The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-12-28
ANswER re "a FEW REMARKS"

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able to shake off the opprobrium of support
ing and upholding the Deer Lodge fusion
movement, and conscious of the appropriate
ness of the sobriquet "Artful Dodger" that
we applied to it, accepts the name. but very
boyishly retorts by crying out "you are an
other" This is very silly, but in harmony
with what follows. The "Dodger" has evil
IDENTIFY lost its mental equipoise. 1t reckless
ly makes charges that are unsupported by the
facts in the case. The "Dodger" knows as
well as every reader of the MINER knows
hat the MINER supported every candidate
upon the democratic ticket at the late cleo
ton. If the "Dodger' means to assert that
the MINRE "chucked' 'tLe candidates of its
party it had asked democrats to vote for" it
simply utters what it knows to be false. AS
far as the fusion movement at Deer Lodge
and Butte is concerned the MINER took no
cognizance of it during the campaign. This
the ''Dodger" also knows very we'll. l
knows more than this. 1t knows it has not
will not, nor can not if 1t would, advance a
single reasonable argument why the county
SHOAiu ioO " z ulNlucus VIGIL pICooCu w eLO
MINER for a reason for its opposition it has
invariably retreated into its kennel and
yelped '~'fusion, fusion, ~fusion," which being
literally translated means, ave want the
county printing but don't want the county
divided" The "Dodger' "lays up' to that
little job like a sick kitten to a hot brick.
In referring to this county printing matter,
the "Dodger' says that: Sin the town of Hell
ena. in July, 1879, one of the proprletors Of
the MINER threatened a prominent democrat
that if the contract for the Deer Lodge coun-
ty printing was not awarded to the MINER it
would be turned into a republican paper"
We would ask the Neay North West to name
that "proprietor." He can't be found here at
Butte. Please name him, or admit you have
uttered a falsehood. That the MINER did not
get the county printing and has not become a
republican paper is a sufficient refutatlon of
the charge.
The "Dodger'' squirms under the evidences
we have given of the existence of chronic
fusionists at Deer ] ,odge, with whom it evil
IDENTITY trains. The figures speak i'll a tongue
that all can understand. To escape their
crushing effect the '.Dodger" whInes ont:
''The voters of Deer Lodge are freemen; they
go to the polls and vote for whom they
please; they have personal friendships and
preferences, and are intelligent enough to
make up their tickets to suit themselves"
Well, this is a complete give away by the
NORTH West. shake up their tickets to suit
themselves" do they? That means they
Deer Lodge men. They do not recognize
the binding force of the action of their party
conventions, because they "are intelligent
CROUCH to make up their own tickets to suit
themselves" This is rich. Probably they
hold little private conventions in back rooms
or in the ottice of the Ne,o North Vest and
snake uptickets to suit themselves" Why isit
that Sin making up tickets to suit themselves"
the names of all Butte men are generally
scratched off and the names of Deer Lodge
their "personal friendships and preferences
do not extend beyond the limits of the valley
town. Of course these s'freemen'' and sill
telligent" voters discuss the "chucking'' of
their party friends at the county conventions.
If they are '.intelligent" and ''fraemen'' and
can "make up tickets and have ''personal
friendships" why DON'T they submit their
s'preferences' to the action of their party
conventions and abide their decisions? The
"Dodger'' has mathematical Butte men for
voting their Experiences" and has called
them ''traitors'' and ''fusionists," but finds
an excuse for itself and its friends to do that
which it is so free to condemn in Butte men.
o consistency, thy name is not .'Artful Dod-
GER"
The New North Vest desires the people of
Butte to propose a line of division. We do
not believe that any line of division would be
a line of roses for the Neau North Vest. We
are inclined to think it would rather see
Butte crawl upon its hands and knees to
reach Deer Lodge-the Mecca of the "Dodger'
rather than to permit her to depart in peace.
Butte is a tempting morsel for the Unsuitable
NAV of the "Dodger." She is fruitful of
filthy lucre. She is the Brazen Serpent,
raised aloft, the view of which cures the
financial ills of the needy North Vest. 1t is
hard, very hard to part with her, but harder
still to part with the printing she has to be-
stow.
The .'Dodger'' says sit will cost Butte $75,-
600 to 100000 the first year the county is Or
ganized." How do you know? If our peo-
pie were able and felt inclined they could
erect county buildings that would cost ST ,OOO,-
600 or S5.00O,O00. Blu are they going to do
it? The whole county has SO far gotten along
ya,y x,all NTH oonpty h,,;lJ;pn, tlot 49, H.