Daily inter mountain., 1900-09-22
Only PopuIists And Democrats Join Hands,
Labor Party Will Try 1t Alone
This Year.
HYBRID TICKET NOMINATED
ORAT0RY AND BACKBTING FEATURES OF THE UNION N0MNA-
TI0N FOR GOVERNOR WAS THE POINT OF CON-
TENTI0N-A NOISY HARMONY.

Following are the nominations made
by the democratic and populist conven-
tions at Helena last night:
Democratic
For governor, ]. X. Toole of Helena.
Higgins of Missoula.
For secretary Of state, George M.
Hayes of Yellowstone.
For treasurer, A. H. Barrett of Silver
Bow.
For associate justice, George r. Mil
burn of Custer.
Presidential electors, Daniel G. O'Shea,
of Carbon and Patrick Carney of Madi-
son.
Populist-
For congress, Caldwell Edwards of
Galatin county.
For state auditor, J. H. Calderhead of
Lewis and Clarke.
For attorney general, John G. Dono-
van Of Cascade.
For presidential elector, DIR. Oliver
Lesser of Anaconda.
For superintendent of public instruc-
tion, j. M. Lewis Of Silver Bow.
Helena, Sept. 22-The democratic con-
vention, which has just finished it's work
here was probably the greatest "deliber-
ative body that has met under one roof
in this city since the republican conven-
ton adjourned a few weeks ago. 1t was
q comedy of errors from beginning to
end-not individual errors, but blunders
as whole The first great mistake made
was the entertainment of a proposition
to fuse with the labor and populist par
ties. for it could have had the votes of a
portion OF these bodies without giving
up anything in return. This part is made
apparent by the following remark uttered
by one of the populist delegates last
evening: "The populist and labor parties
are composed of democrats and republ-
cans, and although we hold conventions
and do considerable talking, when elec-
tion day arrives the majority OF US vote
with our individual choice of the two
parties, democrat or republican. rms
side issue business is one way we nave
of securing recognition at the hands OF
the two parties after we nave satisiieu
ourselves that our political efforts IN
their behalf are not to be rewarded In the
way we DESIRE.
There were many excellent men in the
democratic body; men who were porn
and raised in the faith and could not be
induced to accept the creed of any other
party no matter what the consideration
might be. The convention was FORUM
ate in securing such an able man as
Walter Cooper of Bozeman to PRESIDE
over it's deliberations. Mr.. Cooper made
no mistakes, and handled the work of the
hody with absolute fairness. The propo-
sition to fuse with the populist and
labor parties was hatched and car
rieQ ont DV lue leetdSlS. 1AsNN ~
been submitted to a vote of tho entire
body, the chances are the scheme would
have failed, or there appeared to be a
decided sentiment among the more mod
est delegates against the proposed triple
alliance Tt is certain that the PROPOSE
tion to recognize the two other parties
in the distribution of nominations would
have sustained crushing defeat at the
expiration of the first two days. Even
some of the leaders We're disgusted with
the demands of the populists and labor
party, and it would not have taken much
to cause a severance of all pending ne
gotiations between the committee ON
conference from the democratic body
and the committees from the other two
conventions.
The entire hitch occurred over the
nominee for governor. The democrats
wanted the privilege of naming him, and
committees possessed a similar desire.
The democrats would not yield an inch,
and, after two days had been con-
sumed in trying to reach an understand
ing, the populists and labor committees
found it no go, and weakened. Both of
the latter parties had practically decided
upon Thomas S. Hogan for governor, and
the democrats knew it. They also knew
that had they given either of these par
ties the right to name the nominee for
governor it would have been satisfactory
to both.
The reports of the decision Of the con-
fenenee committees raised all sorts OF
trouble in the populist and labor party
conventions, but it pleased the democ-
racy Had the democratic committee
allower either of the other two conven-
tions to name the nominee for governor
it would have stirred up all corts of