The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-08-09
WOULD help
DEMOCRATS.
SOME PEOPLE AND PARTIES
WILLING TO FUSE.
MCDONALD LD-DON0vAN- N-WELcH.
George Might Abandon Antitrust
Party for Place on the
Democratic Ticket.

When the democrats meet in state
convention at Helena next month
there will be an attempt made at
fusion with every bobtail party that
ever had an existence in this state.
The labor party will be handled by
Dan Mcdonald OF Butte, Of whom 1t liz
said that he has higher regard for
the success of certain men and insti.
tutions in the state than he has for
the interests of the struggling work
Iingmen.
Mcdonald few years ago was a
cigarmaker in Butte, but he quit the
bench in order to devote his time and
attention to bettering the condition
of the laborers in the mines at Butte
and the upbuilding of a political ma
chine which could be bossed by Nc
Donald.
At moderate salary Mcdonald, it
is said, has managed to amass for
tune, keeping to some extent in mind
the interests of his former fellow
workers, but at the same time re-
naming close political confidant of
Senator Clark and other democrats
who needed the friendship OF men
like Mcdonald to secure political sue
cess in the state.
Mcdonald has worked the labor
string for all it is worth in Montana
and the wonder is that the men who
earn their bread by toiling for what
they get have not discovered the easy
methods pursued by their boss. Nc
Donald is the best worker in the
state and the condition of his hands
show that he labors day and night,
especially about the time there is
democratic state convention on hand
and there is prospect to- fuse the
labor party to the tail of the demo-
cratic kite.
Another Gallery Player.
Another fellow who poses as a
laboring man and is really not what
he pretends to be, is the man Welch,
who was lifted out of a very cheap
restaurant at Billings a few years
ago and paced in the position of
state perintendent of schools.
Montana has been disgraced before,
but the disgrace for the state was
never so complete as when the schools
Of the commonwealth were turned
over to the Jurisdiction OF a man like
Welch.
The little prestige gained by Welch
while occupying an Office at the state
capital has brought out the notion
that he should demand from the demo
Gratis as his share of the spoils, and
as a concession to the laboring men
in the state, the nomination on the
democratic ticket for congressman.
OF course the democrats in Mon
tana have nominated men before with
out brains for the Office of congress-
man and actually elected them, and
possibly they think that they can re-
peat the dose. But this is not the
year the people of the state are send
Ing democrat to represent them at ,
and in order to bury
Welch for good politically his nomina-
ton for congress should not even be
discouraged by republicans.
A Get-Rich-Q Quick Candidate. Ii
While 1T is believed that there are
only two populists left in the state +
Tom" Kinds of Butte and sJim" {
Donovan of Great Falls one of the
two remaining shining lights of that
party wants the democrats to fuse {
with him again for the Office OF at ,
torney general {
Donovan Isl just rounding out a /
'our-year term in that Office, and while !
le has made no brilliant record as !
prosecutor it is said that he has {
gained an excellent knowledge of get /
observation-disclosures. His opinions
handed down as attorney general OF J
he state have at least met with the /
approval OF some, If not all Of the /
'eople Of the state, and he has built 4
lp one Of the most successful and Z
prosperous stock ranches to be found