The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-09-22
Opinions Of
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company backed. His campaign
cost somebody S25,OOO.0O. He filed q
sworn statement with the senate that
he had spent nothing. Wellington
would have been elected with i'm
mense money behind him but for the
truth of Lincoln's immortal phrase:
"You cannot fool all the people all
the time James O'Connor would
have been defeated by Haynes two
years ago but for this group.
jeanette Rankin sought several
times, and once obtained, the endorse
ment of the Montana Council for Pro
gressive Political Action. Hoping not
to burden the reader with trivialities,
l mention: Now governor, once candi-
date, Samuel c. Ford basked in the
sunshine of, and loudly heralded his
endorsement of that same, then fee
BILE, now mighty, political group.
B. K. Wheeler for senator once
gained the endorsement of the Farm
ers Union, now a large component of
the group" He promised to lower
freight rates; he since was chairman
of the senate committee on interstate
commerce. One year the farmers of
eastern Montana got for wheat II
cents bushel above the freight rate;
Wheeler made no fight about it. The
New Deal steadily increased the price
of wheat. Wheeler is a consistent
traitor to the New Deal. Some farm
ORC in ooctarn NIoptana s+;lI Iicfan m
the siren song of the Wheeler healers
fortunately, nowadays going the
way of the Buffalo. The Wheeler men
are loud in their abuse of the New
Deal, of Jerry O'Connell, of the in
choate Missouri Valley Authority.
The outstanding Dodo Birds in pol
itics in Montana are the big cattle
and sheep men. (The little ones, with
government loans at low interest, and
other help, are voting democratic)
Good brood ewes, under Hoover, the
lead-off man for Dewey at the Chicago
convention, brought so cents a head
Some big sheep men are vociferous
for Dewey. "Muttonhead" is an old
English phrase for fellow who is not
quite "all there. A big stockman in
the Big Hole Basin is loud for Dewey
and Ford He has 1000 head of cat
tie. The New Deal has made them
worth $4OO0OOOO. They were worth
$500 the head under Hoover. Some
big banker writes his newspaper prop
uganda for him.
This banker using the pen name of
the stockman to attack the New Deal,
is as imprudent as the stockman,
whose name he hides under Every
bank in Michigan, hotbed of anti
New Dealers, closed its doors in the
last month of the Hoover nightmare.
There has not been a bank failure in
10 years now under the New Deal
RECOMMENDATION. This banker must be
an old mine promoter. He has not
yet learned that small success is
better than big failure.
Hillman occupies in the national |
press picture that which Jerry O'Con-
nell does locally, and for the same
reason. He asks contributions of a
dollar from union members to present
the views of workers and farmers to
voters. The DuPonts, Morgans, Rock
rubber companies, have been
raising slush funds of Is to 20 million
in presidential campaigns, to present
their views to the electorate. Much
depends in the corporation owned
press ON whose OK is gored.'
In Montana, the absentee landlords
pay a deficit of $150,OO00O the year
Tor daily newspapers to present the
owners views to the electorate This
used to anger me, but lately l think
hat is good thing to do. The paid
press make few converts. A lot of
good printers, reporters, editors, all
oily fellows, with nice families, make