Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1932-06-30
Here's The Ticket
OPPOSITION STRENGTHENS TAXPAYERS TICKET

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OPPOSITION STRENGTHENS TAXPAYERS TICKET
In spite of the concerted effort on the part of the Med
lcine Lake Wave to arouse dissention among the delegates
who represented every section of Sheridan County in placing
a set OF candidates on the Republican ticket, endorsed by the
taxpayers Economy League, workers from every section of
the county are rallying to the support of the ticket, and can
didstes of the League feel more confident of victory now
than any time since the convention was held.
The taxpayers Economy League is the only organization
which has placed any kind of a construction program before
the taxpayers and voters of Sheridan county for real savings
to be effected during the next two years. 1t is little wonder
that t. people who are overburdened with taxes are ready
to give serious consideration to the candidates who have
pledged themselves to carry out the platform of the Economy
League.
No matter what any person in the county may say, no
matter what any newspaper may print, the fact still remains
that delegates from all over the county fought muddy roads
to attend the nominating convention and represent the vo-
ting precincts which sent them there. 1t was the biggest con-
ventIon ct its kind that has been known since the DAYS when
the Nonpartisan League was at its height. 1t was made up of
one OF the most intelligent. fair minded, straight thinking
groups OF ctizenry that could possibly have been selected
three-fourths of them farmers-and its deliberations were
conducted with the utmost harmony. Those delegates acted
in good faith; they did what they believed to be for the best
interests OF the people they were there to represent; they
pledged themselves to abide by the will Of that convention,
and they went home to gladly give an account of their work
and submit the candidates they had selected to the voters of
their precincts.
Nov. for the Medicine Lake paper to launch an attack
y TIC organization OF n economy League, and to question
the adoption OF a platform Of moneysaving principles is but
TO question the right OF any citizen or group of citizens to
exercise tier rights under a democratic form of government.
When editor Joe Dolan challenges the right of this farmer
controlled convention to meet and select a set of candidates
to place before the voters with a specific platform of money
saving planks, he is questioning the integrity and good judp-
ment o. every delegate who attended that meeting. "A good
many OF us editors have overlooked the judgment Of farm
es In political and economic problems; we have too MANY
times taken it for granted that farmers do not take time
TO think things out for themselves, to analyze what IS best
for their condition rather than let someone else do it for
them Eaybe this is one time that Mr.. Dolan failed to ap-
preciate the farmers ability to think for himself.
As for the ticket of the Economy League being a hand
picked tIcket, any delegate or visitor who attended the con-
svcntlon Knows nothing could be farther from the truth. Men
were nominated for office who had not been counted i 40
the held before the convention, fell by the wayside; delegates
were thinking tor themselves; no convention could possibly
nave been less controlled or more manifestly demonstrated
. real sp1nt or democracy; even the Producers News which
has been credited with considerable political sapacitv in the
past. only succeeded In picking one successful candidate out
Q = q if u SIX Yet, these disconnected agtators-disap-
pointed over the harmonious results of the conventoin-em-
FILTERED to think that any political meeting such as this could
DC carried on without the assistance of their leadership
calls this a handpleked. ticket and contends the eonventian
was controlled by two or three men.
When speaking OF being controlled, it is interesting to
recall how the work OF the convention was carried on. When
objection was raised Gas had been pre-arranged) by the Me
dlcne lake delegation to make endorsements, the chairman
gladly consented to place the question again before the dele
although It had been definitely decided previously to
Delegates from the southern precinct were the
only ones to cast a dissenting vote, and it will Be remember
ca that alter the vote was taken the spokesman for the Me-
dlclnc Lake group Immediately gained recognition of tbe
char, stated that his delegation would unite with The con
m the interests Of harmony and pledge themselves