The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1936-10-01

made's armor again citing in
formation obtained from well in
formed and, strangely enough, dis
interested Georgia sources, was the
fact that the American Liberty
League spent more than $40, 900 in
his behalf
To show how curious this situation
is, let's look at a little happening
in the campaign for the Democratic
gubernatorial nomination. Right at
the height of the bitterness, the sup
porters of Charles D. RedWine
charged that E. D. Rivers, another
candidate, had fiirted with the Re
publicans. They produced affidavits
seeming to prove that Rivers had
been willing to make race for Con-
gress on the Republican ticket pro-
viding he was supplied with SIS, 900.
Now at first blush that would seem
to have been haymaker, as our
pugilistic friends would put 1t.
Especially, as seems to have been
the case, if it were true, and that
Rivers would not dare deny IT!
Why He Lost
What happened was that the
Rivers people demanded indig-
nantly to know what the Redwlne
people meant by getting affidavits
from Republicans What, the Rivers
spokesman asked, did the RedWine
people mean by consorting with Re
publicans, and getting information
about Democrats from them? And
finally, what were the Republicans
injecting themselves into Demo-
cratic primary for? We're they at
tempting to tell the Democrats
whom to nominate?
It may sound crazy to northern
and western readers, but it worked.
Four country papers, which had
been supporting Redwine, were so
disguised with this apparent al
lance between the RedWine forces
and the Republicans that they
switched their support to Rivers!
And to this day Rivers has never
denied that he offered to run for
Congress on the Republican ticket
if they would give him $4,000.
It's a little difficult to draw any
logical analogy, but it's there. Tai
madge made his great mistake TAX
ing himself all the way out OF the
Democratic party, and by having
aid in a Democratic primary from
Republicans. He lost. Rivers flirted
with the Republicans first, but
sternly rebuked his Democratic OPP
ponent when that opponent sought
to inject Republican artillery into
a Democratic primary.
Actually the most amazing thing
is the huge vote that Talmadge
rolled up. He was beaten slightly
less than two to one. One Demo
cratic voter out of every three, in
short, approved the man who has
been rougher in his criticism OF
Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New
Deal than any Republican speaker
in this campaign.
All of which means nothing, sc
far as electoral votes are concerned
Not a single state south Of the
Potomac and Ohio rivers will &C
for Landon. On the contrary all vii
go for Roosevelt by bang-up major.
tiles. The Republicans, nationally
have been kidding themselves about
the South ever since 1923. There is
no such religious issues this year
Tenant Farm Problem
Two solutions of the tenant farm
problem are being seriously con
sidered, on an absolutely non-par
tisan basis, by farm leaders in Thu
Middle West who believe that tenan
and share-crop farming are little
short of a curse.
This situation has been az
gravated by city people buying
farms as life-preservers against thu
possibility of currency initiation
which would wipe out or curtail thu
value of all dollar" investments
such as bonds, bank deposits, lif
iiSul diiAC, AiloA dBIr (tN.p wiz
specify the number of dollars
One of these has worked rattle
successfully, they claim, III Britain
and Ireland, in the drive to breal
up big estates and absentee land
lordism. Whether it would be cor
stitutional in this country is open I
grave question.
This plan involves appraisals G
farms-not only their sales price q
. any given time, but on their yiel
value. Valuations thus determine
would be the figures set at Whic
tenants could buy the farms the
! are operating, rather than the pric
! to which land might be boosted du
: to the present wave Of city folk
: buying farms as an anchor to WING
ward against initiation.
Under the British Irish syster
!, now being studied by farm leader
the value is not definitely fixed, bl
is flexible. Thus, if there should b
: a wide swing in the prices Of farr
products, which might take tn
!. yield value Of the farm up or down
adjustments would be made to NEE
this.
Tough Hurdle
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