Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1898-03-09
A DARK BROWN ROAST.
Breck Ornbaun Has q Little Something TO Say
About q Well known Character.

cuildr lines. Before, however, Mr.. |
Ornbaun can hope to take any prom |
inent part i'm this matter he will have
to explain how il was that he was a |
delegate to the last Republican |
county convention and. nominated |
X. Won Tobel to make the race for |
the Legislature on the st. Louis plat |
form. The people this year do not |
intend to permit any politician to |
mislead them and there is no use for |
anyone to aspire to leadership who |
does not intend to deal fairly and |
with the issues.
While realizing that to give space |
for reply thereto is cheating your |
out of much valuable |
reading, believe there are enough |
of your subscribers who are inter- |
ested in the matter and will thank |
you for the favor, to justify my pre-
The following is true and correct |
copy of a reply made to the Demo-
crat, which l hope he, too, will do
me the justice to publish in full as
written:
LEwIsTowN, Mont, Feb. Is, '9S.
Editor Democrat:-In your last
issue appears an article in which you
state that l am agitating the organi-
zation OF silver-Republicans ON some
what peculiar lines and that before /
can take any prominent part in the
matter l will have to explain how it
was that l, as a delegate to the last
Republican county convention, nCm-
mated X. Won Tobel to make the
race for the legislature on the st.
Louis platform. Very well, Mr..
Johns. Without aspiring in any
way to the leadership of OF connec-
tion with anything in which you are
identified or connected, if you will
kindly allow me space 1 will reply to
your article. First, allow me to say
know it is your malignant and in
satiable desire to malign and to keep
up a strife that fathers that article.
Therefore / will state your first ac-
cusation is false and without foun-
dation.
-Four men-Robert Jackson, John
Clancy, Frank Barnes and William
Culver-are the only men with whom
L have talked on this subject within
nine or ten months, and then only to
ask what was their idea of the best
course for the Silver-Republicans to
pursue, aside from the conversation
had with Mr.. Barnes. He asked me
what l thought of a compact being
formed by Democrats and Silver
Republicans. My answer was that
| thought the best course the Demo-
Gratis could pursue was to nominate
a ticket of straightforward business
men without listening to any sug-
gestions that you had to make; that
you had proven yourself in the past
to be, as u politician, one OF the most
INSCRIPTIONS and unworthy of rec
ognition that ever disgraced Gods
footstool; that the people would not
be identified with anything in which
you were the leader. This is the sum
and substance Of my part OF the con-
pttNtth -ii Dtii hts fhh'
myself What l said to Mr.. Clancy
it has been SO long ago l do not
remember but l will vouch for the
truth of what he says | said. To
Mr.. Jackson / said that whatever
course he thought best after talking
with the balance of our friends i was
satisfied with. To Mr.. Culver, also,
1 do not remember just what / said
but it was of minor Importance. 1t
has been four or five months at least
since l saw either Mr.. Clancy or Mr..
Jackson. Great agitation this is,
amt it? 1 have quit agitating. -
There is but one course left for
hose who believe in the time-h on
ored and immortalized principles OF
Republicanism, to pursue. That
course / will pursue regardless of the
course pursued by anyone else. No
self respecting Silver-Republican
could or would identity himself with
anything in which you were the
recognized leader, in the face of the
INSCRIPTIONS and malignant lies you
are editing against our honored and
politically immortalized leader.
| snow, sir, in your next sentence
you simply affirm a truth in one
stroke of your pen and lie the next
Pretty good for Mr.. Johns, isn't it:
You don't usually do SO well. i was
a delegate to- the convention. What
was 1 doing there? l was repre-
senting to the best of my ability the
wishes of those who sent me there.
| nominated Mr.. Won Tobel but not
on the st. Louis platform as you
well know. Mr.. Won Tobel is one OF
the few politicians who has never
told me anything that ] have not
found to be just as represented. Oh,
if could only say so much for I. j.
Johns? What an awful difference ii
would make at the present time. X
Won Tobel, at the close of the legis-
lature at which he was a representa-.
tive, had the name of being one oi
most energetic and conscientious
workers that honored the halls oi
the legislature at that session, and
no man can truthfully say from a
standpoint of political honor and in
tegrity that he was not equal, II not
superior, to either OF those nomi
mated in opposition to him the last
campaign.
Now, sir, you say, In concluding
your article, that there is no use foI
anyone (please notice the stress he
places on the word anyone in con
nection with the sentenceI to aspir,
to leadership who does not intend to
deal fairly and squarely with the is
sues.