Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-10-04

per cent as a direct result Of the restora-
ton of republican rule, and the people
of Montana are once again contented,
prosperous and happy.
But another campaign is on and an
other effort is being made to divide and
defeat the republican party and putin
power a scheming office-seeker, who in
his desperation is appealing to the worst
passions of the people and advocating
the most lawless and ~incendiary policies
to acquire power. His election would
mean plumber, paralysis and perjury, the
shutting dow of mines and factories.
the withdrawal Of capital from invests
ment, the loss of work and wages, the
reversal of policies under which the ma
ton has grown great and the substitu-
ton of visionary schemes that would
result in anarchism and chaos. To pre-
vent such a calamity it becomes neces-
sary that the progressive, industrious.
intelligent, law abiding. patriotic and
conservative citizens Of every state to
rally to the support of the republican
ticket and elect it from top to bottom.
In Montana there is particular danger
and particular need of republican har-
mony. for this state is far more depend
ent h many others upon those indus
tries which require the encouragement
of a protective tariff, and there is a vast
laboring population who must be kept
employed at good wages in thise indus
tries.
Democrats recognize that in this cam
paign on the merits of the issues set
forth in the platform they are at a de-
cided disadvantages; so they have re-
sorted to the old plan of inventing an
issue upon which they expect to stir up
accused the republican party of being
under corporate domination, asserting
that the state convention was but an
aggregation of corporate tools. and the
nominees but servile representatives of
one of the mining companies doing bust
ness in this state.
These accusations are slanderous and
false and wholly beyond possibility of
proof. The republican party and the
corporation in question are wholly dis
tinct n Independent of each other, and
the issues of the campaign are political
and nothing else.
Yet the virulence of the democratic at
tack on the mining company in question
amounts to a declaration of war against
it, and the platform utterances but con-
firm tha Oayaro1 ba1;of +ha4 ..o
cratic scheme this year is to make war
on corporations. and the Amalgamated
in particular, based on the belief that
the people of Montana can be talked or
scared into a denial of all corporate
rights, and into ~antagonism towards all
property and property-holders, for that
is what it will all amount to in the
end.
If it is true that political conventions
are dominated by those corporations by
which a majority of the delegates are
employed, then the cry of corporate die
tation should be raised against the two
democratic conventions and not the re-
publican convention. The latter was
made up of men representing all indus
tries and all sections of the state, and
those counties in which the great corr
porations are not operating, the Silver
Bow and Deer Lodge members purposely
abstaining from active participation in
the proceedings and presenting no can-
didates except A. N. Yoder for a state
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any men on the republican ticket allied
in any way with corporations? Even if
they We're in civil life working for a cor
poration, we do not admit that the fact
would ~disqualify them for public office
after resignation. But it so happens that
the republican ticket presents the name
of not one man connected with a cor
poration, with the possible exception OF
that of Edwards, candidate for state
treasurer, who happens to be mayor of
Helena, which is an incorporated city.
David E. Folsom, who heads the ticket,
is one of the g%randest old pioneers of the
state, engaged in the cattle and farming
business 300 miles away from the office
of the company whose influence is said
to dominate him. He is a typical Mon
t%anian, and that means he is an indie
pendent, courageous, fair-minded, patri-
otto man of the people. To say that the
convention which nominated him was a
corporation convention is base SANDER,
for no man and no newspaper can prove
that any corporation had, the slightest
influence or sought to v any in the
makeup of the ticket. The democratic
tickets are far more open to the charge
Of corporate dictation, yet the Inter
Mountain would urge that the people in
deciding how to vote shall be guided by
principle, by the declarations of the
platforms, by a study of the character