The producers news., 1936-08-14
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i'm Politics SRy.L. m.ury

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while no such lavish campaign
funds were provided by Rice and
Coolidge as Holt had from Charlie
Donnelly, President of Northern
Pacific and other sources, yet The
Wheeler-Ayers Machine was amply
financed and did not spend
in such silly, fulsome and disgust
ing manner as appeared from the
grin and dimples of Elmer Holt on
half million posts in the state.
Wheeler is a much more shrewd
manager than Holt. Poor boastful
Charlie Miller was proclaiming
his plans and publishing his allies.
For six weeks before the primary,
Holt was being touted in headlines
in the nine company owned dailies.
Wheeler uses his Montana Power
and Anconda press support as a
side play-never as his main
means of attack on the magma
tions of the voters. Wheeler never
boasts of his winking for eight
years at the Montana Power Com
panys running away with the Flat
head River Site. Wheeler's intim-
ate acquaintance have even been
expecting him since he became
chairman of the committee on In
terstate Commerce to make
great press play that he was try
ing to cut freight rates on wheat
and machinery to and from Mon
tana points.
The senior senator is swift to
adopt the partly finished work of |
others. After months and months |
of work by Senator Murray to pull |
through the Buffalo Rapids Pro
ject to irrigate from the Yellow
stone $4,000 acres near Glendive,
Wheeler returning from an outing
In Budapest, learns in Washington
that Murray'S efforts are about to
succeed. "B. K" forthwith gets
up a Chamber of Commerce din
ner in Glendive at which he is the
honor guest to glorify himself as
the prime mover. This he re-
quests heralded as a news event.
At least Murray, who actually
worked the Project through a
dozen bureaus in Washington,
should have been invited as a
guest to the banquet, but that is
not the way of "B. K" Why
should Murray enjoy corridor in
corporate press buildings pried
open through the years by blush
ing, bashful opposition of Wheel
er?
Every independent candidate, ex-
cept Freebourne, in the Democrat
ic Primary went down to defeat.
Emmons for Auditor, Brett for
Secretary of State, st. George or
Smith for Treasurer, Pilgeram for
Railroad Commissioner, Replogle
for Lieutenant Governor. (No
machine ran any man against
Freebourne. Foote, the republican,
is allied with Wheeler). The dead
lv Macedonian Phalanx moved
slowly but surely through the
gallant. matchless but unorganized
infantry of the free cities of
Greece 2400 years ago. Thus end
ed the Glory of Athens. And thus
will end all hope of an indepen-
dent state governmet in Montana
unless some new party of the peo-
pie of this state is organized now
or hereafter to combat the
Wheeler-Ayers Machine heading
in Washington to run Montana for
the office holding lack landers.
Cospicuous about the Wheeler
and dying Holt Machines is that
in either of them running
for state office seems to own an /
acre of land, or pay any taxes,
or produce a dollar of wealth.
Shllfulness in avoiding payment
of debts seems to be the criterion
for advancement.
The Wheeler subsidiary CORPORA
ton daily press on Monday.
August 10, 1886, announced the
death of Home Rule in Montana.
The State Convention of the
Democratic Party is called, accord
ing to these papers, by Senator
Wheeler. Senator Murray, and
ex-Congressman Roy E. Ayers.
Is there no man identified recent
iy IN any way with the life. work.
industry, business, or politics of
Montana prominent enough to be
mentioned In giving the call, or has
the entire work Of running this
state government been transferred
20 Wheeler's office In fha Conoto