Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1874-05-22
THE political campaign has not fairly

TAIDAI, NAL -, 1877.
THE political campaign has not fairl,
opened in this Ikrritol1xr yet, al
Though the waters begin to.lle IL littl,
'IistIFbcl. The leader III the last iss,,,
If fhe BOzcman Courier is signed d.
and We presume was written BY MaiOl
Bruce, tide vctcrrn editor and NestO,
If Montana journalists. This article
is somewhat surprising, coming as il
door from a DeMoclatic journal. /,
aGlvocates+ independent nominations
Tor the various Offices to be filed at thl
.Auess~t election; denounccs the con
vcntion system Of nominations, and
l'fOnounces the regular party org:alliza
tons too corrupt to be longer tolerated
by the people. For Delegate to Con
gress it is specially DESTROYS to see an
independent candidate in the field, and
we judge it would NOT take much per.
xuasion to induce the Major to enter
the race as the champion Of the peo-
ple's party. If nominated, the Major
would make hard fight.-Montanian.
1t is true that the COURIER, in the
last two political contests, advocated
the claims Of a majority Of the Demo
cratic nominees, but VIC have never
aspiretl to make it the organ Of that
or any other party. We have kept
: :llOof from the control of all parties
and cliques, and in giving our support
to men or parties il former political
issues we have Eecn governed by what
we considered the interests Of the poo
pie in securing the best officers, rather
than giving preference to any political
predictions we might have felt III the
matter. We are not, nor do we desire
to he, Indebted to any party for our
support. In the firstissueiof the CoUR-
Ter we announced ."that the paper
would be most emphatically indepell-
dent in politics, but We reserved the
right to discuss all issues where public
interests were involved, and would do
10 in such manner as to best subscrye
the those interests, regardless of the
relation Of such interests to parties,r
and it is our intention to stick to that
text. Ft~
"A great revolution is now taking
place throughout the country, brought
about BY party conuptions, and reform
is now the watchword Of the masses.
Those who have been content to bc
governed in the past by tho parties
with which they identified themselves
and. leave the government Of public
affairs to political intriguers have been
brought to Il realization Of tile respon-
sibillty of each and every voter in
selecting honest and capable represent
tatives, by the corruption of those in
power, and the oncrous taxation that
now dsurps the greater portion Of the
honest toll Of the laborer, and goes to
the support Of dishonest officials. Tie
influence of that revolution has ex-
tended even to this far western Terri
tory, and however much political news
papers, supported and sustained by
,arty patronage, and political hangers
N may try to. conceal its existence
nd discourage it's expansion, We be-
ievc it will control the election of the
lext Delegate to Congress from Mon
ana.
We shall give our support to any
movement promising to better the
condition of public affairs, and should
Major Bruce, Colonel Black or any j
'thcr good man head that movement {
. the candidate for Delegate We would l
ave no hesitancy in giving him our
ordial support.
This article has been suggested by
ne surprise expressed in the extract c
hovc, that such an article as the one G
Iudcd to Should appear in "a Demo $
ratio paper and also q desire on our
art to inform the Montanian and all r.
theirs that this paper is not controlled I
y the Democratic party, nor by any y
Their party. II
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