The Butte inter mountain., 1902-08-13
WOULD "ASSiMiLATE" THE REGULAR
DEMOCRATIC PARTY BY Sc
CURING PRIMARIES.
WISER ONES ARE ALL IN
FAVOR OF GIVING IT UP
Those Whom Enthusiasm Has Net Car
ried Out Of Their Senses Realize That
the Populist Party Is Dead in This
State and Want to Call Convention
and Call It All OF at Once.

Some day during the week the populist
county central committee will in all proba-
bility be called together for the purpose
of getting an expression of opinion upon
the question of longer remaining as fac
tor in politics. Some assert that it would
be manifestly unfair to permit the COM
mittee to pass upon SO momentous
question, while others are equally positive
that there is not enough populsts all told
in Silver Bow county to make full
county committee and that therefore a con
vcntion would not only be nonsense but
impossible.
However this may be. il is certain that
in past years the populst politicians Sc
cured nearly all of the Offices. not only in
this county but in the state, and that those
now holding Office will give up without a
struggle, is hardly to be believed. For the
past several years they have been so sue
cessful in doing the Tracy act with the
democrats that those who are in touch with
them, but not Of them, feel confident that
the coming campaign will see force Of
true-bluc, get-the-ohce populists again
ringing the democratic door bell
Want to Cut It All Out.
1t is known that some OF tbc leading
populists of the state are in favor of call
ing conventions, county and state. and
then by a motion or resolution, dissolving
the party. In other words, quoting an
eminent populist authority: 1T is better
to kill it with an axe than to let it linger
along in agony and die a natural DEATH"
This gentleman and those who think with
him, are of the opinion that the party has
nytliveI usefulness ard tbey ow
frankly admit that the only real use it has
ever been IN Montana was to stick up
the democratic party for the Offices. They
now fully realize that the democrats are
tired of electing people to office that are
not democrats and the populists astute
politicians as they always were, have a
new plan, which is to capture enough OF
the democratic primaries to control the
democratic convention and thus secure
the Offices anyway.
Demmies Are Sure Of 1t.
When warned Of what may happen to his
party, the average democrat turns up his
nose and SCOTS at the alleged power of the
populists and avows that the democrats
will not fuse with any party, that they
have principles this year; that they are
down on the United States army for max
ing the Filipinos behave themselves and
for shooting a few of them for not doing
SO and that upon this slogan they feel they
can win, alone and unaided. 1t may be, OF
course, that the two parties may again
join issues, but from the present outlook
the populists will either go out of exist
enc altogether or be compelled to go it
alone.
The names of the gentlemen who COM
pose the populist county central commit
tee follow: M. p. Tonrey chairman
Thomas X. Kinds, James Mcclure, Barney
Ferry, John Hoy. Patrick Peoples, Peter
Breen, James Ryan, Thomas Broean, John
Weston, John Byrne, Z. G. Sullivan and
John Burke.
These are the gentlemen who will, so
far as Silver Bow county is concerned,
take the initiative in forever dissolving the
populist party The referendum will come
later.
Stockholders Meetinu