Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1892-09-01
LEASE AND WEAVER.
Johnny Read. of the Inter Mountain, Cooks
them Brown.

them Brown.
Mrs. Mary Lease, OF Kansas, lost
General Weaver good many more
votes in Butte yesterday than Gen.
Weaver made for himself. This de-
sexed female evidently aspires to he
the Rose Michel OF America and there
is no doubt she could give points to
Lucy Parsons. Never was such a
demagogue harangue heard in this
state as that which Mrs. Lease deliv-
cred yesterday afternoon. Her
speeches in the evening were more tenn
perate and therefore more sensible.
She had evidently been told by some
enemy of Butte that the people here
would applaud any sentiment OF hos
tility to the government and the law
and the flag, and she proceeded to ad-
dress them in language SO incendiary
that many of her auditors who did
not hiss her sentiments merely lau he'd
at their violence. Very few OF the men
who listened to the Kansas amazon
Endorsed sir2le utterance she ex
pressed and 1t is to the credit of one
resident of this city, a high-minded
and honorable man and a Democrat,
hat despite the fact that he had con-
seuted to introduce the speakers in
the evening, he sent a note o the com
mittee saying that he could not as an
American citizen 10y his presence give
encouragement to the beliefs expounded
III the afternoon and therefore declined
to present the speakers to the audi
ence. The man is Judge DeWolfe, who
is and has been for ten years in this
state an eloquent friend and defender
OF laborino men and a fearless advo-
cate OF their cause. Nor is it any
wonder that good citizenship recoils
before such venomous assaults on the
law and the men elected to carry it
out, as were made by the Kansas
scold. After asserting that the men
OF Montana should 90 over into Idaho
and hang the governor, she used this
sentences:
"Yonder in Idaho men have been
turned out OF work, and Idaho's soul
less, black-hearted governor says,
shoot them at sight Look yonder
in highly protected Pennsylvania,
where our laboring brothers are pro
tected with Pinkerton cutthroats on
the one hand, and brass-huttoned.
soulless military dogs on the other
The above malignant utterances
must certainly he the product OF Il
mind diseased. Mary, evidently, il
ignorant OF all the facts OF the Home
stead trouble; she doesn't know whai
wages have been paid there; she
doesn't know what the congressional
committee found out; she hasn't read
| Powderly's letter on the subject; sht
doesn't know that Hugh O'Donnell
himself wanted to give n public recep-
tion to the state militia to show the
kindly feelings entertained by the
workmen toward the soldiers of the
state, and she overiooks tine fact that
the Amalgamated Association, the
greatest labor organization in Penn
sylvania, and the only one directly in
terested in the case, is assisting the
officers in the detention and punish
ment of crime. But because this irate
termagant ignores the facts or is IL
norant of them it does not follow that
the workingmen of Butte are in the
same boat. On the contrary they un-
derstand all tie history OF the trouble
at Homeste al. They know also that
IL bill to suppress the Pinkerton's was
for five months on the calender OF the
Democratic house OF representatives
and that it never passed. That is tn,
sort of protection which Democracy
for which Mrs. Lease is working, gives
to workingmen. Her utterance as tC
Gov. Wiley OF Idaho, is that of 6
2houl. Ii Governor Wiley has don,
! wrong the proper course for the mel
of Idaho to pursue is to prevent his
denomination and reelection. That i.
the punishment the law provides fo
public officials who disregard sacred
trusts. If Governor Wiley has sim
ply performed what he conceives unde
his oath of office to have been his duty
then the men of Idaho will endors
him and re-elect him. But that is no
a Montana issue-it is an Idaho issue
and so if Mrs. Lease really wants tn
governor OF Idaho hanged, she woul,
better go down to Boise City and re
peat her speech OF yesterday.
That Mrs. Lease has certain
lluency OF expression and a capacit,
to distort the facts so as to attrac
attention is admitted; but sh
breaches the gospel of hate and rt
venge and destruction, not the gospt
OF reform. She is simply the vicuir
OF violent emotions, an hysterica
creature who would like to see tn
property and money OF the countr
=, divided up every year and who woul
! deny to industry, sobriety and INTEL
gence their proper reward. Ostensibl
OF course, she and Weaver are worl
ing for the third party, but it is a
plain as daylight that they are aimir
in the Democratic interest to thro
the presidential election into I'll
house with view of electing til
n stuffed prophet OF free trade to I'll
executive office, and the fact that the
denounce both parties does not col
IS ceal their ultImatepurpose. They al
out Tor the stuff and the evidence OF
is that every sound principle lai
down yesterday by Weaver is pal
of the Republican faith and If he b
lieved what he said on many subject
notably silver, he would be Repub
can; for man who conducts car
paien whoseinevitabler result should
carry half a dozen states, would be
elect silver's greatest enemy to Il
: presidency, may well be suspected
harboring dishonest motives and
= opposing the very principle whic
apparent candor, he effects to espous
1t is stated that Weaver does n
indorse Mrs. Lease, because he wan
the conservative and intelligent vot
it is also stated that Mrs. Lease do
not indorse Mr.. Weaver, because s
wants the other kind of vote. A
vet this seemingly ill-assorted cou,
N are stumping the west and playi
upon the passions OF the people for
common purpose and are no dou
carrying ont "A carefully prepared pl
oramme all in the inf crest of the r.,