Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1894-10-04
Two Clowns, Both Daily.
Helena independently ]

Helena Independent.1
If Mr.. John j. Ingalls, of Kansas and
Mr.. Horace Boies of Iowa were to in
wade and $: ump this state upon the
subject OF locating our capital, they
would be deemed impertinent, and if
they excused themselves that they
were doing it for hire, they would be
deemed unworthy OF all audience and
corrupt. AS our people are unfailing
in politeness they would not be Missed
off their platforms, but the cause
which they were serving for pay would
have every presumption against it
and would be irretrievably injured.
OF course neither of these men could
be induced to enter upon the matter
so exclusively our own affair from any
consideration whatever. They could
not be put in a place where the fitting
reply to their speech would be sit is
none of your business"
Mr.. Marcus DAILY shows hisestimate
of the influences which should operate
on the public judgement in locating a
seat of government in Montana by the
quality of his henchmen. Mr.. Press
Woodruff is a buffoon from Arkansas
whose somnolent wit hawked about
this state last spring at fifty cents a
head put many of our wide awake
people asleep, until the state became
weary of his melancholy and his men,
delaney. Mr.. w. A. Plummer, colonel
of an unknown regiment, who if not,
like Celebs, IN search OF a wife, is in
search of job with his mouth, am
bulatory OF habit but staying every
where too long. is a verbal clown of a
cheap and gushing quality. He is
from the oil country, but it is not pc
troleum with which his breath is
fragrant.
Neither of them was ever i'm Montana
before, or has any interest in I he state,
or, for that matter, out OF it. and
neither expects to reE,ain here ninety
days or ever return. They are two
irresponsible, frivolous, foolish, wan
dering gypsies, hunting for a welcome
somewhere and found wanting every
where. They are here simply because
they do not know whereelse ogo. They
are the Dugald Dalgettys of that vocal
army known as spellbinders, though
history names no man who by them
was ever spellbound. No interest in
the keeping of any sane man would
ever be left to either of them, no cause
with merit would ever be entrusted to
their hands, and no man who re-
spected the people of Montana would
ever ask them to listen to the air.
cracking, earth-pawing swagger of such
mountebanks and charlatans s they.
And yet Mr.. DAILY has hired these
braggarts to induce few shallow
fools, if so be they may find them, to
betray this state as to the location of
the capital, and is paying their ex-
penses that they may make a trifiing
plaything of the most serious affairs
of this great commonwealth. MIR.
DAILY is believer in buffoons, and as
to these particular ones excuses him.
self that he bought them cheap.
When either of these parties would
enter into such a commercial transac-
ton, he must be mighty hard up. We
presume and hope our patient people,
while getting a taste of the quality of
rhetoric which prevails at Petroleum
Crossroads, or listening to the chest
nuts which were mouldy in Yell county
before the war, will not yield to the
impulse to supply themselves with an
cient eggs, but however vaulting the
impudence or severe the provocation
will let these brawling ranters cackle
until they run out of twaddle and
move on to the next town in search of
new victims.
As Daly's campaign gets baggy at
the knees, by all means let him i'm
port more frivolity and more imperti-
nence. His shindy is evidently getting
desperate. 1t was only when that
oily professional lackey, Mr.. Paris
Gibson, broke down in the dangerous
attempt to tell why he favored Ana
conda that Mr.. Daily put out his
money in this farley waxworks show,
and in sheer desperation started these