Great Falls weekly tribune., 1896-09-25
[ SLANDER IS DENOUNCED
mos Donovan Denies the SlanderOus
Charges Made Against His
Motives.
Will Give the Fusion His Hearty
SuppOrt-Pertinent Advice to
the Leader.

lanes Donovan Saturday called at
HE TRIBUNE Office, to call attention to
ftain lying statements printed in the
|ening paper concerning himself. In
cir frantic fear over the prospect Of
sing the official pap, on which they have
long fattened, the Leader has been
bing to prejudice the public against
IRE b. Leslie and the ticket which he
bads, and incidentally make a number
false statements concerning Mr.. Don
an's acts and motives. MIR. Donovan
eats these assertions in vigorous style
e. said:
The statements made in the Leader
the effect that l refused to resign the
opulist nomination for judge unless |
as allowed to name the county attor-
ey on the fusion ticket, and that | was
b i'll terms with H. II. Ewing, the popu
st nominee for that place, are unquai-
edly false. | had nothing to do with
Naming the county attorney and am not
kor never have been on i'll terms with
Dir. Ewing, but, on the contrary, have
lways been friend of his, Two years
igo nominated him for that position in
he populist convention. | favored his
candidacy for the same position this
tear long before the convention met |
klso favored the nomination of NJ NJ.
tyter for Judge. When Mr., Lyter re-
bred from the contest for the judgeship
tere Leslie was then perfectly satisfac
ory to me. l resigned the nomination
3or the iudgeship for the best interests
bf my party, deferring to the wisdom
Ind judgment of the leading men OF
!hy own party as well IA that
III the democrats. | Was not
u candidate for the judgeship when
Dominated, and have not been 4 candl-
Bate for any Office, except that OF attor-
hey general, provided that office had
comc to the populist party in the fusion
At Helena and Missoula. My resigna-
hon was given without any strings
Whatever. | delayed delivering it until
Buch time as / could consult the wisdom
bf the party, and being satisfied that
The committees intended to deal fairly
Eith each other and with all, handed them
Gy resignation, In doing so | was also
lrompted to certain extent by the be.
lief that unless | did SO there would be
no fusion, and / did not want to take
Fthe responsibility of preventing or laying
'any difficulties in the way of fusion
Mr.. Ewing or any other candidate who
was left off the ticket has no ground OF
complaint against my action. / would
have been only too glad to have assisted
in Mr.. Ewing's election had he been
selected by the committees. l shall
now support the whole ticket with all
vigor and energy possess, and will show
the Leader that | am no disgruntled
politician. want to say further that
had the two conventions met and con.
tinued in session for week they could
not have made a better selection of can
didates. Mr. Leslie will make an ideal
judge, and Mr.. Lyter will make a county
attorney that every citizen in the county
may we'll be proud of. These articles
in the Leader are written solely for the
purpose Of impugning the motives of
honest men and to falsely represent the
fusion party before the public. | would
suggest to the Leader that it could bet
ter spend it's time discussing the plat
form that it's party adopted at the late
county convention, and which compre.
hensively expresses the principles for
which it's candidates stand.