The Yellowstone journal., 1894-12-14

! .SlOo.OO REWARD.
1 will give $1,000 reward to any per-
son who can prove that y. >. Hopkins,
| democratic candidate foI representative
ever expressed himself for or aginst
county division.
| 4. W. LoNGLEY.
All these utterances sproclamations and
announcements point 10 one single oh
iect; the election Of MIR. Hopkins to the
Legislature; and in addition to these APP
peais to the public the Forsyth Times
was following up other leads, as for in
stance the address to the cattlemen of
county in Mr.. Hopkins behalf. to which
the engineers of the scheme appended
unauthorized signatures, in fac, com
mittcd forgery, AMI TO which, recreant
republicans signed their names prostitu-
ting themselves politically IN frantic
effort to secure representation on the
floor of the house that would be favor
able to the county division scheme. even
| though il threatened the success CT the
republican party IN the senate of the
United States. That was a small mat.
ter when weighed against the desire of
the Forsyth conspirators to set up a
pocket borough of their own, As the
election drew near the Times felt il in
cumbert to rally the voters to the stand.
ard aud in its Issue of Nov. 3rd said:
People of Forsyth should stand shoul-
| der TO shoulder next Tuesday. Allow
no influence 10 waive you from casting
your ballots in favor of home and home
institutions.
And then fearful that this admonition
was little broad. there was printed in
the same issue. the following:
The YELLOWSTONE JOURNAL still tries
To throw dust in the eyes of the voters
by yelling county DIVISION" Nobody
outside of that Office dreamed Of Juggling
the question into the campaign but it
was done far partizan purposes Nobody
at Forsyth or Pease Bottom or Rosebud
or Ekalaka ever heard OF ii but in the
columns OF the YELLOWSTONE JOURNAL.
There was depth of falsehood and
deceit in this paragraph that is rarely
to be met with even in politics. In the
same issue the Times further said:
Don't be deceived by the false cry of
county division" 1t is put up as it has
been in times past. to cover the designs
OF the ring.
And again:
No Helena lawyer will ever be called
upon or receive a dollar to draw bill
for county division.
This was the attitude of the organ of
the county divionists before the election
Now note the abrupt change after that
eveut. In its issue of Nov. 10th; four
days after the election, when it seemed
10 be reasonably sure that Mr.. Hopkins
was elected. the Times sounds its first
yawn of triumph:
The YELLOWSTONE JOURNAL made an
issue of county division. taking the mega
tive side. 1t lthe JoURNAL) is defeated.
Amen.
The next week in the issue Of Nov. IL
the Timee is still glorifying but rather
cautious. 1t said:
Forsyth got there with both feet
Now then, long pull, a strong pull and
pull altogether for Forsyth and home
interests.
An in the same issue:
The JOURNAL made the fight against
county division and lost it.
How? By the election of Mr.. Hopkins?
This seems TO be tacit admission that
Mr.. Hopkins is reorganized IN Forsyth
as the champion Of county division. in
spite of his anti-election card and Whit
Longley's bluff.
Nov. 2Ith the Times is still exultant
but mysterious, as witness:
One more river TO cross" and Forsyth
has the boat.
The river" is county division and Mr..
Hopkins is presumably the boat. One
week later. everything has been gotten
in readiness for the uumasking of the
batteries; petitions have been sent out
a map of the proposed new county is In
course of preparation aud everything
seeems to be favorable for working the
film fam" and in Its issue of Dec /
the Times unblushingly announces the
county division scheme as it has existed
in Forsyth for months past. There
being no further need of concealment
the bunco-steerers own up to having lied
about the county division scheme and
now tur,4 around and by specious and
false statements endeavor to Job the
persons most interested. second time.
In .the belief that the average man
hates a liar, we have taken the pains to
cbronologically trace the utterances OF
the Forsyth organ OF the conspirators
and to place them before our readers 80
that their memories may be refreshed
as to the nature of the fight that the
Forsyth ring was conducting. Voters
on the Rosebud. and Yellowstone will
remember that Forsyth had 10 politics
in the late campaign; that anybody and
everybody was swapped for Hopkins
and that q m npueual effort uoa ,nada 20