Daily Yellowstone journal., 1890-05-08
Thursday. May :. lSa0
THE CITIZENS TICKET.

"Bv Their tfuts v" shhIl Rn""
them" when the lELLOwsTaNE
JOURNAL ye-terd ~ dubbed the .u-
called "citizens'" meeting a demo-
cratic masquerade II hit the mark
plumb centre, and the ire awakened
among the democrats yesterday bv the
disclosure, proclaimed the trlth of the
assertion, which VA full; confirmed
by the cut aud dried action of the
"citizensh last night. The only br-sk
in the whole program was that tn.
artful dodgers did not succeed in get
ting any republicans 10 participate
with them in their deliberations. aud
20 give color 10 the claim that their
ticket WAS a result irrespective Of
party. IL is true, there were a few,
probably half a dozen, republicans
present. but they were there Ia the
same spirit that would induce one Ia
70 to q monkey show, and took no
part in the proceedings. The chair.
man e~loquently deploreo the conspic-
u"us abs. nee of republicans, and see
ing none hut democrats In front of him
spoke ~feryengiy Of the great necessity
of a eeople's tickst-to be nominated
by democrats. In running out the
slate the machine only slipped n
cog, and that was in the nomination
for mayor. 1, vas the intention #
the instigators of the movement to
place Col. Scheetz in nomination for
mayor, bu; for the purpose Of prevent
ing the republicans from gaining cor.
troll Of the meeting the aid Of the
Knights Of Labor had been invoked.
and they were on hand in force. Col.
Scheeiz was not acceptable to them,
and notwithstanding the efforts Of hi
friends. and the fact that he rec. wed
the votes of all the Representative.
democrats present, the colonel was
showed under, and the only r.pub'i.
ran on the whole ticket nominst-d
Mr.. Brown, the successful candidate,
wa, not present. and ii is mere than
doubtful tha, he will accept the nom.
ination. Aside from him every cam
didate nominsted is a democrat, n is
also the entire campaign committee
And this is what our artful friends the
democrats would like TO have the pub
lie swallow ss a citizens ticket, selects
ed by the people irrespective of party.
The chair declared In his preliminary
remarks that ne did not propose IL
enquire as to the politics Of any per
O presentsd FIR nomination. Mr.
did h. have to. The original slate
he'd a big ID marked after every name,
and the euileless chairman made this
Ingenious statement In The iuIl
kno Wedge of what was to follow, and
il was only through an unforeseen ac
cident that one republican slippei in,
Col. Scbeetz's nomination was talked
OF freely by leading democrats ye.t-r
day 81 q forsgone conclusion and even
bets were offered on his election. SO
that If the program had been fully
carried out, the result would have been
a straight democratic ticket, to which,
il was hoped, a considerable numh'r
of republicans would he pledged by
participation IN the masquerade.
We ak the "ritizens' who nut W.
the Job, was the JOURNAL right or
wrong in it, warning to republican,?
II WAS a very neat scheme; commend
able probably in the democratic school
Of notifies, hut IL failed to work. The
fight Is nov on, and to-day the repub.
Leans will submit q ticket which.
aside from the personal merits OF ii-
candidates. will possess the further
merit of sailing under true colors.