Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1908-11-12
Montana Vote
Showing Well
Gain in Small PrecinctS....State Ticket Gaining
on National as Against Great Discrep.
ancy Four Years Ago.

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not be fully known until tho official
canvass has been made by the
county commissioners. From returns
received SO far the indications are
that We have made "A healthy
gain throughout the state. except i'm
the larger cities, where We have made
stances fallen below the vote of four
years ago
The vote for Dcbs In silver Bow
county, including Butte. falls twenty
one short of tho vote Debs received in
that county in 1904 The fact that
there were three thousand less votes
east i'm Butte this year accounts for
the falling off.
The small mining camps and rural
precincts give us large Increase and
indicate a net gain in the state of
thirty per cent over the Debs vote Of
four years ago making our vote this
year over 1000 as compared with
5.G76 of 1904
-Four years ago our state ticket re-
c"ivcd only sixty per cent Of the Debs
vote, or 3.4sS for governor The re-
turns received indicate that the vote
cast for our state ticket will exceed
the Drbs vote this year. In silver
Bow county our state ticket made u
gain of 900 votes over the vote re-
c"iv"d four years ago for governor.
The figures for the rrturns of 1906
are not available so comparison can
not bc made.
The vote received by our prcsidcn-
tini candidates and the fact that al
most everywhere throughout the
country their vote ran hehind the local
tickets iustifics the arguments and ac-
tions of the Montana delegation to the
national convention. Issues and not
popular men were what was needed in
the past campaign.
Gompers, Bryan and Hearst are all
blamed for tn. workers running after
false gods; rather we should blame
ourselves and our methods. In no
other country where the Socialist
party is established would the oppor-
tunlty that presented itself in the form
Of labor crisis have been passed
up. Here We are. too busy dealing
I'm abstract theories To waste time i'm
issues.
The Socialist party is the political
expression of the working class and
should rally tn the attack when a
labor crisis is on. instead of allowing
Gompcrs and Bryan To- use our thun-
der. Had We done So, perhaps our
cause might have been further adj
vanccd i'm the campaign now ended.
In reviewing the situation in Mon
tana We have every reason to be- salts
fled with the results when compared
TO other districts. The sparscly
settled county gave ms the greatest in
crease. and the most astonishing thing
Is the number Of straight votes cast i'm
them. These counties have been
neglected in the past and more at
tention should be given To them in the
future. while II costs more to carry on
our propaganda in the sparsely settled
counties yet the returns are greater
In the end for the energy expended.
II is To those counties that we have
to look To for our solid and staunch-
est growth which can bc relied upon
during crisis and from them We will
receive our earliest and largest dele
cations to the state Legislature.
Turning To the enemy, We find that
the democratic party has made sub
stantial gains in the state Legislature.
well generated and using good tactics
and every indication or continuing so.
with ambitious men anxious to go to
the United States senate I'm the next
two or four years.
Receiving time and energy that only
trained minds can give. the democratic
party viii be- an exceedingly lively
corpse as far as the Socialist party
of Montana is concerned, for the next
four years.
DEBs' VOTE IN SOME MONTANA