The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-11-04

held the office of county attorney
for eight years at the favor of !
the N. P. L. the Farmer-Labor
party and the reds, who now just
could not bring himself to run as
Communist, tho he could not pos
sibly be elected without the red
votes, was induced to file on the
republican ticket for that office in
a field of five candidates, with the
Communist boycotting the pri-
maries where his defeat was sure
to any comprehending even the a
b c's of politics, when he could
have had the nomination for the
filing, without opposition, on the
democratic ticket. Every boob
knew that the democratic party
was the winning party this year,
and Erickson is an old time demo-
crat, coming into the N. P. L.
from that party. So he didn't
run republican as matter of
principle. In fact Erickson would
have run on the Communist
ticket if the Communists had
promised him the nomination had
it not been for his respectable
attitude" and his religious scrup-
les" Erickson has funny politi-
cal notions. Last winter he had
his wife working her fingers off
all winter for the Red Cross
mending and distributing old
clothing to the drouth strickened
farmers under the delusion that
such activities which mainstreet
women scorned, would curry favor
with the respectables and win the
votes from the poor farmers who
were reduced to the necessity of
accepting and using these old
rags. In the primaries those who
were forced to humble themselves
to use these cast off clothes voted
against instead of for Erickson.
Col. Pat is said to have had some
thing to do with Erickson's filing
on the republican ticket, though
Arthur was at one time a mortal
enemy of Pats.
No Democratic Ticket
And so it happened that thong
this be a democratic year, there
were no filings on the democratic
ticket, except one or two, namely
Gunther for judge of the distric
court, J. J. Gibbons, Reserve sta
ton agest, for representative, anC
Linda Hall who saw former dut!
under Supt. Emma Crone ant
Supt. Ethel Singleton, of Plenty
wood for Supt. of Schools. Out
Y side of these candidates the demo
cratic ticket in Sheridan county i
vacant.
I Democratic Committee Could
Fill Vacancies
n Altho the democratic ticket wa
t not filled by filings in the pr
/, maries, the democratic county cen
e trail committee, composed of de
o funct banker, Mckee as chairman
4 and defunct banker, Faaborg, a
a secretary, had the power to fl
: the ticket; but the committee di
q not want to fill the ticket.
o Why Didn't Dems Fill
/ Ticket?
\ And why did the democrats M
J fill their ticket?
!, If the democratic party ha
: been a party of principle would
e not have had candidates in tn
% field, win or lose? And especia
. ly in a winning year? Does an!
> one believe that the democrat
h party would not have had tick
= in the field if the Communist pa
~ ty had not had ticket up, stror
er and threatening to capture the p
r. litical power of the county? Ever
IN one knows better.
n And does anyone believe tn
the Sheridan county democrat
ticket could have been left unfill
't without the consent of the Natio
ne al and State leadership or wit
nd out an understanding? If the
g be such a man it is one who lnov
H. nothing about politics. The dem
N cratic ticket in Sheridan count
ne was left vacant by plan and d
u sign and not by accident. Ar
40 that fact is the best proof to t
a. voters of Sheridan county of IL
e charge that there is no differen
IS between the republican and dem
OIL cratic parties-that they are t
as bi-party of Wall street operated
10, fool the farmers and worke,
nd We're the Communist party strol
rt enough in the state and nation
re threaten the capture of the sta
Tn and national political power, q
IN the capitalist parties, republics
en- democratic, socialists and liber
y parties would be merged into o
ne big Economy League with one :
,Ity of candidates. The democrat
ne party did not file candidates
re- cause it was forced into the EcoI
as my League supporting the can
re- dates on the republican ticket.
&C. Why Liberty Party7
Now, then, when the cour
ticket of the democratic party "
not filled, in order not to split I
republican-democratic vote, so Il
al this vote could be delivered so
or for the Economy League can
M dates against the Communist CT
Nv didates, why was a liberty pal
ID. convention called and a full cour
he ticket nominated?
lis. Why was the liberty party r
ed published in Folks Herald inste
old of in the Producers News?
er, Why was the Certificate
So Nomination accepted and filed
lite Neils Madsen, clerk and record
ers when the call did not comply W
lu- the law and he could have stopr
ian this third ticket by refusing to I
ma the certificates-why was it fiji