Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-06-28

10 determine DIS del WeSL COIISStdILS dIlu
refused, it is alleged, to submit such
questions to the committee until after he
had filled the vacancies which he said ex-
listed in the counties Of Beaverhead, GAL
latin, Lewis & Clarke and Meagher. This,
it is stated. was for the evident purpose
Of changing the personnel Of the commit
tee, so as to give the Daily men control.
1t is alleged hat every effort was made
on the part of the members of the COM
mittee to reach an equitable settlement
of the questions at issue, but the chair
man absolutely refused to entertain any
motion whatever, unit ae a completed
his list, this list to contain the names OF
persons among the contestants whom he
would recognize as entitled to vote upon
questions that would come before the
committee.
Then came the split. It became evil
dent to the democratic members of the
committee that Mr.. Cockrill had deter
mined to exercise arbitrary power and
they decided that their only remedy lay
in his immediate remova from the Of
fee of chairman. The motion to remove
Mr. Cockril and Mr.. Marks, the secre-
tary, was made by Walter Cooper. The
Clark democrats claim that the total
number of votes in of removal was
Is, of which 10 were from counties where
no contest existed. The opposition, 1t is
claimed had only seven votes, McNair of
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clining to mix-up in the fight and leav-
ing the committee room.
J. s. M. Ne" Immediately assumed the
duties of chairman and appointed Har-
vey Bliss secretary. Then followed an
adjournment the DAILY men in one corner
of the room voting against it. Upon
the assembling Of the Clark state
committee it was stated that the state |
convention had been called to meet at
Butte, but no place of meeting had been |
designated. Upon motion the Grand
Opera house was selected. The address
goes on to state that while the work Of
reorganizing the committee was in pro-
gress, Under Sheriff Murphy and ten
armed deputies rushed into the commit
tee room and attempted to eject the
Clark men, threatening violence and
using a bad Language.
The statement is made that the central
committee was forced to remove Chair
man CockriIl because he had conspired
with the enemies of the democratic party
to disrupt and destroy it, and ignored
the actions of the county conventions in
the selection of members of the state
central committee, arrogating to him.
self the sole right to fill vacancies. It is
| also charged that he refused to entertain
any motion whatever, until he had Allied
such vacancies with Daily men. The ad-
dress which is signed by fifteen members
| of the Clark state central committee con-
cludes as follows:
I'VE submit to the people of Montana.
without regard to political affiliations,
that the time has come for decided action
| so great is the principle for which we
are c~ontending that no man can afford
| to be neutral. We are contending, fellow
| citizens, against a rule or ruin policy OF
an u~nscrupulous and ruthless corpora
ton, which now controls the
branch of our state government, as we'll
as some of our most important judicial
/ tribunals. We need but point to the re-
| cent occurrence to convince any man
that there is no crime that the political
managers of this detestable corporation
will not stoop to accomplish their politi-
| cal ends, and to perpetuate their control
of state affairs. A gang of ruffians who
do not hesitate to provide an armed mob
in a ~peaceable city to prevent the citizens
of this state from participating in a po-
litical convention, and who did not hesi-
tate to plan Inc cause the committee
room where the state democratic central
committee was sitting to be invaded by
a desperate band of scoundrels, who
were ready, with the proper encourage
ment, to commit murder, or any other
crime, in order to accomplish their out
rageous ends.
w earnestly sympathize with the
law abiding and peaceable citizens of
Butte, which is infested with this MUIR
derous and lawless gang, and who did
not hesitate to bring the good name
of Montana's greatest and proudest city
into disrepute, and to render it impos-
sible for her to aspire in the future to
secure the meeting Of a state convention
within her corporate limits. We fail to
find language to express our condemna-
ton of the civil authorities of Butte,
especially the sheriff's department.
which deliberately entered into a con-
spiracy with the cowardly DULLES and po-
litical of the Amalgamated
Copper company to assault citizens from
all parts of our great and prosperous
state. We pledge the independent citi-
zens of Silver Bow county our sympathy
and support in Kidding your city and the
state Of this lawless gang"
p0I n.E Conductors. Fi-emen,
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