Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-11-03
CANDIDATES ON
STATE TICKET
STIRRING ADDRESSES TO SILVER BOW
VOTERS BY THE MEN WHO ARE PLEDGED
TO GOOD Government.

concurrence lneTe was u lhUOT -d1lu q
populist convention going on at the SANE
time. Under the guidance of "wiz-
ard" the democrats took those honest
pop delegates and administered 10
them a dose of democratic soothing
syrup. under the soporitlc influence of
which they forgot all about the refcren-
dunn and the initiative n all the other
distinguished populistic principles, ana
in their wild delirium called for fusion
and got it. This fusion process was at
| tempted in the case of the labor dele
| gates, but the majority of them resented
it and nominated their W Can,liiate
for governor in the person of the late Mr..
Ferguson. He proved a political Kite and
at Helena, when the clock was about TO
register the hour of midnight last Fri
day, vas hauled down by the fuss on;sts.
THE important question before the
people, he continued. 'is why has the
| democratic party engaged in the dis
| reputable process of fusion? 1t is not a
fusion OF. principle, because fusion is not
a democratic principle, and there is not
in reality such a thing possible as fusion
of principles. One of the most eminent
exemplars of democracy in this state,
the Hon. Joseph X. Toole, two years 6
opposed in the bitterest the
fusion of his party with the populists
or any other party, and in resisting it
J used the following language: Fusion
! is the lewd embraces of mongrel politi-
cal parties-a term which, like the cele-
brated mule, has neither the pride of
ancestry nor the hope of posterity to
commend it,
And still, in the face of his own pub
lie declaration, in a ome Of weak
ness, he accepted a fusion nomination
k,r1 ctor6c fn1nNy hofnra fhn nann1a q
discredited fusion candidate.
AN impartial observer, seeking the
cause of this fusion, will fina it in the
$50. 900 bride money in the hands of Tim
Collins, democratic state treasurer.
infamous $50. 900 represents the degrada-
ton of Montana. Not satisfied with the
investigation held by the last legislature
and with the senatorial investigation,
which ended in the election of William
A. Clark from the United States senate,
the democrats have adopted a platform
which points with pride to that $50, 900
and all the other incidents of Clark's
career, and presents it to the people of
Montana for their approval.
'This is the real issue before the peo-
pie. The democrats seek to obscure it,
and thir gub%ernatorial candidate has
9ever yet in this campaign been able
even to pronounce the word bribery.
Some have said hat the reason of this
is because the condition of his health
is such that his physicians have adj
vised him that any attempt on his part
to refer in public to this $50, OO0Hnay,
even to pronounce the word bribery
would result in lingual paralysis and
absolute loss of speech.
I'm my judgment the people of this
state will declare by the way they cast
their ballots on next Tuesday that they
do not want such a man to be the 'gov-
ernor of this great state, but that they
do want a man who, like Dave Folsom,
is absolutely free from any entangling
alliances with any corporation and from
the domination of any millionaire boss
"a man who can be trusted as the true
friend of the laboring man, a man who
can be trusted to give the people a clean.
honest administration, and a man who,
under no circumstances, can be buFicoed
into taking a trip to Grass Valley, Cali
fornia, in search of a gilded brick. E2
"For myself" said Mr.. Porter in Icon-
%clusion, II wish to say that as a candi-
date for attorney general in this state
/ owe no obligation to any man or cor
poration for my nomination. am
pledged to nobody as regards any official
action I may undertake.; and, if elected,
IL sinai De my constant enOcdVOT So 10
discharge the duties of my Office that the
law shall not be wrested from its pur-
pose to the benefit of any man or any
corporation, or to the detriment Of any
laboring man. My motto is Justice to
all alike"
An ovation marked the close of the
speech of the candidate for attorney
general, and after a selection by the
band Hon. Frank E. Smith was intro
duced and mad an excellent speech on
national issues. He dealt principally
with Imperialism and the trusts, show
ing the fallacy of the claims made by
the democracy in each instance. He
was frequently applauded and finished
his oratorical effort just as Hon. s. G.
Murray arrived from Meaderville. Mr.,
Murray's remarks at Walkerville We're
similar in tenor to his address at Mead
ervillle and were enthusiastically re-
ceived.