The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1900-07-31
TUESDAY. JULY 81, 1900.
FOR PRESIDENT
WILLIAM. J. BRYAN
OF NEBRASKA
FOR VICE PRESIDENT
ADLAI E. STEVENSON
OF ILLINOIS
THE LIBBY NEWS
WARNS

THE LIBBY NEWS The esteemed
WARNS Libby News has
THE PEOPLE,. forsaken the task
of inducing the Flathead democrats tc
vote the republican ticket and thus help
to elect Clark, a la Geiger, Jaqueth and
Carr, and has undertaken to show why
the voters shouldn't pay any attention
to what the Bee has to say about poll
tics or anything else. Says the News:
The Kalispell Bee has been established
in this county solely for the purpose of
influencing votes. and because Mr.. DAILY
thinks that a cheaper method of getting
them than by direct purchase. There
was absolutely no demand for it on the
part of the public, and it exists solely to
aid in carrying out the political purposes
of the Amalgamated Copper company.
1t is true that it is highly creditable
newspaper, and that the young men who
are conducting it have unquestionable
ability in their line, and are highly de-
sirable citizens for Kalispell to have ac-
quired. Their political opinions, how
ever, are entitled to exactly the same
credence as those of any other hired
agents of Mr.. DAILY, and to no more.
Now, in view of the conceded fact that
the News knows everything that is
worth knowing about everything from
the beginning to the end of time, it will
probably be useless for the Bee to deny
that it is owned by Mr.. DAILY, or by the
Amalgamated Copper company, or by
the Standard Oil Co., the Great North
ern Railway Co., the Northern Pacific
Railway Co.. Tom Carter, Charley Hart
man, Mark Hanna or the Sugar Trust.
There seems to be only one thing sure
about the ownership of the Bee and it
is that w. A. Clark has no share in it
whatever. The Bee is thankful for that
If the impression once got abroad that
w. A. Clark had the least control over
the Bee, its reputation would be ire
trievably ruined In fact that is what
is the matter with the Libby News.
People have notion that Briber Clark
has some kind of cinch on the News,
and it's reputation and influence have
suffered accordingly. No man or news
paper can afford to be suspected of being
ION the pay roll of the notorious briber
and perjurer, and there is decided rea-
son for thankfulness that no suggestion
OF such degradation has ever been made
against the Bee.
AS for there having been absolutely no
demand for the Bee on the part of the
public, we have good reasons for think
ing the News is mistaken. One of the
reasons is that the Bee is able to get
fully four times as much as the News
for its advertising space, and advertising
space in the Bee is in such good demand
that an enlargement of the paper will be
lmperatively necessary in the near fu
ture. Another reason is that in the past
six weeks the Bee has received more
money in paid up subscriptions than the
News received in two years. In fact. SO
much is the Bee in demand and so good
are the prospects for continued success
that the owners of the Bee have decided
to equip the office with Mergenthaler
type setting machine. The order has
been placed and it is expected that the
machine will be in position within ninety
days.
Perhaps one of the reasons for the re-
markable success of the Bee 50 far i.
that it endeavors to defend and promote
the interests of it's patrons. In spite o.
the fact that the Libby News gets mos
of its patronage from Kalispell, it rarel,
overlooks an opportunity to belittle tn,
efforts of Kalispelrs citizens or to oppos,
what is for the interests and advance
ment of this town. That is rank perfid,
and the business men of Kalispell ar,
beginning to realize that it is poor polio,
to strengthen the hand that smites then
at every opportunity.
AS for the politics of the Bee, gu
readers are asked to take them for wha
they are worth. If the Clark practice O
buying votes is wrong. it is wronl