The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-05-26
WHITE WINGED DOVE
A. P. A. Republicans Say They Have
One Now in Stock.
OVERTURES FOR HARMONY
A Meeting Called for Tonight at
Which Efforts WIN Be Made to
Reconcile the Hostile Fac
lions of the Party.

A meeting OF republicans has been
called for $ o'clock this evening at the
Office of County Clerk c. q. johnson in
the court house. The meeting is not "a
general one, but some of the old-time
republicans have been asked to meet
there and devise means to harmonic
the factions of the republicans. Every
one who attends must have an olive
branch in one hand and a dove i'm the
other.
This movement In the interests of
harmony is said to have originated
with the left wing" or A. l.. A fac
ton, Of the republican party. This
wing by secret manipulation managed
TO get ABOUT all the republicans nomi-
mated during the past two or three
years and holds about all the offices.
A year ago there was a division be-
tween the two factions and the left
and right wings have been drifting fur
Their and further apart ever since. A
year ago the A. l.. A. wing did not feel
the need of the other republicans and
won so easily without their assistance
as to make that faction look quite
ridiculous. The policy of the left wing
had been to ignore all republicans not
of their faction, to let none but A. u.
AS. hold office and to thus force the en-
tire party to Join their faction. This
policy went along well enough until the
left wing got knocked out at the re-
publican primaries recently held. This
lesson, together with the lesson of the
recent spring election, has shown the
left wing the Importance of harmony.
They have discovered that If they are
10 get the offices again next fall they
must coneiliate the other republican
voters, for their votes will be needed.
1t Is a lamentable fact, but a fact
nevertheless, that there has been a
good deal of bitter feeling between the
two factions of the party since the phi
maries, When the right wing finally
succeeded In controlling the convention
members of the left wing were heard
to remark that the right wing would
never succeed In electing a man to
office in this county and IL any of them
nan they would be knitted openly. Then
1T is claimed on the other hand that al
the recent municipal election legiti-
mate A. II. A. candidates were knitted
In scandalous and dastardly manner
by the right wing, or at least by in
dividual members of II. There is GER
tainly a crying need of harmony i'm the
republican ranks i'm this county. Har-
monY would I'LL long-felt want. There
is great danger that while the two
factions are knitting each other, demo-
Gratis will slip in and get some of the
offices.
Just how generally attended the re-
publican harmony meeting may be is
a matter of conjecture purely. Some
prominent republicans will not be there
and some will. Some will attend be-
cause they want harmony, while 9TH
srs will go out of curiosity to see on
what basis the offices are to be divid-
ed between the two wings. Some of the
leaders of the right wing think they
should have more than half the offices
because they showed greater strength
in the primaries and convention than
the left wing. They also want a writ.
ten guarantee, with good and reliable
sureties signed by the officers of the
A. L. A. under oath. that they will, I'm
case this agreement is entered into
and harmony attained. vote for all the
nominees OF the republican convention,
whether they Ie a. j.. As. or not; That
they will not vote for a democrat who
is an A. Il. A. In preference TO a re-
publican who is not and that they will
not knife a republican candidate who
chances to be an Irishman or a Catho-
lie, IL the A. y. A, wing OF the party
agrees to these things, 1t seems likely
that peace can be patched up. But as
the agreement to do these things is a
complete surrender of all the pTinci-
pies OF the order, IL seems improbable
that We will have peace.