The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-11-18

are strong VIII nes or be revived. II
Is dead as the Lodo pird.
II there are any nDelIyIees who
still DOUBT Just recall that those
VINO promoted the liberty tlcheI
we've the sdilIe AIen Mno mad cauo-
ed the democrat ticket to be lett
vacant - because democrat canul-
dates would have split the economy |
league vote and maze IL pOsslpIe, |
MlIncut the liberty spnL Tor the /
Communist candidates from the top I
to the bottom OF the ticket to have /
slipped into office with a minority !;
vote in Just exactly the same man |
ner that the economy league candi-
mates did Eta, ...
1t is by experiences of this kind
that the farmers learn the political
trick of those who rob them and
who have many more in their trick
bag, and from such experiences, il
they think, and learn, they can for
tify themselves against in the flu
ture.
THE COUNTY
SUPERINTENDENT CONTEST
Dropping down the ticket to the
office of superintendent of schools
1t appears that Raaen got 1898
votes ais the fusion candidate. This
contest was complicated by the cam
didacy of Linda Hall, democrat, un-
welcomed by the fusion gang who
| could not keep her off from the
ticket. This candidacy split the fu-
sion vote, as the liberty candidate
did the Communist vote. Miss Hall
got 948 votes. Anna u. Lutness of
McElroy, Communist candidate got
641 votes, and Jamse Randall got
1896 votes. If either Linda Hall or
Anna Lutness had received the Ran
dali vote, either would have been
elected. Combining the Hall, Lut-
ness and Randall vote, there were
2lS5 to 1898 for Raaen or 1887 more
against him than there were for him
yet Raaen was elected. This shows
what a split vote will do in the cleo
ton OF an unpopular candidate. In
a run off his defeat would be sure
Raaen received about the same vote
IN the general election that he re-
ceived in the primaries.
Over at ComertoWn where he has
taught for the past number of years
he secured 20 votes to 81 for Anna
LutneS, to IL for Linda Hall and to
Is for James Randall. The Out
look country precinct composed of
his neighborhood in which he used
to live, gave Raaen 38 votes to Lut-
mes 8S. and Randall 6. Over in the
Raymond precinct where Raaen once
voted, his home precinct, he got 40
votes to Lutnes'S "a, Linda Hall S
81 and RanGalPs IL. In the three
lPlentywood precincts Linda Hall
beat him in every precinct. Raaen
polled 242 votes, Linda Hall 277
Lutnes SO and Randall so. Where
ever Raaen was known he was de-
feated; the better he was known, the
; fewer votes he secured. Raaen will
very likely be a one termer as
, neither reds or whites are for him
! ! Both Raaen and Olson had the &C.
! tivity and militant support or the
ardent Lutheran church members
e and its ministry in this county. AnC
= especially is this a fact in regard
5 to Raaen; for he never would have
. made the election but for that &C
I tive and energetic support.
HoVEN ELECTED
l. COUNTY ATTORNEY
!; The county attorney contest wal
! also interesting. Arthur Erickson
= who had run with the reds in Tn,
:, past, run for the republican nomIna
: ton in the primaries against a rielC
= of four other candidates. He cam
: in third man with a few over so
: votes. Ordinary political sense woul'
u have suggested that he run. if go1ni
back on his old comrades, on tn
% democratic ticket where his nomi
u nation was assured. 1t was natura
: for him to return to that party 70
q he came into the Nonpartlsan leagu
l. frCm the democratic party. But tn
influence at work to keep the demo
- crat ticket without candidates fo
~ county offices in furtherance of tn
y schemes of the economy league II
p sion persuaded Erickson to run fc
. the republican nomination. Erickso
> was convinced that his nominatio
in a five cornered contest was sur
~ even with the reds boycotting til
10 primaries. and in case of nomins
ton his troubles were over. EricI
"a son was also persuaded, which wa
~ easy as he was of the same opinio
e himself, that if he deserted the rec
= who had kept him in office for eigl
10 years, he could easily win the vote
~ of the respectables, be nominate
=, and elected. So he decided not
81 throw himself away Erickson triC
out the same theory two years az
to his sorrow. He quit the farme
labor crowd. same organization
of the Communist now, filed for II
al republican nomination and got
St feated for the nomination with mo
he of the reds voting for him. TIL,
in he flied ndeAendent with the farI
m er-laborite support, saying repen
~ emily that he would never forsal
n learned his lesson. The farmer-l
CO borites made a great effort to ele
-ot him in general election of 1890, b
&c in vain, he was defeated. Yet til
Re year he repeated and made a 10
Al wolf campaign against young How
-, the republican candidate receiving
az two to one rejection of his cane
dacy. The bulk of Erickson's vot
came from the reds who had
candidate for that office who owe
M looked his Peter play" once MOI
nv the vote he stultified himself to s
nv passed him up. Hoover polled, IL
FOR votes on the economy fusion repJ
re lican ticket, while Erickson receiv
- $50. OF course Erickson was figl
~, ~, ing for a job he needed badly. H
e.. he used any political sense and fl
&c. democratic and had seen to it Il
or. that ticket was filed and all HI
-, made a campaign he would ha
80 been the county attorney, and
O. he done this, it might easily hs
the happened that the democrats wol
-, have divided jobs at the court hol
~ with the Communists. That is j
e. what would have happened.
~ Erickson listened to the siren sc
;n of the economy leaguers and pla!
in 20 their game.
eat NEMs MADSEK
ial- WINS AGAIN
.ess Neils Madsen got huge vote
llu I usual. 1t does not matter what k
20 of politics Neils plays, he wins a.
u.s. way. Political tactics that wo
not wreck and ruin anyone else, has
- effect on Neils Madsen's vote but
the iHe-r,Sa ,,iotFo,-,,o go e.. ,e~eIoct
ing axnerianced officar when
aEe matter of fact there is as m
. .ne if not more room for economy in
'l uS1 office than in any other office
VIZ the court house outside OF Carl
anu III erson's. Neils' political career
DS been checkered. When the nonI
18th. shst. %han 4hs rasmer-Iabor
lSrs were winning Neils was that W
tne Frank French and the republics
mo mo came to power, Neils' red faded