The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1900-10-30
Statement
BY HOGAN.
He Comes Back at the LA
Dor Leaders,
WHO SOLD TO CLARK.
A Manly Statement of His Position.
Clark Could Not "Induce'' Him
to Withdraw.
WHO SOLD TO CLARK.

Helena, Oct-29.-Hon. Thomas S. |
Hogan today issued an address in re-
ply to a statement issued on Satur-
day by John Wyman, Dan Mcdonald,
J. A. Ferguson and other alleged |
leaders of the labor party, in which |
they attacked him shamefully. Mr. |
Hogan's address is a manful reply and |
clearly sets forth the position he oc-
cupies. 1t is as follows:
ITO union labor Of the state of Mon
tana In taking the liberty Of address
ing this communication to you, have
no desire to urge upon you any claim
for personal support. My justifica
tion IN addressing you at all is that
the state central committee of the So
called labor party has seen fit to is
sue an address to you, and in that ad-
dress have passed criticism on me as
a union man and citizen. To be
truthful, | cannot say less than that
firmly believe that the said address
signed by Dan Mcdonald and John
Wyman, as chairman and secretary of
the labor party committee approved
| by J. A. Ferguson, F. M. Nickerson
Otto f. Schoenfeld and r. D. Myles,
is as fraudulent document as has
ever appealed to the public patriotism,
charging as it does betrayal of conf
dence where there has been no be-
trayal, while it is itself inspired by
the debauchery of a sacred trust. In
telligent union men of the state of
Montana cannot be deceived by so film
sy pretext as this, behind which the
grossest criminallty attempts to shield
itself. The accusations made against
me nthat address are but the inven-
tions of men who seek to turn public
attention rom their own base betrayal
of a sacred trust by attempting to
cast reflection upon me. Had any
union man in Montana, up to the time
OF the withdrawal OF the labor ticket,
believed that the labor ticket repre-
sented the bona nde union sentiment
OF Montana, they must now certainly
see that instead it was a elimination
of the reign of corruption which has
prevailed in this state. 1t will be
remembered that after my nomination
by the Independent Democratic party
committee or twenty-five waited up
on me in the city of Butte and asked
me to resign in favor ofd Ferguson.
told them what | firmly believed at
every moment since the adjournment
of the labor convention in Helena that
Ferguson was not nominated for the
purpose of his election or even an at
tempt to elect him, but because of an
understanding to withdraw in favor
of another candidate. M. p. Hager-
ty, who acted as chairman of that
committee assured me with all the
solemnity of the manner of man
about to make a declaration under
oath that Ferguson had pledged is
word of honor as union man and
gentlema nnever to resign the nomina-
ton, and that it was an insult to
Ferguson's integrity to even suggest
that he might Withdraw. Had they
succeeded in inducing me to with
: draw from the ticket they would never
have deemed it necessary to wait un-
til 20 minute sto II o'clock on the
last night for Ming nominations to
withdraw ferguson. Those men, many
| Of x1,hn OF "a convention at Helena
had declared that they would never
| stand lor the nomination of cor
poration lawyer like J. K. Toole for
governor, did not have the temerity to
had l withdrawn in favor of Fergu.
l son they could then have withdrawn
. Ferguson in favor of Toole. | was
v perfectly we'll aware when called upon
D by that committee of the labor party
in Butte that every arrangement had
= been carefully looked after by 4hr
J. Heinze's and Alr. Clarke financial
e agents. Eve nthe little pieces that
r some of the committee were to speak
!, to me had been suggested and pre-
pared by the literary burYa of these
millionaire labor LEADERS. There was
I one part of their instructions, how
It ever, which the committee did mo-
4 carry out and that was because then
courage failed them at the brazen
ness of the task. They were in
: structed, am satisfied, to notify MI
} that the unions of the state woulo re
pudiate me unless l yielded to thei