Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1886-10-30
THE REAL ISSUE.

THE REAL ISSUE.
The Republican press and speakers OF th
Territory have virtually ignored the res
issue which presents itself to the people j
this campaign. and have attempted to lea
the Democratic press and speakers into
discussion of matters foreign to the ques
lions at stake. They first opened the can
paign with the charge that Mr.. Toole use
his influence at Washington to defeat tn
entrance of the Manitoba Railroad int
Montana. This was soon set aside by MI
Power, O pro ninent candidate in the RI
publican Convention for Delegate, who au
| thorized the statement to be made tba
| Mr.. Toole exerted himself to the full exten
OF his ability to procure the passage OF tn
bill through Congress giving that road tn
right OF way through the Northern India1
reservation, and that he was in no way re
sponsible for the Presidents veto OF tn
measure. Nothing more has been heard @
this charge.
The next charge made against Mr.. Tool
was that he was an attorney Of the North
ern Pacific Railroad Company in a suit il
which the United States was the prosecute
and that company the defendant. Thi
was denied by Mr.. Toole to the satisfac
ton OF every honorable gentleman in tn
Territory, and that charge has beef
dropped.
The third and last objection which hal
been raised to Mr.. Toole was based upon
garbled extract Of q speech he made in tn
Constitutional Convention three years agt
upon the question of taxing mines. Thu
objection was fully answered in yesterday
mornings MINER. The fact that the gen
tleman simply took the ground that thu
question OF exempting certain property
from taxation came within the provinces
Of Legislative Assemblies to consider
rather than within that of Constitutions.
Conventions; that he voted for the cor
~stitution with all it's several exemption
clauses; that be is supported by the heavi.
est mine owners in the Territory, and that
is in favor OF the admission of Montana
in the Uaion as a State under it's present
constitution, takes the life out OF the oh.
and that will be thrown aside.
Sparks, Cleveland and Manning have also
been introduced in the canvass and played
for all they were worth by the opposition.
1t has been held that because Mr.. Cleve.
land has followed in the footsteps of Grant,
Garfield and Arthur, and shown
some hostility to silver coinage; because
Mr.. Manning. as Treasurer of the United
States, has only partly carried out the very
practice of his predecessors, Sher-
man, Window, Mccullough and Folger, in
discriminating against silver; and because
finding a Republican timber law
upon the statutes OF the country. which, as
a sworn officer of the Interior Department,
be is bound to see enforced, and because all
three are Democrats, and Mr.. Toole is a
Democrat also, be should be held response.
BILE for their individual opinions and for
their official acts. The grounds Of this
objection are so untenable and so silly that
the more intelligent portion OF the people
and Democrats-quickly ig-
nored it and feel ashamed to speak of it.
These three charges or objections being
disposed of, Mr., Toole stands before the
people with a clean record as Il public ser.
want and a spotless reputation as a pri.
vate citizen. And now we come to the real
issue which presents itself in this cam.
paign.
Do the people of Montana wish a man
to represent them in Congress who has a
pronounced pro-Chinese record. who favors
Chinese immigration, Chinese pauper labor
and Chinese RIGHTEOUSNESS? If so, Wilbur
F. Sanders is their man.
Do the people OF Montana wish a maj
to represent them in Congress who is the
salaried agent and attorney OF the most
powerful corporation in the Territory? II
SO Wilbur +. Sanders is their man.
Do the people Of Montana wish a man to
represent them in Congress who is an
avowed railroad subsidist and who has
frequently attempted to saddle this Terri.
tory with an unbearable and ~inextinguish.
able debt? Ii so Wilbur F. Sanders ia
their man.
Do the people of Montana wish a man to
represent them in Congress who would be
the tool OF a railroad corporation and who
boasts that it was his finger that touched
the electric button which set the directors
Of the Northern Pacific at work to prevent
the entrance of the Manitoba railroad into
If SO Wilbur F. Sanders is their
man.
Do the people OF Montana wish a man to
represent them in Congress who is hand in
glove with the company that tore down
The homes OF the oppressed Timberline
miners over their heads and locked them
'ut from work because they asserted the
lights Of freemen? If SO Wilbur F. Sanders
s their man..
Do the people OF Montana wish u man to
epresent them in Congress who can so far
orget himself as to denounce the President
this great nation rs a ''thick knocked
'rute," whom he says he 'can convict be-
ore ajury of beasts" and who refers to
the voting population Of the country
8 'grovelling m~ageots?" If so. Wilbur
'. Sanders is their man.
But if the people of Montana desire a /
to represent them in Congress who
as proven d faithful, capable and efficient
ubic servant; who is e%minently sound on
ne Chinese question; who has compelled
he Northern Pacific Company to pay
'xcs on its lands in the Territory: who
as proved himself the friend of the miner,
lie farmer. the stockman and the day
.borers OF the country, who is not the
oedient servant of a giant corporation
1T the champion OF the interests of the
erritory, Joseph K. Toole is their man.
he issue is plain. A pro- Chinese, corpora.
on delegate or an anti-Chinese, peoples
There a be no question as to
Re peoples choice.
HALDORN'S WAGER.