Great Falls weekly tribune., 1896-10-23
KNOCK ED OUT.
Montana Supreme Court Decides Against
Alleged Silver Republican
County Tickets.

Alleged Silver Republican
County Tickets.
Special to The Tribune.
HELENA, Oct. 22.-The silver republic
ans Jared lilly at the hands of the su-
preme court this afternoon, when the
decisions we're rendered in the several
ballot cases pending.
In the Lewis and Clarke case the court
made permanent injunction restrain
ing the county clerk from printing the
silver republican nominees on the Off
cial ballot. The court holds that the
candidates we're nominated simply by a
political club and not convention rep-
resenting the silver republicans of the
county. No primaries we're held, no call
for a convention issued. ITO construe
the proceedings of this club as conven-
tion is contrary to all ideas of political
conventions among the American peo-
pie" says the court. "The silver repub-
lican party, it was stated in evidence,
was a wing of the republican party. II
it were wing it naturally inherited the
political practices Of the republican par
ty. No one pretends that the republican
party had any such usages or customs or
ever had convention in any such man
ner as this"
The court disposes of the idea that
Hartman's nomination is subject to the
question, as follows: "Facts in regard to
the state convention we're introduced in
evidence. But without discussing them
at any length at this time, will leave
them with the remark that the facts in
regard to the state convention are very
widely distinguished from the proceed
ings of the assemblage which nominated
the persons under consideration" The
court knocks the citizens party ticket
higher than a kite by making the re-
straining order against johnson perma-
nent and ordering the attorney general
to notify all county clerks to omit it
from the ballot "The whole history of
the party covered one short evening""
says the opinion. 1T originated one
minute, convened as county convention
the next, convened as state convention
the next, then promulgated its principles
and adjourned. We doubt if political
history records the undertaking of an
other so fast work as this in 80 brief q
time.'
The court declined to interfere in the
squabble between the auditorium and
Caplice hall factions Of Silver Bow, cit
ing among other reason, that "the ques-
ton is simply one of rival factions with
in ranks OF regularly elected delegates.
Such contention, under all the facts of
the case, it is we'll to leave to the cleo.
tors to determine. They cannot be mis-.
led because the names of the two fac.
tions should appear under different
heads in the ballot and each faction will
appear but once" Injunctions against
Theo Brantley's name appearing on the
silver republican ticket for Judge of the
Third district is made perpetual, for
practically the same reason as the late
case OF Woody VS.. Rotwitt.
The case Of Mclaughlin vs.. Bailey,
from Missoula county, also resulted in a
perpetual injunction against the silver
republican ticket. DR.. Slighs Injunction
against the faction of the silver repub-
lican party of Granite. county, was not
acted on because the proceedings were
instituted too late for the court to care
fully pass on the matter. The official
ballot must be printed and advertised
tomorrow, otherwise the case would have
been heard.