The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1889-09-29
The Attempt of the Republicans to
Buy Missoula County Will
End in Failure.
Corporate Influence and Ring Rule
to be Throttled Forever at the
Polls Next Tuesday.
Honest Men of Both Parties Enthu-iAstIs
IN support of the Democratic
Nominees.

MIssOULA, Sept. 2S.-[SpeciaI to the In
dependent Affairs have reached that
stage in this section OF Montana when
every man who believes in a free ballot,
uniI fuenced by corporations or the money
OF cofruptionists, should be informed Of
the work the republican campaign mans
gers are doing in MissOula county. Money
is being IASishly poured out to corrupt this
the at one time banner county Of the dem
ocracy, while all the power OF q grasping
corporation is being used to force men to
s ppOrt The nominees of q county cOnven-
tiOn which il packed, and then compelled
to nominate the men IL named. That
money can buy or threats istimidste a ma
jOritY Of the voters In this county is scarce
ly probable, but that this Is what the re-
publican managers and the corporation
which owns that party IN Missoula eLGDty
Is doing there is no doubt Old time Tepub-
licans, men who believe IN honorable meth
DDS IN politics as we'll as IN business, object
% q ticket beng forced upon them, and
will rebuke the machine in no uncertain
manner. They have said nothing when
federal appointments have gone by favor.
when rank treachery has been rewarded By
places on the state and county slates; but
when the monopoly that Is stranRling
every Legitimate enterprise in MiseOuls
county boldly enters q republican county
convention and names the county ticket
from state senator 70 coroner, the stAlwart
republican kicks and he kicks hard The
Hon. Harrison SpauldtDg, Of the Nilsson
Aan, n widely read and Influential journal,
is stumbling block in the path OF the ma
chine ticket. Mr.. Spaulding Is republi-
can, but he cannot ana will not endorse
and support the creatures OF this monop-
oily, and right-minded men honor him for
his course. The recognized machine or
gan IL the Evening Item, which Is either
spasmodicaliy brilliant OF irTetrtevaOly
stupid by turns. The Item has fascinating
way Of landing candidates that It getE
called down on frequently. A few
days since il picked up John Anderson,
republican nominee for treasurer, and
paiBted him as the fortunate pOssessOT OF
all herAlded virtues, besides Few outside
ones discovered by the Item. Thomas
Williams, ex- county treasurer, Is out with
card showing that Mr.. Anderson can
neither make his own reports nor keep his
own books. The nexs effort OF the evening
sheet was 20 slobber all over ID ID. BOgart,
nominee for clerk and recorder. IL could
have been picked up here again, as mr.
BOgart after losing position OF giving up
being hired from the cashiers desk Of the
MissOula National Bank, was picked up BY
Alvin Lent at that time clerk and record
err, nominated and elected by him q year
ago, and whose friendship be rewarded
with the basest ingratitude. There
is no reason why the democratic county
ticket should not win from top to bottom.
The democracy of MissOnla, once the ban
ner county of the territory, will arise to q
man, vote the ticket without a scratch and
rescue the county from the OctOpus-like
grasp of that malign Influence which even
nov pervades and controls every branch Of
the county government. The republican
central committee are putting up dollars
where TIE democrats have not pennies.
Ibe democrats are fully alive TO the
danger which threatens them, and them
work in the past few weeks is being felt
Decent men OF both parties realizs the fact
that If they allow The ring, which is striv-
ing for supreme power in MissOuia county,
10 be victorious this year they will never
sgain have any Inhu nee In public affairs,
and with the cry. "a free ballot and pure
elections" the Uest people of MissOula are
rallying 10 the support of the democratic
ticket and on this tide of popular indigna-
ton against republican methods, TOOle,
MaRinDis and the rest of the state ticket
with the county ticket as well, will be car
ried 20 victory.