Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-10-05
LAW AND ORDER,

The Inter Mountain believes there are
some good and well meaning MEN among
those who are supporting the demo-
cratic-populist fusion. 1t has a better
opinion of some of them than Hon.
Joseph K. Toole, who classed them all
as ofice-seeking political mongrels.
That was two yea before he was a
supplicant for their SURFACES and a party
to their coalition.
With a few exceptions, however, the
fusion ticket stands for pessimism, law
lessness and disorder. It stands for the
denial and restriction of property rights,
for opposition to incoming capital, and
for the abuse of men who come to Mon
tana to invest their means, unless they
drill" with the democratic party.
Who does not remember the Helena
Independents brutal attack on H. H.
Rogers on his arrival here, of whom it
printed the story that he had openly
boosted of owning over thirty United
States senators, and of his demanding
SO, 900, 900 as a retainer from the govern
ment Of Denmark for allowing the
United States to purchase the Danish
West Indies, the Independent being UNI
aware at the time that Denmark's price
for the stands was only $4,000, 900? The
platform of the fusion party is filled
with expressions of hostility to all for
eign capital that is not in the democratic
combine, and it's candidates breathe fire
and smoke against the men who, having
invested a hundred million dollars here,
have the audacity to demand the protec-
ton of the law and the right to do busi-
in the cause of good government.
Against these men and others like them
the fusionists. are arrayed in hostile
p%halanx, and their certain purpose is, if
successful in the election, to harass and
Cypress them, to the injury of their prop
erty and the denial of their rights under
the law. Some of the fusion ut~terances
smack of the torch and ak of Herr Most
and Mary Parsons in their palmy days.
One influential paper has already de-
clared in strong terms that the issue Of
the campaign is the People of Montana
VS.. the Amalgamated Mining company.
Think h that means, you law-abid-
ing, justice-loving citizens of Montana!
Are you ready to be arrayed against a
concern whose interests are your inter-
ests, whose hopes of protection are your
hopes Of protection, whose rights are
your rights. and which, as you know, only
: asks to be let alone, to pay it's taxes,
meet it's payroll and earn fair profit
; ON its investment? Are you willing tc
! take up arms against a. concern which
spends twenty million dollars a year in
( Montana for labor and supplies, which
: is the mainstay of half a dozen leading
: counties of the state, and whose sole
offense is that it employs 10, 900 men WHIT
3 refuse to be disfranchised or join thu
ranks of those who would drive it on,
of business?
e The republican party is not thu
q creature of that corporations; its nomi
nees are conspicuously and emphaticassi
l independent Of that corporations; vet ri
: republican party proposes that it shat
: have the protection of the law to exactl,
the same extent that other corporation.
: shall have it. The republican part,
stands for equal justice to all, rich O.
poor, corporations or individuals, regard
: less of politics or capitalization. I