The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-06-07

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poured ont like water to put these
two subservient tools of the copper
trust again into office. The result
was that Erickson was elected and
Wheeler saved his bacon by narrow
shave.
Enter Harry WOlfgang
But the company was not asleep. It's
spies and propaganda agents were
working like cancer within the Clark
organization. Clever lies were whis-
pered into the ears of Mr.. Clark him
self. The result was that the Clark
chief attorney was summoned to the
home of Mr.. Clark shortly after the
election results were declared. A
lifelong friend and schoolmate of Mr..
Clark was replaced by a New York
Jew named Harry Gerard, alias Harry
Wolfgang. The first thing this man
did was to inform Mr.. Hutchins, editor
of the Free Press that he wanted the
fight against the Anaconda Company
to stop. He told Mr.. Wallace the
same thing and Wallace instantly
handed in his resignation as editor of
the Northwest. The day Wallace quit
he had run the size of the Northwest
up to "a pages full of advertising.
Two weeks afterwards the advertisers
withdrew. The Northwest became a
wishy washy rag which might as well
be edited by the local Secretary of
the Chamber of Commerce. After car
rying three out of the four members
of the legislature, two county commits
sioners and putting Joe. M. Dixon Ov-
er for the first time in his own coun-
ty, the paper slumped into a third rate
sheet which soon lost all public con-
fidence and support.
Campbell Pulls the Strings
Deprived of the right to give free
expression to his views in the Butte
Free Press Martin Hutchins sickened
and died. Still intent on his mission
of disruption of the papers, Gerard
alias Wolfgang set out in search OF
an editor who would completely dis
credit the papers. He found a man
J who worked under Bill Campbell and
who was known for his reactionary
views and his complete lack of style
!. and punch in his writings. A pussy.
foot was put in charge and then be-
gan the issuance of an editorial page
in the Free Press which sent yawns
into the jaws of every Free Press
a reader. The company had nothing tt
: fear from the once militant Clark pa
e pers under this new regime unit
: Larry Dobell began to write up the
n doings of the legislature. Then there
f was CONSERVATION in the company
: camp and renewed efforts were made
e to wreck the Clark undertakings. The
d inferior Gerard was entertained BY
e the Jewish branch of the Anaconda
: family and soon the pictures of Mile
+ Leiphemer, wife of the editor of the
S Anaconda Standard, began to appear
f in the society columns of the Free
S. Press while the physiognomy of MAJ
Il Gerard began to beam from the page!
e of the Anaconda Standard and thu
name of "Mae Girard" was writer
in Silver letters on a Missoula Sky
Y boat. Down in New York, Con AM
J. John chuckled over what was happen
r ing in Montana but they were no
k satisfied until they had Gerard, ALA
Wolfgang, buy the Hansen Packing
Company, and mix the business o
W making sausages with dishing on
# mental pabulum to the readers of tn
IS Free Press.
, With the Clark check book in hi
'ei pocket the reckless Wolfgang mex
S. started to promote a horse racin,
o track at Gregson Springs, but thi
s. was nipped in the bud when vii
Clark landed back in the United State
from a winters stay in Paris.
In Old Mexico
= We are in the palatial dining roor
n of the Aqua Callente Hotel in oil
Mexico Romantic melodies of oil
70 Spain float out from the orchestra
r. Over yonder sits few dizzy actresse
- from Hollywood. In a corner Georg
Bancroft is telling his friend hoy
n much he lost on the ponies at tn
=, track few miles away and his frien
- is telling George that he should
- called the lamb Eof Tiajuana instea
,. of the "Wolf of Wall Street." Mar
l. Bryan and Lupie Valez are sitting .
- another table while Baclanova
making whoopee on the floor. Bu
!, around large table in the cente
ie sits a crowd of hardboiled men frol
- the north. They are the Anacond
N crowd out to enjoy the glorious SUI
shine and liquor of the far Soutl
ne west. Prominent amongst them al
~ John Carlos Ryan, Crown Prince {
81 the Anaconda Domain and Frank \
Kerr, master of Montana power.
Mr.. Kerr raises a sparkling glass {
Burgundy to his lips a waiter al
proaches him, bearing two telegram
and newspaper on a silver platte
Mr.. Kerr opens the kilograms ar
N then glances oyer the editorial pag,
| of the Free Press. Champagne glass,
are set before the guests at the Ion
table. Frank Kerr drops the FRI
Press with a yawn. The driest thir
at that table were the editorials
ne the Clark paper.
g Another member of the party pic
- ed up the Free Press and observes
W "Clark should send the orchestra
y Butte to put little life into his car
~, paign." A serious member of Il
Nv party said: "Clark might fool you