The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, September 30, 1918, Page 4

o Montana Farmers Win With Handlcap Fourteen State Senators Out-of 23 and 40 Representatives Nominated— Copper Trust and Other Interests on the Run ‘being made. ONTANA farmers were not sup- posed to take any interest in primary elections, and lest they should foolishly désire td do what the copper-colored poli- ticians of that state claimed to do much better, the reaction- aries made it a law years ago that the primary election should come in the very midst of the harvest season. The copper trust doesn’t mind havmg the farmers vote in November if at the primaries it can pick the men who are to run. But in spite of this handicap and the fact that this is an off year in that state, when only assem- blymen and half of the senators are to be elected, the farmers and workingmen of Montana have given the old gang there a great scare. As a re- sult of the recent primary they now have men on the ticket for two-thirds of the senatorial positions and for over half of the assembly. In many of “the counties League farmers by their votes have cap- tured the old party machinery as well as the nominations. The people of the cltxes under the domination of the copper trust and other special interests thought they saw in the primary their opportunity to end the “Nonpartlsan league menace” and they turned out in maximum strength, as they did in ‘Minne- sota last June, to defeat the real majority of the people Enough votes of the right kind were cast in the rural districts, however, to give the League ‘and labor a big hold on the fall election. Already the League managers have received assurances from every quarter of the state thaf the vote of- the country districts will be out ir full in Novem- ber ‘and that the interests will be given a ‘severe beating at that time. Conventions are now being held in every sec- tion of the state and plans for the campaign are Organizers and speakers are to tour the state in the interest of the candidates nom- inated and before the end of another week the campaign to put Montana in the list of those states endeavoring to ke the nation safe for democ- racy will be in full swing: THE SENATORIAL NOMINATIONS . The following men are on the ticket for the 1919 senate with the indorsement of the League: County— Candidate— Broadwater................ Homer Thompson Cascade . o ve oo foih v..J. H. Morehead Choteau..... AR TR e P. J. Wallace Fallont s, oo e 1880 w200 4 Ag. H. Bergstrom Jefferson, .00, . b0 B L rTig o D. P. Fabrick Madison. ... o 00N L s e C.’S. Oliver Mineral: .- s LRGN0 T R. S. Wilkinson Richland.................... J. W. Anderson Saunders........... e A J. F. McKay Stillwater....... S s e e J. H. Leuthold Tetonsis v i v r v Al L i C. C. Davis Toole. v v FaFdsls oy R e W. Bourke NARNEY 55 o vie v izt e m il A. U. Sand Wibaux......... R T o Art Jeffers Eleven of these candidates are farmers, one is a brakeman, one a clerk and one an attomey Including the League nominees for the state-assembly, the Montana farmers and organized labor have put on the ticket 34 farmers, one , brakeman, two clerks, one carpenter, one manager of , 25 a’ co-operative ’ store, one” = labor editor (Butte Bulle- s Montana is the sixth blg League state to make a splendid showing in the primaries. In an off year and with farmers kept from the polls by the rush of the war work in the harvest fields, 14 state senators and 40 assem- blymen have been nominated—a com- fortable margin over half of those to be-elected in the fall. Montana thus becomes one of the big six League states, preceded by North Dakota, Idaho, Minnesota, South Dakota and Nebraska. As in these other states, the special interests are badly scared because they know the League is bound to do even better at the fall elections. tin), 14 ranchers and one miner, all engaged in useful, productive labor, and in no case profes- sional political performers. There could be no. better proof that the farmers of Montana have caught the real League spirit. MEN NOMINATED FOR THE LOWER HOUSE The following list shows the League nominees for the lower branch of the state legislature: County— Candidate— Blaine..... A B A e James Griffin Broadwater...............0000n .W. D. Neild Big Horn.......... g P ...N. Ottum Cageade. i.5 vl Tl S sl Mike Holland Casb:%. oA B e e B S. B. Davidson CABCAAR, 40 o i s s ranins Tond e ia s S. F. Fuller Choteaus . .co.vvvitiinianan. ve...W. E. Shaw Choteau. . ¢4 dein doa iaad® ...Ira Siebrasse Choteans. ... 55 o5 il Ciidies G. Eveleth Choteau................ “vvee0..G. Martinson Custer: s, s i R e J. Bennet CUBLRr. . &5 v i e v by J J. Shambaugh Custer. . Fois v ks e s e .F. Crosley Dawson. .. .. cne o5 bs oo itis g E. M. Naylor Flathead......... Lrgsiiat Ty J. F. McAffe Gallatin............. QSR M. W. Penwell Gallatin. . e Sl N aa 3wy, .H. S. Buell B, s o st T R O J. Haaland Jefferson..........oco.ua.n -.Grover Watson Madison..... R B T R R ‘W. Stephens Madison.............. S s .+.d. L. Swing Musselshell........... S S ..J. Hunter Phillips... . . sl Dot Dudley ' Jones Phillips. .o v i taianin J. E. 'Lindquist Prairie........... e SRR SR L A. Harmel Richland.......... AP L Vi J. Earl Jones - Saunders.......... “itiesseasee N P. Howes Sheridan. ... oo 70 v i s, J. 8. Nyquist Silverbow.......cccvuiiiiinnnn. ... W. F. Dunn Silverbow...... o0t eeiiiiiiin... €. Boulware Stillwater.......cocvva... 0. M. Gundmanson Teton, .......co0ns AT P 0. S. Forseth CoPP — COLORE D - 0 O e L e A J. C. Ferris Poole. s ey bt R Ed Wilkinson Valleyi:. oo i S e e C. C. Arnold NValley: e e e R o s James Mead Valley s v e n S Taai s M. Sektnan MWADRUX G070 5 e e sravas szasalots Salesern J. Hawkes Yellowstone. .......cccovevennnnn E. T. Eaton Yellowstone.............. b Neil McKay LABOR MAKES A GOOD SHOWING : Great encouragement for the League farmers anxious to escape their industrial autocrats is also found in the way the labor men and other inde- pendent voters came to the front in the primaries in the cities of Butte and Great Falls, the former with ,fohr representatives and the latter with three out of six and a state senator. The labor men, too, have learned to stick, and it will not be long before there will be a combmatlon of farmers and labor representatives at the state capitol who will bring " to the copper-ridden state of Montana a govern- .ment of and for the common people. In a number of counties, including Hill, Choteaun "~ and Valley, the League-indorsed candldates made a clean sweep and just for good measure also nom- inated entire tickets for county offices. All well- organized counties made a good showing. The Valley County News, for instance, says of the result: “The complete prlmary election- returns do not nge much consolation to the “old political gang” in Valley connty Practically every Nonpartisan candidate led in the total count, and the farmers will “stick” closer than ever in the general elec- tion on November 5. “The incessant howl of -the Montana dailies and the. political parrots that copy their political dope from the dailies, is proof of the fact that the vital spot in the Republican-Democratic machine in Montana has been hard hit by the farmer and labor vote in the first battle—the primary election. “The parrot newspapers and the politicians are now admxttmg that it’s all right for the farmers - . to ‘organize,’ but ‘darn Townley’ .and the other ~men promment ln the Nonpartisan league move- ment. A clever pre-election trick, which at the same time is eloquent . proof of the strength of the League in Sleridan county, is described by the Pro- ducers! News-of Plentywood: “For state senator, Henry Lowe, a banker and old-line elevator manm; who sometimes farms when he is not farming the farmers, was indorsed. Mr. Lowe was- nominated on the Republican ticket at the primaries because of the fact that many farm- ers were deceived. into believing that he was -the farmers’ League candidate by the wordmg of the literature he sent out.” The kept papers of Montana, on the other hand, have opened warning departments Thus the Helena Independent, whose" policy has been one of utmost hostil- ity, going so far as ‘to ad- vise in its torial ~columns last spring, “Smash the Nonpartisan: Organizer in \ the Fece,” finds itself compelled to. warn the: cop- per interests that the above tactics have come home to roost, League nominees in a recent issue. As in all other states with one particularly blg dominating special interest the people of Montana have a hard task before them and that is what - adds special importance to the present big " strlde {2 they have taken. For many years Montana. was - torn into two political factlons representmg the: Heinze and the Amalgamated copper interests, and the welfare of the common people was completely : In order not to minimize the weight of the blow, it tabulated a full list of the The noise of the big League vote in ‘Montana at the recent pnmanes is very terrlfymg to the copper- /-colored cur. Bnt as the cartoonist here shows, the more it howls and the faster it runs the more noise : the Leagne vote makes. There will be no peace for the enr., It will be nm i:\to a pen next November and “._gettled down in ‘everlasting dommion - of the “other httl 2 »Bpefilal interests v in 1930 the Leagqe farmer will have its hide ¢ lost sight of in this battle of industrial titans. Then ~ the Amalgamated( won out and it thought it had “3‘! - r ~\‘.'" - o o~ ol