The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-11-02
RALLY ROUND DIXON.

Iuesday, the 4th OF November, 1880,
ought to be red-letter day in the cal
endar of every worker and wage-earner
in this big state of Montana. It will
bring to him his one legal chance during
the next two years Of expressing his
opinion Of the legislation effected for
the country in general and his own
state in particular. What that legisla-
ton has been, what its effects ere and
are likely to be, every intelligent voter
in this state already knows. TIE work
ingmen are no longer to be blinded with
cheap claptrap about the republican
party being their one and only friend.
They have eyes, and they can see;
brains, and they can think. In the
mind of every worker, whose eyes are
open to the best interests OF all that he
holds dear, his intellectual, physical,
moral and worldly advancement, his
home, his wife and children, there can
be but one opinion of the action of our
congressman during his term of office.
That opinion must be one OF universal
and high-minded indignation and repro
baton. He wac elected to represent
and stand by the interests of our state.
He elected to become the tool of Wall
street schemers. He elected to hand us
over bound hand and foot to eastern
manufacturers. He was elected to keep
an argus eye on the special needs of this
state. He elected to constitute himself
a universal genius and attempted to run
the affairs Of the whole United States
In the face Of such gigantic task,
Montana, Of course, had to go to the
wall. He was elected to foster the best
interests OF silver. He elected to desert
it's few republican friends and betray it
to the death at the hands of Reed, Win
dom and Harrison. For such a palter-
ing trickster, the honest, brawny, big
souled voters of Montana, with their
contempt for every action that savors Of
mean selfishness or treachery, have no
use whatever. Their votes for Dixon
will prove it and prove it emphatically.
A vote for Dixon by the .oters of this
state means vote for the security of
the ballot, the workingman's one great
privilege. From that privilege he is
resolute not to be debarred, whether by
the crime Of partisan tools, or contempt
GUS law-breaking IN high places. The
worklngman knows the supreme value
Of his ballot. He values it alike for
himself and his fellow-laborers. Rob
berry Of one is the thin end of the wedge
for the robbery Of all. A vote for Dixon
means emphatic condemnation OF the
methods adopted by the republican
party last fall to override and crush out
the deliberate expression Of the senti-
ments of legal voters. A vote for Dixon
means fair ballot and a fair count. No
honest man will forget the fact on Tues
day next.
A vote for Dixon means fair play for
laboring men, their wives and children.
1t means that this great northwest, with
its thousands of brawny toilers, will no
longer be the serf of eastern manufac-
turers, shall no longer be thing to be
put up for auction in the political mar
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the highest bidder. It means that we
have interests as worthy of protection
as any the east can claim. 1t means
that no party shall have the power to
make one vast, sweeping reduction of
wages for workingmen at the bidding OF
subeidizing gold-bugs. 1t means that
the laboring man shall, still be entitled
to cherish the expectation OF having a
home OF his own, and that all his
hard-wrung savings shall not be
attached for the benefit of strang-
ers at the behest Of Carter or any
other weak-kneed jack-in-office. For
the workers the Mckinley bill is the
ono issue OF supremest Importance in
this campaign. They cannot afford to
forget it Tuesday. Their wives will not
permit them.
A vote for Dixon means vote for the
fulfllment OF pledges made and believed
in. 1t means that no politician can
hereafter come before the voters Of thus
state and extort from them their ballots
by the aid OF oily promises and sleek
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