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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Nov 02, 1928
Page
4
The notice shows a postal entry for Fane with a term of one year and three months, indicating second class mail matter status under Dillon post office filings.
The roster lists presidential and congressional Republicans nationally with Hoover and Curtis on top, followed by electors and a full slate of Montana state officers. Beaverhead County mirrors this with names for senator, representatives, sheriff, clerk, assessor, attorney, schools, surveyor, public administrator, coroner, and local justices of the peace.
A civic exhortation urges record turnout and personal voting on election day. The piece condemns absentee voting as shirking duty and emphasizes every vote counts toward shaping the election outcome. It calls on citizens to express their political views by appearing at the polls.
The piece derides party leaders who spoke but allegedly moved no votes. It accuses them of rehashing past Tea Pot oil feuds while ignoring major scandals like a $16,000,000 NYC sewer scam and Connolly’s conviction. It mocks their hollow farmer sympathy before elections.
The article notes a bright side in the campaign with children visiting headquarters for buttons, praising good nature and patriotism. It expresses belief in peaceful post election neighbors and predicts no drastic change, while acknowledging policy struggles and fair play.
In Montana territory the Democratic power bloc known as the Big Four included W A Clark Marcus Daly Col C A Broadwater and Gov Samuel T Hauser. Broadwater led the National Bank of Montana and Build the Montana Central Railway and Broadwater Hotel. Maj Martin Maginnis faced Col Wilbur E Sanders in a Democratic vs Republican contest as Maginnis pursued re election while Sanders mocked Broadwater influence. The piece ties these figures to modern political rhetoric illustrating Broadwater’s sway and Bowlegged remark about Maginnis drawing a parallel to Gov Smith.
An Engineers' National Committee survey finds New York taxes rose an average 40 percent each Smith term from 1919 to 1926, with tax levels nearly tripling since his election. Expenditures also surged 73 percent in Smith's first term, driving state debt up 49 percent while federal taxes fell after wartime spending ended.
The text notes New York gamblers betting on judgment over sympathy, with high odds for Hoover leaving Democrats discouraged and focusing less on Hoover or Smith.
The fine October weather aids fall plowing a step toward better yields next year. A Literary Digest poll favors Republicans, signaling Gov. Smith likely to stay in New York as Democrats face disappointment.
A quip notes that behavior varies by status from artist to rich, labeling eccentricity or mere cussedness as appropriate. The line contrasts tempera ment with social perception and uses a humorous tone from the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Buddhist priests in Tibet traditionally prepare Buddha paintings by drawing the face on the fifteenth day of the month and applying color on the thirtieth day, marking sacred dates in the artistic process.
A London Opinion note traces American slang origins noting that the peach once meant an attractive person and an overlooked peach can sour into a lemon, with a naturalist highlighting the linguistic arc.
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