Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-03-29
VIEWS OF A
DEMOCRAT
Dishes Up Some Real Hot Facts
in Connection
WITH. THE So CALLEDPAR
ObJects to Being Played For a Sucker
By the Organ of the
Gang.

one democrat in Butte has at last dis
covered that he is no longer a recog-
nized factor in the party of his adoption.
Having been born in the south. he i'm
bibed the principles of democracy early
in life and stuck to them through thick
and thin, victory and defeat; or, rather,
they stuck to him. Lately, however, he
has come to the conclusion that the
democrats of Butte and Silver Bow
county are different from those with
whom he trained in his native state and
has decided to drop out of their ranks.
Being asked by an Inter Mountain re-
porter to give a reason for his change of
heart, he said:
This is rather a peculiar situation in
which to place me, but nevertheless I
shall tell you just why 1 quit the party
in this city and county. In the first
place | was born and raised in a town in
which republicans and democrats were
almost equally divided Notwithstanding
the fact that it was considered a south
ern town. Political contests We're con-
Quoted in an honorable manner and
every man in our party whose qualifica-
tons entitled him to recognition in a
convention was somebody. Here the
prevailing conditions are different. For
a long time l yelled and Whooped for
democracy and considered everybody a
chuInp that did not think as l did. 1
thought they needed a guardian, but
within the last two years l have given
the matter deeper consideration and ar
rived at the conclusion that it is the real
democrats who need the guardian. Say,
the real democrats of this city and coun-
ty stan no more show of being recog-
nized in the distribution of offices than
they do of winning a victory in the
strongest republican precinct in the
United States. AS an illustration I will
| say that last fall a few of them were
foolish enough to go into the so-called
democratic county convention and ask
to be nominated as candidates for Off
cial positions within the gift of the peo-
Pile. They were told by their friends be-
forehand of the utter idiocy of such a
move, but they had not reasoned with
themselves-the principles of Jeffer-
sonian democracy had become so deeply
Embedded in their minds that to. them
everything bearing the name illumined
their souls. and intoxicated them with
the belief hat only through faith in the
teachings of the party could the uni
verse be kept intact. Among them were
my old friend, Daniel Yancey, than
whom no better real democrat ever
lived: my other old friend, Thomas E.
Booth, and another old friend, ]. K.
Quarles. Yancey sought the nomination
for county attorney and Booth and
Quarles desired a similar recognition in
the contest for county clerk and record
err. All We're competent to handle the
affairs of the places they sought. They
had for years worked for the success of
the party. Well, as l said. they went
into the convention and what did they
get? They got it right in the neck and
that is Just where all us real democrats
will get it until we turn down the gang
that calls itself democratic and give its
members to understand they are not the
only pebbles on the beach.
.In the make up of delegates to these
conventions what do we find? Take 6