Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1930-07-31

The Herald likes To boost for every worthw hle
proposition to advance the interests of the city and lis
taxpayers. and would like to have done so in this in
stance, but we could not see 1t in the same light that
the majority of the voters did; believing that the only
way we could obtain q reduction in rates would be 10
have a hearing before the Public Service Commission.
By the vote of the people to install a municipal light
plan we cannot now expect to get such a reduction I'M
til this matter is fully cleared up.
The whispering campaign as we'll As the
reported" story in the Producers Moose that the Her
aid had sold out to the Power Company is q deliberate
lie, and we brand as liars every person VINO circulated
this story. We have received no consideration, either
cash or otherwise from the Power Company of any
kind, name, nature or description.
The goods we bought from them are being paid
for in monthly installments just the same way as Tay-
Tor was paying for the radio he bought from them but
which was seized by the Sheriff sometime ago.
The reason the Reds voted for the Municipal
Light plant was that they wanted to get revenge upon
Mayor Storkan for the grief he handed out to that
red gang some years ago, when he started up the
Sheridan County Farmers Press which nearly wreck
ed the red paper here. They hate the
ground ne walks on and by voting for this plan of his
to get reduced rates for lighting, heat and power, they
thought they had devised a way to get even with him"
They do not care where the chips will fall, providing
they can humble a man who has the nerve to go thru
WIN Sucn = tnlnS as lie uuu Wnen nc DdcktU the news
paper witch they sneeringly alluded to as the
"Farmerine"
The reds are laughing up their sleeves as they
look forward to the humblng of this one man.
The Montana Dakota Power Company carried
on a clean campaign without abusing anyone. We
cannot say as much for Mayor Storkan. We believe
that he is now genuinely sorry for the reference he
made to five individuals, the writer included, because
they dared express themselves against this Diesel en-
gin plant for Plentywood. We have a right to think
for ourselves and found that 50 thought the same way
by voting No on July 26th.
We are not going to turn about and revile our
Mayor or any member Of the Council. His overzearous-
ness to win his point had much to do with this personal
contact and we can only apologize to the public for
what he said about us. The Producers Moose gang
would like nothing better than that we commence a war
againts the City Council, but their efforts to Torment
trouble will fall by the wayside. Their slogan "On
with the revolution will not work out now or any other
time.
To get the reds to vote for this election, they placed
a stigma of shame upon Plentywood by hailing our
Mayor as a "red" when all people know he is far from
being a "red" and stands ready to fight them rs hard
as ever. To further help out in carrying this election
they asked that the voters of the crimson type vote
yes; and then they wrote us up in no uncertain
terms.
That deflement was written by a man who so
mistreated his first wife that she was compelled to
divorce him, and in later years when his son by that
marriage had grown up and entered the legal profession
absolutely refused to talk to or recognize this father.
That same writer who spread that spray of deflement
over us has pulled more political dirt than any other
living human in this territory. And it is not all done
in the name of politics either, when we think of the
way he fli%m-flammed an old man out of his life's saw
ings with two of his personal notes that are not worth