The Libby herald. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1911-1913, 1912-10-24

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had displaced a popular Libby
man. Baney had not Jared very
well at the hands of Libby voters in
the election. When they starte d
IN this community Friend had a
big lead over Frank Baney iu the
political game But B Bauey attend
ed to his Office, played a square
game, treated everybody with cour
tesy, greeted everybody the dav
after election as he did tha dav
before, and planted his Crouch, i!
he ever had one.
When the nominating convention
came along this year everybody
from every part of the county was
or Raney. But John Friend had
made no new friends; he had how
ever, lost hundreds of those vhc
had been his friends. In a fair
and honest contest for the nouina-
ton he lost to a much better and
more deserving man. Then tie
howl went up, from some interest
ed quarters, that Libby slaughterc,
Friend because he is Eureka
man. Few thinking men will
swallow that kind of CUFF. The
record shows that Libby stood bv
Friend at a time when the feeling
between the two towns was the
hlttertst. Now the story goes the
rounds that the dtmocr,t> refused
10 r'uonlina'r Fri4nd because lie
= lin do something tnsf s5ta irst
National Bank of Libby Or its Off
Gals asked Of him This k.u,, of
1,alderdash and tommyrot may be
accepted at face value by some vet
rs who have no means of knowing
the lIsidc facts but it wo It fool
MANY people in this neck Of the
woods. The irut4j tauth about
i !, that the voters Ia this part of
he country don't owe tie FIRST
National Bank of Libby anything
, Setpt those material obligations
'pon which they are required to
pay good and sufficient interest
We have found nobody around
Libby losing much sleep or spend !.
Ing much time look ing for a chance
10 do the First National Bank any
pecial favors. That institution
appears to be doing we'll in bust
less way; it seems to be wei! man.
'ged and prosperous. / he public I
generally has no interest in it's af-
'alrs. The suggestion that any
,quabble which the bank in this
slty may have, in busines, trans
acton, with another bank in some
o,her town is of vital conc .rn TO the
eople generally is silly. Nobody
II Libby gives one Whoopcc in
Narland what bank pays interest
on the county funds SO long as the
oubllc gets the interest and the
unds are kept safe and secure. In
proof of this assertion the fact
nay be quoted that some democrats
who were members of the recent
county convention and voted to
dominate Geo. +. Davis against,
ohm Friend do their banking in
<alispell.
Undoubtedly some honest and
men think the story
hat IS being circulated for the ben
'ht OF Mr.. Friend to the effect that
le was thrown down. for re-nom
nation at the instigation of the ,
libby banking people is true. 1t ,
$ a lie, nevertheless. Friend
threw himself down. Mr.. Chap
nan, of the Eureka bank, is
lemocrat, and good, loyal one at i
hat. He has a reputation, with
'eople who know him we'll, of being ,
just man, a loyal friend and a
,ood citizen. No democrat in this
egion will be heard to squeal if Mr.. {
,hapman's bank gets the edge on {
ounty deposits from a democratic
feasurer. But the democrats don't ,
ke the way John Friend treated ,
len who have been his true
flends; they think he got all that
'as coming to him during the
early tour years he has been in I
ne county treasurer's office. He ,