The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-25

upon the repubI1canS OF this state that
they had no voice in the matter, and
by that notice they said to them that
they should keep their hands off. The
republican party, though having a
minority in this body, has a duty to
perform. Republican members have
responsibilities resting upon their
shoulders; they have a trust reposed
in their hands that should be as sacred
to them as their personal honor; and
the fact that the democratic PARTY in
this house is rent in twain by personal
feuds or by sectional strife does not
lessen that obligation nor relieve them
of that responsibility, neither does it
absolve from the pledges made to their
constituents previous to the election.
"They will be held to strict ac-
countability by their constituents for
their actions in this body, and what
ever may be the verdict in the end, If
they have allowed themselves to be
swerved hairs breadth from their
line Of duty as they are passing
through the fiery ordeaIs of this con-
test they will be branded as dishon-
ored and will be political outcasts as
well as social outcasts i'm the future.
(Cries Of Good, good" Great ap-
plause).
when we chose and voted for the
election of the city of Helena as the
capital of our great commonwealth We
fondly hoped that we would be able
to point to it with pride as the place
and pure laws 1t was the place we
supposed that we could send men who
had been honored and who had the
confidence of their constituents to
crystalize into the law the will of the
people, but no sooner has the sixth leg
islative assembly been convened than
it seems to have been necessary to con-
vene grand jury. c"Right, right you
are!' Great applause). The members of
this assembly had hardly become To-
Gated in this city until they We're SLAM
dered by the libel that they have be-
come so many parcels of merchandise
and subject to the price of the highest
action.
Legacy Dishonor.
"We have. az 1 H,ablicans come here
to represent en- sIrSconstituents and If
we would heed the advice that is
given by the so called 90 per cent. of
the republicans in this vicinity, we
would not only call upon our families
the shadow of dishonor, but we would
leave legacy of shame to our chill
dren.
(Applause).
THE men who have set themselves
up as the leading business men of this
city who would be supposed to give
advice along the line of honor and in
tegrity, have gone so far as to say that
the republican contingency Of this house
should throw honor to the winds, tram
pie under their feet their personal in
tegrfty, be traitors to their party in
order that one man might climb to the
United States senate by reason of
(Cries of Good, good!' Great ap-
plause).
Il love my adopted state: I have
confidence in her people,. I have faith
that time will come when this era
of corruption, of bribery and debauch-
cry will be forever swept from the state
of Montana. (Great applause). I re-
aize the effect of following the advice
of the so-called business men; realize
that they know that if they could
sweep the republican members of this
body into the vortex of this political
struggle they, in the process, would
be ground to powder and would call
down upon themselves political and So
cial degradation; but 1 still have faith
that the republican contingency of this
house will remain true to their con-
stituents; true to the honor and integ-
rity of the great commonwealth of Mon
tana.
IF we are to judge by thoawords or
claims and counter claims that have
been banded from mouth to mouth in
the hotel corridors and upon the streets,
the Is members of the republican party
in this body have been looked upon as
so many pieces of clay, to be fashioned
into shape and voted the will of some
political broker; but, gentlemen, want
to say to you that when the end of
this contest has been reached
the Is members will be found as Is
blocks of granite, bearing aloft the
platform of the republican party
cBully, bully" Great applause), upon
which rests the eternal princpleS- of
republicansm, and from its flag staff
shall float the proud banner of the re-
publican party as spotless and 'unsul-
lied as when our constituents gave it
unto our keeping.
Mr.. President, I desire to cast my
vote for Cornelius Hedges" (Great ap-
plause. A voice, Thank God'D
The vote for senator to-day was as
follows:
clark IS
conrad ..... --........ 81
MaSlnnlS .-.... .......-..
foN ...............
Total .. 49,. ............9S 9S
Necessary for a choice ..............47