The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-10-06
The Fusion Conventions.

Brought face to face with the
mighty prodigiousness of their nefari-
Gus undertaking, the Clark demo-
Gratis in Great Falls lost no time in
fusing with all fusable forces in
sight, and on Thursday evening of
last week nominated a ticket as fol-
lows:
For representatives: Geo. r.
Wood, r. P. Thoroughman, dems.;
). K. Jensen, populist; Il. F. Rich
ardson, labor party; and G. H. Con-
ner, joint labor and populist party.
District judge, J. B. Leslie; clerk of
court, S. NJ. Moore; Sheriff, H. E.
Benner; Auditor, John Carr; Clerk
and recorder, Vincent Fortune; At
torney, A. G. Gormley; Assessor, F.
ii. Joslyn; Treasurer, O. F. Wads-
worth, jr.; Public administrator, R.
w. Hanson; commissioners, w. D..
Delphey, j. l.. Neihart, Lewis
Roalswick; Supt. of schools, Mrs.
Martha Kearns Surveyor, O.C Mort
son; Coroner, DR.. G. Il. Sweeney.
This ticket was the result of a
tripartite alliance based upon the
following arrangement as to distribu-
ton of offices:
Democrats--Two representatives,
Judge, sheriff, clerk ana recorder,
treasurer, attorney, superintendent
of schools, surveyor and commission
er.
Populists-One representative, one
representative jointly, one commits
s%ioner, clerk of the court, auditor
and public administrator.
Labor-One representative, one
representative jointly, one commits
s%ioner, assessor and orone
OF course it is a Clark ticket from
top to bottom, and all Legislators are
pledged to the millionaire corruption
list and broker in human honor for
vindication and for the United States
senate.
There are some good men on the
ticket-and some of the poorest ex-
cuses of candidates ever called to
defend a party. The Herald propos-
es, ere the ides of November, to pay
particular, individual respect to the
ticket.
There are men on this ticket with
their hands out for spoils, and who
will be content if they only get
funeral expenses. A bride taker is
always bad, but a petit larceny bride
taker-who can describe him?
A noteworthy and significant
feature of the triune convention, to
which old line democrats are not
pointing with PRIDE" is the peremp-
tory manner in which populists and
laborites dictated the terms. They
simply ran the democratic onven
ton. The indicators were sudden
ly transformed from lions into Jack
rabbits, and the staid defenders of
democracy took to the brush. The
Nelhart and Belt democrats got
nothing--in fact nobody but Great
Falls got any decent representation
on the ticket. Only FIVE out of 20
places to be filled were chosen from
the country districts, which itself
gives the grangers a bad showing.
Great Falls gets Is out of 20, to in
dictate that Helena is not the only
town cursed with porcine proclivities.
But it is cheering to note that
Neihart gets two, and Monarch one,
of the five, and thus the people south
of Mason & Dixon's line rise above
the denizens and hayseeds of the
north.
But the southern democrats did
not do this. The populists and
labcrites deserve the palm for pretty
political manipulations.
Republicans give the country
eight offices out of 20, the twelve CO.
ing to Great Falls. Fusion gives
the hayseeds only 5 out of 20.
What will the voters think of this
discrimination?