The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1900-10-29
POLITICIANS
TOOK A REST
1t Was the Calm Before the
Storm.
HARDWORK THIS WEEK
The Clarkites Have Been Frostbitten Ali
Over the State-A Forlorn
Cause.
HARDWORK THISWEEK

Butte, Oct. 2S.-The politicians all
took rest today, after a week of hard
work. The rest will fit them for
greater effort during the final week of
the campaign. There is much hard
work to be done yet and politicians re.
alize LAT they must be at their best
during the last days of the fight.
The most important development in
the political situation during lne past
week, of course, was the withdrawal
of Ferguson and the rest Of the La
Dor candidates. That was piece
of real news in the political arena and
it stirred up the state to the core. 1t
was a scheme engineered by Clark
with a view to helping himself out
of the mire, but it was also the
scheme that has dragged him in deep
er, so deep, in fact, that by next Tues
day week he will have sunk into the
quicksands over his head. The buy
ing of Ferguson was probably the
greatest piece of stupidity that the
Clarkltes have been guilty of during
recent times, although the Lord
knows they have been notorious for
blunders in everything politically
lney ever attempted. Nothing that
has occurred since the opening of the
campaign has given so much encour-
agement to men who represent hon
esty and decency in democratic poll
tics-the Independent democratic
party. They have right to be
highly elated owe rthe turn affairs
have taken and that they are elated
is shown by the kilograms from every
part of the state expressing the great
est satisfaction at the withdrawal of
Ferguson. From everywhere come
kilograms asserting positively that
now Hogan will have increased majori-
ties. There is no doubt of the fact
that Ferguson would have pulled some
votes away from Hogan; not many, of
course, but still some. Some laboring
people believed that Ferguson was
honest and that the labor party was
honest and that it's conception and
birth were the results of demand
for reform. These supported the new
party with all their strength and
doubtless would have remained loyal
to Ferguson had he not so basely be-
trayed them and sold them out like
a stock drover selling cattle. Those
who would have voted for Ferguson
from sense of duty are no longer
impelled by that sentiment. All
restraint has now been removed from
them and they are free to vote for
Hogan, and it is a fact that the Inde-
pendenl democratic party will get the
solid vote which would have gone
to Ferguson had he remained in the
race.
If the Clarkites thought the with
drawal of Ferguson would help Toole
they never made bigger mistake in
their lives. The idea of roole ask
ing labOring men to vote for him is
so preposterous as to be ridiculous.
Toole, the corporation lawyer, WHO
has more than once, openly and pub
iicly expressed his feelings toward the
laboring men, appealing for the sup
port of men whom he mas ridiculed.
The idea is ludicrOus and laugh pro-
voking. S till that must have been
Clark's belief when he bought Fer
guson off for the vast sum which he
had to pay, for certainly no other So
luton of Clark's action presents it.
self.
Next to Ferguson's withdrawal the
most important and satisfying de-
velOpments of the past week have
been the remarkable demonstrations
which have been accorded to hide
pendent Democratic speakers through
out the state. Hogan and Kelley
have put in hard licks and their work
has brought surprisingly good results.
They have travelled necessarily during
the day, and held meetings till late
at night. Sometimes they have jour-
hyy cfo
veyances over mountain roads, but
they were always on hand to fill en-
gagements, despite the fact that they
were ofttimes well nigh exhausted.