The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-07-12
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age in-state contribution ranged from
$50 to $500 with several of thou
sand bucks each including those from
Hart and from Albin of Hart-A1bin,
Billings Five hundred dollar gifts
were numerous with at least four
gentlemen of the liquor traffic dig
ging up handsomely. These were Dolla
Wilson, Miles City, head of Montana
Liquor Dealers Assn; Duncan Nc
Crea, Tom Alley and Louis Chagina,
all of Helena Other $500 donations
included those of DR.. Alfred Smith,
Glasgow; Northern Hotel, Billings; Ed
Cooper repeatedly an ACM geologist
Butte; Boesphlug, Miles City; DR.. H.
A. McGregor, Great Falls, $500; J. E.
O'Connell, Eddy Bakeries, Helena,
$3.50; Halter Gearhart manager of
Utah-Idaho Sugar Co., Chinook, $3.50;
Barclay Craighead, head of Montana
Unemployment Comp. Com, 5000; c.
R. McClave, president of Montana
Flour Mills Co., Great Falls, $500;
Fred Birch Great Falls contractor,
500, and A. F. Lamey, Billings, 800.
A 5oc-$50 Proposition
From listening to the long lists of
contributions, one thing stood out in
the minds of all present-and that was
the comparative size of donations to
the committees of the opposing can
didates. For Left Erickson there were
many times the number of ,contribu-
tors but their donations ranged on an
average from Soc to $500, while the
number of donations to the Wheeler
campaign were comparatively few in
number but ranged for the most part
from $50 to $500 each.
Another thing that impressed the
many observers was the impartial
manner" in which the files of tele-
grams of the opposing candidates were
handled. Every Erickson telegram, as
the record of the proceedings will
show, was probed over and over,
scrutinized, and handled by the COM
mittee as though it was contaminated.
The Wheeler telegram file contents,
however, while presented for the re-
cord, were not available to the court
room full of observers or newsmen
in the press box
ACM Controls Newspapers
OF course, from all foul winds, some
little good must always result for the
general public. For the first time the
amount of Anaconda Copper Mining
control of many of the states
newspapers became matter of pub
ic record. Although this information
was not featured in the kept press,
Montana's leading daily, the Great
Falls Tribune gave this revelation"
'front.' page space, adorned with &c.
point headlines. The more than 5000
of The Voice will recall
hat on March 8 this paper published
complete details on the ownership of
Ill ACM papers, as taken from their
amended statements of ownership"
rs printed by each member of that
group on February 81 and % of this
year These papers included: Mon
ana Standard, Butte Daily Post, Hell
ma Independent, Daily Muscular,
Missoula Sentinel, Billings Gazette
md the Livingston Enterprise Also
loted at that time was that j. H.
hickey, Jr., vice president of the
anaconda company operations in
Butte, is either vice president, man.
ger or a board member of each and
veryone of these so-called scions of
free press"
AS final note, and something to
hink over, is that every scurrilous
tatement, every slanderous remark.
very vile insinuation, every outright
alsehood placed in the record by SEN
tor Wheeler, Bailey Stortz, Willard
fraser, and others of similar ilk, were
iven under solemn OATH. e. "Do
'ou solemnly swear to tell the truth,
he whole truth, and nothing but the
ruth, SO help you Cod. .,