Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1930-11-06
PEACE cAT LAST

brigade OF defeated warriors nave thrown
down their arms and admitted defeat; now
that those doughty battlers would like to
declare a truce by inviting the Republicans
and Democrats to another feast to see the
FL force eat crow, we can sit down and
analyze the entire battle with considerable
satisfaction in knowing that the majority of
the voters of Sheridan county cannot be led
by the nose as happened in years past.
The Farmer-Labor ticket went down to
defeat and with it went all the hopes of A.
c. Erickson as candidate for county attorney
on the Independent ticket. Mr.. Erickson lost
by 239 votes to Grant Blackwell, the regul-
ar Republican nominee. He defeated him
self with a greater margin than he might
have, if he had remained away from the
sheltering wing of Mig Collins and Charles
Taylor. Mr.. Erickson had lots of friends
throughout the county who would have liked
to place him in Office providing his political
alignment had been different but the minute
he commenced plastering every sign board
and automobile truck in the county with his
big placards to vote for himself first and
then support the entire Farmer-Labor ticket,
it spelled defeat. There was no question
about Mr.. Bakewells election at any time,
and odds of two to one were offered on his
election long before the voters said so at the
polls. The mud singing that was resorted
to by the opposition organization, was one
which will long be remembered here, and
which spells the final defeat for that organi-
cation in this county for all time to come.
There were some good men on the
FL ticEat x,h;ch 1yaxo cboco1 49, lo,,-oo
Of their value to the leaders but to strength
en- their ticket. John Lien, Carl Hanson, Pc
ter Glen and Miss Brinkman are people
who enjoy the respect of their many friends.
but those offices did not carry the prestige
which was necessary to bring in cash to the
depleted Golfers of the ring leaders. Their
main battle was for the office of County at
torney and sheriff and in trying to elect these
officers the entire ticket went down to de-
feat.
The attacks upon Hans Madsen, the
best Sheriff Sheridan county has had for the
past decade, was so fierce that we do not
even like to dwell upon it. He has made
good as a sheriff, he has helped reduce
crime to the minimum in this county. The
red lights are no more to be found Haunting
their places Of shame before our people.
The moonshiners and the element that fol-
low with them are things that are memories;
the danger that Taylor and his gang would
again get their fingers into the county treas
ury Golfers has vanished. The fear that the
red rule would again rear it's venomous
head over Sheridan county is gone, and let
us hope it is gone for all time to come.
1t reminds us Of the story when British
soldiers were compelled to restore order in
Ireland, at the time of the rebellion in 1916,
and when peace had been restored, and the
soldiers were embarking to return to Eng
land, there was one lone Irishman at the
docks to see them depart, and as the last
gangway was pulled in and the ropes cast
off and the huge vessels carrying the last
soldier back to England were backing away,
this man looked upward and said, Thank
God, now we can fight in peace
From now on let us hope it will be a
peaceful contest between Democrats and
Republicans for the variou Offices of this
county, and no such a beastly spectacle as
was staged by the Taylor element this year.
We want to gloss over many of the un-
pleasant things that occurred during the
campaign; we want to forget the spite, ram
cor and hatred that showed it's head during
the last three weeks of the campaign, we
want to live and let live.
The last chapter in this history closed
on election day; the story is finished; the
attempted reign of terror is at end; planned
attacks on the ~Plentywood Herald property
and its editor has died aborning. The dove
OF peace is once again at home in Sheridan
county.
We have only one request to make at
this time and that is that from H.