The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-09-24
TIE CLOSING WEEK.

AnlIe0 08 never DcIOTe III lVb uiBtOIy
enthusiastic i'm behalf Of its candidates,
and confident Of the justice of it's
cause, the democratic party hopefully
enters the closing week of q campaign
that will be memorable in the annals
Of Montana. The weeks already spent
have brought multiplied evidence OF
gross unfairness OH the part of a reck-
less opposition which, through the
agency of n dishonest registry law.
planned to disfranchise citizens be-
cause they are democrats; they have
been stained by the indecency and bit
terness with which reputable men not
candidates for Office have been assailed.
On the stump I'M in the columns OF
republican newspapers, this cowardly
warfare has beer persistently kept up,
in the hope that real issues might be
Obscured and candidates of unques-
TONED fitness brought into disrepute.
Forced to make this fight on hostile
N f~Orbidding ground, the intrepid
leaders of Montana democracy have
faced the opposition without fiinching.
This hour finds every charge disprOved
n every barrier triumphantly swept
away. The campaign has successfully
exposed h dishonesty of republican
~pretensiOn; it has shown the close re-
latiOn sustained by the democratic
party to the past achievements and the
present prosperity of Montana: it has
calamity defended the record and
the good name of every demo-
crat ON the ticket.
Now hat the closing days of the
canvass are upon us, the STANDARD
makes appeal to all democrats to carry
to its successful conclusion the struggle
Sd suspicious i'm its promise n y am
pie in its assurances of final victory
If every citizen will but address him.
self with zeal to the duties which come
with the remaining days of this week.
A triumph sweeping in it's proportions
and splendid i'm h measure of its pos
sible good results is before us. Catch
inspiration from the superb example
your party leaders have set. Stamp
with h seal Of your contempt the men
and the newspapers that have stigma
tized you as cravens and branded you
AZ cattle. Answer with you over
whelming vote the taunt of those who
assert that you lack he courage of
American freemen. Shut the door of
political preferment forever against the
republicans who, representing this very
county i'm the halls of legislation, nave
openly advocated the doctrine that
naturalized citizens are unfit to hold
the Office of mining inspector. Put on
record your disapprOval of those who
have maligned men whom you rave
been glad to honor in the past. Twice in
succession you have marched to victory
under the leadership of Joe ToOle. He
served you faithfully and was the first
to swing open the wide door through
which Montana enters to take her
place in the sister hood of states. Six
times, without q single break, you
elected Martin Maginnis to the highest
honor then in your gift. He gave you
twelve years of unselfish service, and
no man could he found to match him
at the polls. Get ready to win once
more. Send Montana into the Union
under the guidance of the political
party that achieved statehood, and
make next Tuesdays victory the grand
est ever scored in all h circle of these
mountains.