The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-09-21
ALL BY OURSELVES.

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minute interview with the Helena
Journal, all by ourselves and in the
shelter of some shaded canyon, 1t wOuld
like to ask how the Journal manages
to prevent type from standing on its
head when the innocent metal Is made
to say this, for instance
But we can only account for Mr.. Daly's sigma
tnre to this remarkable address ON one ground.
and that is the fear lest the men of Anaconda
NAV property regard their employment by him
as simply extending to their time and skin rs
miners, and not to their political sympathies.
We do mot mean to imply, for one moment, that
Mr.. DAILY would endeavOr To instruct or order his
employees to vote for the democratic candidates,
but We do say that Mr.. Marcus Daily, when he
placed his signature to An address which OPP
poses a secret ballot, fatally went On record as
against An election law which will not enable
him to watch the Anaconda boys as they 20 to
the polls.
The reference is to the address signed
by Mr.. DAILY i'm which all democrats are
urged to put forth every effort for a
full registry of the party vote. 1t was
an earnest appeal openly made and of
especial Significance because a partisan
republican legislature sought to defeat
the democrats by besetting their way
to the registry office with obstacles.
Its reference to registration was SO OBJ
vious that the STANDARD withdrew
the "appeal" from its columns when
the registry closed.
The Journal knows all this. 1t per-
verts the address, with unfair purpose,
when il seeks to cOnstrue criticisms of
the registry into opposition to
the secret ballot. The STANDARD
has already expressed itself in
favor of the Australian system of vOt-
ing, and it is backed by the representa-
tives Of the democratic party in Mon
tana i'm urging that all possible effort
H. -. E~-Al a., rnulxa. AGA m nnvn m
success. Doubtless it will become a
permanent part of our voting machin-
cry. But registration and voting are
two different things. We ave no
doubt that the incoming legislature,
whatever its political cast, will be
forced by public sentiment to change
the vicious registry law, whose unfair
provisions democrats have been forced
to a this year..
While we have our esteemed
contemporary all to ourselves, we
desire to seek the most se-
c,udcd corner of the canyon in
order that no reporter shall hear us say
to IL tina We have faithfully read the
notice standing daily at the head of it's
columns. in which Mr.. Seligman, chair
man of the republican central commit
tee, offers one hundred dollars reward
for the conviction of any man
found guilty of fraudulent registration.
Mr.. Seligman is chairman of the repub-
lican committee. Mr.. DAILY is chair
man on the democratic side. Mr.. Selig-
man, chairman, advertises his suspic-
ion that Mr.. DAILY, chairman, is going
to do something crooked which the
high-minded Seligman is going to un-
| cover. Think of it-this man Selig-
| man keeping cases on Marcus DAILY
We urge our gentle contemporary to
| finger in shaded seclusion while it pom.
| ders over q situation in which Mr.. Sci
| lyman, who il reported to be chief
owner in h Butte HOrier, sets him.
self up to defend h people of this ter.
ritory against the chairman of the
democratic COMMITTEES. We sympathize
with Seligman. OF course, the journal
has not been long in these parts and
cannot measure the ridiculOusly wide
difference in the relative standing OF
these two men; still n reporter who
stays in the territory long enough fol
supper, lodging and breakfast ought Il
be pretty LEI about 1t.
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