Mt. Pleasant Pyramid | 1915-11-12 | Page 2 | Montana's Active Governor

F MONTANA'S ACTIVE GOVERNOR j I ! I I - I I .11 I Samuel V. Stewart, governor ot Montana, is one of the group of western west-ern chief executives, like Spry of Utah, who aggressively oppose the encroachment encroach-ment of federal upon state rights in the matter of conservation. The constitution con-stitution of Montana explicitly seeks to aid in the development of the natural resources of the state by encouraging en-couraging capital to make use o( the forests and streams and by safe-guarding interests thus created. Governor Stewart Is a man of initiative in-itiative and action, as was abundantly proved in the labor riots at Butte, when the I. W. W. were dynamiting shops and halls in their contests with employers. While the congressional delegation in Washington was frantically fran-tically trying to induce the president to send federal troops to quell the riots a body of soldiers was sent as far as Missoula Governor Stewart calmly announced that he had no use for federal troons. that the state could handle its own riots. He proved that it could, moreover, for he ordered out the National Guard and went down to the scene of the disorders and took charge himself. The rioting was stopped and the federal troops were returned re-turned to their quarters. Governor Stevart Is a lawyer, a director of two state banks and has been chairman of the Democratic state" central committee. His term as governor gov-ernor is from 1913 to 1917.