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He ml Radio News Service
7/10/46
TRUMAN LETTER ENDORSES WHEELER IN BITTER MONTANA FIGHT
Although President Truman has evidently been doing his best to try to keep out of State political fights, a letter he wrote to R, Bailey Stortz, Senator Burton K. Wheeler* s campaign manager at Helena, is construed as giving his blessing to the Montana Senator who is facing a bitter fight for renomination next Tuesday, July 16th.
The president's letter read:
«I appreciate very much your letter of June 29, addressed to my secretary, Mathew J. Connely, inclosing a mimeographed letter over the signature of Lou Boe decker of the Erickson for Senator Committee.
"Of course, any fair-minded reading of the record will show that Boedecker's attacks on Senator Wheeler as an enemy of railroad labor were to put it mildly sheer distortions of the fact.
"I understand that railroad labor itself will put out an answer to Boedecker's preposterous charges. I hope this will be done and that it will put a stop to the smear campaign against Burt Wheeler. "
Walter J. Nilan, Treasurer of the Erickson for Senator Committee, testified Monday at a hearing a special Senate Investi¬ gating Committee is holding in Helena, that out-of-State donors to Leif Erickson's campaign, aimed to unseat Senator Wheeler, Democrat, amounted to nearly 110,000, He listed the out-of-State contribu¬ tions as being received from Senator Murray, Democrat, of Montana, $2,000; the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, Cleveland, $1,000; the CIO United Auto Workers Union, Detroit, $1,500; a "Committee on Public Affairs", New York $2,250, and the "Public Affairs Committee" of Chicago, $2,000.
The hearing was requested by Senator Wheeler who declared that "New York and Hollywood Communists" were "pouring money into Montana in an effort to defeat" him.
Mr. Erickson, a former State Supreme Court Justice, said that he welcomed the investigation but wanted testimony to include "aid" he declared the Anaconda Copper Mining Co. was giving the Senator and declared newspapers had been "carrying the bulk of the news of Senator Wheeler's campaign", and that they had been partial in news treatment.
Senator Wheeler heatedly denied that he had support from either the Anaconda. Copper Mining Co., the American First Party or the Montana Power Co.
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