Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-10-16
STANDARD OIL BuGABOO.

STANDARD OIL BuGABoo.
I'VE do not want a Standard Oil hired
man as governor of this state. We do
mot want Standard Oil hired men sitting
as judges in the courts of this state!'
shouts a democratic newspaper @
Neither does any good citizen of Nom
tana. 1t would be a great calamityyto
nave Standard Oil hired men in public
Office in Montana. The Inter Mountain
would strenuously oppose the election OF
any u men. 1t pledges itself here
and now to o to the people OF
Montana any candidate on the repub-
lican state ticket who is to the slightest
degree tainted with the Standard Oil
smell, or is under any obligation to any
Standard Oil owner. or is even a SYM
pathizer with the STANDARD Oil influence
anywhere in this or who Is not
opposed to the exercise of Standard Oil
influence, or that of any other por
ton in any department of county or
state affairs in this commonwealth.
The republican ticket. with David Z.
Folsom at its head, is as free from that
influence as it is from tina of the New
York Ice Thust or the Round Cotton
Bale Trust, and we distinctly challenge
and defy any man or any newspaper to
prove the contrary.
This idea of ringing the Standard Oil
issue into Montana politics is as ridicu-
lous and far-fetched as would be the
ringing in of the Southern Pacific
Monopoly, or the Anthracite Coal Trust,
or the American Tobacco Trust.
1t is a big %bugaboo, a man of straw,
set UP to be knocked down, a bogie. 1t
can not be used to frighten the people
of Montana. They have eyes to see and
brains to understand. They know that
the men on the republican ticket are as
independent of the Standard Oil Trust
as were the original Twelve Apostles of
the lowly Nazarene. The Standard Oil
people have a monopoly. 1t was in ex-
istence when the democracy was in
power and Bryan was in congress-; also
when Joe Toole was in congress. What
did they do about it? Nothing. Two
antitrust bills We're introduced at that
time and were referred to a committee
of which Bryan was chairman. They
We're never heard of again. They We're
pigeon-holed by Bryan. Yet he is now
after all the trusts, and Joe Toole has
to drag the Standard Oil Trust all the
way across the continent to make an
issue of it in Montana and charges the
ran,,h1ioanc ne 4hic rtato with hoioo IFS
champion and defender. 1t is the only
argument the democrats dare present
this year and it is based on nothing.
Here is what David E. Folsom said at
Anaconda last Saturday in defining his
position and repudiating the foul lie in
circulation against him:
I enter this campaign with no entag-
ling alliances. 1 have made no promises
to any one; the only one I a to make
is, that if elected, l ropos to give this
state a straight, business-like admins
I will treat all people alike, no matter
who they are, or what they are; whether
be republicans, democrats, popu-
lists, b party men or anything else,N
and every one who comes to visit the ex-'i
ecutive Office in Helena shall receive "a
cOrdial Ayelcona Mas
Law and order shall be maintained
in the interests of all who are entitled to-
the protection of the state. l will MANI
tain them in order that capital may
here to develop our latent re-
Large business enterprises and
corporations are generally able to take
care of themselves. 1t is the weak and
the poor who need the protection of the
executive, n they will get it. The la
boring men must be protected by the
strong arm of the law, (Great applause).
l can sympathize with the laboring peo-
pie because 1 have had some experience
in that line. So far as the republican
party is concerned, it has no part in any
conspiracy. 1 know nothing about any,
thing of his kind and defy Joe Toole or
anybody else to bring a single particle
of proof that the republican party is in
any manner connected with such a on
spiracy." I