The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-02-25
CASCADE SENATOR NOW WANTS
VOTE ON FAIR LOCATION.
k|RSCHW|NC SUSTAINED
Progressive Democrats Who Voted
Against Mains Bill Vindcated-"Bia
Joe" Wires to His People That Hs
Will Explain His Vote After the
Session.
(Staff Correspondence.)

-4elena. Feb. 24.--Tht state fair re-
moval is again in the limelight, this
time upon proposal fathered by Sem
ator Burlingame of Great Falls that
a permanent site for the fair shall be
chosen by a. vote of the people at the
next general election. At that time
the people will be given an opportun-
ity to express a preference for either
Helena, Great Falls. Bozeman, Bill
lings or Lewistown, the city receiving
the highest number of votes to be the
succ> ssful contestant.
This latest move is the occasion for
quite general comment here tonight,
and the prevailing opinion is that
Senator Bur'ingame has confessed by
his move that the Mains bill. remov-
ing the state fair from Helena to
Great Falls by legislative act. was de-
Cidediy unfair to the rest of the peo-
pie of the state
The friends OF Representative
Kirschwing are specifically calling at
tention to this feature of the matter,
and pointing to the proposed bill by
the Great Falls senator as an unqual-
flied admission that the Great Falls
representative was entirely correct in
his attitude as a LEGISLATOR for the
whole state of Montana, rather than
for the particular county OF Cascade.
when he voted against the Mains bill.
Still another turn was given to the
recent fight over the fair today when
Speaker Macdonald received tele-
gram from Great Falls stating that
the people were to hold a mass meet
t,fy l.,
and that Representatives Kirschwing
and Durham would be given an op-
portunity to explain their votes
against Great Falls. The speaker
showed this telegram to the members
ncerned. but neither of them will
make any answer to the signers Of
the telegram, but have gone direct to
the people In kilograms to the Great
Falls Tribune which follow:
kirsohwins's Message.
ITO the Tribune
upon the occasion when | voted
against the bill to remove the state
fair from Helena t. Great Falls, l
gave my reasons at some length and
Sufficiently. so far as was the purpose
at that time, In my remarks further
said: Upon my return to Cascade
county at the close Of this session |
shall take occasion to state my posi-
tion in this matter and the motives
that have governed me. to my people.
in spirit of the utmost frankness
and candor, leaving to their good
sense, sound judgment and apprecia-
ton of the duties that a legislator
owes to the people OF the state, to
make up their verdict, and by that
verdict | promise to abide
MY present intention Is as | then
stated it. The assembly Is now hold
ing night sessions in its closing days,
with the great reform program of the
democratic state platform uncom-
pleted My place Is therefore at my
post of duty and l shall remain here
until that duty has been discharged
In the senate today notice or in
tention to introduce bin was given
by Senator Burlingame OF Cascade, to
submit to vote OF the people at the
next general election the. selection OF
permanent site for the state fair,
and providing that the names of Great
Falls Helena, Bozeman. Billings and
Lewstown should be placed in the
ballot, as contestants. / consider this
attitude of Senator Burlingame as an
unqualified Endorsement of the posi-
tion l took in voting against the
Mains bill. upon the ground that as a
legislator for the people of the whole
state / could not consistently vote for
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