The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1888-06-15
ISSUES OF THE CONTEST.

The Republican National Convention
meets next week to nominate candidates fol
President and Vice President of the United
States and to formulate the issues and atti
tude on which the party will appeal to thu
electors of the Union. A mighty RESPONSE
bility devolves upon it, for We believe, Is VI
hope, that its action will determine who
shall be the chief magistrate and his next II
succession, and what the course OF our loved
country shall be for the next four years
The Cleveland administration has been I
failure in everything upon which the judg
ment of the people should turn. We need
not 60 beyond Montana to demonstrate it
The hostility to out mining interests in it'
continued efforts to prevent the use of the
timber of Montana to make its mines pro
ductive without which ruin would over
wbelm; its hostility to silver coinage; it,
attempt to ipjure it by destroying the sheer
industry, and its lead and copper Interests
its Withholding, or yielding under condi'
lions that rendered them unavailable, Of ap,
preparations for surveys that would enable
the obtaining of title to farming lands and
settle the timber question its ineficiency
and insuficiency of mail service ; its ap'
pointment of carpet bag officials to Terrific
rial offices against the direct instructions of its
National convention, are but a part of its bad
10000 -lSol, So n~IoraoN and annrnuoA hu
its National convention this year, which
does not make n single acknowledgment
Of its wrongs to Montana or promise of nit
igation in the future, and which it asks Mon
tanians to endorse and approve. Democrats
of Montana can you endorse its record or put
faith in such administia alton for the future!
Is q mere party name above principles and
your interests that you will endure and serve
under the banner of q party that you can see
in your own local government works vast
injury, and that seeks by Its tariff schemes to
do q more gigantic evil to all the land?
Of our Republican convention we hope
better things. Its representatives in Con
gress have fought sturdily to stay the destruc'
ton that once started through the passage Of
the administration tariff bill, would work a
like ruin to the industries, capital and labor
of all the land which the stoppage of our
mining industries would to Montana. The
abolition or extreme reduction of tariff rates
would flood our markets with foreign com
modities, which, produced by less paid labor,
would tie up the resources, destroy the vast
industries that have given strength to the
North and are waking the New South to a
prosperity it never dreamed OF under the old
regime, and make America what Europe has
long been "a'good place to emigrate FROM"
Against this disaster, from the effects OF
which generations could not recover, the
party has set its front, and ap,
peals to the intelligence, the interests and
the patriotism of the American people. This
has been made the supreme issue, and the
convention will meet it square
ly, demanding that this great evil shall not
be wrought, and that internal tax cation, what
remains of the extraordinary taxes, that to
meet the war debt we were compelled to
place upon home products among ourselves,
shall be minimized and protection still ex.
ist for American capital and labor against
the two per cent money and love paid labor of
Europe. To this chief consideration others
will be subordinate, but we have faith that
the Republican convention will neither ig-
more nor reject as did that of St. Louis the
appeal Of its delegates that the Territories
shall have statehood when they are entitled
by all presidents !; that until then
their officers shall be selected from among
their own people and that the guardianship
Of their interests by the government shall be
fostering and not repressive.
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It matters not so much from the material
available whether it shall be Gresham, Sher.
man, Depew or Allison, or other candidate
shall be selected. The question among
q dozen good men is one of availability, each
possessing high qualifications and each a
worthy exponent of the party. Personally
we believe Gresham, with an equally good
eastern man for Vice Presideot, would make
the best combination that could be put in
the field, but if the choice shall fall on
another it will doubtless be from better
of who can more surely carry
the Republican standard to victory. May
the convention choose wisely and give us
that the States of the Union will
not only protect and encourage their welfare
but protect and encourage the Territories
that are dependent on their legislation and
administrative acts until their minority is
past and they are admitted to participation
as ~co-equals in the Great Republic.
The nomination of Thurman Is not con.