Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1889-10-30

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reject that vote. Jack had money /
q that it would go Republican. He so
: his honor to save his cash and for 9th
, purposes, which are in allegiance. Bill
Hall did as he was told and that was
3 much as anybody expected him to d
Nobody got left on Billy.
Because the: Republican judges at Ii
Tunnel, who were appointed by JAG
say that the vote was free and the couI
fair, the Inter Mountain insinuates tbs
they lie; that, as a matter of fact, the!
the judges, were the only men who voted
unless the Inter Mountain is covere
with a blanket mortgage bigger thai
itself, it dare not make the charge with
out leaving a hole in the fence.
Eight men. have never yet sworn tina
they voted the straight Republican
ticket at the Tunnel on October 1, 1889
Only four afidayits were presented AMI
the character Of them is the subject o.
universal derision and disbelief. VIM
Brown has been proved to be a myth,
veritable "Tom Collins" Anderson never
made the affidavit that was attributed tt
him and the conspirators piled him with
whisky to get him to make any, as shown
by the afidavits published in yesterdays
MINER.
Jake 'Whalen, another Republican
affidavit maker, is also a myth, as is
shown by the affidavit of James Whalen
published on the local page of this morn
ing's MINER.
The Republican affidavits have proven
to be a lot of expensive but rotten polit-
ical merchandise secured by intimida-
ton, persuasion and the smell of a cork,
or by the proffer Of corruption gold,
Those that were not 80 secured were
never secured at all, but were manufac-
tured by the Bernard gang for the edifi-
cation Of Chief Justice Jack and Asso-
- .@ g. .-E1~EFaL-- Z f. "a . #- .-. Z
ciate, Justice Hall, and to deceive the
Republicans and honest Demo
Gratis of the Territory of Montana, and
assist in reversing the will of the peo-
pie. But we are not by any means
with the exposure. The col
nmns of The MINER will TEEN with
afidavits until the heavy doors Of the
.penitentiary close behind some of the
conspirators, and a free vote and a fair
count shall again be the pride of Mon
ANA citizenship. Because a man has to
work for an honest living at a railway
,recinct in Montana he shall not be dis
ranchised by Bernard, the convict, Jack,
he Scottish lord of wealth and leisure,
Iall, the bull-dozer Of Alice Mining Co. |
Employees and a lot of political buns,
Tho follow politics'as the thief follows
is booty and the assassin his victim. It
hall not be, said of Montana that labor
ng mel shall not be permitted to vote
Mess they vote the Republican ticket
hat cock may" fight and win in the
ines, of Republican Pennsylvania
hen threatened by starvation
Id backed by Pinkerton rifles,
1t in the freedom of the Rockies the
Ions of Liberty will bear him away to
destruction. Whether a man is
Democrat or Republican, or whether he
rich or poor, has nothing to do with
g standard Of citizenship in Montana {
ID it must ever be so. There are both Q
'mOcrats and Republicans In Montana 6
10 can neither read nor write who have !
tier natural intelligence, and who are
tier qualified to vote intelligently and
nestly, than any man who is one of il
> eonspirators seeking to deprive the b
mel voters Of the highest privilege of v
izenship, In
The MINER respects a Republican none
less because of his political convict
MS, but the political conspirator and I'll
'ber, whatever his political faith may &C
must expect no quarter here but a III
+ OF determination until the race II
II become extinct. The political of
Of the Tunnel precinct conspira-
} have already been dug and THE
YER will stand over them until the Oo
spadeful Of earth shall be banked up 70
then>it will kneel down among the 20
tier Of unholy graves and thank ca,
for the triumph of the right. fal
Be
FROM. A JOINT EDITORIAL.
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Is scarcely conceivable that judge 7
Wolfe will make any mistake upon so POI
n a proposition, and if he should, his