The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1928-10-25
GOV. ERICKSON
GUEST OF OUR CITY
MONDAY EVENING
Other Democratic Notables
Greet Public at Meeting
in Workers Hall.


Indians, democrats and Bakers
Herbs" were all mixed up in Red
Lodge Monday night-but the mixture
did not take.
Governor Erickson spoke on his and
Smiths candidacy at the Workers.
Hall and large crowd was in attend
ance, the choicest seats being filled
with small school children. The gov
ernor made fine speech and defended
his past work in creditable manner,
emphasizing the point that he had
been accused of doing nothing" dur
ing the past three years and half.
He was preceded by the acting chair
man of the democratic central COM
mittee, who was taking the place of
the chairman, who has been away the
past several weeks on a hunting trip.
The county candidates were intro
duced in turn, starting with a reverse
and ending with an eulogy to Al
Smith. Evidently the acting chairman
was prophetic as he termed his in
Productions as obituaries" Gap
plause.) We must get in applause"
once in while in order to make a
political meeting write-up sound right
Under date of Oct. 4 the official
democratic organ published an article,
stating that a large delegation of In
dians, under the leadership of Luke
Rock, were coming over from Pryor
to welcome our governor. Added
authentic news was published to the
effect that the venerable Plenty Coos
was also to come.
, Plenty Coos is the ranking Indian
of the United States and has been
honored at Washington, D. c., many
) times. He is a republican He wei
} coined General Foch when he made his
trip covering the United States in
fact, he conducted the services when
Z the greatest war man Of time was
! adopted into the Grow Indian tribe.
S Plenty Coos gave the welcome to the
e Grown Prince and Princess of Sweden
@ the greatest honor shown them III
their estimation. This was ia Billings.
Plenty Coos decorated the grave Of The
unknown soldier at the time this
shrine was dedicated Plenty Coos is
a friend to the vice presidential nomi-
nee ON the republican ticket And
above all Plenty Coos is a pretty
smart old man, venerable in acts as
we'll as in age. He is not traipsing
3, around the country as a piece Of
showmanship.
A delegation Of Indians did arrive
from Pryor last Friday, being head
s ed by Greybull. In the party was
/. P. B. Gardner, Plainbull, Nicholas
I Beartail, Crazy Crane and Greybull.
S Their squaws were with them. They
q came at the invitation of some one
e and were completely ignored after
they arrived. The delegation returned
q home saddened and many of them
who had intended to vote the dem
! ocratic ticket stated they would re-
2 turn to the party who saw that they
] had the right of franchise. Coolidge
! Was the man who gave us vote and
the most of the Indians are republi-
$ cans. Evidently our vote is not want
ed" said one of the Indians.
t The war dance that was advertised
did not materialize Monday evening.
, After band concert by the Red Lodge
t band, and when the Indians were not
produced, the crowd followed to the
I hall which was found to be well filled
with children and men and women
were forced to stand all through the
: meeting.
Many good talks were made and
G. w. Demel of Billings, candidate
for judge of the Thirteenth judicial
district, gave a splendid five-minute
talk. He was followed by F. H.
Cooney of Missoula, candidate for
lieutenant governor once more. His
talk was TRADE against Mellon, who
; is not running for any office. He
eulogized the size of his present and
future family and ended in an orator.
ical outburst.
B. A. Taylor Of Billings, candidate
; for congress, was the speaker preeed
: ing the governor. He stated he was
friend of labor first, last and al
ways, and Immediately followed by
stating he thought good plan was to
have cheap products brought into this
country so as to allow the laborers to
work on the roads and also to build
government buildings in all the cities,
towns, villages and hamlets in the
United States. This is vicious waste
of public funds and even the repub-
lican party has been censored for
building such edifices in smaller
towns. Ask any democrat in Wyo-
ming what he thinks Of tho h"T''+'sEI
government buildings in such towns
as Sundance, Lander, Douglas, Cody
and other places We do not e. eve
Mr.. Taylor Knows what he is / ing
about"
Governor Erickson gave fin TX.
He gave sane argument and e a
wonderful appeal for re-elec AT
no