Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-05-16

hell. The evidnece show tina he had
numerous detectives employed In Mon
tana, New York and Washington to dog
my footsteps and all of my friends. ana
ible perjured testimony. He braxenly
admitted having conspired to open prt-
waite letters and with apparent exulta-
ton stated that he would do so again.
Notwithstanding that 1t was a penal Of
Tense, of which he claimed to be ignor-
ant. Some of his correspondence with
his detectives was read before the COM
mittee, which exposed the degradation
of this man, and one was so vile n OBJ
;scene that it could not be read openly
and the loathsome thing was passed
from han to han and read by each
in silence and evident disgust.
This portrays the character of this
man, who was honored by an election to
an office. the duties of which he entirely
neglected, scarcely ever having
ed a roll call until this investigation was
ended, and for the first time in the his
otry of this government. violated the
courtesy that common decency would
suggest and which has always been re-
spected by appearing in the prosecution
OF a member of a coordinate ranch of
the national congress-; and yet, Mr..
President. 1T appears that there are some
members of the committee who have no
criticism to make of the conduct Of such
a man.
Mr.. President. there has been consid-
cradle reference to the large expendi-
ture of money which I testified to hav-
ing authorized. It must not be over
looked that the expenditures covered
three campaigns. beginning with the pri-
maries in August, 1899, and extending to
the last of january, 1899. as fully APP
pears in the testimony and in the brief
and arguments by the counsel for the
respondent. If the senators knew the
conditions which confronted the people
of Montana they would not wonder that
such action vas necessary. l entered the
territory of Montana. or rather the ter
ritory of which Montana was after
wards created. in 1868. Marcus DAILY
made his advent in 1875. Is years later.
In all that intervening time I took an ac-
tive interest in politics and never in
all that period did I ever See or hear of a
dollar having been paid for a vote.
Those who lived there during that pc
Rod will bear me out in this statement.
He introduced the system soon after his
advent. n through this and the CO.
ercion which he invariably employed. his
success was almost always certain. AL
though claiming to be a democrat, he
really had no politics and elected
Judges, sherifTs, mayor and other Oh
GERS whom he knew would best subserve
his purpose, regardless of their politics.
giving preference often times to repub-
licans. In 1889 the democratic party.
AloiS Ill lSi Ilti loNe vi HIS Influences,
elected him as chairman of the state
committee He had one of his
attorneys nominated for represent
tative in congress-. Tha was
the time that the large assessment refer
red to by Governor Hauser was made. It
was amazing, but We complied. as party
feeling was pretty strong at that time.
His tactics did not win, with the excep-
ton that his attorney was pulled through
by less than three hundred votes. After
the election the state committee met at
Helena to settle up affairs, and when
some member of the committee who was
doubtful as to his section having receiv-
ed a proper distribution of funds asked
the chairman for a ST. -rlent of disburse-
ments, he blandly replIed that the books
were burned. 1t was at this election that
at Anaconda he had a large number of
ignorant Italians. Austrians and Slavon-
ianS working in the smelters for the COM
pny. They could neither read nor write
English and therefore could not make out
their tickets. Judges of elections could
assist electors only when physically dis
abled or ignorant. The men were led like
animals to the polls. carrying a tag on
which was printed. 81 cannot read nor
write the English language. I want to
vote the democratic ticket When the
Australian ballot was adopted it was
thought some protection might be had. 1t
provided that a cross should be made af-
ter the name of each candidate for whom
the eiectOr desired to vote. This gave the
elector employed by Mr.. DAILY too much
independence. The law was changed, as
referred to in these marks so that a circle
was placed above the candidates of each
political party, which were in separate
columns, so that the ticket of any one
party could be elected by making a cross
in the circle of any one QUINN. The
booths were so constructed that the men
on guard to watch could readily see what
circle each man crossed when he would
hand up to mark. 1t was to prevent an
amendment to this law that the Ana
conda forces fought so zealously t the
last session of the Legislature.
THE system of coercion is so strenu-
Gus that no employe of that car
exercise the great privilege of independ-
ent suffrage guaranteed by our constitu-
ton. One of Daly's schemes is colonial
ton from surrounding places in his great
Tagging house just previous to registra-
ton, but the effective method adopted by
HIM in Silver Bow county is the repeating
system at the primaries. This was prac-
ticed to a great extent in 1898. In one
precinct there were more DAILY democratic
votes cast at the primaries thar the total
vote of all the parties combined at the
following election. The total city regis,
tration in the county was $50 votes
against 1874 anti-Daly. At the election
following the total democratic vote was
1888. From this it is apparent that about
1000 fraudulent votes We're cast by the
DAILY people at the primaries. A train
was run from Anaconda to South Butte
with a squad Of men who repeated al
several polling places. 1t was this infa-
nous action that caused the loyal and
honest democracy of the county to refusi
to support the county ticket. and for this
they were denounced as boilers.
THE boycott is another great Weapon
An example of this will Illustrate. Mr.
James H. Lynch, who was in bushes.
near the mine of Mr.. DAILY, and largely
dependent upon the employees thereof 70,
support, was in the habit of cashine