Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1889-08-07
THE HELENA "INDEPENDENT..

THE HELENA "lNDEPENDENT."
The Helena Independent" appeared
yesterday morning under the new
management. The opening state
ment is square and above-broad,
and has a ring that is as pleasing to true
Democrats as it is alarming to Repub-
licans.
So much has been said as to what the
new management would and would not
do, that it is worth the space to reproduce
from Mr.. Lyman's announcement in yes
terday's Independent" some pointers.
Here they are:
One widely circulated report is that this
journal under it's new management is to be
conducted sin the interest Of Governor Hill
and a protective tariff"
Well, yes, the independent" will be for
Governor Hill. As long as the Republican
party seeks to impose upon the people Of
New York an animated bank account like
Davenport, or the head Of the wood pulp
trust in. the person of Warner Miller, the
independent" is for David B. Hill-for
Governor OF New York. 1t will support
him. too, for President j 1921 he is
the nominee Of the national Democratic
convention, and meantime will treat him
precisely like any other public man, on his
merits.
This statement may cause som misgiv.
ings in the breast of q Chicago journalist
who has positively discovered that the SIN
dependent" is to boom Cleveland in 1892,
and to re-assure him it may as well be con-
fessed that the ''IEdependent" is for Cleye-
land, too. His portrait hangs in our
counting room, and every day his good
qualities. his high sense OF public duty, his
patriotism and his frmness in the right as
he saw it, shine the brighter by contrast with
the peering littleness OF his successor. The
Independent" sfor Cleveland-as the best
K president Of the United States in more
than a quarter OF q centurys II he is re-
nominated three years hence, he will be
Loyalty supported by this paper.
And the "Independent" is for protection,
too! II is for q protection that protects;
for the protection OF the working people ef
the country from a fraudulent tariff sys-
TEN which deprives them OF a just share OF
the profits OF their labor and transfers
money from their pockets to those of GER
tain favored individuals; for protection
from burdensome taxation that unjustly
draws from the people one hundred mill
ions OF dollars annually in excess of the
needs OF an economically administered gov.
eminent.
In q word the Independent" is q pro-
tectionist just like Governor Hill, who
said in q public speech after the late cleo
ton: "Grover Cleveland deserved better
at the hands of the people of the United
States. Honest, brave and courageous, he
calamity led his party in the great contest
for tariff reform and suffered defeat owing
to the false clamor, unjust prejudice, unfair
representations and the gigantic and com.
bined efforts OF all the monopolists OF the
country. He should have been sustained
by the taxpayers, consumers, and masses
Of the people, whose true interests he de-
sired to subserve and whose rights he en-
deavored unselishly to maintain"
LUG luuopcuuouU 10 IOE bOu0 ObuoT
forms OF protection, too. 1t is for the
protection OF Montana from Dudley and
his bl~ocks-of.ive methods in our election
this fall; for protection from the Doodle of
so.called protected industries OF New York
and Pennsylvania; for protection from
Wa1amakerism and nepotism and the long
train OF evils that will make the "Inde.
pendent" gladden. every day to reflect that
it is not responsible for this %administra.
tion.
As for the rest, the Independent" will
be, first OF all, a newspaper.
1t will be a Montana newspaper.
1t will be q Democratic newspaper.
1t will not be the organ OF any man or
1t will help fight and win the battles of a
united Democracy. A. W. LYMAN.
In reproducing the above, THE MINER
is pleased to be able to endorse the senti-
ments expressed as sound and logical,
and it congratulates Mr.. Lyman upon his
manly method Of meeting and vanquish-
ing the false prophets. The "Independ-
ent" did good service under Mr.. Martin;
It will continue the good work under Mr..
And Democracy and the people
will triumph.