Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1904-10-26

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securing the endorsement of the
state Democratic ticket by the La
Dor, Populist, antitrust Democrat
and antitrust Republican parties.
What more proof is needed to
show collision between these cor
porations?
II these elements are now work
ing together for a common purpose,
and every fact and circumstance
clearly demonstrates that they are,
what does this damnable scheme in.
volye for the people of this state?
1. The election of Jos. X. Toole
for governor, a gentleman whom
both sides have heretofore charged
with being the friend and paid at
torney Of the other, and of the rest
Of the state Democratic ticket, ev.
cry candidate on which has always
worn the badge and brand of one
or the other Of these corporations.
2. That these combined corpor.
ations shall exploit the state of Mon
tana as n of their joint assets.
3. That the state government Is
TO become a mere annex to these
corporations, to be used for their
convenience and in their special in
terests.
4. That the state treasury Is 10
be at their disposal, 10 be used for
their profit without return of IN.
terest or earnings.
5. That the state lands, the he'll
itage of the people of this and fu-
ture generations, an empire in ex-
tent, are to be turned ove to the
selfish allied corporations to be
stripped and despoiled without ade-
quate return.
6. That these great corporations,
together with their numerous allied
concerns, in the form of banks, mer-
camille and industrial interests,
which are even now avoiding the
payment of their just proportion of
taxation by every species of him
drance and technical evasion, will
exercise the power, IL given control,
TO unload the great burden of taxes
upon the farmers, stockgrowers.
merchants and small property hold
ers of the state, while their W lni-
mense holdings, running up into the
hundreds of millions, will pay but a
fraction of their just share.
Z. That our executive, judicial
and legislative departments are TO
be made the servile tools of corpor-
atoms and multi-millionaires, whose
past outrages, extortions and in
lamies have disgraced the common
wealth and aroused to just indigna-
ton the moral sense OF all man
KIND.
MEN AND WOMEN OF MON
TANA. THE DANGER WHICH
coNFRoNTs OUR YOUNG CON-
MoNWEALTH Is NOT lMAGlN-
AIRY. 1T is REAL AND IMMINENT.
You have already seen our state
plunged into the depths Of degra-
dation as a result of the ~clashing Of
selfish corporate and millionaire In.
terests. You know that Dur legisla.
tive halls have been filled with the
paid lobbyists and hired attorneys
Of n or the other; that bribery
and corruption have reigned su-
preme; that millions have been
spent in endeavoring to control cleo
tions, courts and legislatures, and
that legislation has been purchased
outright In which the rights and In
terests of the great body Of our
people had no place or thought.
II these things had been done
when these great interests were
fighting each other for control,
What may we not expect now that
tney have pooled their interests and
are working to a common end?
There is but one way for the pa
Iriotic people of Montana to defeat
IS conspiracy, and that Is by the
election of the Republican ticket, a
Republican governor and a Repub-
lican legislature. AS matters now
sand, in this way. and this way On
ly, can the danger be avoided, and
the rights of the masses of our peo-
pie protected and preserved.
The corporations having united
in support of the Democratic party,
the Republican party and its con-
yention were left free from their
influence. Our candidates are,
therefore, clear OF any faint of cor
porete dictation or domination. They
are fresj II elected, TO ~legislate In
the interest Of all the people, to &C.
mand that all interests, great and
small, shall contribute their just
share 10 the support OF the state
government, and, in short. to safe
guard and protect the rights and
franchises of all our citizens against
the threatened invasion from these
sources.
Aside from his high character and
answering integrity, u candidate
for governor, Hon. William Lindsay,