The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-07-10
Why | am for Maury for Governor
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By Thomas C. Cotton, County Attorney of Wibaux
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Elmer Holt is net q Taxpayer in Montana
RADIO ADDRESS DELIVERED
AT WOLF POINT JULY 5TH

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Nobody is opposing me for re-
election. I want to tell yeu in a
few words why I am opposed to
Elmer Holt, the acting land &C
cidenta1 governor and why I favor
III. L. Maury, the only candidate
who can beat Holt.
Maury has a fine plan for tax
ing all high school graduates off
of the streets and sending them
for four years to some branch
of the State University at the
expense of the big corporations
that rob the people of Montana.
Maury also wants to exempt
small homes from taxation and
shift the burden of taxes off of
the farmers and small BUSINESS
on to the power and gas COM
panies and merger banks. He
wants to lower prices of eIctric-
ity and gas. He wants Federal
Government to furnish electric
ity to farms from Fort Peck and
Poison at cheap rates as is being
done by the Tennessee Valley
Authority organized by Senator
Norris.
Maury is a representative Mon
tana citizen. He and Mrs. Maury
have sent four sons and three
daughters through the Montana
Educational institutions. What our
people need is a hard fighting law
yer to fight for ourselves all the
waya from Washington to the 5000
foot level of the Anaconda mine.
Maury has fought the corpora
tions for 40 years for poor folks
in the Courts. Maury has been for
20 years a member of the Bar of
the Supreme Court of the United
States in Washington; he has
argued and won cases in that
Court and has presented to the
Supreme Court of Montana more
cases than any other lawyer, living
or dead.
The Western Progressive sup
porting Holt, in reality, support
ing ROmney as a decOy, says
that Ayers is running ON money
furnished by corporations. am
not saying anything about Az
ers because he is out of the race.
Ayres will not get 500 votes in
Silver Bow County and Maury
will get 1000 In that county a.
lone. Either Maurv or Holt will
carry Fergus County where
Ayres lives.
Maury is an American.
I have seen hanging in Maury's
office a commission signed BY
George Washington to Maury's
great grandfather, James Maury
for service in the Revolutionary
war. Maury's oldest son enlisted
in the infantry in the Great War
Maury has the interest of the
taxpayers at heart. Maury pays
taxes on real estate in 8 cOun-
ties in Montana. Elmer Holt is
not assessed on any real estate
in Montana. ! have in my hand
a certificate from the assessor of
Custer County. Holt is not
free holder. He could not quail
fv as an alderman in Miles City.
He is assessed only on $4,000
of office furniture and paws only
S8.27 taxes on II. The reason
WHY he voted as senator a.
gainst the exempting of small
homes from taxation is because
he pays virtually no taxes him
self.
Then too, the records of Custe
County show that a vote for Hol
is a vote for Austin B. Middle
ton, the Warden of the Peniten
tiary. On July 2, last THURSDAY
when I examined the records q
Custer County. I found that som
years ago the Receiver of the in
solvent Commercial National Ban
obtained a Judgment against Fl
mer Holt. your governor, for TWEEN
ty-four thousand dollars, plus. Tn
hank paid out So per cent on tn
dollar to its depositors. The reC
ords show an assignment Of thi
Judgment to Austin B. Middleton
That is whv the papers say he !
making the guards at the peniter
tiarv contribute to Hollis can
paign fund. The warden should 4
Under the governor. A vote fc
Holt IS vote for Middleton.
Maury realizes that Injustice
has been done Eastern Montana
on building highwavs and D~ou,