Carbon County news., 1937-10-01
MURRAY BACKS BLACK IN
BANQUET TALK WEDNESDAY

new high in political superlatives,
United States Senator James E.
Murray heaped laurels a-plenty on
President Roosevelt's head in talks
at Red Lodge and Bearcreek We'd
nesday.
Murray was guest of the Red
Lodge Commercial club here at a
banquet, and spoke before Bear
creek miners at p. M, following
the dinner.
The junior solon not only prais-
ed Roosevelt to the skies as man,
but he put unqualified approval,
without exception, to all points in
the executives program. President
Roosevelt's much bruited supreme
court plan, killed largely through
the efforts of Murray's colleague,
Senator Wheeler, got it's share of
exaltation. The speaker also COM
mended the selection to the sup
RENE court of Hugo Black, around
whom now is enmeshed charges
that the appointee was member
of the Klu-Klux-Klan.
Murray bitterly decried what he
termed as vicious propaganda
from corporation newspapers to
discredit the greatest president in
our history" He said the news
papers set upon the Black contro-
versy as sufficiently dramatic to
stage an anti-presidential farce"
He went on to contend that "if
Black had been a corporation law
yer, the question would never have
come up"
Montana" he said, "should be
the last state to turn against the
president. Under his guiding hand
and with his program the state
has received during the depression
$500, 100000 in federal benefits, or
nf0Te than Montana would have
received in so years of prosperity
under the old government regime"
eff President Roosevelt had not
been elected the merchants of Mon
tana would be in sorry plight to-
day." Murray vouchsafed.
He said that most of the supreme
court justices are at an age where.
they should take a. naprat noon in
stead of deliberating over national
problems ''with which they have
lost intimate touch" He made a
plea for new and younger blood on
the supreme court bench.
81 blame the depression on the
the vested interests which ignored
moral and economic obligations to
the people," he charged.
Murray traced the various SAC
complishments" of the present ad-
ministration, including banking
laws, home loan laws, highway ap-
preparations, WPA projects and
water conservation. He said
strides had been made in Montana
water conservation projects,
though what has been done is only
a drop in, the bucket" Carbon
county is especially fortunate in
securing these projects, he pointed
out.
In speaking of highways, MUIR
ray mentioned the scenic new Red
Lodge thoroughfare as one of the
most beautiful in the world and
an example of what roads can do
to attract tourists.
AS to his future policy in the
senate, Murray pledged that he
would continue, as in the past, to
vote for all new deal measures.
In his Bearcreek talk, the sena-
tor went on record as 100 percent
for the G. 7. o. and John L. Lewis.
He condoned sit-down strikes as
possible means of meeting
attacks.
Joseph Parker, state WPA adj
ninistrator, talked at both Red
Lodge and Bearcreek, and Tom
Cotton, Wibaux, U. S. assistant dis
;rict attorney, said a few words
1t the mining city.
Most of the audience filed out Of
he banquet hall here after MUIR
'ay's speech, and the Commercial
'lub was forced to hold it's busi-
less session with only about 20
members present.
John Peters, incumbent, was re-
nominated for president and DR..
I. G. F. Siegfriedt, also incumbent,
vas renaemd for vice president. As,
10Th are unopposed, their re-elec-
ion is practically a foregone con-
lusion. ~ j., ... *s
Governing board nominations are
is follows: - j: ...:..~ .>
Two-year term (four to be elect
dbl. C. olcott, Ed Bloom, J. j.
1erondale, G. Natal, L. Slavens,
4. F. Richardson, Mike Dimich,
Claude johnson and DIR. Neil Sta :
ey. T. Il. III i. IL >:*. +, ii: T.. : ~. ]"
one-year term (three to. be III
elected DIR. Z. Oh. Tooley, DR.. M. L.
2. Mead, Dominick Rossetto, M. II. 4.
Mann, Walter Columbus and G. z.
Foltz. 49, 254a:. ,. s:sss.5 0 @2
The election date has not been N
ixed, it is announced BY Edgar w.
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