Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1900-05-11
resolutions was then taken up and Chair
man Bailey read in ringing tones the
following strong and masterful resolutions
which had been prepared by the commit

winch mad been prepared by the commit
tee:
We, your Committee on Resolutions. beg leave
to report as follows:
J, we, the duly delegated representatives of
Carbon county. i'll convention assembled, renew
our allegiance to republican principles so
proudly and puissantly set forth in the st. Louis
platform
We congratulate our country upon the return
OF 9 plentiful prosperity and invite the notice
OF the peop!e to the contrast it affords and
years ago, under q democratic administration.
and patrstic ad%inistraton u se Of sHfask @iiam Ms
hey and aaE @ the dasf hi
problems arising from our war with Spain, and
we repose implicit confidence in his ability to
for solution il tho future We recognize the
duties and obligations imposed upon our nation
by, the victory Of our navy and the matchless
Paris, which. imposed upon the president the
duty OF maintaining the authority of the United
States over the territory acquired thereby. and
can soldier, SO long as there is an armed enemy
assaulting our flag, SO long must patriotic and
loyal Americans uphold our president in effect
ing protection, tranquility and peace in the is
lands given into our care and keeping through
the fortunes Of war
We congratulate the people that financial
condition Of our people, and that ali business
transactions are placed on Il basis that insurcs
protection to capital and the employment of
We favor such legislation as will destroy all
unlawful combinations of capital formed for
the purpose of limiting the production Or in
We anticipate with pride, pleasure and com
mendation the expansion Of our commercial
K,reatness, IT as opened v by tic possession Of
merce of China and the Orient; il will give in
creased employment to our labor and Increased
superiority 10 our country. Tho Pacific ocean
sNf iy,fo
trade of the world it is tile ocean of the great
northwestern country, and We Of the northwest
have an even deeper interest in the expansion
Of our trade relations To Tic westward than Our
eastern brethren.
The republican party is the parent Of the gen
erous homestead laws of our land, and II nov
again adds to its bcncticcncc in the enactment
into law Of the free homestead bill by which
tlle CITIZENS of Carbon county will bc greatly
be kept among our farmers that would other
wise have left our state. We point with pride
and satisfaction to the fact that the lower
house has lust passed the measure, and We pre-
dict for the bill al early passage BY tile senate
and its signing BY the president.
We condemn the democratic party for it's cop
aldo and his follows treason of the deepest
dye, and we reluctantly charge the party, BY
their traitorous conduct, with the shedding Of
much unnecessary blood Of our soldiers But
1or the encouragement given by the democratic
party to the insurgents, we believe that the war
m the philippines would long since have been
treasure.
We deplore and condemn the shameful dis
grace brought upon our beloved commonwealth
by the late dem9cratic legislature and the sub
sequent national exposition of democratic rot
tenness in Montana. We believe that this dem
ocratlc pollution, nationally advertised as it
has been will operate to vastly rctard the otI-
erwlse proud, onward march of our state, and
we invite all well disposed citizens Of our coun-
try, who have hitherto affiliated with the demo
cratic party, to join hands with us in an en-
deavor TO redeem our state from its disastrous.
10y the warning democratic factions at the
national capital.
We also condemn, as the acme of traitorons
conduct, The perfidious action Of the eleven a.
legged republicans who disgrnced themselves BY
proving recreant to the trust reposed in them.
We denouncc them traitors for having voted
fnr domocrn1 for f. the United States senate and
contempt, believing that they received price
for their monstrous pcriidy and that they should
never again be honorcd by the party with any
official position or be permitted to take part or
SIT IN a republican convention in the state of
Montana
We express our confidence in the ability of
thc republican administration to deal with all
complicated and important questions involved
III any legislation wherein the honor of the
country and the welfare and happiness Of our
people are concerned i'll the future, as III the
past. And we therefore firmly resolved to
do our utmost to bring back our county and
state into line with our national republican Ad-
Nominations for delegates to attend the
state convention at Butte were then de
clared in order and the following list Of
delegates and alternates were nominated
and upon vote elected to represent Car
bon county at the Butte convention:
DELEGATES. ALTERNATES.