Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-08-14

tnOSe fiSnlS because they WORN AoA
the NJ. 0. P. company. The mining COM
panies of Butte are not enemies of the
public interest. They are the mainstays
of the district. They keep the business
of the community going. The assertion
that Mr.. Davis is not eligible to a COM
mittee secretaryship because he Is on the
M. o. P. pay roll, because he lawfully
works for a living for a company instead
of an individual or for himself. is too alb
surd to require comment. Davies is a
good mar regardless of where he works
and we fancy he would take quick offense
if any other than himself should assert
that he has lost any of his rights as an
American citizen because he has accepted
employment from the NJ. o. P. company.
That fact makes him neither better nor
worse and we regret that his resignation
was accepted upon such grounds.
The same is r Of Malcolm Gillis.
Judge Dingevon's attempted impeach-
ment of him because he earns a living by
working for the Amalgamated company
or one of it's allied concerns has created
general merrimen.. % VIC shall hear
that nc mar who works for that company
can be a member. much less chair
that no employee of that company shall
vote on election day unless he votes the
democratic ticket. Isn't it about time
to stop this sort Of nonsense in an Arneri-
can community? Is there any thing in
the statutes which disfranchrses all en-
ployes of corporations? II there is Judge
Dingevon did not quote the statute last
night in his remarkable string of resoIu-
tions. There is no a member of the
Miners Union and very few in the trades
& labor assembly or any other labor Or
ganization in Silver Bow county who do
not work for a corporation, either for the
~Amalgamated or the M. o. P. or for Mr..
Clark whose properties are mostly incor-
porated. Who would dare deny the right
of any of those laboring men to act as
chairman or a member of a committee or
a supporter of it's action at the polls? The
idea is preposterous. We do not deny the
right of a committee to depose it's chair
man at a proper time for any sufficient
cause, but the accusation against Mr.
ellis that he considers and deports him
self as the whole thing is hardly digni
fed and serious enough to amount to {
! valid charge. The charge that he is ito,
closely identified" with a c~orporatio,
which is seeking to control republican
politics, etc." lacks completeness. VIVA
are the specifications?
Let us have the charges in good plair
English; let them be presented to tn
republican convention, so that all repub
licans may hear and understand them
Z and then if anything is wrong let it b.
corrected. The fact is that the genera
proceedings last night We're unfortunate
They do not presage victory for the re
; publicans CT Silver Bow county. The.
: simply indicate that h democratic of
. ficeholders TOY in the court vii
e be reelected unless a sudden halt /
0 called and republican harmony and goo
8 will insisted upon. Every sane ma,
: knows that il there are two republica
e conventions in this county the democrats
: ticket will win, and this being the cas-
$ the responsibility will rest upon the re
publicans who are now creating discor
on pretexts which are too transparent
in the democratic intenest to require flu,
Their explanation. That may not be tn
intention. but that will be the result. Tt
II gentlemen of the republican committe
cannot afford to go ahead with this trol
BILE; it has not gone too far to be rect
fed. There is nc excuse for distrust I
# dissension. The men who were parti,
to the controversy last night have a
ways been good friends and good repul
lcans. Let it be conceded by all that M
re Davies, who works for the NJ. O.. P. cor
to pany, and Mr.. ellis who works for Il
II. Butte & Boston. are none the less wortl
of republican confidence n respet
lie none the less loyal American either
of none the less entitled to every right
n, citizenship because they work for a &C
as oo%ration. Let it be conceded that o
company is as good as another: tn