Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1900-06-01
7. P. Mcdonald Of Bmdger Makes Reply
to an Article in Last Weeks
Democrat.
PLEA FOR A CONVENTION
He Denies That Signatures to the Petition
We're Obtained Under False
Pretenses
EDITOR RED LODGE PICKET:

EDITOR fGED LODGE PICKET.
The Carbon County Democrat, in it's
issue of May %, under the headline A
Misleading Petition devotes column
and half to the defense of the demo-
cratic county central committee, in which
the actions and motives Of the writer are
criticised and misrepresented. There
being no democratic newspaper in Car
bon county | beg space in your columns
to correct few Of the misleading state
ments contained il the article referred
| to.
We allege that the Carbon County
Democrat does not represent the demo
cratic party, but has been guilty Of play
ing confidence game with the demo
Gratis Of Carbon county Of more flag
rant nature than the shell game Of the
circus which recently visited your city
and heeced the unWary.
Let Us trace briefly tho history Of this
publications
4 Referring to the incorporation Of the
Carbon County Democrat Publishing
company, The Picket Of November "a,
1899, said:
The stockholders arc all representa-
I tive democrats, residents Of Red Lodge
and vicinity, and consist of Or. u. NJ.
Fox, B. 2. Vail, u. r. Mushbach, o. o..
Anderson, D. r. Andrews, William Woods
and w. "A. Talmage."
These men are alt well known III the
county and state are honorable gentle
men, highly respected il business and
social circles and abundantly able to
own and operate newspaper, hence we
were pleased to read in the salutatory in
it's first issue, November 29 1899, the
following:
THE name Of this paper sufficiently
explains it's mission. tt will, as its
name would Indicate, aim to be the eX=
ponent Of the democracy of Carbon
county, and CONTRARY TO THE HASTILY
FORMED AND PRECoNCEIvED OPINIONS Of
several Montana journals. ~ WILL NOT BIZ
THE ORGAN OF ANY PARTICULAR FACTION
OT IHL lOEIASNANl. VII LllI COIlll tll Etll
Of its mission will be to induce the mem
bers Of the democratic party to forget
factional differences, to close up the
ranks and present a solid and united
front to our friends the enemy. It will
advocate straight clean cut democratic
doctrines, believing such to be for the
/ best interests OF the country, and will op-
pose the democracy dividing into hostile
camps. This point we desire to empha
size now, so as to avoid misconception il
the minds of those who have already be
gun to forecast the policy Of this paper
1t is distinctly a CARBON COUNTY ENTER
PRISE, AND THE ENTIRE STOCK OF TIL
COMPANY is OWNED AND CONTROLLED By
CARBON COUNTY MEN.
Upon reading the above, we democrats
felt proud to think all factional differ
ences in our party IN Carbon count,
would be buried in the future; no more
would the cry of Anaconda or Clarl
DOODLE be heard; our organ was oWnec
and controlled by home democrats whe
were connected with no faction, SO the,
told US, and we believed them, and the,
would have been fooling US yet had no
Congressman A. J. Campbell testified
under oath before the committee OF
privileges and elections in the Unitet
States senate that Marcus DAILY fur
nished him, and he paid the money tina
esta blished the Carbon County Demo
crat
While we have no doubt that some o
the above named incorporators were ig
norant OF the source from which til,
money came, yet what can we say in ex
cuse for the duplicity practiccd by tn,
real promoters Of the publication? Die
they tell the truth when they said the,
owned and controlled all the stock, Whe,
the money belonged to Marcus DAILY, o
were they trying to deceive the demo
Gratis of Carbon county? We will asl
the democrats to draw their own con
: clusions. Do the democrats of Carbol
county Want the party used to furthe
the selfish ends of any faction? W,
think not. We believe the party has
higher purpose than that of being pros
tituted to serve the selfish ends of any in
dividual or corporation.
Better have no newspaper than On,
that seeks to turn the party over to an.
corporation. A publication guilty 0
such deception is unworthy of the con
fdence of honest men and is not tru,
) democratic publication, hence we ar,
: compelled to ask space in republican
; paper.
The Democrat cites a precedent TO
the arbitrary action of the central com
mittee in selecting delegates to stat'