The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-04-05
THE ~REpUBLiCAN TICKET.

The County Republican Convention that
met in this city last Saturday, very quietly
and obediently ratified the nominations OF
candidates for the several county offices for
Silver Bow county. We say ratified, because
it is generally understood that these nomi-
nations were made some time ago i'll one OF
the back rooms of the republican headquarters,
on Main street, under the immediate super
vision of the 'sGreat Mogul" of the slate
makers of the party. 1t was a neat little piece
of machine work which a few members OF the
convention worked manfully and struggled
hard to break, but its makers were too strong
ly fortified in numbers for their efforts to pre-
vail and the dissatisfied minority were CON-
PEELED to accept the, situation for the present.
From the low mutterings aud ominous looks
of SOM Of the rank and file of the party here
we predict an exhibition of the highest
sskicking,' against the cut and dried affair
ever witnessed in the territory. The people
of this young county are in no mood to be
led by the nose or "bulldosed' into the sup
porting of a ticket that, 1t is charged. repre-.
sents the wishes OF a few rather than the in
terests of the many.
unless forced to it. we do not propose, in this
canvass to mention disrespectfully, the name
of any gentleman that appears Upon the re-
publican ticket. The ensuing election is a
local one. Thu candidates are our neighbors
and we hope our friends. We expect to live
among them, and while our political convic-
tions may not harmonic with theirs, We hold
a common interest with them in promoting
the advancement and securing the continued
prosperity of our county. For this reason
we propose to 60 out of the canvass as We
enter it-bearing neither an unfriendly spirit
nor animosity against our political enemies,
Therefore those who expect us, in this
canvass, to engage in the dirt throw
ing and mud singing resorted to
only by third rate journals in championing a
weak cause will be disappointed. 1t must be
understood, however, that tins declaration is
not at all inconsistent with our purpose to ee-
feat, if possible, the ticket which our republic
can friends have put in the field. This the
democracy intends to do, and it proposes to
accomplish it in a neat, skillful and gentle
manly manner.
The ticket, as a whole, is a weak one, and
can appeal to the republicans for its support
upon party grounds alone. Conceived in the
brain of a single man, it is born to the party
shorn of those elements of strength that a
ticket should possess to commend itself to
the independent voter or to the intelligent
portion of the republican party. AS machine
work it lacks the ensignia of its party's ap-
prevail stamped upon it. 1t goes forth to
our people colored by and full of the ear
marks of the ''boss'' slate maker of the party.
For this, if for no other reason, the voters of
this new county will place the seal of Their
condemnation upon it in the shape of a solid
majority of three hundred against it.. They
have seen the blighting effects of rings and
''boss'' power in other cities and counties and
are determined that lone shall be organized
in this new one. There are other cogent rea-
sons why the ticket will not command the
support of our voters, which we propose tc
notice in another issue.