The Western news. [volume] (Stevensville, Mont.) 1890-1977, 1900-11-14
Cause of Company's Defeat.

Editor Western News:
Election is over, and while not ours
here, yet it is in the state. The entire
fusion state ticket having been elected
and the legislature democratic by
safe majority. In the county the
straight democratic legislative candi-
dates, Landra1n and Flowers, were
beaten by the smallest margin, and
that owing to many rot knowing they
had been stricken from the democratic
column by the supreme court on
technicality.
In the face of formidable opposition,
in the home of the strongest corpora
ton, with an unlimited corruption
fund, which resorts to all tricks known
to politics, supported by both demo-
cratic and republican press, employ
ing hundreds of men, able lawyers,
noted politicians, in the face of all this
Landram and Flowers practically car
ricd Hamilton. And what a trail of
ruin and desolation have these corpo-
ration managers left!
They first disrupted the democratic
party, then appealed to the courts for
support, then formed the Independent
Democratic party, drove the regular
nominees from the regular democratic
column on the ballot, placed their own
men in their place on the ticket, then
turned around and blandly asked
the people TO support them. Such
downright. pure and simple political
conceit, yet absolute ignorance was
never known on earth before. It is
enough to make Rockefeller come here
and in pure disgust send such leaders
"off the earth"
Does it never occur to these bosses
that a corporation does not contract
with its laborers to vote, but when it
agrees to pay man one, two or three
dollars for a certain number of hours
of labor per Cay, that when he has
performed that labor the contract is
! ended until he begins his day the next
morning? Does it never occur to them
that all men who labor for salary
| are equally free? One may receive
more than another-the degree may be
different but the principle is the same.
And now we see the un-Amcricau, un-
principled act of discharging men
whom. the corporation foreman sus-
poets of not voting according to their
dictates, and thereby sacrificing their
manhood and American rights.
A blush of shame should mantle
their cheek when they deprive man
of employment for using the freedom
his fathers fought for. It is an act of
cowarcice, aud when man is dis
charged for using his franchise to suit
himself, let him go out feeling himself
more of a man than he who sends him,
| and remember the same manhood
which impelled him to be free. will
make room for him any where in the
| world. This is a broad world and
there are other places to earn liveli-
hood besides here. And, besides, you
have planted the flower of freedom in
your children's hearts which will
bloom and bear fruit, when these cor
porations and the men who represent
| them have passed into oblivion. We
have no opposition to companies as
such, but the public unquestionably
see they are overstepping their bounds
and have determined to check them.
We can assure the tricky O'Hara,
the unspeakable McGinty, the decep-
tive Myers, and oily Crutchfield that
this election has proven their politi-
cal Vaccinations to be useless here
after; their work is 'too coarse" It
has got so the people look at them as
at a signbcard pointing the wrong
way; they go right the opposite. But
what have these pilots done to their
employer? Can they ever have politi-
cal confidence in them again? Have
they not beaten themselves politically
and wrecked the democratic party in
this county?
The only way now'for them is to lead
their few followers into the republican
camp, where they will find their coal
oil friends with whom they are in such
hearty sympathy.
OBSERVER.
Hamilton, Mont, Nov. l3, 1900.