Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-09-12
NO CORPORATION D1crATIoN.

The constant reiteration of the cry of
Corporation dictation" against the re-
publican party and it's nominaticrs in
baseless. The charge is incapable Of
proof and falls to the ground the mo-
ment evidence Of it's correstness is de-
manded. Constant repetition is not an
argument. A poll parrot can be taught
to humble a few words over and over
again, but is wholly at a loss to justify
their use or explain their significance.
So it is with the democratic organ in
this campaign. They tire the pubic
with the charge of corporate dictation'
in the hope that they can create an i'm
preston that a corporation is necessarily
a public enemy. that the republican
party meekly does the bidding OF some
such organization. Nothing could be
more unfair or untruthful than such Q
charge as far as this state is concerned.
Let any intelligent man for a moment
contemplate the character of the recent
| republican convention at Helena. A
finer body of men never convened in any
state of the Union. They came from all
! sections of Montana, and represented
every important interest. Many of them
were independently rich. All of them
were independent. There We're men who
have cattle on a thousand hills; men
whose focks make them prosperous
! whenever the wool tariff is in opera
ton; men whose mining investments
have placed them at the head of the tax
paying lists, and others profitebly iden-
titled with the states business and pro-
f~essional life. Most of these men are
typical American citizens. They know
their rights and enjoy them to the full
est. They are republicans on principle
alone. They have libraries in their
homes. Their sons are at college. Their
daughters are receiving the best instruc-
| ton. Their houses are their castles.
!! Next to the Bible, the most sacred OBJ
! iect they know of is the constitution OF
! the United tates. In the full enjoyment
of the liberty it guarantees, they have
lived in Montana, many of them, since
the DAYS when there were no corpora
tons, no political bossism, no corrupt
use of money in partisan warfare.
They recognize no power higher than
their own sense of justice. Every two
or four years these men go to their state
conventions to nominate a congressman
or a state ticket. They go to do their
duty as citizens of Via once was the
! proudest state in the Union, but which,
rarily fallen from it's high estate in the
estimation of the country. They are
party men. They are believers in repub-
lican principles. They vote their ticket
straight. They do their simple duty as
citizens, and when the conventions adj
iourn they return to their homes, gen.
orally satisfied with what they rave &C
complished.
To accuse these men, these honored
old pioneers and respectable gentlemen
and upright citizens of being puppets
of some corporation, of wearing some
corporation collar or of conducting a
3 convention as ordered by corporation
: officials is to do rank injustice to every
one of them, to insult them without jus
! LITIGATION, to raduc them in the public
!. sight. Nothing could be more Infamous
> or more r~eprehensible.
There are corporations doing bushes.
in Montana. In some respects they arr
: all alike. So long as they keep out Of
Y politics they are public benefactors, en-
: titled to public consideration and ever.
protection Of the law. When they as
+ sumo to control politics they become
1 proper subjects of criticism. In the re
publican party, however, there is no evi
dence tina such interference has beel
e attempted, there Is conclusive evi
:. dence tina it would not have been to)er
4 ated. In fact, the platform adopted q
Helena last week is specific and unmis
Is taxable on that point. So free were tn
y deliberations Of that convention, how
&c ever, so excellent the ticket nominated
:. and so sound and patriotic the platforr
a that the democratic party, despairfng Q
successfully assailing either the tickle
u or the platform, is reduced to the vulga
h necessity of resorting to falsehood b
81 attacking the personal character of TIL
members of the convention, and accus
ing them of wearing corporation collar
We challenge the free trade organs
at prove a word of their cowardly indie
1t ment. 1t is an insult to the best cit