The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-08-29
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Iuantity of the republican party :
n Sheridan county. q
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A lot of us poor political slmps \
we're amused when the bladder and {
Lard Olson came out for Senator {
Walsh, the democratic candidate J
for the United States Senate, and
denounced Galen. the republican !
candidate as a burglar, an Ana
cOnda man, and Ku Kluxer. The
bladder poses as a republican
paper, tho its editor, the mcOm-
parable Lard supported Wheeler
for United States Senator and
Erickson for Governor. serving as
the secretary or something of the
local Erickson Club. The bladder,
somehow or other, got the notion
that the Producers News was go
ing to support Galen therefore that
OliiferOus emnatiOn of cerebral
corruption persOnified i'm lecherOus
Harry and Tin Horn Burnley went
democratic. Sen. Schnitzler must
have been upset, and the repubh-
can state committee badly con-
fused. 'Iard" is an old Ku klux-
er and not much can be expected
from him except that he will go
off haIf-c0cked on any and every
possible occasiOn-nOt mallciOusly
of course-but be Just naturally
simple minded and idiOtie. He
will always be that way, and VIII
grow worse as he grows older. He
now has decisions of grandeur:
) when you see him rushing down
the street with his paunch thrown
out and his head thrown back
that's when he thinks he's a cross
between Martin Luther and Queen
) Marie. That Olson should be made
; secretary of the republican county
r committee was quite consistent
/ He may support Walsh and ne
may support Galen-depends Or
who sees him first with some sec
!. ond-hand fssruita~o-1A --re..t make
a much difference anyway, for the,
: say the company is neutral TIM
:. year, making equal contribution Il
t both campaign funds: the repub
: lican copper papers supporting
a Galen and the democratic cOppel
! papers supporting Walsh. Lar
: may compromise by taking boil
S candidates old junk and supper
; one one week and the other tn
e next. He should seize the OppOr
, tunity by the tail and hang on
it and he must if he would keep tn
S. old bladder going during thi
J. Hoover prosperity.
n Itliiii
Is A few weeks ago, Lard Olsoi
IF told us that he had too good
l. racket to even think of consider
S, ing a deputyship in the count
n assessors office were it proffere
a. him on a silver platter which
s. would not be for divers reasons
of Old Nut could not imagine whs
g. Lard had been cut in on: thr
in maybe he was a silent partner j
es the "Gottlieb-Stadig, Oscar Collin
Iii Ted Winters, Pabst Grier, OFT
Id Waddell" racket, and was just 10
ne ling in the earnings of Montan
- gangster band / had a right [
ut think something of the sort, know
We ing the name Lard has for cas-
m money. But it seems Lard had
We racket all by his lonesome-tt
to revaluation and consequent redu
A ton of the taxes on the land I
g absentee landlords. Lard did tn
IN for a fee, and nice fat fees he g
DIS sometimes. Lard says no one ca
his get these reductions as success
1T, fully as he can and says tn;
be sometimes he has got as high ;
to so per cent cut, and never lie
LAT than Is percent. So that is Il
Irs way "Lard" has been paying Fl
lin his pork chops, is it? We ha'
nd often wondered as he has no vi
ible means of support-thot ma
IRE be his friends paid his grocer
Ids bills. But now we know how Il
a old grinning simean gets Il
Tor dough. he gets REVELATIONS f
a the insurance companies, Far
a Loan companies, and mortgai
raj sharks. He writes to these on
old side owners; gets the contract
ird revalue the lands, then solicits t
me contract to act as local re
ties agent, In which capacity there
for great opportunity for burglar
ing and probably gets it, having re
ia dered such service IN getting t
md tax cut. Prosperity then star
the for Lard. Now, of course, La
ex- not being county official a
ar not now being deputy assess.
to cannot himself do this revaluati
,rol work. Hence he must be work.
1gs in with somebody. When a p.
lily son wants his land reclassified
ep- files applications with the asse,
nv, or. The assessor in course of til
the take the matter up with the CO
,ar- missioners, usually verbally a
informally, telling the board Il
nv, he has a number of applicable
be for Redistribution, the comm
thv sioners then tell the assessor
and make the examinations and
of classifications. When the reel
the sifications are made the asses,
by reports same to commissions
lrty when the commissioners apprt
the or reject the same upon the m
snt- utes of the Board. The VIII
matter books fishy and slipsh
'ub- The commissioners themselves
this not make any appraisals, and
lit near as Mutt can find out all
IN Recommendations on %hv-. ~