Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-09-06
CLEAN TICKET AND
GREAT PLATFORM
Continued from Page One.)

1t was after 8 O'Clock yesterday after
noon when the G session of the state
convention was called to order by the
temporary chairman. Without unusual
official ceremony the report of the COM
mittee on was asked for; but
the was not ready to report
and Senator Garter was prevailed upon
to consume the time of waiting with am
address. When he assembled the platform
he was loudly cheered. Mr.. Carter talked
about half an hou on r~epublicanism
and matters pertaining to the issues with
which the party is confronted. He said
Montana was normally a republican state
and had been so since 1882. The party
to-day stood in united phalanx, deter
mined to march to victory and nothing
less. With the exception of Montana,
the chain of northern republican states
extended from h Atlantic to the Pa
cific, each one bearing the illustrious
word. republican," and on November 8
Montana would fall into the line. No
state in the union a more reason to
be republican than Montana. It had
more things to be benefited by a repub-
lican administration than any other
state. 1t had more coal than Pennsyl-
vania, more iron than Minnesota n
with a proper diversion Of the streams.
would be more productive of wheat and
other necessaries than any of the other
states. Every republican, he said, should
realize that republican victory meant
the redemption of Montana n the per-
petuation of the party,s principles. Each
man should be a c~anvasser In this cam
paign. Referring to the democracy the
senator said the almighty God placed a
division in it's ranks in order that it
might he more easily destroyed. An en-
deavor has been made to lnnoculate the
republican party with the disease, but
it had been successful in only one coun-
ty out of twenty-four in the state.
The report of the committee on creden-
tails recommended the seating of. the
regular delegation from Silver Bow
county, the only county in which there
was a contest, and the epo was adopt
ed without a dissenting voice.
A WARM DEBATE.
The report of the committee on organi-
cation and order Of business stirred up a
warm debate in which Colonel Sanders
Senator Carter and Hon. e. D. Weed tool
active part. The report recommended b
J. McIntire of Flathead county for per
manent chairman, J. Ward Huse of Cho-
teau for permanent secretary, and G. 2
Prescott of Teton and j.. e. Sheridan as
assistants. 1t also recommended thai
state committeeman be selected by the
delegates from each county. This is
where the debate came in. When a mo-
ton had been made and seconded tG
adopt the report Colonel Sanders Offered
a qualifying amendment making the Sc
lection of each committeeman subject tt
Jne aDDIONdl IL LIlc SoolAkJ oSiS
cation. Witout mentioning any names m
intimated that the man upo whom tn
delegates of Lewis and Clarke county hat
decided was one against whom the finger
of suspicion had been pointed in connec'
ton with the alleged legislative briber!
business and it would not do, he sa1d, tt
have such a man on the state m
Senator Carter rushed to the rescue O
the suspect and uttered a truth in regart
to democratic accusations that falri.
dazzled and delighted the convention al
a whole. He said DR.. William Treace!
was the man to whom Colonel Sande
had referred and he would say in defens
of the doctor that he was a man of un
Improbable character; that If ev
cry story set aloat by democrats con
corning republicans was true the lnteg
rity of every republican might be ques
toned and the party would contain yer!
few real men. He said that u
} Treacy had testified before Tn
. senatorial Investigating committee L
r Washington and explained the par
r he was alleged to have essayed in al
I alleged attempt to bride a OF tn
!. supreme court in the interest," OF w
I A, Clark's senatorial aspirations. Dr
7, Treacey had said his remark was a JOKE
: and in the face of this fact there was no
{ a man in Lewis and Clarke county VIII
: knew the doctor that would not accep
. his word for it.
! Colonel sanders said in respon tina
7 there were other honest men, and men
= toned the name of the supreme cour
I Judge who said he had been approache
!, by DIR. reace adding that he had nc
a accused DR.. Treacey of the offense at
u tributed to him. In the course of his re
u marks Colonel Sanders stated that full
: SO per cent of the republicans of Levi
= and Clarke county were clark repuI
leans.
' when the statement is made that
per cent of the republicans of this count
# are Clark republicans" said Hon. E.
Weed, Il refute it as an Infamous slaf
der. l also refute the imputation sougf
y to be placed upon DR.. Treacey."
h, Mr.. Weed defended the doctor with q