The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1871-06-24
ISSUED EVERY SATURDAY
n NEW DEPARTURE.

The NEW NoRTH. WEST will henceforth
be Republican. During the past two years
some of our patrons have classed It as Re.
publican. others rs Independent. It has
been neither. 1t was instituted in 1859
avowcdly and really to advocate the election
ofthc Peoples Ticket in Deer Lodge county.
That II did, and the Ticket was elected by
men Of both parties. We have stood stead.
Easily by the county administration, and
assert to day as two years ago that the cleo.
ton of the Peoples Ticket redeemed the
county from misrulc, incfiiciency and cx-
travagancc, and placed it in the van of tho
wcll.administercd counties of Montana. In
proof of this, tho prisoners Of the county
have been safely kept, the expenditures of
the county have been reduced over 90, 900
per annum, and County Warrants have sp.
prcciated nearly 100 per cent There 10 no
better record in tho history of Montana.
This was the purpose; this has been the re.
suit of ''thc Peoples Party of Deer Lodge
county, coalition made solely for that
purpose, in which politics had no part, and
in the support of which neither Democrat
or Republican sacrificed an iota of princi.
pie. Without an exception that We know
Of, those who formed it kept the faith and
avowcd it, and in the present campaign
have Us uncxccptionably identified them.
selves with their respective political parties.
More than that, they part company ~
friends. Those who worked together did
so without distrust, and separate without
rcproacl,; and now that We part company
We give it in testimony of good faith and
fidelity. Throughout all this, the New
NoRTu.W WEST has occupied IN embarrassing
position. It was our understanding that on
political questions it was to be INDEPEND.
EEr; we learned subsequently, that mum.
Der of tho stockholders understood that ~
long a. they wcro part owners It was 70 be
NEUTRAL. Believing ths~ psrssetly hs~ssl
in that belief. we conceded the point, but
In doing 1t We gave up ths perfect liberty Of
Indcpendcncc-ths nobIest position in jour.
nalism-for tho shackles, restraiats, end
compulsory eowardice Of Mentally. And
ws1ips opansels lssther eeills, sever CO..:
milf youissivcS "a ia - Z i14t3a pspst,
unless yoa would hAvs Thought ssslsvsl
and Expression CARRIED = ! sealm.so pitlful
In its meagrcness that % think and y write
Is to have every exprcsslon worthy Of your
pens MANNED, dwarfed and depleted BY that
(: insstiatc, invinciblc monster-''I dare not y
We are In the morning OF another politl
cal contest All oompacts, expressed Or I'm.
piled, In the Peoples Organisation in Dear
Lodge county are fulfilled, and ithas ceased
to exist We are free to choose between
Republicanism, Independents or Neutrali.
ty. We have had enough Of the latter. An
Independent journal, in fact, - In name,
cannot bc made success outside tho great
cities. Identified with the Republican party
since it, organization, our sympaihies and
predictions al with Il, We rejoln it. ranks
- Journalist, accepting tho situation il
full That Il has made mistakes, that Il
has black sheep In II, that many Of IL car.
pot bag missionaries in the South are . curss
and disgrace, that its christianising and
civillzing the Indians Il On expensive folly,
that it, BurlingsEe treaty should b sseclnd-
ed, We admit and avow. Butts main secocd b
made up and accepted even by 10 oppoaeats,
and . page y turned down that Win Stand
bright ID history through N uma
We have no psonises to make . . he
conduct Of ths paper. OF that or patrons