The Philipsburg mail. [volume] (Philipsburg, Mont.) 1887-current, 1896-10-16
TACTICS OF SLIGH MEN
Expect Election Through Ignorance o
the People.
SHARP TRICKS RESORTED TO.
A Correspondent Shows to What
Depths They Will Stoop in Order
to Gain Point.

of all candidates for Office properly be-
fore the people in the simplest and
best manner, and like all laws its ben
Efficient intent can be abused by design
ing, unscrupulous persons, which will
be illustrated later in this article.
Usually the name of candidate ap-
pears only once on the official ballot,
as where the person is nominated by
the required number of qualified cleo
tors or regular nomination of a con-
vention some times twice or even le
ultimately three times as where one
person is regularly nominated by two or
three political organizations in their
several conventions for the same office.
The varous tickets so nominated are
arbitrarily arranged by the require
ments of this ballot law under the dis
tinctive names of the political organi-
cations in which they were nominated,
or where there was no regular nomi-
nation OF q candidate by an organized
convention then the ticket is arranged
under whatt head the re- ired num-
Der OF electo.s who signed the candl-
dates petition might desire, subject
always to the rule of First come first
seryoa,' as a distinctive head cannot
be used but for one list Of candidates
for the same offices. Now six of the
tickets to be voted in Granite county
on No nber 3, 1896. will commence
with the names Of the presidential
electors, two of them will not (for rea-
sons below explained), OF eight col
umns in all. The six tickets above
mentioned will be the republican
ticket, headed by Mckinley electors ;
the second the "silver republican
ticket, headed by Bryan electors the
third will be the democratic ticket,
also headed by Bryan electors the
fourth will be the ''popuiist" ticket,
also headed by Bryan electors the fifth
will be the prohibition ticket,
headed by electors for the prohibition
nominees for president and vice presi-
dent, and the sixth will be the ''citi-
zens silver ticket, headed by Bryan
electors the Bryan silver republicans
and the independent silver party
tickets (making eight in ALL will not
appear under any state and national
ticket. There will be four tickets for
officers of Ganite county Gall for the
same candidates) under the national
and state ticket, viz. !: What is known
as the "Sligh ticket will be under the
state democratic, pop,.list, silver re-
pulbicans, and citizens silver tickets,
respectively. No ticket for the county
will appear under the national and
state tickets of the regular republican
and prohibition parties The regular
republican party in this county being of
such low esteem that even DR.. Sigh
and James K. Pardee (who will ordi-
narily take anything) would not take
the chances of being blighted by its
benign influences and as for the pro-
hibition tick let they were Of course not
morally qualified to undertake dry
camraigr. Now under two of these
state tickets the "Sligh ticket has a
right to be, namely: The "demo-
cratic and "populist' tickets and it
is not their intent Of the law that they
should be under any other, as they
claim to be regularly nominated by
these two parties in Granite county.
Now, why is it that they also appear
as "silver republicans and as ''citi-
zens' silver candidates? l will tell
the voters of this county the reason
and "therein lies tale - The silver
republican ticket was put on the Off
| cial ballot by that portion of the regu-
lar republican state convention that
''bOlted' their convention for the pur-
poses of nominating Bryan electors and
Chas S. Hartman for congress. OF
the delegates who named these Bryan
electors and Mr.. Hartman all of the
delegates of Granite county in the re-
publican state convention were con-
spicuously present and assisted in their
nomination, as not a one of them
would assist or tolerate the nomina-
tion of Mckinley electors Or guldbug
congressman. Now these Granite dele
gates were the ones selected by the re-
publican convention of this county
The same convention that named these
delegates to the state convention from
Granite county met in Philipsburg on
the goth of September, fused with the
Independent silver party Of Granite
county and named as their choice for
county offices the ticket headed by
Duncan Dingwall. Now as the rep
resentatives of this convention at an
earlier date in the month assisted the
patriotic republicans who were for free
silver to give birth and name to the
silver republican ticket surely the
names of their candidates should ap.
pear under this state heading. But
such is not the case and why? Well,
my friends, it was because by species
of political petit larceny the name was
stolen from them by the "Sligh"
nominees, who, not contented with be-
ing the regular nominees of the demo-
crat and populist parties of this county
had themselves petitioned in under
this head-not as regular nominees but
as independents. This larceny was
committed before the regular silver re-
publican convention of this county CON
vened and their ticket named, conse-
quently their nominees are forced to
appear on the ballot as the "Bryan Sill
yer Republicans, under no. state head.
| Now one would think that this filch-
| ing would have satisfied even the