power sites of
New York state. Tom believes in
giving the whole thing to the Mon
Jana Power Company"
The whole article in the The Ma
tiOn on the Senior Senator from
Montana was a reply to the above
paragraph and was written in the ma
ture of a plea Of confession and
avoidance.
Mr.. Willard admits all of the alle-
cations in the above paragraph but
one Chat his prosecution of DOheny
and Sinclair was instigated by
Standard OLD and then tries to con-
done the wanderings of Senator
Walsh from the path of liberalism
BY citing mitigating circumstances.
Unfortunately the circumstances cit
ed by Mr.. Willard are not always
founded on fact. To give a few in
stances of the strained efforts of
Mr.. Willard to cover up the dark
spots in Mr.. Walsh's record:
Mr.. Willard says: ''This Senator
may be a creature of the Montana
Power Company" and then in miti.
CATION Of the above he says that
Walsh was the man who made z
fight to investigate the Public Util
hy Corporations and continues
There can be no question that th'
Montana Power Company acted will
its brother electric-utility corpora
lions in opposing the move" Their,
Is a big question here. As a matte
Of fact Mr.. Kerr, vice president o
the Montana Power Company state,
to me in Washington, d. c., befOr
Mr.. Walsh introduced his public util
Ity Investigation resolution that a
far as the Montana Power COmpan
was concerned. | told Walsh he cOul
go ahead with the investigation"
is not true to state that the Nor
tana Power Company cooperate
with the other companies in lObb!
ing against the investigation and
have it on the information of NJ
Stewart, vice president of the No
them States Power Company, tn;
Montana Power Company never a
llllated with the National Electr
Power Association, which was I'll
body which hired Mr.. LinrOOt and
corps of publicists to oppose the res
luton. Furthermore the Walsh re
OlutlOn did not contemplate the i
,VestlgatiOn Of Interstate COmpani
like Montana Power.
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mferentially MIR. Willard endea
Ors to prove that Senator Walsh
not an Anaconda Copper COmpal
man by stating that the cOmpa,
defeated him in 1910 but that
was elected in 1912. "TO call Wal
creature of the corporations is {
surd states Mr.. Willard, yet
Iact remains that while it is tt
mat Mr.. Walsh was defeated by
company in 1910 it is also true Il
ne was elected with the aid of
same company in 1912 (See the G.,
per Press of that year) and has b
COhslStently supported by the gr
mliling corporations ever since.
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After admitting my content
1nat Senator Walsh stood with Ell
moot, Edward Box, Colonel HOl
IieTpOnt Morgan and King Geo
u England for the League of
lOns ZION, and the World Court, Mr..
,slu % proceeds: Beyond that the
SIiCatlOns are that Senator w;
sanS towards the imperialist 7
S;ne -ne did and does support the
plOhage Act which muzzled the CT
i aIi and will do it again, autOms
S, whenever the President dec
mat a state of war exists
TSnless tS that do not understand
sae ~; curves of the Liberal intelli
ma ma mind but it seems strange tn
I' s~u Oh MIR. Wizards prOfessed v
''S antecedents should still sup
WdISn man OF the caliber of Sen
t.s. t.Slsh after knowing the fOreg
saA Ss concerning his Tory pros
ha would rather a thousand tim,
a.. pOssessOr of Simple" but
sor0nr %lnd than be the depender
w"lpIncated woulI mental processes
Iss IOuia put person, protesting
IN HSa.IlnI N freedom of speech and
;"ertes, ;nS in the position of sun
ws,, = man who drafts tyrar
tha thrtlme tune laws designed to th
"a ~ d aree expression of the peopI
sml protect from public censur,
fiDssssi!n of gigantic fortune,
cha. hr. Willard Omits referring
Ssnarge that WALSH was -aISo