The Philipsburg mail. [volume] (Philipsburg, Mont.) 1887-current, 1896-09-25

Duffy occupied the floor eight or ten
times during the discussion and said
that it was unfortunate for the popu-
lists to con slider themselves as COM
PEELED to select Sigh, q corporation
tool, to head their ticket. He COM
pared Sigh with everything that was
mean and despicable and said that he
would rather put up a straight popu
list ticket and be defeated at the polls
than have the ticket contemplated
elected with the name Of Sigh at the
head of it, He called upon all good
and honorable poDulists to vote against
prostituting the cause Of populism to
such base purpose.
Thomas China here entered the con-
vention, read over the conference re-
port and opposed the programme with
ali the ardor Of his soul. He spoke of
the strength of the populist party two
years ago and said that they greatly
! Outnulntcred the democrats. He said
that the populists held one-third Of the
votes Of the county, and perhaps more,
and that they We're to get the offices
OF representative and coroner or some
thing like it. He remarked that the
so-styled silver () republicans who
| had met at the court house counted for
nothing outside Of their own few
votes. He asked 'Where is the rank
and file of their following? They
haven't any outside of themselves.
And they wanted the populists to give
up all the offices to them, and especi
ally state senator, because Sllgh
wanted it! He would fight it to Il
finish.
Harry Lewney jumped to his feet u
dozen times and told the conyention
what he thought Of Sigh He twitted
t le Sigh advocates with working for
! the corporations against pOpuliStlc
| principles and intimated that a num-
ber of the delegates had sold thir hon
OF and had come from some Of the
mines to work for s'ligh in the interest
Of some of the corporations, simply
because they might mold tleir jobs.
| Ee thanked God that he was a free
citizen and WAS under no corporation $
thumb. He was II populist and was
not going to knuckle down to the nom
ination OF MAN Of the character Of
Sigh for the sake of holding ii JOB.
| He wanted to see q straight pOpullst
ticket up, opposed to corporation inter
ference and he would support it.
Mr.. Weigenstein here arose and said
|
him. That he was free to do ald to
act as he chose.
Things got pretty hot here and the
chairman was accused of being dlshOn
est in his rulings inasuuch as his de-
cisiOns were at variance with one an
other That officer managed to keep il
fairly cool head, though he remarked
once that he thought he would have
to get gun in order to keep order.
The roll call of delegates voting on
the resolution was pc 'eeding and got
down to Granite when fire broke out
III a new place. The anti-Sligh fac
ton wanted Anderson seated to fill Il
vacancy and the Sligh men wanted
Kelleher. A big fight ensucd over the
question and the Sigh matter was
gone over with again, and the way he
was "roasted'' and condemned by
those who opposed him showed very
close acquaintanceship with the object
of their wrath.
Kelleher was finally seated and the
vote proceeded with the result of carry
ing the anui-Sligh motion by II to TO-
Then the report prepared by the sec
retary of the "rump' republican con
vention was presented which gave the
action of that branch of Sligh's work.
The report was read and was supposed
to get the Endorsement OF the populists.
A motion was made and carried that
it be rejected. The vote was about
the same as that given above.
At this juncture Mr.. China was called
out and returned and said that he saw
no better way out of the difficulty
other than to swallow the Sigh pill,
bitter as it was. He made a motion
reconsidering the motion to adopt the
conference report which had been car
ried minus the Sigh Endorsement.
Mr.. Lewney got pretty warm here
and the old Sigh fight broke out
afresh. He remarked that Mr.. China
had suddenly changed his attitude at
ter being called out Mr.. Lewney said
that he had talked with hundreds OF
populists and workingmen all over the
county and said he had the first one tC
find who would vote for Sligh. They
wanted man in sympathy with the
people and not the corporations. He
said he would 'bolt' the convention
if Sigh was indorsed.
Mr.. Duffy got up here and declared
that he would do the same before he
would take any part in such disrepu
table proceedings.
A dozen voices in the room ex-
claimed: "And SO will 10
At any rate Gilna's motion carried
and dozen delegates took their de.
parture and held conventions of their
own on the street corners. Among the
number were Harry Lewney, Jimmy
Duffy, Ernest Firchau, Fred Kramer,
Mr.. Crabb and others.
After their departure Mr.. China was
elected to fill the position of the "bolt
ing" secretary, Mr.. Duffy, and
speeches were made by Messrs. Hun.
ter, Weigenstein, Long, Glen, and
most all the delegates, in which they
remarked that it was a terrible dose tC
swallow Sigh; that it went against
their principle to do SO. However,
they thought it was better to do sc
than to put up separate ticket, as
they might elect their two representa-
tives without caring very much
whether Sigh was elected Or not.
The fight ended when the "bolt'
took place and they nominated the fol.
lowing ticket:
Representatives, Israel Glenn and
Thomas China.
County Commissioner, D. w. Hen