The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1902-09-26
G. 0. P. HIPPODROME


1
pealing with confidence to the iudg-
ment of the people, submit this dec
laration of its principles and pur-
poses.
| In common with civilized people
everywhere, we mourn with sincere
sorrow the death of our beloved chief
magistrate, whose wisdom, courage
and patriotism added luster to our
| flag, stability to our institutions, and
honor to our nation and who from out
| the wreck and ruin of four years of
| democratic misrule and INCOMPETENCE
brought forth the blessings of peace,
plenty and prosperity; but we con-
graduate the people of the United
States that in the high office of chief
magistrate of the nation, William Nc
Kinley leaves a worthy successor,
and we heartily indorse the admins
tration of Theodore Roosevelt and
affirm our unbounued confidence in
his wisdom, patriotism and states
manship.
We re-affirm our adherence to the
declarations of the republican ma
tional platform of 1900 and to the
wisdom of those declarations as ex-
emplified by six years of republican
government, we invite the unbiased
Judgment of the people of Flathead
county, and felicitate with the people
in the fact that after four years,
filled with individual and national
disaster and calamities under demo
cratic guidance, confidence has been
restored, prosperity prevails, the ma
tional honor indicated and that in
all that makes for civic and indus
trial advancement the United States
or America has been placed at the
head of all the nations of the earth.
The soldiers who have been fight
ing the nations battles abroad who
in a hostile climate and under the
most trying conditions are worthy
the gratitude and commentator of
the nation, and we denounce as un-
worthy great, patriotic and gener-
Gus people the attempt of democratic
orators, the democratic press and
above all, the official democratic cam
paign book, to hold our soldiery up to
ridicule and contempt and to tarnish
the luster of American arms.
The republican party is essentially
a party of the people, and we declare
it our purpose in the future as in
the past, to prevent the railroad and
mining corporations of the state from
influencing it's actions or dominating
it's councils, and in this connection
we call attention to the unholy strug-
gle now going on within the demo
cratic party by the mining corpora
tons, in which the voice of the indi-
vidual and Independent democrat has
been stif1ed and by which he has
been forced to retire from the coun-
ellis of the party or to align himself
with one or the other of the contend
ing corporations whose interests are
in every sense inimical to the inter
ests of the people. The preservation
and dignity of the courts and legisla-
ture should be the first and para
mount ambition of every good citi
zen and we view with horror the
struggle being waged within the dem
ocratic party for the control of the
supreme court, and we denounce
without measure the party that seeks
to degrade that august and honored
tribunal and make is justices sub
ject of barter and trade among the
corporations that dominate the demo
cratic party in state and county. Ano
we declare that the inevitable result
of democratic supremacy in the state
will be to destroy confidence in the
wisdom of our citizens, the justice Of
our courts and the integrity of our
legislature to keep investments from
of our mining industry.
We indorse the action of the repub-
licans in the legislature of 1901, who
voted as unit in favor of the pres
ent eight-hour law, and pledge the
candidates of this convention to work
and vote against any measure looking
to the repeal of that law, as contem-
plated by the democratic leaders of
this state.
; We denounce the democratic legis-
latures of 1899 ana 1901 for defeating
the fellow servant bill introduced in
each of those sessions and pledge the
candidates nominated by this conven-
ton to support such measures as will
afford full and complete protection to
the employees of the corporations of
the state on account of injuries re-
ceived in the performance of their du-
ties, through the negligence of such
corporations, their agents or en-
ployes.
We invite the sound and conserva-
tive business judgment of the people
upon the record of the democratic
government of Flathead county, and
nrofeSt that the record of that marty |