The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-10-08
AN INDEPENDENT o "
MENT.
A Third County Ticket TO be Put
in the Field.

Nearly all the preliminary arrange
ments have been perfected looking
to the placing of . third coun-
ty ticket in the field. A COM
mittee was selected at q
meeting held in Centerville last
Saturday evening, to appoint dele
gates from the several precincts in
the county to meet at Butte in con-
vention for the purpose Of nomina-
ting q ticket for the suffrages of
the people. A list of the delegates
appears in this issue of the MINER.
The new organization styles itself
the Peoples Psrsy, which means we
suppose a party formed by the peo-
pie. From what can be gathered
from the speakers who addressed the
C~entervllle meeting on the evening
above named, the new organization
proposes to cut loose from the two
great political parties and paddle its
own canoe.
One of the speakers declared he had
worked with the Republican party
during the past twenty years, but
that it had now become SO corrupt
he YVES compelled to leave it. The gem
eral complaint of all the speakers was
that the existing political organiza-
tons, were governed by rings and
cliques, and that no one but those
inside the rings and a member of the
clique could get an Office. The Oh
ject of the Peoples Party, as we I'M
derstand it, is to break up this order
of things and to apportion the Offices
among its own members. No ohjec-
ton can be urged against this. Every
man has the right to vote for whom
he plesses, and a body of men car
associate themselves together and
name the man or men for whom they
will vote. Thi@ is right and legiti>
mate. We live in a free coutry.
But as one of the speakers in the
Centerville meeting said care must
be taken that the Peoples Party it
self is not run by a ring. Designing
men often worm themselves into
new politica! organizations from the
most selfish of motives. They have
as much respect for purity in poll
tics as the uevil has fer the decalogue.
A true reformer in politics as well as
in other matters is selfdenying,
seeks no preferment, and works only
for the good of the whole. This is
the test by which the false is known
from the true.
The MINER has not a word to say
against this new political organizes
ton so long as 1t answers to its pro-
LESSONS and directs its efforts to the
publication .of politics. We might
add that it's members would find q
congenial home in the Democratic
fold, but we shall not quarrel with
them if they think otherwise We
have no words of condemnation for
those who left the corrupt Republic
can party. They did right and when
they lett 1t they left more political
~jugglery, more conscienceless rings.
more clique trickery aud more
corruption than ever existed
in any other political organi-
zation since the birth of this great
Republic. They did q noble, praise
worthy act and gained the respect of
Democrats and all honest thinking
Republicans.
The Independents or Peoples Par
ty have now but one course to pul-
sue to retain that respect and that is
tn nominate a full ticket composed
entirely of Independents; of men
who have severed their connection
with the corrupt Republican party;
of men who have been bold enough
to stand out and denounce the trick
cry of its bosses and the deceitful-
ness of its leaders. Neither should
they put single active Democratic
worker upon their ticket. They
should be independent in spirit and
action as we'll as in name; and pre-
sent to the people a ticket. untainted
by the corrupt hands of slate makers
and accompanied by q clean bill of
health.