The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-10-05

At last we have seen the ultimate in demagoguery
1t is manifest in the political pictures of Sen. Wheel
put out by himself and paid for by the contribution
of the Anaconda Company to the State Democratic
Committee, and printed the press of the Montana
Standard in Butte done in colors
In this remarkable campaign picture the junior
Senator has himself pictured chasing the bribers
grafters and corruptors out of the capital at Wash
ington, la Jesus scourgng the money changers out
of the temple of Jehovah at Jerusalem.
When behold the picture we can hea r him
say ?): "My fathers house is place of worship, but
We have made it den of thieves"
This picture illustrates better than any other evil
dence that might be advanced, Wheelers exaggerated
ego: his paranoical idea of himself. We have read
of the Roman emperor who thought of himself as
one of the heroes as Wheeler thinks of himself the
Christ, who entered the in the circus armed
with bouders and fought with poetical monsters In
the form of slaves armed not with rocks, but with
huge sponges to represent bouders which they hurled
at the Emperor while he hurled back the real gram
tie, thus realistically acting out the dramas amidst
great slaughter and agony to the great delight of the
audience, but this is the first historical instance of
American politician picturing himself as the Christ.
Now if Wheeler had only had the Anaconda and the
Montana Power Company portrayed in the form of
two rotund angels supporting a halo his head,
his conception of himself as the Chrstus and the ex
listing facts would have been more in harmony
We cannot believe that the people of the sovereign
state of Montana can stand for the brazen dema-
goguery, this barefaced deprecations of mass intel
hgence examplified and visuazed by this campaign
picture and we believe, come the ides of November
that the people will literally cruelty this "Savior" on
cross of copper with avalanche of votes that will
bury him so deep in oblivion that it will require more
than three days to accomplish his resurrection And
that once resurrected he will tarry forty DAYS
before he ascends to the celestial abode of Con and
Jom' to dwell at the right hand of power, in the
house of copper, forever. (Forgive the metaphors)
But Wheeler in the pose of Jesus is just as logical
Just as real, Wheeler pictured driving the grafters
and bribers out of the capital at Washington
VI course Wheeler never chased any grafters any
where at any time. He might have backed up toward
Asem with his handO extended behind for his ehcae
of the loot, he may have some of them ragged
trying to get in the divy but he never drove them
out of the "temple'-of his picture shows him
following them right out
Well bet this conception of Sen. Wheeler by him.
self inspires mrth in the breasts of old Charley"
Bear and Dave Kelly couple of his old associates
Oh Jesus Wheeler, we hail you not as a savior
or a sacrament, whose body we shall eat or whose
blood we shall drink, and neither as good man. nor
the prince of the world to come, but as most astute
faker, the most monumental demagogue this republic
has ever produced, who changeth not water into
wine but wine into gall.
1t cannot be, it must not be, that Montana return
this humorless buffoon to the United States Senate
there are wiser and better over at Warm Springs
who think of themselves Napoleon Bonaparte JUL
us Caesar and George Washington, who are saner and
more honest and decent than this man Wheeler who
pictures himself the Christ scourging the money
changers-let US, fellow citizens go over there and
select of them for the United States Senate and
leave Wheeler at home at least as long as he remains
harmless.