Daily inter mountain., 1900-11-10
SATURDAY, NOVEM BER 10. 1900
LET REPUBLICANS REL DICE.

up. It may seem 1iscourasing to review
the late campaign and it's results in the
light of the indisputable fact that the
republican principles and candidates
were far superior to those of the oppo-
s.tion. but "whom the Lord loveth He
steneth," and there is grim consola-
tion in the fact that democrats as we'll
as republicans wiu have to bear Their
ncy-tion of the disasters which a victory
for the fusion forces invited if it did not
make certain The good citizenship of
,the state was simply overwhelmed at
the polls Wholesale and widespread
election frauds We're perpetrated. Lies,
nhe most infamous that ever were put
forth for political effect, did deadly work.
Issues that had no possible connection
with Montana affairs We're dragged into
this state from Idaho and even Penn
evlvania. Ghosts, bogies and hobgob-
lins We're conjured up from the vastly
deep and from the inner consciousness
of imported demagogues. to frghten the
ignorant and the gullibe Money was
poured out lavishly to corrupt the weak
Tnhoy combinations of questionable
clements were made SO as to array all
the forces of evil against one ticket
Added to these considerations was the
real merit Of promised labor reform
which insured the support Of some hun
dreds Of men Who did not stop to make an
analysts Of cause and effect, but voted, as
they believed, to advance their own in
Nerests, which was all right from their
standpoint. : Thus was the fusion VIC
tory accomplished Thus was demo-
cratic rule in Montana indorsed. Thus
was one democratic fastion triumphant
over another democratic faction But
e,tlll the state is in the clutches o5 the
democracy and all that the name implies,
and it is that disaster which many re-
publicans, conscious of their own recti-
tude and the patriotism of their own
party, so gravely deplore.
Nevertheless. the Inter Mountain bids
the republicans of Montana to look UP.
There are portents in the sky which tell
of better things to come. There are
signs of the end of the rule of money
In Montana politics. There is evidence
that before the next election rolls
around the good people of Montana viii
be privileged to decide political issue:
and the fate of candidates for politica
office on their merits alone. There is Nope
that before long the people of Montana
will again come into their own and vii
not be overwhelmed at the polls by al
irresponsible, ignorant and corrup
floating population which traffies in it
elective franchises and brings abou
conditions which the resident and re
spectable population, if left alone, Woul
never invite The Inter Mountain ati
urlits that many good citizens, rich an
poor, supported the fusion ticket in goo
faith and that some of the candidate
elected will do their duty, but it ais
insists that the balance of pollticf
power in this state is welded by me
who take no interest in its welfare, VIII
are intellectually and morally weak, VIII
dispose OF their votes to the best con
mercial advantage, and that many
them toll nCt neither do they spin.
is this part of the undesirable class th;
always goes with the barrel, while II
rest goes with the dema gogues, tt
shrekers against capital and law al
the men who, paying no taxes ther
selves, see no necessity of electing
Office the candidates of that party viii
stands for economy, good governme
and the law. But the rule of the rabl
will soon end. The feud which has ma
Montana political market place /
twenty years will soon have an enlil
The triumph of one faction over
other is almost complete, and when
shall be complete and the incent
which has led to vast expenditures
money in politics Shall have vanish
Montana will become politically n
NAL, civilized, Christian state, VIII
there will be but two parties; VIII
republicans and democrats will '
their tickets straight, and where the
1oatty and the right will rule.