Judith Gap journal. [volume] (Judith Gap, Mont.) 1908-19??, 1912-05-17
FIGHT HAS
JUST BEGUN

ASs-\CUcClAl.1-
Senator Dixon, asked for a statement
regarding the result of the republican
primaries in Missoula yesterday. said
today: II have had no detailed infor-
nation regarding the Missoula pr:.
maries except the exultant statement
given out today by the Taft committee
that Taft had carried Missoula. Sill
yer Bow and Lewis and Clark conn
ties in Montana. Roosevelt swent
Minnesota yesterday, giving him a
solid delegation of "a delegates from
that state, which more than offsets
the local Taft victory in Missouia
and Silver Bow counties in Montana
Naturally, l feel sorry that these
counties in my own state are, on the
face of it. so out Of touch with the
great uprising of the common people
OF the country under the leadership
OF Roosevelt to restore real represen-
tative government to the people of
this nation.
THAT Roosevelt will be nominated
at Chicago is now conceded bysprac-
tically every man in public life who
is familiar with the national situa-
ton. Roosevelt is leading the great
est fight in our political history. He
is preaching the greatest gospel since
that preached on the shores of Cali
lee. nineteen hundred years ago, the
gospel of humanity itself.
If there was a fair expression yes-
terday in Missoula Of the real senti-
ment Of the people Of my home town,
and if that sentiment, fairly express
sed, was antagonistic to Roosevelt, l
am disappointed. But my disap-
pointment does not arise from the
numerical loss Of one county in Mon
tana at time when every other pro-
gressive state in the Union is array
ing itself solidly under the Roosevelt
banner.
"Some weeks ago the information
came to me, positive and direct, that
that the Amalgamated Copper COM
pany had agreed with the Taft man.
agement TO deliver the vote of Mon
tana at Chicago have been aware
Of the extraordinary methods that the
Amalgamated company had put forth.
first in the pressure they brought to
bear on the state committee ut Hell
ena, and since then in every commune
ity in my state, to secure Taft dele
CATION from Montana.
II have had positive information
of the number newspapers owned or
subsidized by the Amalgamated in
Montana, both republican and demo-
cratic. | also had positive informa-
ton Of the fact that the Amalgamat-
ed company in Missoula county,
through the special agency Of my for
mer protested friend, MI. Donlan,
had brought II. II. kilroy from Idaho,
who at one time was their active
agent in Butte, in order to attack me
personally in the hope of muddying
the water and of diverting attention
from the main issue by personal as
sault upon me- individually.
"1n their eagerness and blindness
they thought they could in some way
hurt the Roosevelt movement in the
east by injuring me at home. When
the MissOula Sentinel, some weeks
ago. owned and controlled by the
Amalgamated Copper company and
its own agents. commenced it's at
tack on me, addressed an open let
ter to Mr.. Kilroy. telling the cold
truth about the situation in order
that full publicity might be given to
the real animus of the Amalgamated
attack upon me personally. At the
urgent request of friends in Mssoula.
who believed that the Amalgamated
assaults in their paper, the Missoula
Sentinel, should not be dignitied by a
reply from me, l reluctantly yielded
my judgment to their opinion.
lat the request of Colonel Roose-
Welt l took charge of his pre-convel-
ton campaign and. for more than two
months, have worked day and night
trying to the best of my ability to
bring about his nomination. 1t looks
certain now that we have succeeded
and that he will be nominated ut Chi
ca0o and elected president in Novem-
Der by the greatest majority ever CIV
EN- a presidential candidate. cannot
| he Turned away from nv nrasont
work to answer the malicious false
hoods daily printed in the Amalga-
mated company's paper in Missoula.
"The present fight has just begun.
When Roosevelt is nominated shall
return to Montana. My personal for
tune1 and reputation Will then be
separated from the larger national is
sues involved in the Roosevelt move
| mpnt At that time I will liz, ohlo 70