The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-10-31

N1l1Ch paper 10 nv" oeNAO w ~ VA
is last legs, and the Medicine a
AXE Wave. Dolin moving his b
Wave to Plentywood and publish h
ng the paper from the Herald il
plant in the county seat, thus MAX b
ng a county seat paper out OF G
Dolin's paper and overcoming the S
objection to making a paper out t
side of the county seat the official t
Dolin has made heap Of !
during the past two years, I
and with the help of his banker,
Ed Powers, he will pay off c. S.
Nelson and the others who have an
interest in the Herald plant. Then
Dolin is to get the county print
ing contract, again, without bids
and for the full statutory rates,
which will restore the arrange
ments of the old Pioneer Press
days, when Dolin looted the coun-
ty out of thousands and thousands
of dollars.
The Dolin-Powers-F French gang
is sure that with the existing fin
ancial depression, that the PrOduc
ers News, the farmers paper, can
not survive, so that with the pass
ing of that paper, that outfit will
have complete control of the pub
licity in Sheridan county, and thus
forever perpetuate themselves In
office, and so can loot the county
without fear of exposure.
The bankers already have con-
troll of the Sheriff's office and the
County Attorneys office, which
they are banking on keeping. Two
years from now they are planning
on making Grant Blackwell judge
! of the District Court, and then
! their control will again be COM
plete and the taxpayers and farm
E ers will have lost all of the ground
|. . they have gained.
Frank French will then, thru
his man, Carl Peterson and Sur
veyor Wheeler, continue his com
plete control of the purchasing de
partment, and take the rakeof
from machinery and culvert ant
|: supply purchases for himself, hav
: ing thru his control of Ed. liver
: son, absolute dominance of tn
: county board. French, aided b
r Dolin and Powers, and L. S. Olser
is moving heaven and earth to re
Le elect Ed. Iverson, their ignorar
and willing tool, as county con
II missioner next Tuesday.
t. Ed. Powers is the cashier of tn
"a First State Bank of Medicir
~ Lake. 1t was he who was assoc
ated with VIM. Davidson of Wi
~ liston in the looting of the depo
- itors and creditors of the Farm
n ers State Bank of $4,000, more
M less, of the collateral paper he
by the Midland National Bank
nj Minneapolis, as security for bal
n loans which were never legal
foreclosed, and which note
III which it was given was paid
ne full, which looting was one of t
- most scandalous in the history
O. Montana finance. Ed. Powers, t
banker of Sheridan county,
he real political boss of the count
needs the county funds in his ba
us and he is out to get it if it c
RI be done, and with the connivan
of the present county treasurer
ne looks as if his plans would col
T.. true, providing of course the
. publicans win Tuesday.
at Joe Dolin, once before moved
We Plentywood from Medicine La
oIc back in the spring of 1918 WI
0A he bought the Plentywood Pion
GU Press and got the printing G
,o+ tract without bids. That year
i0' collected over $4,000 for cou
)ur printing, receiving over $40,
elf for printing the primary bale
and who had the warrants cane
ed in Judge Corners court al
No the end of a law suit. Dolin Z
g. was forced to return about half
the money he collected for pr
ing the general election ballots
in same fall, beside paying b
in thousands of dollars he had
, a lected on the other fraudul
ow- calims presented to the county.
lain The people will remember /
. of in the same year Dolin got S
the grain over at Westby for
Ugly farms which he did not pay
"Sit and which he was forced to
ould for by County Attorney EricI
oun- for which Dolin has never for
light en- Erickson. Dolin finally v
to. broke and had to suspend his
the per. During his residence in P
ians tywood he was mixed up in
ant merous scandalous affairs, and
an moral conduct became so 70
to and offensive that decent pc
neil would no longer associate
aved him.
dsen A year ago last June, F.
Fin French and Ed. Iverson gave
who the printing contract without b
dsen ering with giving the other pa
yest- a chance to bid. Even Burley T
year Ter and Harry Polk denounced
sat brazen piece of business to
Jury. heaven. Dolin is the man VIII
now preparing the publicity
Tor the republican party, and demo
lcket ing Sen. Taylor and former s
eweil IF Salisbury, the latter whom
with bankers and grafters still hate
lace his fidelity to the farmers
his workers.
Frank French, the present c
was ty commissioner, under W
o6ers domination of the county, the
The levy has doubled, and the co
n IN Indebtedness increased, and
amps dispensed with bids in buvine
addle county supplies, is the chail
else of the republican county con
cars tee. Associated with him is ]
40 Olsen, a former justice of
was peace who had TO return to
po- county fine money which he
stolen and resign from offic
wing secretary of the republican
until mittee. Frank French it will b
book membered was once an offic
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