The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-07-31
independent Candidate for Governor?

great number by The Voice
the primary election from leaders of labor and farm
leaders, suggesting E. Kathan should file in
dependent candidate for the govenorsp of Montana No
on this subject has been from the
candidate probable that he would not consent to make
the in the election Independent candidate
unless considerable brought to bear
him. Judging by the of the letters received by The Voice.
would be far from impossible for such to be
taneously developed to a really important degree.
The general of the letters received indicates that
such tremendous converted drive by Ayers and amey in the
the full of the political strength of
the corporations swung into action with only purposeto
defeat Kathancoud be easily with Ayers the only
candidate of the dominant party to defeat 1t is OF course
trey possible with Kathan Ayers and Ford in the field the
corporations might concentrate their strength back OF Ford as
their choice of two evils Kathan and Ford The great
of in the state certainly do not want second term of
the Ayers administration that the pol
managers large corporate of the
ognzed that about weeks before the primary election AS
result their sooges many of them wearing Ayers campaign
buttons actively beating the bushes for votes for Lamey
spued by the bosses recognition of the threat of Kathan
That ver soneezed ou ahead of amev was brought about
by the fact that the corporate interests did not recognize the
strength Kahan until too late to accomplish what they tried
to do in the last ten days of the primary campaign.
The presented in most of the letters urging that
Kathan file Independent candidate generally follow
line They submit that while Fords background is that of
public official of unquestoned integrity and his record
associate justice OF the supreme court is that OF liberal they
concerned with the compuon that Mr. Ford be
der republican candidate of supporting the Wall street
candidate the presidency Wendell Wikie. With very
few exceptions this the principal argument against the
port of Ford And of most of them admit that they
do not know just what Mr. Ford attitude in this respect
going be- However, this drawback the of
publican candidate this time is advanced it is recognized
by socaed practical politicians that candidate of any
cal party in the position of being compelled to give
port the head of his ticket the risk of loss of the
organized party support.
Many of the writers contend that there possibility of
Ayers getting writer it, within counting dis
tance of the number of votes for election this
that his administration obviously tnged with possibilities
of graft corruption disclosed by the investigating
mttee of the last legislative session. that the voters of the
state outside of the state employees going repudae him
definitely the election that the would rather
vote for not tied down by party adherence; that
they man. definitely and unequvocaly Independent
the chair In short the appeal all of the let
tiers is to urge Kathan to file independent.
The Voice presume give advice this interest
proposal 1t shall be interested receiving opinions
the question from its readers and to give publicity to the
arguments expressed in them