The Great Falls leader. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1888-1900, 1889-11-14
DenOcracy'S Useless Howl,
Inc New York Tribune Talks With
its Usual Correctness.
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The True Tale About Montana


The democratic press of the east at tha
dlctatlon Of the Montana wing, has been
engaged in good deal of mud throwinp
over precinct "a and kindred topics Rnt
people are not likely to long remain in
the dark as to the truth of the matter
The following from the N. Y. Tribune is
commendable statement of the whole
case:
Montana's electoral muddIe has been SO far
clarlned by the action of the state board of can
Vassers as to permit the states immediate admis
sion TO the Union. Certificates of election have
Deen issued to the democratic candidate for gov
efnor, whose choice by the people is denied, and
10 the republican legislative candidates in Silver
BOW county, whom the democrats declare to have
peen beaten. The state government will come
into operation upon the presidents proclamation
and the contests already begun will be continued
IN an orderly way This is commendable and
wise issue from an ugly situation.
In the Tribune of Oct. "a a remarkable letter
was printed from the Hon. A. ]. Seligmau. chair
man OF the Republican State Committee in Mon
tana Mr.. Seligman laid bare the amazingly dis
reputable methods employed by the democrats to
secure control of this new state. Since the elec
tion, which took place October l, democratic
newspapers in the east have been freighted heay-
lily with reports from Montana alleging that the
republicans, having failed to win through the bal
lot-boxes, were engaged in a conspiracy to steal
the state. So persistently has this fasehood been
repeated, in such varied forms has it been worked
up so widely has it been circulated, as to render
the conclusion inevitable that the democratic
leaders in Montana are endeavoring to manufac-
ture false sentiment throughout the country to
aid them in the contests they are arranging to en-
ter upon. They were willing to resort to the
mostinfamous artifces in their efforts to prevent
the rule OF the majority; they we're willing to
trample law, honesty and decency under foot in
their effort to make the returns lie their candi-
dates into office, and it is not unnatural there
fore, that they should be willing to blacken the
reputation of their new state and to delay it's en-
trance into the Union, if by such a course they
see the slightest possibility of succeeding in their
political conspiracy
1t Is not to be questioned that Montana con-
tains today larger number Of republicans than
democrats. Both parties in the late contest we're
united, harmonious and res0lute The demo-
cratic campaign manager was Marcus DAILY, the
partner OF James B. Haggn and Senator Hearst
In the great Anaconda copper mine. DAILY him
self employs at least onetenth Of the voting pop
ulation OF the entire state. With him were asso-
ciated four other milliOnaires, S. T. Hauser c. A..
BroadWater, W. A. Clark and J. II. Conrad. Mr..
Conrad was candidate on the democratic state
ticket for lieutenant governor. Mr.. Hauser and
Mr.. Clark were open aSpirantS for seats in the
United States senate.
Mr. BroadWater'S personal friend and attorney
was the candidate for congress, so that the demo-
cratic campaign was really made upon deliber-
ate parcellingOut of the Offices among these rich
and powerful men. In estimating their personal
influence it is not too much to say that they are
the employers, through their mines, their smell
ters and their railroads, of not less than DO per
cent of the legal vote.
Mr.. Seligman's charges against the democratic
managers show that they stopped at nothing in
furthering their ambitions. Not only did they
subject their men to every kind of persuasion and
coercion, discharging republican workingmen by
the wholesale threatening all hands with the
closing down of works and mines if the demo
cratic ticket should be defeated removing repub-
lIcan employees from the counties within which
they were registered and entitled to vote into
other counties where their votes were lost, and
substituting other employees for those thus got
rid of, the substituted men being hired to person
ate the removed ones at the polls-not only did
they commit this class of outrages, but they act
ually imported carloads of ignorant and debased
'dagoes" from Idaho ard Utah, supplied then
them to the polling-booths armed with dummy
tickets and placards bearing the words, 81 cannot
read, write or speak the English language and
| Il 70 xrota tha off ticket y
They actually brought federal judges into theil
service, legacies from the Cleveland administra
ton, who manufactured deputy clerks of theil
| courts in large numbers, and sent them of will
grip-sacks loaded with court records and seals
securing the country after ignorant half-breed
and other aliens who were straghtway converted
into American citizens and democratic voters.
This is the sort of a campaign the democrat
conducted and yet in the face of it, upon undis-
puted returns the republicans elected their con
gressonal candidate, Mr. Carter, their three sl
preme court judges and every member Of thei
state ticket except the governor. They carried
their county ticket in thirteen out of sixteen coun
ties. The democratic millionaires fired hot will
the desire to figure in the United States senat
fought with especial ferocity to secure the legls
lature. The returns of one precinct in Silver Boy
/ county were SIltIu6leSoly uiiu
without even the semblance of pretence to carr
out the election law. Had those returns Deeh al
lowed the democrats would have had feeble ma
iorty of three upon joint ballot in the legislator
which, with their governor, would have been TIL
full measure Of their claims as to the result Q
the battle But the board of canvassers, mindfu
of their oaths, decided that the returns from TIL
debauched precinct were not legal returns an
could not be received. This decision left the re
publicans with a majority of seven in the nous
upon Joint ballot and it is this decision ina
is being fought by the democrats with such des
peratiOn.
Honest public sentiment the whole country owe
will sustain the republicans of Montana in thel
resolution to defend the ballot-box. Their hgh
is for electoral honesty, as well as for their right
and the peoples will. They have done noDly.
THE BOSTON & MONTANA SHELTER
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