The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-11-02
TRY IT ON.

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TRY 1T ON.
Anaconda Standard: Wide circulation
is given to the story that detectives
thugs and shoulder-hitters are abroad
in the cities Of this state and that the,
are in the employ Of the democratic
state central COMMITTEES.
This statement, like the areward" cir
cular lately issued from republican head.
quarters, is sent out this year as both
were sent out last year, in order to hide
the scheme which the republicans are
trying to carry out.
Bernard, condemned murderer, is
casting about at this very hour to carry
into execution the dishonest details
evolved at the headquarters Of repub-
lican management. His business Just
now is to see that the absentee vote
gets into Tuesdays ballot boxes-that is
to say, he will sec that dead" men are
voted.
AS to detectives and thugs, the Stand
ard defies any republican newspaper in
the state to produce the name or proofs
of the presence of one Of them in the
employ Of the democratic committee.
Meanwhile, we charge that the repub-
licans have in their employ band of
detectives who are now logging the
steps Of reputable citizens of this state,
and the hour has come when this news
paper will undertake to show that these
detectives are the most dastardly rascals
in the business. They are strikers every
time.
One Of these men saw the chairman of
the democratic central committee at
Boulder two days ago. Two Of them are
in Anaconda this morning, and these
two have been seen by the writer Of this
within six hours. One of them goes by
the name of Ames and the other by the
name of Harrington.
A third man, in the employ of the
Thiel agency, was in Butte yesterday.
He was discharged by the Pinkerton
agency some time ago, and is suspected
to-day by the men who are now employ
ing him.
Some Of the strikers, known as detec-
tives, who were employed on the ''coal
cases" in Helena are now in the employ
of the republican state central commit
tee. One OF them has lately been oper-
ating in Missoula.
Another Of them, under pay of the
republican central committee, remem-
Der, gave to the editor of this paper a
complete story OF what happened this
week in Helena, when Mr.. Hershfield,
Mr.. Seligman, Mr.. Jack Carter and 9th
ers had quarrel with Thomas G. Power.
Starting in with Powers admission
that Garter was gone in Silver Bow
county anyway" the Standard agrees
to give the list of northumberland
tifty-dollar subscriptions and the names
Of the men who subscribed. 1t will
give the details of the conversation
then held, including the profanity, the
obscenity and the vulgarity. It will
account for Mr.. Jack Carter's travels
within thirty-six hours. 1t vii give
privacies that will paralyze the repubi-
can managers. It will prove to dem
that, on this Saturday morn
ing, November l, 1890, the republican
managers admit to one another that they
are lost, and it promises to demonstrate
that it has its information from cowardly
who are in the pay OF repub-
licans.
Now, If any republican organ in Mon
tana wants to raise the detective issue,
just say the word. The Standard will
produce the evidence to show the disloy
atty of those who are employed by the
It dedes proof that any
detective is abroad in tho hire Of the
democrats. Try it on!