The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-07-10

- ~~S PaSCs Out not 60
well lately. And what was worse
Niels had faults, bad ones. Tbere
Is a growing conviction in the n7h-
nc mind that it is high time that
NleIS retire from Office. He boS
been there a long, long time. and
is getting crabby at times and has
illusions OF grandeur, sometimes
thinking he is a greater man then
the Little corporal himself. A0ai1
at times, when in his ems anJ
that is most of the time lateiv he
makes sarcastic and insinnsfino
remarks about Folks printing bills.
and sometimes even dares to COM
pete with Harry for the actual
control of the commissioners
themselves. Harry has engineered
a scheme a couple of times to 0at
Nlels to resign or to have fhe
county board remove for cause.
but Nlels was not so easy to han
dle-Nlels knew so much about
Harry, his commissioners and their
doing that they did not dare to
sail. However, Niels illusion of
grandeur and imperial poses an
noyed and vexed the little Dakota
Corporal. He had to rid the ticket
OF him if possible but he feared
that ii he openly gave Niels the
axe, NielS would Squeal and thus
eliminate the Dagmar vote from
all the Polk candidates. Harry had
to be slick and he was. He con-
vived with Chris Christensen,
county assessor, another Polk pick
ed court house official whose office
has been abolished by the amalga-
nation of offices put over by the
commissioners, who, too, has quite
a pull with the Danes, to file for
Clerk & Recorder against Niels,
with the arrangement that Harry
would pretend to support Niels
while secretly carrying on a whis-
pering campaign against him and
by this trick eliminate Niels with
out an irreputiOn while nominal
ing Chris. 1t was the game he and
his clique played on Ed. Spoklie
last campaign.
NlelS was over to the Hot
Springs taking the baths when
this scheme was Matched, getting
In shape for the campaign. The
plan seemed to be working fine
until Robert Wheeler. the county
surveyor, not a Polk picked Off
Ger, who the county commissioners
took off the pay roll because
Wheeler refused 20 make a fat
contribution to Polk, filed for
Clerk & Recorder. This upset all
of Harry's calculations, for if
Niels and Chris were the only
candidates for the democratic NOM
ination, one or the other were
bound to be nominated: if Chris
won, fine and dandy. but if Niels
came out on top again, Harry was
prepared to do the best he could
to get along with him. But Vince
ler's candidacy made a three cor
nered fight-With the Dane vote
split, the chances favored Vince
lers nomination. To make bad
matters worse, Niels his mind
cleared up at the baths, woke up
to Folks game and emitted a
squawk that made the wilkins
ring. He comemnced to yammeT
about Folks printing claims, a
bout the printing that is being
done illegally, over In Harry
printing shop In WillistOn; he
meowed about certain labor and
gas claims, and limited at other
/ things which sent the shlvers
down Chairman Olson's spine.
This altered the situation. When
Niels showed his teeth it was not
long before Polk and his machine
dropped Chris as a candidate and
started hitting the trail for Nlels
IN earnest. Olson Is out campaign
inc to beat the band for him now.
The Polk clique folded up quick.
So Niels CLOSED his zap and all
hands and the cook are out IN the
musings beating the bush to beat
Bob Wheeler. Chris has been as
gured. however, that he viii be
taken care Of with the appoint
ment Of county treasurer IN case
Of NieIs' nomination and election.
Now Chris is reported to be oui
/ himself plugging for Niels by I'M
( ing I'D the Dane vote.
The nomination Of Wheeler, how
ever. and the defeat Of Hunter
would lust about wreck the Poll
machine. The primaries win tel
ne ale $3.50 hoe Nn-