Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-01-22
THE REPUBLICAN, MOVEMENT.

AS might have been expected. the or
ganization of a republican club in this
city excited the disapproval of the Ana
conda Standard.
A movement to unity the republican
forces, to redeem this state from the con-
dition of disrepute into which the de-
mocracy has placed it, necessarily meets
with opposition from those who are self
conscious of having contributed to the
injury of the commonwealth.
In no better way could the Standard
have pleaded guilty to it's share in the
work Of dragging Montana through the
mire, than in it's delirious criticism on
the organization of the republican club.
1t objects to the resolutions adopted
because they do not cover the whole
range of questions which may or may
not become national issues. and which
have no bearing whatever upon the para
mount duty Of every good citizen to aid
in the work of redeeming this state from
the odium which the democracy has in
flicted upon it.
The Standard complains that the reso-
lutions are a TRADE Of abuse against the
democratic party, because they point the
finger of rebuke toward the political in
famies that have made this state the
target for the ridicule and sneers of the
nation.
Because both wings of the democracy
are included in the arraignment, the
Standard has the colossal nerve to accuse
the republican mass meeting held in this
city of 'covertly defending one Of the
most gigantic crimes ever perpetrated in
this or any other stated"
The m~issing-link logic of the Anaconda
Standard would do credit to the Bush
men of Australia, whose cerebral cocoa
nuts have never been found guilty of
working overtime on any intellectual
proposition.
1t will be with extreme difficulty that
the public can be made to understand
that the republicans Of this county, in
mass meeting assembled, covertly de-
Tended one of the most gigantic crimes
ever perpetrated, when they passed a
resolution charging the democratic party
| with corruption!
AS both wings of the democracy have
| made records in the field of crime, as is
conclusively shown by the literature of
the respective Acknowledging from
the corruption of corrupt politicians to
the rape of the ballot and the coercion
of honest workingmen-the republicans
had only to accept bourbon evidence
itself in order to truthfully draft a reso-
luton pointing to the political shortcom-
ings of that party.
The republicans certainly acted with
strict im~partiality when they punched
the two wings of the democracy together
and accredited each with it's share OF
blame for the conditions that prevail ir
this state.
Every man who is not tied up with one
faction or the other recognizes that i
is a pot-and-kettle fight between the two
factions Of the democratic party, eac1
having contributed it's best energies FOL
years past to the moral and political un,
doing of this commonwealth.
There is scarcely a crime in the poltti
cal calendar which has not been per
petrated by the democracy of this state
through the instrumentality of one VIM
or the other of that organization.
Jointly responsible for the sins tina
have furnished the fair fame of on
state, they must be held to q joint &C
countability before the bar Of publ
| judgment.
: When the republicans of Silver Boy
county set the initiative in favor of
broad, liberal movement for politica
reform, they made a contribution to tn
future welfare of this state Of infinit
!. importance to all our people.
1t is to be hoped that it win becom
;. statewide in it's scope. and that a long
e suffering public may look forward to
e day of redemption from the era {
( packed caucuses. colonized precincts, &C
e creed voters, stall-fed hoboes, bribe-giv
Y ing politicians and bribe-receiving cres
e tors of the law.
n A royal God bless you" will fall frol
t the lips Of every honest man in the stat
d when this republican movement sha
commonwealth, and made the illegal pt
litical methods of both wings of the d.
mocracy badges Of infamy and disgrac