Daily inter mountain., 1900-10-30
BEWARE THE
R00RBACK
FUsIONIsTS CONTEMPLATE THE
SPRINGING OF SOME ANTE
ELECTION LIES.
RUDOLPH Won TOBEL TO
BE MADE THE VICTIM.
Character Assaults to Be Sprung a
Day or Two Before the
election.

Rudolph Won Tobel, the republican cam
didate for associate justice of the su-
preme court. is marked man.
On his trail turks the cowardly charac-
ter assassin, with the deadly stiletto OF
political malice poised and ready to
strike when a favorable moment arrives
for the commission of the crime.
1t is true that Mr.. Won Tobel is an up
right. honorable mana man whose es-
cutcheon has never been tainted by the
foul breath of scandal. a man whose ab!f-
ity as jurist is unauestioned. So is W..
K. Young an honorable man; 50 is F. W.
Bacorn an honorable man; but they were
made the victims of the character thug
Worth and merit, honesty and decency.
ability and integrity-these good quail
ties go for naught in this campaign OF
dirt throwing carried on by that political
crazy Guilt known as the fusionocracy.
Their henchmen must be elected: the
barrel" must triumph though the heav-
ems fall.
The charge that Mr.. Young was to be
hauled down" because he had done
something unwise was promptly refuted
atnd Mr.. Young still remains the republi-
can candidate for sheriff of Silver Bow.
The charge against F. w. Bacorn was
as promptly disproved, shown to be false
in every particular by documents on file
in the federal courts.
In each of these instances where poll
tical thuggery played so prominent a
part it has been calculated by shrewd
politicians, experts in determining the
trend of public opinion, that both cam
didates gained at least a thousand votes
by the active work of the scandal mon
ger.
Then there is the case of David e.
Folsom He was represented as bitter
enemy to labor, a stanch friend of the
corporations. This was shown to be a
pure fabrication by the aftidavits Of men
who had been in his employ and were ia
miliar with the circumstances surround
ing the incidents forming the base of the
false statements of the fusionists. I. has
been calculated that these stories helped
Mr.. Folsom toward the governors chair
by about 5000 votes.
The fusionists are not all imbeciles, de-
spite their lack of principles and the
company they keep. They know thing
or two themselves AS soon as they saw
the effect of their attacks in the case of
Young and Bacorn and Folsom they said
We'll have to try new tack or Wen elect
the whole republican ticket. If this thing
is kept up, the only republican we will
defeat by any possibility is the one we
forget to circulate lies about"
1t was accordingly determined in eau
Gus that any assaults on character made
hereafter must be made two or three
| days before election, when time will not
remain for a refutation of the charges
! before the electors enter the booths. Sew
eral republican candidates were selected
as victims, among them being Mr.. Won
| Tobel. What they intend to charge him
with none can tell except the fusion
lagos.
During the meeting held at Dillon last
Saturday evening, W.>ch was addressed
by Hon. Lee Mantle end Frank E. Smith
the latter warned his audience that the
rumor was in the air that some sort o1
pipe dream inimical to Mr. Won Tobels
candidacy was to be sprung on the pub.
lie day or two prior to election. Hav.
ing known the candidate for fifteen years
being his law partner for part of tina
time, Mr.. Smith vouched for the hon
esty and stern sense of duty characterize
ing Mr.. Won Tobel and advised the pub
lie to believe nothing the Dame Grundy.
of fusionism might circulate.
A similar motive actuates the Intel
1icient. When the yarn" about Mr.. Vo,
Tobel materiaizes the public will "winl
the other eye.''