s HELENA. WEEKLY HERALD

WITH THREE CHEERSSo the Republican Ocuntv Convention

Ends Its Labors.

Good Ticket, a Strong Ticket and the Winning Ticket Named.

At 11 o’clock on the 17th inst., Encore hall was filed with a body of representative Republicans from all parts of Lewis and Clarke county, comprising the delegation recently elected to the county Republican convention. Promptly at that boor Hon. T. H. Kleinechmidt, chairman of th t county central committee, rapped for order and read the call under which the convention had assembled. He said it was not the time for speech making and that the convention had better proceed at once to business.

On motion of Mr. M. A. Meyendorff, Mr. E. Goodell, of Marysville, was elected temporary chairman by acclamation.

Mr. Goodell took the chair amid applause and asked for nominations for temporary secretary. R. A. Harlow was then elected temporary secretary and Stephen Carpenter assistant secretary, both by acclamation.

Fuller moved the appointment of a committee of five on credentials. Carried. Committee named as follows: JohnHorsky, E. D. Weed, T. P. Fuller, Phil. A. Manix and W. H. Cameron.

On motion of Burton a committe of five on permanent organization and order of business was appointed as follows: D. A.Cory, M. A. Meyendorff, H. H. Davis, C. J. Kinna and A. M. Thornburgh.

On motion of Sterling a committee on platform and resolutions was appointed as follows:

A. C. Botkin, C. Hedges, W. F. Sanders, Z. T. Burton and P. J. Donahue.

A recess of twenty minutes was taken to give the committees time to make up their reports.

Convention resumed at 11:45, and Horsky, chairman of the credentials committee, reported. Report adopted with the proviso that any duly elected delegates not mentioned therein could, on presentation of the proper credentials, be recognized on the floor at any time prior to the adjournment of the convention.

The committee on permanent organization and order of business reported as follows through its chairman, Cory :

FOE PERMANENT OFFICEES.

A. J. Seligman, President.Phil. A. Manix, Vice President.R. A. Abercrombie, Vice President.P. J. Donahue, Vice President.F. P. Sterling, Secretary.

OBDEE OF BU8INESS.

1st—The nomination of a candidate for Sheriff.

2d—Treasurer.3d—Clerk and Recorder.4th—Assessor.5th—County Attorney.6th—Public Administrator.7th—Superintendent of Schools.8 th—Coroner.9th—County Surveyor.10th—Three Commissioners.11th—District Judge.12th—Clerk of District Court.13th—State Senator.14th—Eight Representatives.15th—Selection of 29 delegates and

29 alternates to the State Republican Convention at Anaconda.

16th—Town and precinct officers.17th—Report of the committee on plat

form and resolutions.18th—The selection of a county central

committee.Report adopted.The permanent officers then took their

places on the platform amid great applause.

Mr. Seligman on taking the chair simply stated that we were engaged in making history pretty fast, and that if any one would recall the result of last fall’s election in Lewis and Clarke county he would have no doubt that the Republican success would be repeated this year with largely increased majorities. He then thanked the convention for the honor conferred in his ejection, and announced that the convention was permanently organized and ready to proceed to business.

On motion the convention took a recess until 1:30 o’clock.

After recess nominations were made as follows by acclamation :

For Sheriff—Charles M. Jefferis.For Clerk and Recorder—John S.

Tooker.For Assessor—George Walker.For Treasurer—Richard P. Barden.For County Attorney—S. A. Balltet.For Public Administrator—F. W. Ellis. For Supermtenaent of Schools—Miss

Helen P. Clarke.For Coroner—Dr. M. Rockman.For County Surveyor—Benjamin F.

Marsh.For County Commissioners—A. M.

Thornburgh, of Helena, and A. J. Burns, of Marysville.

For the third candidate for county commissioner several names were presented, but some were withdrawn, so that when the first ballot was taken the following candidates were before the convention: Henry Klein, Francis Pope, W. D. Wheeler, the latter of Augusta.

There was no choice on the first ballot. On the second ballot W. D. Wheeler was chosen by a vote of 44 out of 84 and his nomination was made unanimous.

Previous to this vote the convention decided to appoint a committee of ten to select the names of twenty-nine delegates and twenty-nine alternates to represent this county in the State Republican Convention. W. F. Wheeler’s amendment to give each ward and precinct two delegates and select the remainder at large was carried. The chair appointed as selecting committee Messrs. Burton, Lewis, Smith, Weed, Featherly. Meyendorff, Riggs, Manix, Donahue, Tbieme and Dunn.

The next order of business was the nomination of a candidate for district j udge.

A. F. Burleigh made an eloquent speech nominating W. H. Hunt, which was seconded by Judge Hedges. On motion Mr. Hnnt was nominated by acclamation.

Clerk of the District Court was the next office for which a candidate was to be chosen.

Botkin nominated H. H. Davis.Col. Sanders nominated Willis F. Parker. Sterling nominated John Bean.Weed seconded Davis’ nomination and

McCutcheon seconded Parker’s.At this junction W. H. Hunt appeared

and in response to urgent calls made a graceful acknowledgment of the honor conferred. His speech was loudly applauded.

The convention then proceeded to ballot for clerk of the district court with the following result :

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Beau............ 30 34 37 39 55D avis..... _... 39 41 41 50 37P a r k e r ....... 23 18 IS 11 5

Totals... 92 93 »4 100 97

The result was received with applause and Mr. Bean returned thanks for the nomination in a characteristic speech. The

nomination was made unanimonse and the convention took a recess until 7 o’clock.

While the delegates were filing out, each was presented with the white button of the Republican League of the United States, a supply of which had been do noted by Delegate Carter.

THE EVENING SESSION,When the convention resumed Colonel

Sanders moved to suspend the rules and take up the report of the committee on resolutions. Carried.

The report was read by Judge Hedges and was received with great applause. When he read the clause instructing the Lewis and Clarke delegation to the Anaconda convention to vote for T. H. Carter for Representative in Congress, the ball fairly shook with the cheers, stamping of feet and other demonstrations of approbation. The applause lasted for sevearl minutée belore tue Judge was allowed io resume reading. The report was as follows:

The Platform .After twenty-five years of territorial ap

prenticeship and vassalage, and the nominal enjoyment of the abstract rights of citizenship, the people of Montana have in immediate prospect the entrance upon and full exercise of the concrete rights of citizenship in the State and nation.

A convention of delegatee of our own people, in accordance with the provisions of an enabling act of congress, have just completed the body of a constitution, that only awaits the approval of our people at the polls and the proclamation of the pres ident to receive the breath of life, when Montana will step forward proudly into the charmed circle of co-equal sovereign states of the great republic, and her star of destiny will shine forth in the constellation on the azure field of our national emblem.

Thongh distasteful in some features, we assume that our people, keenly mindful of past neglects and humiliations, but confident in themselves and their future, will accept the constitution with its defects.

We, therefore, the Republicans of Lewis and Clarke county, assembled for the first time to select candidates for offices provided lor by this constitution, record onr emphatic and united protest against the partisan action of the responsible majority in the convention in vacating all the county offices for no other substantial reason than the hope that the verdict of last November might in some measure be reversed in the coming October. We conceive that the most effectual rebuke of such partisanship would be the re-election of those officers by an increased majority.

Yet, with defeats which we can trust Republican majorities in the future to correct, we urge the Republicans of Lewis and Clarke county to vote for the constitution, as much less of an evil than further disfranchisement.

Considering and comparing the policies of the two great national parties, we feel that we should impugn the intelligence of our people to express a doubt as to which one Montana is allied in every great controlling interest. Not only the freedom, but the existence of our nation is to be credited to the great National Republican party. We look to it as the safest guardian of the unity, honor and interests of this great nation. We affirm without fear of successful contradiction that the adminis tration of President Harrisson has, so far as was possible without the co-operation of Congress, j ustified all the pledges and ex pectations upon which the Republicans of Montana fought and won the campaign of la-t year. Every interest has been invigorated by the change. Our miners, ranchmen and lumbermen are no longer dogged by spies and harried with costly suits for trespassing upon the public domain in cutting timber for necessary and useful purposes that otherwise would be food for Bparks and flames. Our settlers are no longer insulted as “frauds” and hindered or uselessly taxed to secure titles to their homes.

The Republican doctrine of protection to American labor and industrial enterprises and investments is peculiarly adapted to the development and prosperity of those interests which are paramount to Montana —our mining and stock interests. The revenues from protective duties aie needed to pay our national debt, to construct a superior navy and to carry out schemes of internal improvement, from which Montana has so much to hope and expect.

Conscious, therefore, of Montana’s stake in the ascendency of the Republican party and policy, we recognize the transcendent importance of securing a Republican majority in the legislature which will have the selection of United States Senators When Montana’s interests are at stake Jn the legislation before Congress, let her voice and votes be neither doub'ful or divided.

Let there be no wrangling or strangling. We have the protection of a registration and an impartial voting law. There is every incentive to honest effort and intelligent appeals to reason and highest self-interest.

Be it resolved, theiefore, by the republicans of Lewis and Clarke county, in convention assembled, that we pledge to each other, to the candidates this day named, to onr constituents, and to the republicans of the whole country watching our actions and awaiting the issue with so much interest, our united and continued efforts thronghout this opening campaign to secure a complete and decisive victory.

Resolved, That the convention has yielded with regret to the wishes of the Hon. Silas H. Crounse in declining a renomination to the important office of county commissioner, and desires to express the thanks of the people of the county which are preeminently his due for his faithful and intelligent service.

Resolved, That the delegates from this county be instructed to present to the State Convention as our choice for Representative to Congress the name of the Hon. Thomas H. Carter, who was so triumphantly elected as Delegate thereto at our last election, and who, without question as to what was merely official duty or personal ease, has been instant in sea-on and out of season in caring for the interests of all the people of Montana.

Nominations for State se' ator being in order, Burleigh named T. C. Power. Mr. Power declined. Col. Sanders nominated A. M. Holter. Burton named David A. Cory. Mr. Cory declined. Sterling named A. J. Seligman, whose nomination was vociferously applauded. Mr. Seligman begged to be excused. Howey nominated T. H. Kleinschmidt, Manix nominated A.J. Craven.

As there was some doubt as to the possible acceptance of sever: 1 of the nominees the senatorial nomination was passed for a few moments to allow delegates to inquire the desires of candidates.

The nominations for the lower house of the legislature were then taken up.

George H. Robinson of Marysville: Gilman Riggs of East Helena: Phil. Manix of Augusta; M. H. Keefe and John Horsky of Helena, were successively nominated by acclamation.

Here a recess of a few minutes was taken. On reassembling the senatorial nomination was considered. It was announced that Mr. Craven was disinclined to accept the nomination. Weed placed the name of W. A. Chessman before the convention for sen- ati r A ballot was then taken, resulting as follows:A. M. H olter.................................................................14C. H edges..................................................................... 32W. A. Chessm an..... - ....................................„...„....15T. H , K leinschm idt...................................... 2.1A. J . C raven..... ...................................................... 1

Total. ___83

The second ballot resulted:H edges.................................................... - ...................Cheesm an....................................... - .......- ................ -}7H olte r........................................................... - ........ ...... «K le in sch m id t.......................................... - ...........“

T o ta l ....................................................................86The nomination of Jndge Hedges was

then made unanimous and in response to calls he acknowledged the honor in a brief speech that was loudly applauded.

Before the last ballot Mr. Kleinschmidt had positively declined to accept if nominated, and Mr Holter’s sentiments were not known, many contending that he would notacceptthe nomination for senator.

The nomination of the remaining three members of the lower honse was then taken up. Messrs. Richard Lockey, D. A. Cory A. M. Holter, M. L. Stone, R. H. Howey and Hngh Kirkendall were placed in nomination. All the candidates were voted for on one ballot, which resulted as follows:H olter............................ ............................. .................77C ory............................ .................... - ......... ....................58H o w ey ........................... - .................— .......................5S tone............................................................................... 42Lockey........................... — ...........................................24K irk en d a ll.............................................. 1....................15

T o ta l.................................................~................ »2Messrs. Holter, Cory and Howey, the

three highest candidates, each havingreceived a majority of all the votes cast were declared the nominees of the conven tion, and the nominations were made unanimous.

The committee appointed to select the names of delegatee to the Anaconda convention reported as follows:

Delegates. Alternates.L H Hershfield W A ChessmanA C Botkin J P WoolmanA J Seligman F M MclntireT C Power Sindey LoganW F Sanders * J U Sanders T H Kleinschmidt W F Parker A F Burleigh George BottscherE D Weed Caailes CookI D McCutcheon James Gurley,R E Fisk J B WalkerLouis DeLestry J G SomervilleJoseph Davis Eugene MeyerH H Davis S CarpenterJ W Hathaway R A HarlowHugh Kirkendall J S FeatherlyClarence Kinna L W SpencerGeorge E Boos John SteinbrennerM A Meyendorff B F HooperT H Clewell W C WhippsZ T Burton F L KingP S Washburn John WelcomeAngus McDonald J C StubbsF P Sterling R LockeyJoshua Armitage A C VotawThos. Wilkinson Nick BaatzJ T Kearney John RobertsP A Manix A C FlemingP Abercrombie Jere HaysMilton Cauby A C Potter

The report was adopted.T. H. Kleinschmidt was re elected by

acclamation chairman of the county central committee, and the following were chosen members of the committee : Ben Benson, R. A. Harlow, J. S. Featherly, John Stein brenner, J. W. Kinsley, F. E. Thieme, F. P. Sterling, P. J. Donahue, M. Jacobs, F. N. Mclntire, Phil. A. Manix, W. C. Gil- litte and John J. Johns.

The Helena township officers nominated were: Constables, J. W. Cleary and Alfred N. Richards; justices of the peace, B. F Woodman and C. W. Fleischer.

With three rousing cheers and a tiger for the ticket, the convention adjourned sine die.

The P resident a t C incinnati.Cincinnati, August 21.—Amid the

booming of cannon and cheers from the vast multitude gathered at the central station, the President of the United States arrived here at 10 o’clock. The crowds at every station, as the train came humming down this morning, gave him cheers. When the train stopped the President was being besieged by eager patriots to shake hands. The party included President Harrison, Attorney General Miller, Secretary Rusk, Hon. John B. Elan, Gen. Thomas G. Morgan, Commission of Indian Affairs and others.

The Central Union depot was packed and there was an almost continuous ovation of applause until he reached the carriage, which he occupied with Gov. Fora- ker. The First Regiment Ohio National Guards, commanded by M. L. Hakins, and Battery B, of the Ohio National Guards, fired a salute, which added to the volume of cheering as the President was making his way to the carriage. The line of march to the Burnett House was packed with shouting people, while the windows were alive with men, women and children, all joining in the boisterous welcome to the chief magistrate. The President rode almost continually with his hat in his band, and was almost continually bowing his acknowledgments tu the enthusiastic greetings. The common expression among those who had not seen him since the end of last fall’s election, was “How well be looks.” Arriving at the Burnett House, the public reception in the elaborately adorned parlors began almost immediately. At the end of three- qnarters of an hour the President was driven to the Business Exchange, where another address of welcome was made by President Allison, of that body. Here again, as at the Burnett Honse, there was a press of people to shake hands with the President.

From the Builders’ Exchange the President was driven to the magnificent new building of the Chamber of Commerce, where it had been arranged that the members should have a reception for a quarter of an hour, then the public should be admitted for an hour, but the members be came engulfed in the great mass of people that crushed into the hall.

The President, in reply to an address, referred to the fact that in his youth it was at Cincinnati that he, a country boy, had his first glimpse of a great city. Notwithstanding an hour was spent in handshaking not near all of the throng present could be gratified. _______

S u l l iv a n a n d K i lr a in to b e P a r d o n e d .

Baltimore, August 20.—It was rumored last night that Kilrain had skipped. Sheriff Childs, of Mississippi, who is here to take him back says he has no fears of anything of the sort and that Kilrain will leave for Mississippi to-day to stand trial. Childs makes the rather sensational statement that Kilrain knows that he has nothing to fear. He says the plan is to convict and sentence him to the same punishment as that inflicted on Sullivan.

This will put things in proper trim for the punishment of railroad officials who carried the pugilists to the fight and for whom Gov. Lowry is gunning specially. Kilrain will then be released on bail, and as soon as the railroad men are brought to time, both Sullivan aud Kilrain will be pardoned or the proceedings against them dropped.

T H E t ’O U M T ï C O N V E N T I O N .

While the constitutional convention was closing its labors and signing the instrument which is to be fundamental law of the State of Montana, the Republicans of Lewis and Clarke county were assembled in full and enthusiastic forces to name their candidates for the many offices to be filled at the first State election. A more nn mérous, intelligent, confident body of delegates it was never our pleasure to see assembled anywhere for the purpose. Each member seemed to be alive to the importance of the occasion and the consequences of his action and choice. Self-seeking was laid aside. There were no contesting delegations, no personal or local grievances to be undressed or avenged. All seemed animated by a single purpose to make such selections as would be most acceptable to the electors and not only{insure their success but call forth the fullest support for the general election

In one respect their action was forestalled by general consent. The constitutional convention in a purely partisan spirit had wantonly ousted all the county officers from half the term for which they had been elected, and there was but one way to right this wrong, and that was to put them back by decisive majorities.

In the execution of this purpose the old incumbents were renominated by ’acclamation, except in a single instance where the result served to show the intensity of the original purpose.

The new constitution having abolished the probate judgeship and merged its functions with that of a district court, it became necessary to select some one for these larger and more numerous if not more responsible duties. The choice fell with unanimity and without delay upon Wm. H. Hunt, whose pre-eminent qualifications none will question. We believe the result will prove that the convention in this voiced the convictions and wishes of the people of Lewis and Clarke county.

For the new elective office of Clerk of the District Court there were three candidates so nearly equal in merit that the convention deliberated long before any choice could be reached. No one will question the wisdom of the choice made, nor would there have been any more question if either Mr. Davis or Mr. Parker had been chosen instead of John Bean.

In the selection of the legislative ticket, it was jnstly felt that the action of the convention should^ be most careful and deliberate.

This feeling existed before as well as during the convention, and to such an extent that no one pressed any personal claims or seriously considered the question of the acceptance of a nomination.

Selections were made almost entirely for general considerations to [represent the different portions of the county, its various interests and constituent elements. Every name will be carefully scanned by the voters,’ and the'merits of each individually and all collectively. We believe the choice made by the convention will be accepted as the choice of the people and that everyone w»ll be elected.

Possibly if the county convention had put off the nomination of the legislative ticket till after the State convention and after the Democrats bad designated their candidates, a different selection would have been made, but this proposition, when made, was generaly 1 disapproved as indicating a donbt of Republican precedence and a mark of political cowardice. The time of the canvass is short enough at most. Election will come in six weeks from to-morrow. There is no time to be lost. There are a great many questions to consider and a large amount of work to be done not usnal to any election that our people have been familiar with.

To ns it involves more than any national election. The legislature to be chosen will fix Montana’-i position on questions of national policy for some years to come. It will be a contest first lor State existance and in connection with that a combination of national, state and connty elections. Even after we have become a state, we shall never have so important an election, nor will there ever assemble in Montana a legislature on which will rest the responsibility of so many important questions as upon this first one.

We see in the intense earnestness and complete harmony of the convention an assurance of an aggressive and triumphant campaign.

The resolutions adopted, we believe Bpeak the spirit and purpose of Montana Republicans and place them in the line that they will hold in the shock of battle and when the smoke of battle has cleared away. _______________ _

Oub gifted young friends of the morn ing papers have been scarcely long enough in Montana to push a controversy as to which one of the organs under their management has the most “inflooence.” Wai t gentlemen, till a domicile and voting privilege is gained, and then, if both still remain with the country, contrary to precedent, renew the dispute and the H ebald will decide between you.

The Senate Committee on irrigation for arid laud has been among us and seen Montana at its worst estate for want of moisture, our river beds basking in sunshine and onr forests ablaze in every direction.

Let os rejoice iu the happy deliverance and learn the necessity of anticipating the recurrence of such a season

Col. Callaway came to the Constitutional Convention sick, but kept well during its entire session. At its close he was attacked severely with nervous prostration and is now confined to his room. He has some social engagements but is unable to meet them. His physician recommends a few days quiet and rest.

The esteemed Independent will improve in everything except its politics. It promises material as new as the management, but it will stick to the old Democratic doctrine of free trade and low wages.

Are you weak and weary, overworked and tired ? Hood’s Sarsaparilla is j ust the medi-oinAtii n n rifv vnnr hlnnd and g iv e Strength,

T H E C O N S T I T U T I O N .

The enterprise of the Journal has given early publication to the new constitution and it is but proper that we shouldf in the spirit of the resolutions adopted by the Republican convention on Saturday, commend it to the favorable consideration of our readers. The best friend and greatest admirer of the constitution will not claim for it perfection and the chance is that some of its features may prove so repulsive to an occasional reader and critic, that he will overlook the many excellent pre visions of the instrument. We advise our readers not to rest on a single reading, but to read it several times at intervals. It contains a thousand good things, the beet fruits of a century’s practical experience with free institutions, and very few in comparison of objectionable items, and of these some are of a transient character and the door to amendment has been left ajar, so that it can be opened without long delay or serious struggles.

Congress happily secured our school lands from being disposed of at an inadequate price, and we have every confidence that, upon request, it will relieve us from the restriction of short leases, so that we can test the advantage of the lease system. If this is found to work well, it will naturally follow that it will be adhered to and that very few lands will be sold.

On the one senator from each connty we have said tnough for the present. In practice it may develop merits that are not discernable at present.

We feel that the most trying feature is to be the judiciary. Time alone will discover the merits or defects of this system. With good officers to administer the law we are confident that no great harm can result. I t is more in the administration than in the law. Our probate law is in very bad shape. The restrictions of Congress is in a large measure accountable for this. In onr county, where the powers of the probate and district courts are combined and both are administered by able hands, we shall not suffer any evil effects, but we anticipate, under an improved code of laws, that there will be a very great improvement. This will come through legislation yet to be perfected.

The evils of the grand j ury system have been reduced if not removed, and in the provision that hereafter the verdict of a petit jury need not be unanimous, there will be a great reduction of the most costly and vexatious litigation.

In its main features it is a superior constitution, and in practice may be better than if more theroretically perfect

There was little room for originality in the drafting of such an instrument.

We have accepted the experience of others to begin with, and the results of our own experience in due time will find expression __________________

WELCOME HAIN.

A N E X O T I C .

After long months of weary waiting« though too late to save the crops or give os another growth of grass, no sight or sound could possibly be more welcome than that of rain. For so long we have been enveloped in smoke and dust, whether awake or asleep, whether in doors or out of doors, that our every thoughts and hopes became smoky and begrimed. The heavens seemed like brass and the earth a bed of ashes. We had long since ceased to complain of the quality of the water, content to get any sort on any terms.

We had ceased to look or hope for rain until Fair week, the most efficient rain persuader in our Montana experience. But to the surprise and delight of all a real and refreshing rain has followed almost immediately upon the adjournment of the Constitutional Convention.

We are not inclined to be superstitious, but we accept it as a good omen. Next to political enfranchisement, we needed rain, and we accept the rain fall as heaven’s best benediction upon the charter of our commonwealth. It cannot bring again our lost crops or brighten again with verdure our blackened forests, but it says to the consuming fires, “Thus far and no farther.” It quenches the prairie fires and will spare for much needed use what remains of the forage for our anxious stock.

Borne will think most of what has been lost. I t is better to think of what has been spared. A heavy load of anxiety, verging to alarm, has been lifted from the heart f everyone. The summer heats have been quenched and the shortening hours of sunshine will no longer make forced levies on our scant reservoirs of moisture. The clean, pure atmosphere will invite full respiration and invite to out-of-door exercise. Refreshing sleep through the long cool nights will invigorate everybody for the duties of the day. The tidy, thrifty housewife will no longer need to spend half her time in dusting, with no hope left but that of returning to dust again

We beg to insure our contemporary across the way that no person in Montana is deceived by its apocryphal interview published as curbstone gab. Nothing of that kind ever occured and it recalls only the callow youth who supposes that someone would be thereby deceived. I t will not even make discord in the Republican party which was its aim. But recalling the recent raid made on Helena in the recent Constitutional Convention and the somewhat heated accusations made against onr town, there are many men in Helena who will not think such political strategy wise.

The General Land Office is issuing patents at the rate of 500 a day, commencing August 1st. The vast accumulated work left by Sparks is thus being disposed of with unprecedented rapidity and land titles are passing to settlers with the promptitude that they deserve. In about forty days, ending with July, no less than 553 land patents were issued to Montana locators alone.

General Li.oyd Bbyce, to whom the late Allen Thorndyke Rice beqieathed 51-100ths of the North American Review, has acquired the remainder of the property, and is now the sole proprietor of the magazine.

Democracy is as much an exotic in Montana as would be the cultivation of oranges and banana*- The essence of Democracy is conservatism; the life and spirit of the West is freedom and progress. The Northwest has been a step in advance of the West, and the new Northwest is just as certain to be another advance step in the same direction. There was a time when the West was almost solidly Democratic The last war with Great Britain was popular at the West, and after that war the Democratic policy was one of protection to gain the means to pay off the war debt. Gradually it came under the control of the slave power and lost all of its progressive and protective spirit. Still the acquisition of Texas and the war with Mexico and the vast acquisitions of new territory that followed were popular at the West, without regard to the ulterior purposes of the slave power. When the South could not control the destiny of the new acquisitions and dedicate them to human bondage, it repudiated the Demacatic party and theUnion at the same time.

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Democrats point with pride to the long history of that party. I i is the study of that history that has proved the death of the party. Democratic writers and speakers like to go back a long way and cite the administrations of Jefferson. Madison and Jackson, but they say little, and with good reason, of the later administrations of Pierce and Buchanan, and their servile obedience to every demand of the slave power.

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No single measure ever benefitted the West so much as the homestead law that was vetoed by Buchanan and was signed by Abraham Lincoln. When the “rule or ru;n” policy ot the Southern democracy was developed in the Baltimore convention all the free, progressive portion of the former Democratic party of the North cut adrift and with a similar portion of the old Whig party formed the present Republican party. Men in the prime of life remember the birth of the party, and though spanned by a single generation its history fills the brightest pages of the world’s record of progress. Let that pass—it is a thrice-told tale, that becomes more interesting and significant every time it is told. We are only considering the more recent history of the parties and the relations of the great West and Northwest to these parties.

Take out from the Democratic party the solid South and New York city and its influence on New Jersey and Connecticut and what is left of it? Nothing but tangled tatters of discordant minorities.

** *The Republican party from its first ap

pearance as a power in politics has fostered and favored the West, and helped to build it up, beginning with the homestead law and its effectual aid in the construction of the Pacific railroads. Every prominent feature of the Republican policy has favored the West. Just as soon as a Democratic administration came in every western interest was antagonized, the settlers were hindered in every possible way from securing titles to their lands, surveys were suspended, prosecutions were instituted against tresspassers and regulations multiplied for no apparent purpose but to punish a section that repudiated modern democracy.

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Is it mere accident that all the Western States are Republican ? They used to be almost as strongly Democratic, an i of those who have gone to them there h ive been more Democrats than Republicans. Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota used to be solidly Democratic. What has become of all the Democratic seed sown over this wide, rich area? Later still, there were the States of the Pacific Coast, started as a Democratic nursery and planted exclusively with Democratic seed of the Joe Lane and Doctor Given variety. Settled by Democrats and fed by a continual stream of Democratic immigration, the result, according to all political calculation should be very different from what we see it to-day. These people have not changed their political connections because they have become poorer and nore ignorant, but evidently because they have found the Republican policy more consonant to their interests and convictions.

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Montana has had a peculiar history. It was settled chiefly by those who opposed the war for the Union. It interests were neculiar and were vere little controlled or

Tlffected by the national policy during the era of placer mining. We have had no tide of general immigration, and those who have come without any strong polit cal sentiment naturally fell in with ihe majority.

The case is very different now. Permanent interests have been developed in quartz mining and stock growing, both dependent for prosperity, if noi for existence, upon a steady policy of protection. Montana is even more interested than Oregon and Colorado in the Republican policy of protection to wool and ores of usefulmetal, of which our mountains are full.

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Why should the voters of Montana keep up their connection with a party that antagonizes every one of their leading interests? Some say that principles should not be sacrificed to interests* We say that government is exclusively a thing of interest created and sustained to protect and foster the interests of ttu'se who live under it. Men who will not care for their own interests may be sure that others will not care for them, and are not fit for self-g o v e rn m e n t._____________________

R epresentatives

The Republicans of Fergus county have made a wise selection for Senator in Hon. W. H. Watson, their faithful delegate in the constitutional convention. Mr. Watson is a man of wide and varied information and experience, trained in the school of journalism, and will make as sound and useful a legislator as any that can be found in any part of the country.

L E W IS AMD CLARKE REPUBLICAH TICKET.F o r D istrict Ju d g e-- >VIgLIAM H. HUNT.For C lerk of Dlstriet*Court — JO H N BEAN.

F or State Senator—CORNELIUS HEDGES.O E ARGE H. ROBINSON P H IL A. MANIX. GILMAN RIGGS.JOH N HORSKY. M ICHAEL H. K E E FE AN TON M. HOLTER. DAVID A. CORY. ROBERT H. HOWEY.

F or Sheriff—CHARLES M. JE F F E R I9 .F o r T reasu re r—RICHARD P. BARDEN.F or C lerk and R ecorder—JOHN 8. TOOKER. F o r A sseeso r-G BORGE W ALKER.F or A tto rney—S. A. BALLIET.F o r Public A dm in istra to r—F. W. ELLIS.F o r t-upt. of Schools—HELEN P. CLARKE.F o r Coroner—M. ROCKMAN.For Surveyor—B EN J. F. MARSH.

f A. M. THORNBURGH. F o r Com m issioners | A. J . BURNS.

I W. D. WHEELER.

A f l y i n g visit to Deer Lodge yesterday furnished an opportunity to see the substantial progress made and the evidences of continued growth. The developments of the Oro Fino mining district, only fourteen miles distant, are disclosing extensive and valuable bodies of ore sufficient to sustain a large city. Already there are five or more producing mines, and they are electing a mill to work the ores in Deer Lodge, where the mines are owned. We were shown specimens of ore from the Mountain Lion of fabulous richness. The Champion also has been developed into a bonanza The prospects of Deer Lodge weis certainly never brighter than at present. The College of Montan », under the efficient management of President McMidan, has passed the experimental stage and has become y, grand success, of which the State may be proud. The improvements completed last year doubled the capacity of the institution. Its grounds and buildings already represent an investment of $100,000, and the growtl is barely begun. It is just now at that stage where benefactors are insured early harvests of rich return. There are already applicants for accommodation beyond the means of supply, and if one new building was added every year, it would be filled as quick as it was finished. The institution is in good hands, is ably administered and has bright prospects.

The rain seems to have been more abundant east than west ot us. There has been a cooling and clearing of the atmos phere that is wonderfully invigorating, but we apprehend that it will need vastly more to quench the forest fires that have been raging from southern Idaho clear np into British America.

T h e Republicans of Missoula took Randall’s advice and got together in good shape. From our perspective view they have named a winning ticket. If they make any more breaks let it be into the camp of the opposition. This is no year for any foolishness.

S i e E d w i n A r n o l d , author of “The Light of Asia,” has a son with literary ambitions. The young man is writing a romance entitled “The Wonderful Adventures of Phra, the Phoenician.”

The Republican ticket of Meagher county presents familiar names and shows every indication of aggressive and winning strength. _________________

S a m R a n d a l l has been entertaining A. J. Drexel and G. W. Childs at his home at Wallingford, Pa. Mr. Randall has recovered his health.

T h e Mississippiaus got away with $6,500 of Sullivan’s prize-fight earning”. The lawyers got $5,080 and $1,500 is the amount of the bonds he intends to forfeit.

The Shah has taken a great fancy to Buffalo Bill and will probably decorate him.

J eff Davis’ book, about which he is now quarreling with his publishers, only reached a sale of 21,000 copies.

Ex Minister Steauss, who bas just returned from Turkey, says that there are 500 American schools in that country.

The Republican League will hold its next annual convention in the South, and make a tour ot all the Southern States.

Lord T enny'son is well enough to walk three miles every day.

We live in an age of gallantry. A Virginia exchange speaks o f a “lady tramp.”

P r i c e o f S i lv e r .

New York, August 21.—Bar silver 92}.

Alaska cost the United States Government 2 cents an acre.

H ood’s S a rs a p a rillaIs carefully prepared from Sarsaparilla , Dandelion, M andrake, Dock, Pipslasew a, Ju n ip er Berries, aud o th e r w ell know n and valuable vegetab le rem edies, by a peculiar com bination, proportion and process, g iv ing to Hood’s Sarsaparilla curative pow ers n ot possessed by o t e r edicines. I t effects rem arkab le cures w beie others fail.

H ood’s S a rs a p a rillaIs th e best blood purifier before the public. It eradicates every im purity , and cuies Scrofula, S a l. R heum , Boils, Pim ples, all Hum ors, Dyspepsia, Biliousness. Sick H eadache, Indigestion, G eneral D ebility, C atarrh , R heum atism , Kidney and L iver com plaints, overcom es th a t tired feeling ,crea tes an ap p e tite ,an d builds up th e s j stein.

H ood’s S a rs a p a rillaHas "a good nam e a t borne.” Such has become its popu larity ln Lo -e ll, M »as., w here it is made, th a t w hole neighborhoods are tak ing it at the sam e tim e. Lowell drugg ists any th e ; sell more of H ood’s S arsaparilla than all o th e r sarsapa- rillas o r blood purifiers. Tiie sam e success is ex tend ing all over the coun try , sa 1 s real merit become» know n.

H ood’s S a rs a p a rillaIs peculiar in the confidence it gains among all claeees of people. W here it is once used It becom es a favorite rem edy, aud Is often adopted as th e standard m edicine. Do no t be indneed to buy o th e r preparations. Be sure to get Hood's.

H ood’s S a rs a p a rillaIs peculiar In its s treng th and econom y. Itcosts tb eco n su m m er less ta a n any o ther medicine, b: cause of its g rea te r concen trated strength, and the q n an th y in each bottle , and because it is the only p repara tion o f w hich t an tru ly be said "1 0 0 Doses One D ollar.”

Hood’s S a rsa p a rilla is sold by all drug gists. 81 ; six for $5. P repared only by C. I. HO‘*D & Co., A pothecaries, Lowell, Mass.

I O O D o s e s O n e D o l l a r .