Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-06-07
MON7AKA'S GOOD NAME.

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Rising above all questions of a national
character is the duty of the citizens Of
Montana to protect the good am OF
the state. Little benefit can be reaped
from any national policy that might
seem to favor our local interests, unless
we are prepared to make this an inviting
locality for the home-seeker and the
home-builder. This state annot become
great and powerful and influential on
foreign capital alone. The development
of its with one imported
from abroad will not alone build up all
those magnificent forces of citizenship
that stand for power in the life work of
a progressive community.
Montana must nave men-sun-crowned
men-men Of loyalty, of energy, of per-
sonal worth and character-men whose
Individuality stands for progress and
whose future will be identified with the
growth and prosperity Of the state. Mon
tana has many such men, but more are
needed. To add such men to the popula-
ton of this commonwealth, the voters of
this state must make it their first duty
to purge it of political dishonor and pro-
tect it's reputation from the vicious
agencies that have done SO much in the
past to impair it's reputation and be-
smirch its good name.
Exemplifying the ancient fable Of the
pot and the kettle. which told the truth
when they called each other black. the
two wings Of the democratic party i'll
this state have by mutual charges and
counter-charges Of political corruption
blackened the name of Montana abroad,
until many desirable home-seekers are
deferred from taking up their permanent
abode in q self-adyertised "rotten
borough of mercenary and dishonest
lawmakers. 1t cannot be denied that
Montana has suffered irreparably as the
result of democratic ~ascendancy in this
state.
Some years g it was understood tina
both wings of that party contributed
literally to the legislative scandals of the
day, and a great deal of prejudice against
this state was created in prominent
circles in the east, which took on the
form of political and financial opposition
to our Industrial interests. Had this fact
been fully appreciated by the voters of
Montana. the democracy would not have
been permitted to finally secure control
of the legislative and administrative
branches of the state government, not
withstanding the special pleas of friend
ship for silver fraudulently put forth by
that political organization.
With greater power to inflict injury
upon the state that power was exercised
and the spectacle which the sixth legis-
last winter will never fade from the
memory of man. Elected chiefly through
bribery and coercion and fraud, it was
true to the hereditary instincts of its
birth and its record was one long unin-
terrupted scandal. In every nook and
corner of this great republic the affairs
of Montana We're discussed with derision
n Scorn. Men who had criticised
Cleveland severely for presuming to re-
fer to any sovereign state as IA rotten
borough" applauded the ~saeacity and
foresight of the sage of Buzzard's bay.
This state suffered q loss of respect
and confidence that can only be regained
by Furnishing those guilty of making its
disgrace a possibility, and placing in con-
troll of its public affairs men who are not
welded to democracy and its methods.
TO accomplish this end is a higher duty
resting upon the loyal citizens of this
state than fidelity to any question of
national concern. for ii involves the vel
fare and prosperity Of the commonwealth
and is of first Importance to it's future
growth.
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