Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1929-12-05
"Charlie Reminds Us"

.lucerS Moose at flentyWoOu.
Living a life of shame, financed by
Taft and hush money, his literary
illusions are so shamefully untrue as
lake his readers blush for him
Taylor has the least principle, the
lowest manly qualities, the most
brass and ego, and the most vivid
imagination in conjuring lies OF any
AN we ever knew.
Taylor landed in Plentywood to edit
=, paper purchased and organized by
bout one thousand farmers. Those
rarmers bought stock in amounts
varying from ten and twenty-five
dollars to a hundred dollars or more.
There were also many outright dona-
Ons.
It wasn't very long until Taylor
~ a little gang, who were in posses
n of all the money, books and re-
e1ds iuggled things so that they had
,ntrol and the farmers were left out
, the cold. with no voice whatever in
e policy or management OF the
aper. which has never returned a
NE in the form of dividends of prof
to the farmers. No stockholders
meetings are ever held and few farm
7~s now patronize or have anything
. do with him except those who do
OF know him so well.
However. early in the game Taylor
cared and ranted about the Anacon-
a Copper company and had himself
'ectcd state senator. And while at
Helena he would slip away on the
rain towards Butte. But he didn't
70 to Butte. When the train slowed
70 near Butte, Taylor would step off
nd a big limousine would be waiting
or him. The limousine, owned and
lriven by q very prominent copper
nmpany man, would wheel owe to
Dcor Lodge and Taylor was wined
nd dined and given the Farmer
abor party bug.
Sure, there was method in the
.ompany's madness. Governor Dixon
ed to be defeated and a third party
2 effect the farm and labor vote
way from Dixon was the way to do
{. Taylor lived fat on company mon
" during the campaign as the farm
rs union laborers didn't fall for his
Dixon was defeated and then
he company quite paying.
Pickings were getting poorer.
Then Taylor discovered that a Jew
sh merchant of liberal political tend
ncies at Pentywood, had some money
md trusted him, Taylor organized a
,atent medicine concern, babe Plenty
wood and the Moose bye-bye and blew
EAST to Minneapolis to head the Ply
'adium concern, manufacturers of the
mouth wash which would cure py-
save his followers teeth and
make millions for his friends.
Yes, he went with money belong
ng to widows, old and doting men,.
friends who trusted him and so his
Jewish partner ~said-about $4,000
If Sheridan County's money, together
With a flock of testimonials gotten
a group of toothless old men
Who had lost their molars two or
.hree decades before.
The money he soon blew, his part
Ter discovered him for what he was
md is, and he returned to Plenty
wood. Shortly afterward Sheridan
treasury, located in the same
as the office of Taylor's
'riend and henchman, Sheriff Sails
Jury, was robbed by a couple of very
lccomodating bandits who found the
open about an hour after regu-
ar closing time. Sure, a hundred
thousand dollars was taken.
And Taylor's prosperous air was
treat to behold.
Farmers didn't seem to act nice
o him in Plentywood after that
hey looked at him funny and it wor-
led him apparently. So back to
to organize a great lath
md lumber mill. Right away he sent
| big news article to the Moose that
Senator Taylor was hobnobbing with
lumber barons and was the founder.
# a great new industry. He got
some more money from the few re-
naming friends he had, but some
low or other he quit sending news
TENS back to the Moose about his
factory. 1t hasn't been found
yet.
And back came Charley to Plenty
wood where he and his gang had kept
control of the Moose, and where he
lad kept up his old alliances with the
'ootleggers and gamblers, the div
and bawdy-house keepers.
And then Charley's gang in the
house got trimmed, and his
with the dive-keepers slumped
somewhat, although they continued
keep him on their pavroll az pub-