The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-09-23
mot ALARMED
AT ALLIANCE
CHAIRMAN MANTLE SEES NO
DANGER IN 1T.
JUST AS WAS EXPECTED
Action Of Laborites and PopuIists
Does Not Affect Prospects Of
Republican Success.

Chairman Mantle of the republican
state central committee was, at Helena
during the session of the labor and
populist conventions. The action of
those two bodies did not surprise
him, as he and the others who were
close observers of events were fully
prepared for it. In, an interview he
said:
Il am entirely satisfied with the
result. 1t is just what everyone knew
would happen. That the office seek.
ing democrats, laborites and populists
should act together is as natural as
that water should run down hill. They
have acted together for the past eight
years in the state and have had COM
plete control of the state government
during that time. What the result
has been is known to all the world.
During that period they have made
a record for wholesale bribery, pub.
lie debauchery and prostitution OF Of
fetal place and power such as has
never before disgraced the history OF
any state.
$50 open and fragrant have been
these infamies that they have at
tracted the attention Of the entire
country and have made the name
of Montana a by-word and a reproach
throughout the length and breadth OF
the land.
Is a Motley Crowd.
'The motley array of political ele-
ments now harnessed up together
under the democratic banner present
a spectacle of inconsistency never
before witnessed here or elsewhere.
Within four years we have seen the
forces Of Clark and Heinze arrayed
in deadly hostility against the Amalga.
mated Copper company. Following
that we have seen Heinze fighting for
his very life against the combined
forces of Clark and the Amalgamated,
while today we find all these forces
the Clarks, the Heinzes and the
MISUNDERSTANDING seats and sit.
ting in the same conventions, voting
for the same candidates, and all
united in the support of the same
platform and policies. 1t matters not
that in the near past they have ac-
cused each other of every crime and
villainy in their violent hatred OF
each other. 1t matters not that but
yesterday they applied 20 each other
vilest epithets and accused each
other of the meanest and most dis
honorable motives. Today they are
beneath the same political
blanket, locked in a miscagenous en-
brace-Amalgamated and anti-Amal-
gamated; trust and anti-trust; corpo.
ration and anti-corporation; Clark
and Heinze, and all their lieutenants,
heelers, strikers, roustabouts and
shouters, who in recent campaigns
have made the political nights and
Jays hideous with their paid mouth
4ngs.
mo public good ever yet came out
IF fusion of incongruous and incon-
elements such as has cO~ntroll-
III state in the past. They are
linked together solely by the greed
'or Office and plumber. II successful
this campaign the same infamies
which have disgraced and shamed
our state and its people in the past
will disgrace and shame us in the
Good Republican Outlook.
What do I think of republican
Splendid. Not in the past
10 years have Montana republicans |
presented such a united and solid
'front.'. There is not a break in the
inc from Glendive to Thompso,,
Lima to Coutts. 77,.ho
ticket is made up of honest, suNst
.ial and patriotic citizens. Thk Not
'orm meets every just and reasl h,o
aone and expectation of everyt o,o.e
Ind every section: the party d Ina ,ts
organization are absolutely fred, frono
he slightest faint of c~orporatio(n oon
rol or dictation. No principle hos
oeen compromised or sacriiced.\ NJ
pledges have been gAue
o any person or faction, and no al
equitable alliances made to securl.
he spoils of Office.
Two years ago the republicans /,t
Montana cast nearly 10000 votes, ana
his splendid phalanx was marshal la