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

~ treasury which happened in November 1876
Edward Iverson, then county commissioner, used
all his influence to prevent the Surety Company
from paying the county the amount of the loss.
He went so far as to wire the National Surety
Company at Helena not to pay Sheridan county
We ask YOU. Mr. Voter is that proper conduct for
the Chairman of the Board of County Commission
ers who is ostensiby holding his position of trust
for the protection and in the interest of the tax
payers? We will grant you that Mr.. Iverson did
not know any better but if he is weak mental
" or SO prejudiced that he could voluntarily work
against the interests of the county and in favor
of the Surety company, whether it was because OF
ignorance or to crafty his personal spite, we ask
you Mr. Voter: Is he proper man to conduct
the affairs of Sheridan county?
Considering the records of Mr.. Matkin and Mr.
IveSon there can be little doubt but that the tax
payers are this year going to pick out Carl Han
sen, of COalrdge, to represent them on the board
of county commissioners. Mr.. Hansen is favorably
known in his own community which speaks we'll
for his future record as county commissioner.
Mr. Hansen has both the intelligence, ability and
integrity to properly represent Sheridan county as
county commissioner. He has been associated with
all progressive movements in Sheridan county. He
is an educated man, who studies current
events and keeps in touch with the broad stream
of political life that is flowing fast and deep thru
cut the world today. Above ALL he is he candi-
date of the Farmer-Labor party.
Vote for Carl Hansen.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-10-31
VOTE FOR CARL HANSEN

Election Is again drawing near in Sheridan
County and it is presumed that the voters of the
county are doing their best to elect to the various
positions of trust those men or parties they deem
qualified and trustworthy.
By far the most important office is that of
county commissioner
For this position there are in the election three
men contesting for the job These are: ]. D. Mat
kun on the democratic ticket, Edward Iverson on
the republican ticket and Carl Hansen on tbe
Farmer-Labor ticket
Let US for moment examine the record of
these men that we may more intelligently be able
to cast our votes for this importan position.
D. u. Maxim should be well known to the voters
OF Sheridan county, although he has not been in
the hmelight during the last few years He was
the county commissioner during the Beiseker re-
gime IN this county, when the Seed Loan swindle.
which cost the taxpayers of the county approx
mately quarter of a million dollars, was saddIed
on the taxpayers. He was one of the commission
ers and the moving spirit among those that al
lowed Beiseker to obtain deposits from the county
amounting to another quarter of million dol
lars security that was not worth the paper il
was written He participated in the heavy dis
count paid on Seed Relief Warrants along with
Movius, the county treasurer, and C. J. Beiseker.
We just wonder if the people of Sheridan county
are going to forget these old scores and again
elect him to position of trust.
EDWARD Iverson has not record comparable
70 that of Matkin, primarily because he has not
the brains and imagination that Matkin has. His
record is mostly that of being tool of Frank
french. Not having grasp of public affairs he
: easily made dupe of by the clever French
lhere is one episode in his career, however, that
tne voters and taxpayers of Sheridan county
should not forget:
Shortly after the robbery of the sheridsn cum.
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The following is sent out by the All States News
Bureau of Washington and is obviously Democrat
&c propaganda. The tariff has no more effect on
the prosperity of the producing classes than
mustard plaster would have on wooden leg We
are publishing the junk for whatever interest If
may hold for our readers. With this warning we
feel that it will not do them any particular harm.
I'm spite of the confusion of whoopine and
cheering which grows more intense on both sides
as election draws near, one can venture few
predictions concerning the final score in the big
game Of the season. The most interesting is tbat
unless all indications prove misleading. the Demo.
Gratis stand fair chance to capture a maioritv IN
the House and to increase their number in the Sem
ate ' 0ei-
VI course, every estimate Of this sort bristIes
with ifs" Nevertheless the Republican floor
leader, Representative John Tilson is sufficiently,
alarmed at the prospect to warn voters that tbe
situation has terrible possibilities. And Secre+or
OF Labor, James Davis, Republican senatnrial CON.
dldate from Pennsylvania, paints lurid ncturas Of
what VIII happen to the workingman under De-
mocratlc congressional regime. The intention of
ue democrats to start downward revision Of
tarI1s given chance, especially frightens these
gentlemen They feel that the country will NOT ba
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-10-31
THE LEGION IN ACTION

Unless the American Legion is preparing for
the next war we cannot understand the following
conduct of these heroes at their recent convention
iii Boston. The Federated Press quotes the follow
ing from the Harvard Crimson:
Boston -FP-Crimson, Harvard daily, returned
to the fray in its criticism of the drunken Ameri-
can Legion convention in Boston, when it printed
this second commentary on the Legionnaires, in
leading editorial:
"The Legion convention in Boston was marked
by the utter prostraton of civic and business lead
crs, for either political actual capital, before
large class of legionnaires who INDUCED in scenes
of vice and orgiastic revelry beyond the compre-
hension of any but eyewitnesses No war record
is any excuse for such depravty The total sus-
pense of law brought about state of anarchy
which invited the worst among the legionnares.
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THE PRODUCERS NEWS

able to stand the business uncertainty that would
result from such a procedure. To which the De-
mocrats might we'll respond with: who started
this tariff tinkerng, anyway
cit is unnecessary at this stage of the campaign
season to go into the reasons for the G. o. P set
back. The tariff act, the economic depression the
Federal Farm Boards actions, and the administra-
TONS unpopularity have made good talking points
for the minority party. Prohibition, although not
a party ISSUE will be the determining factor in
many elections. Candidates are at last learning
from the electorate that some like them wet and
some like them dry, but practically nobody loves a
straddler We may know more about the future
of Volsteadism after November 4, 1890"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-10-31

tie use for the Sheriff in this COM
munity. 1t is an honor to our
law-abiding community. But when
the time came, Hans Madsen, our
sheriff, failed US. He failed us
miserably and say to you fellow
citizens of Dagmar and community
we must avenge this inhumane act
of Sheriff Madsen by the only
means in our power-the ballot.
To do otherwise would be to prove
false to our friend and neighbor
in sorrow which they will carry
until death has closed their eyes.
AS Hans Madsen failed to come in
our hour of need, so we the people
of Dagmar will fail to come to him
when he asks for our votes and
would rather cast it for a yellow
dog than this unfaithful officer,
for whom many of us voted last
year and gave him our confidence.
l have said enough. I hope it
reaches home. l am not of a
revengeful nature as a rule. but
there are some things cannot for
get.
Yours truly,
A DAGMAR FARMER.
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Madsen Created for a Mid
wife Says John Stahlberg

Editor, Producers News:
You keep saying that your col
umns are open to anyone who has
an opinion TO express, and you
have four times printed letters ex-
pressing nothing whatever except
someone's spite against me, pre-
sented each time with a total dis
regard for facts. A person once
told me that was not worth a
whoop in hell, and, as | was and
am unfamiliar with the unit Of
value known as a whoop in hell,
| was unable to prove him wrong;
but | seem to have been worth a
great many whoops in the Pro-
ducers News. Now, | wonder if
you will be good enough, or fair
enough, to allow me one little
whoop of my own.
l have come in for a great deal
OF razzing on the part of people
who were encouraged by my break
with the Producers News, and
some of them have gone a bit too
far. |, who have never done a
single thing which l cannot dis
cuss openly with anyone, have
been accused of serious misbehav-
Jour by people who are not so for
tunate. Now, / submit that if some
of the loud-mouthed coyotes who
devote so much time to making
this community a hell on earth
would stay at home and mind their
own affairs as | do, this county
would be fit for a white man to
live in.
When l wrote you last winter
that | considered Madsen a better
sheriff than Salisbury, / did not
know that my approval of the
FORMER was so soon to be put to
the test. He has been accused of
tavorltism-an excessively mild
word for the sort of thing of
which he has been guilty. Madsen
would help rob an honest working
man of the right to earn a living,
torment a loyal woman to the
verge of breakdown, and threaten
an innocent baby with perpetual
want, to satisfy the spite, and win
the votes, of three or four small
mean, hateful souls who are unfit
to exist by the side Of an equal
number of self-respecting pigs.
DO break the news to Madsen
that he really isn't much of a sher-
ift-but | honestly believe, given
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-10-31
MERGERS AND CHAIN GANGS

Expressions Of regret and dissatisfaction are
common everywhere when mergers are under dis
cussion, hydro-eectric mergers, railroad mergers,
bank mergers, bank chains and chain-stores. These
mergers are prohibited by laws, both basic and
statutory.
Analysts know that the merger combinations
that are now causing so much unrest and disquiet-
ude, would not have made their grades so rapidly,
were it not for the first merger,-the merger of
the republican and democratic parties.
Before hereditary instincts had completely de-
veloped in this land of the U. S. A., and during
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the time when special privileges could only be en-
Joyed after much political difficulty, it was thot
generally, that one of the old political parties
would operate as a check upon the other. That
time has passed. Those who were not privileged
TO experience the touch of progress, growth and
development through open competition, as requir-
ed by law, must, in order to make comparisons,
consult the historian. In this particular the plat
forms of the privately owned political parties are
silent.
In Montana, the dualistic political machine is
operated by the Anaconda Company. It's oil is
standard, and its motivating powers are those of
hydrO-electric and nl1O-papo-presto. Two months
ago this machine put into action 1t was fed
with materials consisting of power-site per-
mits and supreme court opinions and after turn
ing the juice, there came out from the other
end, the finished product one Walsh and one
Galen. These products being machine made and
presumably perfect, are now on the market and
as the pen is mghter than the electric needle, the
best seller will be the one who is given the sup
port of the best operators of that irresistible force
known Inko-Papo-Presto
There are thousands of people in Montana who
perturbed, and who tremble perceptibly when
discussing the possibilities of our nations greatest
menace, that of MERGERS,-the pyramiding of
combinations of combinations of combinations of
monopOlstic properties, operated by those who
through ownership of public officials are permit.
ted To point the finger of scom at anything that
savOrs of competition
If there is in public office in Montana
who has raised his voice in opposition to MER-
GERS we have not heard of him. There are quite
number who have actively and publicly opposed
MERGERS in Washington, D. c., but Walsh was
not one of them. When drafted CD last June.
Galen said that he was opposed to railroad mer-
gers. This was merely oral and quite out Of har-
mony with written matter that has appeared un-
der his signature.
Votes for men who have been tried and found
to be of inferior quality, would be equivalent to
casting votes for a candidate by the name of Mer-
ger. Those who have voted for the winners in re-
cent elections are those who, in reality threw THEN
votes away. On November 4, the electorate of
this state, will be afforded an excellent opportuni
~ for expressions of contempt for misrule. mis-
representation, and perfdy.
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Says Schnitzler Paid
Her Taxes: Thinks ALI
Republicans Good

Homestead, Mont.
Oct. 27,1930.
Editor, Producers News.
l have been reading in your val
liable paper the discussions of who
to vote for November 4th.
| was surprised that B. K.
Wheeler would come here to Froid
and ask the Scandinavians to vote
for Sen. Walsh.
As TO who has done most for
the World War Veterans-the bon
US bill, which would give each vet
eran a little better than a few
smokes which was considered un-
constitutional by State and U. S.
or the bringing back to this coun-
try of the service and medical rec
ords which might make the differ
ence between poverty and hardship
and 500 a month-$1200 a year
twelve thousand dollars in ten
years which a service-connected
veteran is entitled to for total per
manent disability.
Now it is Pres. Hoover and the
Republican administration that is
bringing back the records which
the Democrats forgot when the
World War ended.
Albert j. Galen has been in 81
IBERIA and had the flu which affect
ed his heart and he would there
fore have lots more sympathy in
seeing the veterans got what thew
were entitled to than Senator's who
go over to Europe for pleasure
trips among the rich. Mr.. GaIen
would work with Scott Leavitt who
is never too busy to think of the
Montana people first. Mr.. Leavitt
is good deal like Mr.. Salspaber
who was Commissioner of Pensions
for a long time. The Civil War
Veterans would defend the II g
Government and U. S. flag with
their last breath and it was the
honorable and upright work Of
men like Salsgaber that made the
veterans feel that way. Bv fbe
July, 1880, law the service men
WIN were III camp ana were in
jured have rights they did NOT
have before.
Pres. Hoover, in his speeches
has urged the big money powers a
eastern states to be more liberal
with credit and help end this fin
ancial depression.
So, if all these rich Democrats
Republicans and Farmer-Labor;tes
would listen to the great enpinee,
some of the hard times would end
Lots of people in this part ~
the country have much To he
thankful to J. w. Schnitzler for
also. If he had not paid INV tavee
last spring I would have lost tbe
quarter of land I homesteaded o.
years ago.
Don't forget to vote for +be
veterans friends albert ] CaIar
and Scott Leavitt" on Novembe,
4th.
Yours respectfully
MAY c. JACOBSON.
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Sheriff Hans Madsen and
the Soren Mouritsen Boy
Dagmar, Mont.
n-LoL. 90 d0nn

October %, 1890.
Dear Mr.. Editor:
Please do not publish my name
In this article as / owe the bankers
lot of money, and they would
probably make it pretty hard for
me and my family, but l have
something to say and wish you
would print it and sign "a Dagmar
Farmer"
In the coming election US people
of Dagmar have one duty TO fulfill
in sympathy with one of our high
ly respected neighbors, the Mour-
itzen family.
You all remember the sad Incl
dent when little Soren Mour-
itzen was killed by the hit-and-run
drivers. You remember how we
felt as we witnessed the grief of
our good neighbors and friend ov-
er the death of their son. You
remember our indignation when
it seemed no effort was being
made to apprehend the criminals
and they were allowed to get awav
and have not been caught to this
day. But the thing that shocked
our neighborhood was the callous-
ness of Sheriff Hans Madsen ia
the tragedy in our community II
will be remembered that he came
out to the Mouritsen home after
the funeral and the little bow had
been laid away. He waited for
several days after the brutal nnr-
der to even come out to the scene
of the tragedy. We have very Iit.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-10-31

Comertown Farmer Urges
Support for F. L. P. Ticket
Editor, The Producers News:

Editor, The Producers News:
Just little space in your valu-
able paper to express my views on
the coming election.
If you want to use the sheriff's
office for a collecting agency, vote
for the Republican ticket.
ACT /.
Hans drives out to John Does
farm just before election. John
Doe and his wife are home and
they look out and see Hans. Mrs.
Doe begins to cry. Hans drives
up and knocks on the door. John
has to admit him. Instead of a
summons, which John was expect
ing. Hans meets him with a hear
ty handshake. Hans says to John,
"You have wonderful place here;
just few more years of hard
knocks and eat a little less, you
will be setting pretty"
ACT II.
Time: After election.
Hans reappears at John Does
place with a sleek-looking mort
gage parasite, and hands John a
summons which will take his home,
his cattle, his horses, his seed, and
feed, and sends John into the over
crowded labor market.
But, on the other hand, if you
want to elect men that will give
you a $3.50 break with the banker
and the mortgage parasite, vote
the farmer-labor ticket. Vote for
men who have the courage of their
convictions to get up before the
people of the United States and
Sheridan county, and denounce the
capitalistic system, the rottenest
system that was ever perpetrated
on the people in the whole world,
even the Car of Russia in his
palmy days. The worst that he
ever did will pale into insignifi-
canoe to the stuff that is pulled in
the United States.
Now, l say again, citizens and
farmers of Sheridan County, go to
the polls on November 4th and
vote the Farmer-Labor ticket
straight from the top to the bot
tom, and don't forget A. C. Erick
son in the Independent column.
Yours respectfully,
COMERTOWN FARMER
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D.. LII
Dofnum and the
Republican D.

Election time is be,. News
, ,IeIa. And the people ,' s siS IN d,
, SyIget or for the candid,tooi. va
WOKE r',bi; Tor the candidates ,9ey VII
publican n, and Democrat 2,gi o. LII. The B,
C@cE y, viii II vote for the s parts Ct
Old Barnum said tbs al' y
the people were sw.n rtGs 'A \ n@
ter they liked it, So ,Di u i, Tie b.
the old tickets his sari,. ,ney voA
true. saying psovs
Do you remember
lunch confiscated our v5 now tbs
u iized the prices during "4 u. at
you you remember how tS saS va "a,
thousands Of dollars o, 0ot
Us and made Us ,,at ; b,l away fn
the hest flour wso ~ b ,iog Iced vii,
in Canada and Fr 0Ing Consume
the kind Of tbirg t Lana. This /
the Republican aFd ' Ra' Is back 4
kets IL Shcrid r. CD'V.lnocfatie il,
YOU vote those ticyo al'y. VIE
your consent :, ' my you IN
high and exorbit,r 0t''ll'c ta.itloa b
Now cur people have e forc,.
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-+AN akft
bullets Joe has drank ri. :
glass of champagne or rop,.r,j
the order of the diamond an n
last actress. Joe, head q N
UniOne SciciliOne, an Italian 4,
ternal organization, every bsi
of which but one in Inc n
twenty years went out by N
bullet route. JOe's death | shrp
say ought to make things 4 lrL
better for Scarface on me- ygS
Side. While this carnage i n
ing on judges and bushes, "a
of Chicago are aresting "paSs
enemies" holding millionlH
gangsters as vagrants and NJ
forgetting to arrest OommmEt
for exercising the right Of ~
speech.
!!!!!.
A paper called Labor" %
lished in Washington, D. c, i
flooding this state with a sp1i
edition in behalf of the eanGtq
of +. ]. Walsh who is running h
senator against Albert ]. GAIA
The paper Labor" is the mo-
notorious of the purchaseabk y
called labor papers in the Unta
States. 1t parks there in al
building like a KEEP woman in I
swell apartment waiting for y
saccharine daddy to come for s
services. Every election year u
sheet puts out millions Of sptca
copies in favor of senators az
congressman who come atfOa
with the jack.
!!!llll
Labor" is opposed to pOilIl9
action of the working dass' !
stands like a whore at coR
ty fair between the RepuolfI
and Democratic parties and y
fers its services to either y
they must be "prOgre'sii's
The customers must be hfu
polished and properly fumlgiIs
in "a political sense. That : =
banner under which this d"
sails.
Labor" is edited by . ~
named Patrick Heating, . y y.
whose virtue is as elastic as =
of any leader in the trade ~
movement. And that IS sa' ~,
lot. Heating makes his -. "p I
selling his editorial aOlll!.
ANYBODY with the price Any n.'s
who will buy Heating IS q ~, y
gressiye." The paper Is os W.,
nv the rail labor Organli'l'I,
Pyt 'l those leaders don't give &
hang what Heating does !"
are getting theirs.
!!l!!. -
In the special issue Of 'L al
now flooding Montana in n ~ y
Of T. ]. Walsh, this baT ~, \
t tries to make it appear iha' \
Producers News IS r' al,'iS
Walsh but not Galen' III tron
except a low;grad' mi moro, o5I,rI :
bee been w on try [vF to treat them ?.
s alike We The The Republican .Pi. aIlIl
the favOrite party Of caIl 3
It is the party that Is VII # / bI
w Uar,y or th aG looks cynically o. s,Ei
mi 6pick % looking for JOBS VI
%lIltpnI d while half a b
dollars is in the he eo ddsIi b .
IN relieve the farmer,
Everybody knows tn tbs s d :
P pGmit It. HE He knows ,u. 20 lr y
Producers Prod Struggle while h he es as
the kept II i''i IS true Tia, 4, = =,
t lacked Walsh, the %.I Ra s Of ~
senate saa1s for voting ting .a ni'5 :
: war; the T Ge5it El1' Law 90 )
G Tpi%inaI syndicalissni ,i tered :.
T P53 %'7 =. 3 DsD .., when S + "
t N a's common people people " We ~
: a al, Let Kea'i mat Of.
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FRIDAY: October 81. 1874

er. .'f 5e t training g by til, r.r1' :
wife. e d surpassjr, 'aca.
H. g MD.
ana 5nd,.I may his STYLE 'o rar oF.ahet,
"eaIty kick "e'et .o,e 7.
JOHN A. SrAHion.
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AS WE SEE IT

Continued from First ps,s
The Indianapolis times., 1930-08-06
Night Twin Bill Results
in Two More Tribe Defeats
Indians and Blues Start at and Play Until After II;
One Game This Evening.

IL to 8. Yarmouth went the route
for the visitors in the opener while
Miller took a beating on the Tribe
mound and Mulrooney finished for
him.
In the windup fracas the Tribes
men outhit the Blues, fifteen to
twelve, but a six~run rally in the
seventh enabled the K. C. pastimers
to finish on the long end of the
score. In this struggle the visitors
used three hurlers, Sheehan, Thomas
and Day, and indianapolis four,
Van Alstyne, Cvengros, Mulrooney
and Burwell 1t was swatfeSt.
Bill Burwell and Claude Jonnard,
still on the hospital list, couldn't
be employed as starting hurlers,
which placed Manager Corriden in
terrible pickle, for his mound staff
is worn ragged. There were plenty
of extra base hits in both games and
the outfelders spent much time
chasing into the shadows retrieving
the bounding sphere.
The fourth battle of the series
will be staged tonight, starting at
s and on Thursday night another
twin bill is planned.