Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-10-31
THE OPPORTUNITY OF GOOD MEN.

clined to give full credence to the
charges of the Butte Miner against
Thomas Hogan and the independent
democratic ticket from top to bottom.
The republicans of Montana are also
inclined to give full credence to the
charges of the Anaconda STANDARD
against Joseph X. Tool and the fusion
ticket from top to bottom.
If the Miner does not know all about
the Standards faction. and the Standard
does not know all about the Miners fac:
ton. where are the people of Montana to
obtain information about the democratic
party? Is it not proper that they should
accept the assurances of democrats about
democrats?
This being the case. the voters of this
state. who favor it's progress and devel-
opment. who would see it's good name re-
deemed and it's people prosperous. con-
tented and at work, propose to set aside.
both wings of the warning democracy
and elect to office those men who are
identified with neither, men who are
free to act for the public welfare. free
from all corporate or millionaire dicta-
ton, free from the forces of oppression
and corruption, free to enforce the law,
to protect property, to accord to every
voter his rights, to every litigant justice.
to every citizen good government. Such
men are to be found only on the repub-
lican ticket. 1t is the only ticket backed
by a responsible political party. for the
other two parties represent only the
money power, only personal auarrels,
only greed for office. only ~antagonism to
law and order. only the destruction OF
enterprise. only falsehood, injustice, dis
order and anarchy. @
This statement is mad advisedly. 1t
is made with perfect candor and truth
fulness. 1t is made for the information
of the good people of Montana who live
remote from the centers of agitation
1t is made that. being warned, the peo-
pie may so act as to escape a great peril
for themselves and do the state an in
estimable service at the same time.
1t is the democratic party that has
brought disgrace upon Montana, n it
can not escape responsibility by dividing
into factions and calling itself names. 1t
is the democratic party that on the trust
issue is seeking to deprive the farmer Of
his market, the merchant of his BUSH
ness, the workingman of his wages, by
pledging that if elected to. power it will
close down and put out of business the
Amalgamated Mining company, which
pays out yearly SIS, 900. 900 for labor in
Montana, which supports seven-eighths
of the population of Butte and is the
basis of seven-eighths of the city's gen.
eral business and the value Of it's real
estate-it will ruin that enterprise, be-
cause of the utterly false cry that the
Amalgamated company is {. trust. a
Standard Oil trust, and because the DEM
ocratic party is pledged to suppress
trusts.
The Amalgamated company is not a
trust, and it is in no way connected with
the Standard Oil monopoly, except to the
extent that some men who own stock In
the former also w stock in the latter,
Just as Major John MacGinnis, who owns
stock in the NJ. O.. P. also owns stock in
the B.. & M. But does that make the B.
& NJ. an M. O. P. company, responsible
for M. o. P. policies and manage
such an argument? Yet in this county
paid orators with straight faces, but
twisted consciences, are actually trying
to fool the voters with such stuff. and
trying to make them believe the Amal-t
gamated should be shut down hecauseS
some of the stockholders own stock in a
Occur d'Alene company which a trou-e
BILE with labor. And even that argu7,
ment, far fetched as it is, is wretchedly'
false and based on lies, lies. lies In
the first place the Standard Oil COMPANY
owns nothing in Montana, it owns no
mines in Idaho and never did, an! the.
troops tina were summoned to the Occur
d'Alenes We're summoned by the demo-
cratic governor of Idaho, without any
suggestion or telegram from any man
connected, directly or indirectly, with
any Montana enterprise, and we chal-
lenge any Slan or newspaper to prove the
contrary. ,r
Under such circumstances is it not per-
fectly natural for the men of Montana
who are tired of democratic squabbling,
democratic corruption and democratic
disagreement, to vote to get rid of the
whole democratic crew and to bring
about an era of law and order, of educa-
ton and progress, of equal rights, of
efficiency and honesty in high places, OF
prosperity and Of public and private JUS
tice, and finally of peace and good will?
The only way to do that is to vote the
republican ticket, to vote it straight, and
to vote it from top to bottom. H.
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A FALSE ISSUE.