The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1900-11-04

OF losing the labor vote and not be-
cause Hanna loves the laboring man
that influenced him to demand the
prompt settlement and the granting
of all demands made by the miners.
1t was political necessity that accom-
plished the result desired by the min
ers and for which they struck.
1t was believed that the loss to the
republican party of either Pennsyl-
vania or New York's electoral vote
would elect Bryan and the laboring
element could not be Disseminated
against. 1t was a prOsition which the
business and political acumen of M.
A. Hanna appreciated, and he was
quick to act for the strikers.
Holding the balance of power, "or-
ganized labor" is in a place to control
the balance of the voting power of
this country. When labor" insists
and demands planks in the platforms
of all parties and pledges from all
parties they can, by casting a united
vote, elect or defeat any national can
u.uates they decide to support or re-
| ject. Holding the balance of power
voice in the administration of this
| country by blindly following party
principles, which in many cases ig-
more the rights of the men who make
their living by the sweat of their
| brow.
At the first convention Of the Labor
| ian was designated as the official la
Dor party paper of the county and
knowing that the laboring people
have kindly feeling for this paper
that kindly feeling is duly recipro-
| Gated. Flathead county is as we be-
lieve the only county in the whole
Dor party state convention were duly
and legally elected. And it grieves
us to know that our delegates were
not permitted seat in that state
| convention and to know further that
| the labor party state convention was
a rump convention in the interest of
the sentiment of the laboring peo-
pie. We ask the laborers of Flat
head county and the members of or
ganized labor to read carefully the
pledges of the Independent Demo-
Gratis; read their platform, and you
will find therein the honest principles
advocated by all members of organ
lied labor. The labor party of Flat
head county in convention assem-
bled adopted in effect the same plat
| form and in nominating a ticket NOM
mated the same Bryan electors and
the same county ticket as the In
dependent Democrats. 1t is to the
| interest of organized labor to sup
port mat ticket. 1t is the duty OF
| the laboring people 10 vote as unit
~ they expect to promote their best
| welfare. They can never accom-
plish anything by following off the
| wrong procession, nor pointing with
pride to the record of man who has
been proven guilty of corrupt political
methods to gain private and selfish
ends Labor does not stand for dis
honesty and we admonish all friends
of organized labor to not place them
selves in that light by endorsing with
pride a corrupt practice.
! In this do not be hoodwinked by
the Cry of coal oil and the Amalga-
mated Copper Company, for it is a
matter of record that w. A. Clark, by
corrupt practice, passed bill that
created the Amalgamated Copper
Company. 1t is not theory nor an
assertion, but a fact and that bill was
vetoed by the Hon. Robert B. Smith,
governor of this state, and again
passed by a two-thirds vote in W..
A. Clark democratic and w. A. Clark
republican legislature. Laborers
these are facts and you know them to
be such beyond question. Ii you want
to promote the cause of right and
| justice and the best interests of the
laborers of Flathead county do not
endorse those things against which
you are fighting but vote for principle
and not for man and if you do so
you cannot help but vote the hide
pendent Democratic legislative ticket
| without scratch.