The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1912-03-30
VOICE OF THE YeOMANRY IS
HEARD AGAINST THE STATE
MACHINE METHODS.
FERGUS COUNTY AROUSED
RepubIcaNs Of Central. Montana Coun-
y Up in Arms Against Committee
man Who Betrayed Them After
Promising TO Cast His Vote for
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Is General.

Helena. March 2a.--(Spccinl)--T
high priests Of tile state mnchinc---
those lnen who. at the dicthtion of
tn, interests outraged the rank and
filc OF tho republican party ~ Mon
tam by denying them u voice IN the
choice or Il presidential candidate by
their party. are very EVIDENT, ana
considerably chngrinncd.
They nrc beginning to hear tron
"the bows AZ the forks of the creeks
The ycomanry are In bad temper, but
excellent voice. IN fact. the language
of their protest IL non mallablc, to
considerable extent,
| Every train coming into Ifclenh
brings one ar more OF these prot
| ostants, Thcv sccm To know exactly
what they nrc protesting about. 100.
Many ~ them admit that they have
been docIe IN fife pusf, but they
poin'edly assert that party docility
has It's limits, and that Che limit mas
been exceeded by the machine as
sumption that they were mudsiiis, not
knowing their own minds, ana m
capable OF expressing themselves ~
the primaries and caucusses of the
party.
| Typical Of the resentment and IN
digna,ion felt In the ranks of tho
| party over the throitling process OF
the state central committee IL the pro-
| test voiced by one of the middle-of-
the road republicans just In from
Fergus county. lie doesn't want ms
name used In print because. as he
says. "the gang that stole away my
| right Ia vote wouldn't hesitate to
punish me for protesting too openly.
The Fergus county member OF tho
state central committee. he declares
left Lewistown for the meeting OF the
state central committee not only
openly declaring himself In favor of
presidential preference primary, but
with an ayowcd purpose OF intro
ducing u resolution lndorslng Roose-
welt for the republican presidential
nomination. When the newspapers
came In telling us that he had voted
to deny the republican voters an op-
Iportunity to vote for their choice. ana
rubbed the outrage in by voting TO In
dorse Taft for recollection. we could
not believe what our eyes saw.
Indignation.
when We learned that tho newspa-
per reports were correct, and that
we had been deliberately betrayed,
amazement quickly became resent
mcnt and Indignation. No man on
earth could have convinced us, IN ad-
vance OF the meeting of the state
committee. that there was any power
In existence that could have swerved
our member one iota In his duty. That
such power did exist was u revelation
to ns
III tx this feature of the case that
now interests VS. tho most. because It
has shown III that we have been nn-
dcreallmnting the power of the ma
chine Ia onr political affairs We had
} thought that mere newspaper talk was
! acceun able for most that was current
about the combination between tho
corporations ana political leaders, We
weren't really much concerned about
IT, rognrdlng as little moro than
clamor the stuff we had been reading
along that line,
There hadn't been any attempt tn
instruct our committeeman, because
we didn't dream that anything of the
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