The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-11-04
GREAT FALLS POLITICS
POPS Are Bent on Defeating the
DomocratRL
HESITATlNG At NOTHING
They Are Nsglecsang Thsir Own Ticket
Jenson Calls . Halt on Mud
elinging-votsrs surging
70 Democracy.

Great Falls, Nov. 3.-A peculiar Ca
ture, and one which will be readily re-
~cognised by the voters as marking this
campaign. IL the fact that while the
populists have q ticket Of their own
most Of the work performed by the
party has been directed toward the de-
feat OF the democratic candidates. and
but little attention has been given by
them to the popuiist men. Fol In
stance. yesterday evening Mrs. Has
keil gave up most of the time allotted
to e to the berating Of George II.
Stanton, democratic candidate for state
senator. Her speech on that score re-
minded the nearer ~unpleasantly OF GER
tain scenes connected with the nsh
market In large cities. When she
touched upon the republican candidate
for the same once she seemed unable
to find language suf1ciently laudatory
to express her admiration for his char
acter-he was only mistaken In his
views on the none question. For Jen-
sen she found that she could do no
more than to say that he was a plain
man. and ought to get the votes OF the
people. Sam Stevenson got never a
word, though he was sitting right be-
hind her, and Is q candidate for an
office on the silver republican ticket.
II may be that she thought he was
"hankering" for thu flesh pots OF
Egypt and his return to the republican
ranks was only a matter Of time. or IT
may be that his ma In his intro
duction of her-that she possessed IAN
intellect above the average of her sex"
ranked In her memory. At n rate
he got no word of kindness from her
lips.
such campaign tactics have been used.
At Neihart, at Belt. wherever a popu-
list rally has been held there has been
the same slogan, Vote for whomsoever
you please. provided II Is not a demo-
crat." Such expressions Of sentiment
! are hardly creditable to members OF n
party which processes a great love for
free coinage and they are as good cam
paixn material as the democrats ask.
They have been so violent. that II is
aid the populist candidate for state
senator, Mr.. Jensen, has become dis
gusted with II and has expressed his
desire that the mud-slinging at STAN
ton cease at once. Such methods.
coupled with other circumstances. have
a very suspicious appearance. A gen.
tleman In speaking Of the matter this
morning. and of one orator In particu-
lar, said, IF he Is not paid for these
speeches by the Clark-Carter gang he
is certainly doing the very thing he
would do IL he were paid" and that
seems a very fair statement OF the case.
In the meantime the democrats are
meeting with encouragement In the
very places where they least expected
any support. Precincts which In for
mer years nave given a strong repub-
lican majority. turn out en- masse TO
hear democratic orators and afterwards
express their intentions without equiv
ocation. Little Chicago and Little Mil
waukee. which have always been over
whelmingly republican. and which two
years ago gave Mckinley a magnificent
vote. welcome democratic ideas this
year In a manner which Is not to be
mistaken. Many republicans who have
formerly chung to their ticket without
a break are quietly saying they are GO
ing to vote the legislative ticket OF the
democrats. and they are sincere beyond
a doubt.