The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1928-11-01
RANKIN WILL BE
TOOL FOR NO ONE
while GOVERNOR
Steve Ely, Head Of Labor Fed
GRAFTON, Pays High Tribute
to the Candidate.

"Wellington D. Rankin is going to
be the next governor of Montana.
was the declaration made by Steve
Ely, president Of the Montana State
Federation of Labor, in Butte Satur-
day. "The governors chair has been
vacant for the last four years, Ely
continued. "Of course the state admin
istration has been run by somebody,
but there has been no governor run
ming it.
-"Mr. Rankin is the right man for
governor. He will run the state all
right, and when he is governor the
governors chair will be filled. Mr..
Rankin is friend of labor. He was
one of the lawyers who fought for the
initiative and referendum law in the
supreme court, and tied the corpora
ton lawyers in knot.
"In the public offices he has held,
as attorney general, associate justice
of the supreme court, United States
district attorney, he has shown the
kind of timber he is-gubernatorial
timber. The people know his rec
ord. It is good Erickson, in my
Judgment, hasn't chance for re-
election. His school lands oil rec
ord, his state highway partiality, his
expenditure of SS,000,000 more mon
ey than Dixon had, without reduc-
ing the state debt, not to mention
his maps at state board meetings, are
too much.
"Rankin always has been wiling to
give his time and take trouble to help
labor unions, or working people, with
no charge. He makes good wherever
he is placed. He made good with Sen
! ator 7. J. Walsh when he was in that
international law authority's office.
Walsh and Wheeler put the motion
to confirm his appointment as federal
district attorney through the senate,
{ without word Of objection, because
t of his ability and his official record
2 in other offices.
"He made it plain in the republican
state convention, after he was nomi
mated for governor, when he made his
talk there, how he feels about work
/, ing people and farm people and their
children. He said he was for better
: educational opportunities, particularly
for country children who are at dis
advantage, and for the children Of the
working people in towns and cities.
He also is for more compensation for
workers hurt in mines, mills and other
industries, and more compensation
for their widows and children when
they are killed. Compensation is low
!, in this state.
"He grew up on Montana ranch,
you know, and he has had damage
suits for workers; so he knows about
, the conditions under which the work
ers live. AS governor he won't forget
them.
: Rankin is not subserviGnt to any
/ corporation or anything. He believes
in giving everybody a square deal,
and in running the state for the peo-
i pie. Nobody will dictate to him when
5 he is governor. He has courage and
5 independence. He will select his own
: appointees, and his administration
/ will be both economic and efficient,
+ as well as progressive. The working
people are for him, because he is no
{ body's tool or stool pigeon.
5 81 do not think the workers of the
, state will forget that Governor Erick-
, son refused to pay any attention to
t the protest Of the working people of
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