The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1928-05-25
B. K. WHEELER
TO RUN AGAIN
Fighting MONT. SENATOR
ANNOUNCES-CIT HIS
SIX-YEAR RECORD

WASHINGTON, D. c., May 20.
His candidacy for reelection
was announced today by Sen. Bur
ton K. Wheeler, Democrat, of Mon
tana in a letter to Mayor H. b.
Mitchell, of Great Falls, Mont.
| At the same time he filed his pc
tition for the Democratic nomin-
alton with Secretary of State
John w Mountjoy, at Helena,
Mont. Senator Wheeler bases his
appeal to his constituency on his
record in office.
The letter to Mayor Mitchell
reads as follows:
MY dear Mayor Mitchell:
81 submit to the people of Mon
tana my candidacy for reelection
as United States Senator upon the
basis of my record of service to
them during the past six years.
These have been years of excep-
tional hardship and depression for
most of the people of this section
due primarily to the unwise gov
ernmental and finsncial policies
which deflated agriculture and
saddled the producers of the state
with exorbitant freight rates.
Favors McNary-Haugen Bill
Believing that the restoration
of fair measure of prosperity to
the people of Montana was possi-
BILE only if agriculture was placed
on a basis of equally with Eastern
industry and with the agriculture
of Canada, l have supported whole
heartedly the McNaryHaugen
bill and every other sound piece OF
legislation designed to promote
that end.
'T have also fought consistent
ly for lower freight rates on Mon
tana products because know
that our farmers and other ship
pers cannot successfully compete
with those who live just across
the Canadian border. The Domln-
ion government long ago reduced
freight rates OIL farm products to
the pre-war level, whereas our
producers are paying rates which
are at last 80 per cent higher. For
the same reason I have supported
the Gooding Long and Short Haul
hill which would place the noun
tain States on an equality WIN
other sections and open large
markets to Montana producers.
81 have opposed the demand OF
the railroads for an excessive val
nation of their properties because
il will inevitably mean still 1urth-
or rate increases and heavier DUR
dens upon farmers, manufacturers
merchants and consumers. Inc
Interstate Commerce Commission
has now sustained the fundamen-
tal principles for which l nave
contended. That decision, If per-
mitted to stand by the Supreme
Court, will save the American
neople an unjust burden OF Dill
lions of dollars.
Good Roads Advocate
GAS part of this program OF Sc
curing the people of Montana ade'
mate transportation facilities
have worked for the development
of good roads throughout the
State.
sMy fight to clean up corrup
tion in the Department OF JUSTICE
and drive the Attorney General
Harry M. Daugherty and his co
borts from office, has been sue
cessful in spite of the attempts OF
NV enemies to punish me Tor my
activity. Resistance to the at
tempts to convict me on frameo
nm indictments in Montana anu u
trv me a second time in Washihs
ton consumed much time 'ano
energy but have not deStroye'
INV determination to continue the
fight for honest, unprivileged gov
arnment. | am proud of the enc
mics | have made in my llshle
both in Montana and in the Ma
tional capital.
War Veterans Friends
"Perhaps the greatest persona
satisfaction that | have derived
from nv service in Washington
has come through the persona
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