Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1900-06-01

stated, the writer accepted the position
as a delegate. Here are the facts we'll
known to those democrats who were in
Carbon county in 1896:
The party had no central committee,
nor any organization. it being the first
campaign in the history Of the county,
and a mass convention Of all democrats
of the county was called which selected
the delegates. No, this is not a prece-
dent; look elsewhere. The Democrat will
hardly find precedent in Montana dem
ocratic proceedings, and if perchancc, it
should it would doubtless be in some
county where little interest is taken in
politics. The Carbon county demo
cratic conventions have been uniformly
we'll attended.
No doubt the real reason was the man
ayers Of the Anaconda interests were
afraid they could not use the democracy
Of the county to further their nefarious
purposes if they permitted the voters to
have voice, hence they sought to shut
ont the voter and, by coercion and by
securing proxies from outside committee
men, to send delegates that would be
pliable under the hand of that smooth
political Anaconda boss, John r.. Toole.
The Democrat further stated that the
majority Of the committee offered to put
on the list Of delegates, names Of several
uvnIl lyp,,,,,,, p,,,,,E Enp,,
and Hough, from which it would appear
that the majority Of the committee
1.-TWO persons who were not members Of
the central committee, but appeared as
proxies were empowered by the demo
Gratis Of the county to make such 'Sotfcrs
as they saw fiji. If they 50 generously
made the offer, it surely must have been
in 4 dream. when they saw vision Of
"sWeet harmony Of which they 80 loudly
prated before the meeting of the central
committee for the gentlemen referred to
deny that the offer Was made to them.
When i petition addressed " The
chairman and members Of the county
central committee, containing The sigma
lures Of eighty percent of the democratic
voters Of Carbon county, was presented
to the chairman, he absolutely refused
to call the committee together and lay
the petition before them This petition
asked for the time honored privilege Of
holding primaries and q convention.
The Democrat feigns to believe that
signatures were obtained to the petitions
under false pretcnscs This is an insult
to the democratic voters of this county,
who are persons Of too much intelligence
to Be cajolcd into signing q petition
while ignorant Of its purpose.
The Democrat states t'thc main object
of the circulation Of tho petition IS to in
ject in Carbon county politics the feud
that has no bearing on our county poll
tics Oh. monstrous distortion! Are
| the democratic voters Of Carbon county,
in view of the action taken by the com
mittcc, too blind to see who has injected
the @fcud' medicine. under the plea Of
administering soothing syrup labeled
sharmony?" We think not.
We learn that the chairman has
doubtless, after consulting with his co
conspirators) concluded to call the com
mittee together on June q, giving twice
the length Of notice that was given te
call the committee to do their former
job.
We believe the democracy are entitled
to hold convention if they want to dc
SO, and We trust they will exercise theil
preregative
This article in the Democrat contains
one piece Of news that will be Of Interest
to the democratic voters We cali spec
ial attention to the following:
ssThe Clark leader (referring presum
ably to the writer IN this county knows
that the petition cannot accomplish the
ostensible object for which it is circulat
ed, and his object is the disruption o
the party in this county and the defea
Of the county ticket with one exception
next fall.
Not being il the confidence Of tht
! political machine, we had supposed til.
ticket for the fall election would be nom
mated in a county convention, but from
the above it is apparent that the Slate is
already made up and presumably the.
will have the opposition Of a ClarI
leader The writer desires to say TO tht
democrats of Carbon county that he is /;
democrat and. in politics. he is opposee
to prostituting the party TO serve the sci
fish purposes Of any man or corparation
and he believes the party will do well te
retire to the ranks any man who is
prominently connected with any factloI
in the party and thus eliminate any fac
tional fight IN the party for Just 50 long
as men allied with any faction arc il
control they will try to use the party te
serve selfish ends.
The writer is not an aspirant for polti