The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-11-07
Pat Points in
Passing Politics

IL as a nominee for coroner! How does
the Miner explain the presence OF Mr..
Julien on the ticket IL the ticket is a
hill" ticket? The ticket Is a demo-
cratic ticket. 1t represents democracy
on It Is pledged to anything or any,
body. There is not a business man in
Butte who is working openly. at any
rate. for the Clark ticket. There is not
a prominent democrat In Butte who Is
for the Clark ticket. The democratic
ticket is supported by the democrats to
a man and by the silver men generally.
Your vote nay be the means Of elect
ing a goldbug to congress from Mon
tana. II o take your vote away from
Campbell and give II to Hogan you can
not possibly elect Hogan and you can
elect Marshall. Seven Of the legislative
candidates on the fusion ticket are
avowed goldbugs. They are Carter
men. No true silver man can vote for
them.
Somebody has been forging Boyce's
name all right and members OF IN
liners union are working hard to dis
cover who is the guilty party. The
Standard told yesterday about the
forged dispatches which had been sent
from Butte to miners unions in vari-
ous parts Of the state instructing them
to vote for Hogan. They were signed
with the name Of Edward Boyce. presi-
dent Of the Western Federation Of Min
ers. Boyce is in idaho and has not
been in Butte in months. He doesn't
live in Butte. Yet the dispatches were
sent from Butte. Some of the miners
believe that James Maher sent the dis
patches. Mr.. Maher denies 1t in the
following:
II wish to deny the statement which
appeared in yesterday mornings STAN
dard that I have signed Mr.. Boyce's
name to a telegram. a A. telegram is
said to be a forgery. but / did not send
It,"
The question is. who is the forger?
The Miners union is going to find out.
The check books and t books Of
the republican central committee were
CtoNh TIiudg hlSnt. oNtut murphy II
suspected OF the theft, as he wanted to
find out IL IL were true that the repub-
licans are getting more of Clark's stun
than the populists. as has been limited
on the street. Ii has been the opinion
that the republicans get SO per dag,
while populists only get s.. Whether
Swede Murphy stole the books or not.
II is but fair to say that he is not the
man who brought the stub book into
the Standard Office last evening. The
stub book shows a lot OF things. 1t
shows that four leading men of the late
republican convention received $500
each for selling out their party to Clark
n getting the party to fuse with
Clark's barrel. One more got $500 for
the same work. He was a little higher
priced. The Standard has the names
of these five men and 1t has the stubs to
show for it. That explains how that
mongrel ticket was produced. and IL
Swede Murphy could only swipe the
stub books of the populists, the whole
secret of the purity in politics could be
told.
The stubs also show that a large
number of gentlemen in this commu-
nifty received $50 per day each for work
ing up sentiment in favor of purity"
Among the papers is an order from the
chairman OF the republican committee,
Malcolm ellis. instructing all those
having bills against the committee not
to itemize them. OF course not. What
would be the sense in running a cam
paign for Clark IL the bills were item
lied? You can't get close TO a barrel
way. The speakers only got IS a
shift except Lee. who received $3.50 for
his work When the Standard exposed
this evident injustice the rest Of IN
speakers went on a strike. and conse-
quently there have been no meetings
since Lee left town.
The stubs further show that one man
received $500 for 10 days work among
the labor unions. He is a distinguished
labor leader and he did good work. He
worked the unions as he claimed
money for IL, and we have the stubs
to show for It. However. his work has
been neutralized much by h fact that
many of the union men la got on to
the fact that. like the republican party.
they were put on the block and knocked
down at auction to the man who wants
to be senator.
There is a split In the republican central
committee. caused by the declaration Of
the A. p. A. members of the committee
that they would not support any %populists
on the tickle for office. The others were
I'm favor of supporting the entire ticket
for ''purity's' sake. The A. p. As. how
ever. ruled the roost. and have the exec
utive committee. which is a close corpora
ton and is doing all the work. One-half
OF the central committee is totally ig-
nored. and as a consequence there has
been no meeting OF the committee held
IN the last two calls In the Mint saloon