The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-03-22
WEDNESDAY,, MARCH %, 1899.
TWELVE PAGES
No More Intolerance.
that I have IL

<<f ACKNOWLEDGE that I have the
misfortune of not having been
born in this country. but did not
Flinow that that was a requisite to run
for Office"
These were the words used by A. F.
Bray before the republican convention
; last Saturday when he withdrew his
name from the list of those which had
been placed in nomination for the office
of mayor of Butte. The circumstances
are we'll known. A large proportion of
the convention was favorable to Mr..
Bray as a candidate for the office of
mayor. Mr.. Bray's candidacy was con-
fronted by an oath-bound order which
had strong following in the conven-
tion. 1t was hoped that Butte had seen
the last of oath bound orders. 1t was
hoped that this matter had been for
ever disposed of in Butte politics. It
was hoped that the spirit Of intolerance
had been forever crushed. Yet as soon
as Mr.. Bray's name was mentioned for
the office of mayor a most persistent
opposition sprang up. On what
grounds? For no reason on earth ex-
cept that Mr.. Bray was born in England
instead of having been born in the
United States of America. The merits
of Mr.. Bray as a citizen and a man
were not discussed. Nothing was said
as to whether he would make a fit
mayor or not. 1t was declared that no
man born in any foreign country, how
have the support of the men who were
evidently in contol of the republican
party of Butte
Out upon such intolerance, It Is to be
regretted that reference must be made
to such a condition of things, but so
1ong as intolerance shows its head it
must be crushed. Mr.. Bray was born
On England and has become a good
American citizen, Yet the fact that he
was born in England initiated against
him and defeated him for the nOmina-
Hion for the reason that great num-
Der of the delegates in the convention
were bound by an oath to support no
pne for office who was not born within
the confines of the United States of
America. The same spirit controlled the
republican convention throughout, and
American citizens who CHANGED to be
born in England We're utterly ignored
Around Manila to-day American citi-
zens who were not born in America are
nisking their lives for America. Some
of them were born in England: some
We're born in Ireland; some were born
in Canada: some in Germany, some in
France and some in Sweden. They are
fighting for the United States. They
are risking their lives for the country
they have sworn to defend Several of
them have already shed their blood for
intolerant, narrow minded bigots. ig-
norant of the principles established by
the men who founded this republic,
form society and take oath that no
man shall hold office by the help of their
votes unless he was born in this coun-
dry.
The humblest and most ignored Fill
pino fighting, through his ignorance.
against the stars and stripes to-day is
a better American citizen than the man.
though born in this country. who will
bind himself by an oath to support NJ
American citizen who was not born
within the confines of the United
States. Yet that was the kind of Amer
icanism which controlled the republican
convention on Saturday.