The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-03-31
FILED HIS NOMINATION
j. M. Kennedy Declares Himself
Candidate for Police Judge.
SALE HAS WITHDRAWN
Last Remnant of the "Citizens'" Ticket
Disappears-Voters May Register on
Saturday - Look Over the
Registration Lists.

next Monday. One ticket doesn't con-
tain more names than one, but it is a
ticket nevertheless. and will be assigned
a column on the official ballot. This
+ ticket will he known as the ''independ-
cnt ticket" The name it will contain
is that of j. NJ. Kennedy, who is after
the office of police magistrate. Mr..
Kennedys nomination was filed last ev
enng in the office of the city clerk
What purpose J. NJ. Kennedy hopes
: to accomplish by this hopelessly incon-
sistent action is hard to understand.
Heretofore everybody thought that
Kennedy was a democrat-a loyal dem
ncrat. But now it appears that he isn't.
Kennedy has Jared we'll at the hands of
the democrats of Anaconda and of
Deer Lodge county. He has been hon.
ored by the party time and again, but
now he has proved himself a renegade,
political renegade who cares nothing
for party. nothing for principle, nothing
for that democracy which he has SO
often proclaimed. He wants office,
office, Office to the extent that he will
fly in the face of the action Of a demo-
cratic convention. where he was honor
ably defeated after square. honest
fight. The delegates at that convention
decided that Thomas D. Fitzgerald was
the best man for police magistrate.
Thirty-two of the "a delegates said that:
q said ]. NJ. Kennedy was the better
man for the place; one said neither this
way nor that way. Had j. NJ. Kennedy
been nominated by the convention. had
he received the 80 votes. how would I.
d. Fitzgerald stood by the nomination?
How but like a man, a true democrat.
honest fpn1nrr1t a wDn11
done that which was in his power to do
for J. NJ. Kennedy and the democratic
ticket. He would have given him that
support which every democrat gives to
his fellow democrat; he would have
worked hard for his election, he would
3 have sacrificed time and money to Sc
= cure the election of the democratic
{ ticket with J. NJ. Kennedy on it.
What does j. NJ, Kennedy do? He is
defeated in the convention for the nom
E nation. The ballbts cast for him We're
fewer in number than those cast for
Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald secured the
y nomination-it is a privilege every dem
Is ocrat has to so into a convention and
x seek a nomination.; none are barred
What does Kennedy do? Does he stand
by the democratic nomination? No. in
deed. he does not. He wants an office.
He sees that the republicans do not
place candidates in the field-al the
n more chance for him. He is after office.
to sheol with those principles of de-
Z mOcracy he has so often proclaimed.
Democracy is a word without meaning
to him, so long as there is chance for
Office
So it is that this renegade democrat
. goes before the people with his plea. if
his dastardly act may be dignitied by
that name: so it is that he asks for a
hearing from the taxpayers of Ana
conda. He who was fairly. squarely,
honorably beaten in a democratic con-
vention. turns his back upon his sue
cesstul opponent and asks democrats
y and fair minded citizens to support him
in his hopeless hunt for office. His ac-
ton in presenting his name to the peo-
pie for their suffrage has damned him
at the polls, and ostracised him from
the democratic party forever and for
ever
The name of Raymond Sale was
Withdrawn yesterday. Mr.. Sale was
nominated as the candidate for alder
man from the First ward on the "citi-
zens' ticket" which was filed for rec
ord couple of weeks ago with the city
clerk. Up to "Wednesday all of the nom
nations on the 'Citizens' ticket had
been withdrawn except that of Mr.
Sale, and his action of yesterday dis
poses of the whole of the citizens
movement.
L. - 4 htbsHti anu Lh' iFlll'tl aug td!i-
dldate Tor police magistrate, is an Off
Ger of whom the democratic party may
be proud. He has ever been staunch
and loyal democrat, an efficient judge
and loyal good fellow. His fun name
when you take the whole of it's
Thomas Declan Fitzgerald. He was
born in October. lSi9. in the county of
Waterford. Ireland, and he received a
splendid education in the old country.
He added to this education in America.
when he came here. which he did when
he was under the age of II Upon his
arrival in the United States he lived
in New York for a numebr of years
and came West in 1876 He made his
home in the Rocky Mountains from that
time on, and he is essentially a Western
man. He resided in Colorado and Mon
rana and ether mountain states and in
1884 he came to Anaconda Here he