The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-10-29

bad third.
Kinds admits that he will get no re-
publican votes TO amount to anything.
u he Is counting on getting some
democratic votes. together with a solid
| populist vote. In both these expecta-
tions he will be disappointed. Why
should any democrat vote for Tom
! Kinds or Tom Kilgalion. or any other
renegade from the party? These men
have made their bed with the republi-
cans and let them get their votes from
the republicans. They have declared
| open warfare on the democratic party:
they are allied with the avowed enemies
| OF democracy, and they can expect no
democratic votes. Let them get their
votes from their new friends. Tom
| Kinds will also be disappointed in his
expectation Of receiving the solid popu-
list vote. Those popuiists who are pop
ulists for principle and not for pelf
know who IL was that sold out their
party for his own selfish end They
know that Tom Kinds has no more use
for a populist than he has for Bill
Thompson. except for the votes he can
get from them. They know that he was
all ready { declare himself a democrat
IL he could only get the democratic
nomination for county The
populists who are not in the middle of
the barrel know well that Kinds offered
to betray his party to the democrats IL
- -.~..rl ~ -ao,aS m thA Aapnncratio
ticket. But the democrats refused to
accept him under those terms n told
him that proselytes to democracy must
serve an apprenticeship for a few years
before they can expect TO grab the best
office in sight. Tom Kinds wanted a
nomination and when the democrats
would not give It to him he betrayed his
populist party to h republicans and to
the goldbug democrats. There Is a
man Of principle for you! He would
run on any party. on any platform.
agree to any principle or creed IL he
could only get his nomination. So he
entered the coalition. not because he
particularly loved IL. but because his
own ACKNOWLEDGMENT was first of all.
He entered the combine and in one week
he was betraying his republican allies.
He was going from place to place. from
saloon to saloon. from street corner to
street corner. declaring that he was as
good a democrat rs anybody; that he
had no more use for Thompson h
for an orange dog; that he did not in
tend to vote for a single republican.
The republicans got onto Kinds and the
popullsts are onto him. Clark is a
great corrupter and purchaser of par
ties. but Tom Kinds can match him IN
betrayhg parties.
Speaking of Tom Kilgallon. II is too
bad about him. Talk about your boss
ism and your terrorism! Tom Kilgallon
is a man who. so far as known. has
been a consistent democrat all his life
up to this year. He prided himself on
his democracy and used TO boast that
no matter what happened he would
never betray democracy. Even after
the democratic primaries and the demo-
cratic convention he stin declared his
allegiance to the party. for he said that
he regarded principle as higher than
any nomination he might desire. Two
days before he accepted the populist
nomination he made the same declara-
ton. But he was commanded to accept
the nomination for state senator on the
populist ticket. Nobody knows what
protests he made. but he had to obey
a C~.Alr.. ..a xr a.
his W desires and %inclinations. he for
sook his party and was compelled to
| make a speech Of acceptance of the
nomination. All Kilgallon's friends
knew that he did not do IL willingly:
all knew that II was a case OF force.
But all regretted 1t. In his speech of
acceptance he declared that he was in
the race to stay: that he accepted the
nomination for state senator and would
fight for his election until the polls
closed. Three or four days later Tom
Kilgallon was subjected to further hui
initiation. The fusion had been perfect
ed and either he or Thompson had TO
get out OF the race for state senator.
Thompson would not quit and Clark
couldn't make him quit. But he could
make Kilgalion pun of. and he did so,
He made Kilgallon decline the nomi-
nation for state senator which he had
compelled him to accept, N then
compelled him to accept a nomination
for representative.
That is bossism for you. And tbs
worst OF IL is. Kilgallon was not. lik
some others. granted consolation from
the bunghoie of Clark's barrel.
Yesterday the word was passed
around in the Butte Reduction Work,
that the employees Of that smelter Nigh
hereafter trade at any grocery stor'
they pleased. II seems that at the tim
that W. A. Clark & BbL. finally gath
cred In old John Caplice's grocery store