The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-09-12
GET TO BUSINESS.

SSh w
II this campaign IL marred with per-
sonalities. the democratic press of Mon
tana is not tai blame for il. II men.
not candidates for Office. are exposed ms
targets for cowardiy personal assault.
democratic newspapers are not the Of
Tenders. Ii citizens who have tine m
questioned right tO interest themss ! ,es
i'm the canvass are assailcd by vagIant
newspapers. run as dailies during h
campaign for 70 money consideration.
the Otfense cannot he charged ON the
democratic press.
HencefOrth. the STANDARD will Ike
satisfied to print. without added note
or comment. the talk of the republican
press regarding its tOwnsmen whO are
made the subject of cuwardly personal
comment. All the newspapers i'm poll
ties for nay high and low. big or little.
shall get u hearing here. which they
could not hope to secure except us the
STANDARD quotes them. The hired
scribblers are urged tn put their stun
into type.
But the democratic press will not in
suit itself by meeting the opposition i'm
the field of unwarrantable personalities.
IL will not trouble itself tn tell how Mr..
Power Jared i'm his dealing with Indian
traders. it will not produce the proofs
of crooked transactions involving
h federal government and republican
candidates. 1t will impugn no decent
mans motives. it will not vilify citi-
zens in the walks of private life.
Montana democrats will surely win
in October. They are winners now.
n-I..- , A.. ..:~.-. l-s 49,.
days ago. They can take care of Tho
state ticket and the Legislative candi-
dates. to boot. They have shown that
they nno be defrauded by a rotten
registry law: they will take mighty
good care that they are not counted
out at the polls. They present no can
didate who ever robbed the people; they
al easily afford tn be decent. They
are the aggressors i'm this campaign
and they tell the opposition tn get
down into the ring and defend itself.
Let the republican press of the terri
tory hasten to array itself on the
line of living issues. Pay no atten-
ton tn the proofs hat Carter sought
To introduce the religious element i'm
last years campaign. do not study
the files ut Deer Lodge i'm hope of Civ
ing Mr.. Power II clean record. Fling
your insinuatiOns at A.naconda's nine
teen hundred voters il you will. and
bring the suffrage of honest laboring
men into contempt if You can. Dodge
the real issues of the campaign if you
want to. assail philosophical men
until You tire of il: but when You are
through with u campaign of sneaking
Hituperation take u new tack and
stay with the vital issues of the hour.
il you are able to do it. Prove that
the democrats of Montana have been
r%ecreants i'm the past. show how Joe"
Toole has betrayed the commonwealth,
and wherein Maginnis has failed in
fidelity. Point tn the public record
that entities Carter to public prefer
ment and suggest the claims which
Power has to public favor.
None of these themes have stirred
the republican press. which seeks to
hide the weakness of it's favOrites by
printing libels on democrats not candi-
dates, 10y raising it's impOtent voice
of Islander against men i'm public life
whose personal popularity il is
invited to put to the test.