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THE RIVER PRESS. THE RIVER PRESS. Published Every Wednesday Morning by the River Press Publish- ing Company. - — \You lie, )ou villains, you lie,\ is the argument employed by republicans against the democratic platform. COL. SANDERS says the Manitoba was built \to stab Fort Benton.\ Mr. Hill used a mighty long and expenSive knife to play the grand stabbing act. CASCADE COUNTY republicans say that Judge Blake, who was a member of the legislature in 1887, voted for the Cascade county bill and urge the people of that county to vote for him for chief justice on that account. Will the republicans of Choteau county vote for him on that ac- count? Don't all speak at once. OILY TOMMY IS playing the sympathy act in the west side counties. He tells the people that as he was elected dele- gate to congress (by democratic votes)last fall and not permitted to take his seat they should re-elect him this fall to com- pensate him for his disappointment and spent money. Oily Tommy's sympathy racket is also being played by a Choteau county candidate on the republican tick- et. A handkerchief and a few crocodile tears are used in the play. TILE dirty, contemptible, lying charge made by the Inter Mountain against the democratic state central committee is in keeping with the character of that dis- reputable, blackmailing establishment. Lost to decency and shame and held in contempt by the honest men in its own party, it seeks to impair the fair fame of men the latchet of whose shoes it is un- worthy to fasten. The dirty sheet bears about the same relation to decent jour- nalism that a 'liaison de joie does to a church. THE repuolican \wah hoss,\ scenting senatorial honors from afar, has been speaking along the line of the Manitob during the past few' days. He is proba- bly explaining to the people why he as the attorney for a rival road, threw every ob- stacle in the way of granting the right of way to the Alanitoba through northern Montana and otherwise impeded its pro- gress through to Helena. The people will doubtless listen to his lame explanations and dreary platitudes and --vote the dem- ocratic ticket. THE rank injustice which a bitterly partisan registry agent may practice to- ward a fully qualified voter was fully ex- emplified in Butte a few days ago. Among a large number of instances cited is one of a resident who had lived and voted in that city during the past four or five years, but was refused registration be- cause his house was not numbered. The autocratic republican agent declared that a man must give the number of his resi- dence to register in his district. Sweet law! Sweet registry clerk! WITH defeat staring them in the face the republicans are desperate. They now 'impose to trade off their whole state ticket for Carter and the legislature. West and east side republicans concede their cause is hopeless and are now fight- ing to save something out of the general wreck of their party. Democrats should stand firm. Listen to no trading prop°. sjtion. Scratch nothing. Vote the iitraight democratic ticket from member of congress to constable and victory will perch upon our standard without the loss of a candidate. JUSTICE to ex -Secretary of the Terri- tory Webb suggests that the public sus- pends its judgment in the matter of his recent arrest for embezzlement. There are two sides to every story. The prose- cution has been heard. Mr. Webb has not. It is quite possible that after the the 1st of October the complaint against Mr. Webb will be withdrawn. Republi- can party managers in Montana are des- perate, and like all desperate men will catch at straws to save themselves. Is Webb one of the straws they are catch ing? Qu ie n sabe. THE registration books are closed and no man can vote at the ensuing election whose name does not appear thereon. The present political battle was virtually decided last Saturday night. Party man- agers leaders and office seekers must now keep their men in line and impress upon them the necessity of voting their respect- ive tickets. It is a good time for ar,4ument and the persuasive tongue to get in their work. They are the factors that count. Votes cannot be made but they may be directed. And this is all their is in the campaign until it closes a week from n - ' Tuesday. THE republicans throughout the terri- tory had no hope of electing their state ticket before or after they formed it. They put one up to trade off for their leg- islative ticket. That is the reason the names of their best men do not appear upon it. They wouldn't stand up to be shot down. Third and fourth rate office seekers, however, were found who were willing to run if they knew they would be beaten. They wanted the honor ofappear- ing upon the first state republican ticket. Tbey would sooner be thrashed than not be noticed at all. Of such is the republi- can state ticket. It is a trading ticket. Democrats; stand firmly by your own ticket. It is a sure winner. Entertain no proposition to trade. You don't have to. A MARE'S NEST. The Inter Mountain, which by the way is a republican newspaper published in Butte, has discovered, or professes to have discovered a mare's nest in the shape of a car load or two of pamphlets which it al- leges have been or will be issued in Hele- na and \spread broadcast by the vultures of the democratic committee\ a few days before the election, which pamphlets, ac- cording to the same veracious authority, contain divers malicious and lying state- ments intended to injure the good name and blight the fair fame of the republican candidate for governor, the Hon. T. C. Power. The Inter Mountain has not seen one of these pamphlets nor does it know of a man who has seen one, but it has \all by its loney self\ penetrated the gloom of obscurity in which they are hid and lifted the mantle of secrecy with which they are shielded and undercover of \a Helena dispatch\ announces the discovery of the mare's nest to a startled world. And then in a double leaded column article it tells all about the infamy which attaches to the democratic central committee for concocting \their dastardly and cowardly plot to blast the reputation of an honest man on the eve of an election,\ when it will be\ impossible to guard against the fangs of these slimy serpents,\ and de- clares \this method of warfare smacks too much of murder and assassination and the methods of stink-pot throwers.\ It finally winds up its idiotic rot with a chal- lenge to the democrats \to come out with their cowardly, lying circular.\ Now the fact is the Inter Mountain knows there is nothing of the kind con- templated. It knows there are no such pamphlets in existence and it knows the democratic central committee would not be a party to their publication. The ly- ing screed was written for the purpose of creating sympathy for Mr. Power, and to prejudice the public mind against demo- cratic managers. We know the Inter Mountain has in times past resorted to just such methods of political warfare which it now virtuously deprecates, and it is not unfair to that sheet to assume it now contemplates to play its same old game again. It is the thief himself who frequently cries \stop thief.\ A MONGREL TICKET. Straight out and out square republi- cans are heartily ashamed of the ticket their party has put up in this county. Its mongrel character doesn't suit them. One of their candidates is a man who was in turn a democrat, an independent and a republican in the short space of one week. Another is an importation who, it is said, claimed to be a democrat before the dem- ocratic convention met in this city and announced himself as a republican when the republican conventiorts e rvened. Still another is running aroul:: 138 1,unty like a half crazed man offering \Xblic build- ings to one place, and county seats to an- other if the people will vote for him. Luke -warmness deadens the activity of some and others are faint-hearted, the prospects of success being too uninviting to inspire that confidence which is such an important factor to victory. The ticket has two or three earnest ac- tive workers upon it who are making a brave fight for their election but they are handicapped by the nondescripts with which it is encumbered. Square -toed re- publicans can't swallow the ticket. They don't take kindly to eleventh hour repub- licans who have cows up to the reputAi.. can communion table through the back door of their temple, They want those only who have been baptized in the faith and mgolarly received at the altar to share with them the bread and wine at their love feast. Hence we say they look with suspicion upon the eleventh hour converts from the democratic party and will know them not on election day. Traitors to and renegades from the dem- ocratic party upon the republican ticket don't agree with the stomach of a true blue republican and he will spew them out a week from next Tuesday. REPUBS ON THE RUN. \The republicans of Butte are on the dead run, scattered, perplexed and over- come with the forebodings of defeat,\ says a correspondent of the Anaconda Standard. The same may be said of them in other parts of the territory. They are fighting a losing game and have given up the battle as far as the state ticket is concerned. Their only hope is to elect a few county officers throughout the terri- tory and gain the legislature. They are trading right and left for the legislative ticket. Notwithstanding the brilliant prospects of the democracy democrats should not be caught napping. They should hold to their vantage ground and not yield an inch. Trade nothing. Scratch nothing. Keep the enemy on the POWER'S BITTEREST ENEMY. The Inter Mountain is doing its utmost to defeat the Hon. T. C. Power, the re- publican candidate for governor. Not a democratic paper in the territory has dealt him such fatal stabs as has the Butte republican organ. The motive is apparent to those who can look under the surface for the cause. A few words will explain it. The republican program this. In the event the republicans succeed in the ensuing election Col. W. F. Sanders will be the republican candida*.for United States senator from the east `side and L9e Mantle, business manager of the Inter Mountain, will be the candidate from the west side. This matter was fixed up at the Anaconda convention. Everything ran along smoothly for awhile and the Butte sheet did its level best for the en- tire republican ticket. It 'vilified and lied, as usual, about the -democratic can- didates and, like the on the horse, vaingloriee-'r •enpossd it was drawing the repubi,_.e., It had—in its mind—elected the entire republican tick- et in every county in the territory. But during the past few days it has been whispered within the inner circles of the faithful that in the event of Power's election that gentleman would make the governorship the stepping stone to the United States senatorship. The possibil- ity of such a contingency had not before presented itself to the mind of the astute • Mantle. • The idea was horrifying. The slate would be smashed to smithereens and Mantle would be left out in the cold. That would never do. Soinething must be done to kill off Power without jeopard- izing the rest of the republican ticket, and the pamphlet canard was sprung by the Inter Mountain. The RIVER PRESS referred to it yesterday. It will more fully explain its animus now. In its issue of the 16th inst. the Inter Mountain charged that the democratic central committee has caused to be print- ed in Helena several car loads of pam- phlets reciting what purports to be facts in connection with some Indian contracts years ago in which Mr. Power was inter- ested. In making this charge the Inter Mountain lied. It knew it was lying, but it was the only way it could accomplish its purpose. It - wants to direct public at- tention to Mr. Power personally. It knows the public is always inquisitive and it wants the public to institute in- quiries concerning the contents of these mythical pamphlets. It furthermore knows the democratic newspapers of the territory have made no personal charges against Mr. Power and that they do not intend to, but it is well aware they would notice at more or less length the Inter Mountain's unwarranted charges against the democratic central committee. And that is what that sheet wanted them to do. It rightfully judged that the public, always suspicious, would imagine there must be some fire where there is so much smoke an q that in the confusion of an - swers to the inquiries set on foot by its gross lie Mr. Power would suffer defeat and thus be put out of Mantle's way to the United States senatorship. This is the animus of the Inter Moun- tain's absurd canard. It hopes to defeat Power by it. It is despicable work, but the Inter Mountain takes as naturally to a dirty campaign as a duck takes to wa ter. It must throw mud to be happy, and as it has none that will stick upon dem- ocratic candidates it turns its overcharged cesspool battery upon one of its own. Mr. 1 -) 9wer must not stand in the way of Lee Mantle for the United states Senatorship. That the Inter Mountain lied and that it knew it lied in its charges against the democratic central committee is fully Shown in its issue of the 17th. Under the caption \The Power Slander\ the .Butte stink pot takes it all back after the fol- lowing fashion: The prompt exposure in these columns yesterday of the democratic plot to wreck the reputation of Mr. Power by the issu- ance of a false and malicious pamphlet seems to have thrown the esteemed ene my into unutterable confusion. ''* * If the circular is not to be issued it will be solely because of the exposure of the plot in this journal. All of which means the Inter Moun- tain's unadulterated he called forth in- dignant denials on the part of the demo- crats and that the _pamphlet will not be issued because the Inter Mountain ex- posed and nipped \the plot\ in the bud. But that sheet has compassed its nefar- ious ends. If Mr. Power be defeated or run behind his ticket he may justly charge it to his bitterest enemy the Butte Inter Mountain. A WELL known gentleman in this coun- ty furnishes some interesting reading for the Benton bosses of the republican par- ty. He is a thorough paced republican and as such objects to having a ticket composed of republicans, sorehead demo- crats and nondescripts thrust under his nose to vote. Like many other honest re- run. publicans if he has to vote for a democrat be wants to pick him out himself. THERE is not a candidate upon the state or county ticket against whom a dispar- aging word can be said. Every one en- joys the confidence and respect of his neighbors and the community in which be resides. Each is above adverse criti- cism and each should receive the full democratic vote. There are those upon the county democratic ticket who will re- ceive the support of republicans that re- fuse to cast their ballots for traitors and renegades upon their own county ticket. Square -toed republicans prefer to vote for an out and out democrat to a two weeks old republican. They take no stock in pinto scrubs. EVERY democrat who deserves the name of democrat will throw aside all personal considerations and vote the dem- ocratic ticket at the coming election. It is the only way by which the integrity of the party can be maintained and its suc- cess assured. Now is the time for a man who professes to be a democrat to show his colors and stand by them. THE CASEIIN A NUT SHELL. The firing of Tanner from the pension bureau has roused such indignation against Harrison among the old soldiers that the boodle president stands in dead- ly fear of assassination. He is now ac- companied in his travels by hired detec- tives who guard him as closely as ever the czar of Russia was guarded from the dreaded nihilists. The fanatic element of the republican party denounce him in un- measured terms while Tanner is on the road to canonization. Harrison has brought about this condition of things by his lack of true statesmanship. He start- ed in to seal the soldier vote of the coun- try to the republican party. To accom- plish this he appointed a fanatic of the first water to be commissioner of pen- sions. Tanner commenced business by rerat- ing pensions. This he followed up by re- versing decisions of former pension coin- missioners and awarding pensions to per - sous who under the most violent construc- tion of the law ware not entitled to them. He then decided that dishonorably dis- charged soldiers were alsoentitled to gov - eminent bounty. In doing all this T an _ The Best Hay ner si:nply obeyed the instructions of his mahter—President Harrison—to corral the soldier vote. He soon exhausted the pension appropriation and ran '315,000,000 or 820400,000 behind. His estimates for the ensuing fiscal year called for an in- crease of $30,000,000 over former pension appropriations. The republican managers became alarm- ed. They saw financial bankruptcy and ruin staring the nation in the face if 'Tan- ner's policy were allowed to obtain. Sec- retary Noble remonstrated with him. Ap- peals were made to the president to re- strain Tanner. Prominent republica ns pointed out the danger which threatened the republican party if Tanner were con- tinued in office. Tanner remained firm. Not so his master. He weakened when he saw his party would suffer by Tanner's retention. It was soldiers against the party and the old soldiers were thrown overboard and Tanner fired. This is the case in a nut shell. And now Harrison is dodging around the country under the survei!lance of hired detectives, dreading assassination at the hands of the very men for whom he professed such undying friendship, while Tanner is grimly looking on enjoying the circus. A REPUBLICAN INSULT. The Australian system of voting may have some merit, but its champions should not insult the intelligence and in, - dependence of the workingmen of the ter- ritory by publishing to the world that the: , dare not vote their sentiments unless they secrete themselves somewhere to make out their ticket. Such a charge is.a lur upon the courage of freemen, rather than an argument in favor of that particular system of voting. The law is designed to prevent bribery, and not to shield cowards. The man who dare not vote as he wishes openly and above board, is un titted to exercise that high privi- lege of American citizenship. SOLDIERS may fight for their country, but they cannot vote. Such is the deci- sion of the republican secretary of war re- cently rendered to prevent the demo- cratic soldiers at Fort Assinhiboine and other posts in the incoming states from voting. A dishonorably discharged sol- dier can vote and, according to Tanner. can draw a pension. _ The Old Doctors Drew blood, modern doctors cleanse it; hence the increased demand for Altera- tives. It is now well known that most diseases are due, not to over -abundance, but to impurity, of the Blood ; and it is equally well attested that no blood medicine is so efficacious as Ayer's Sarsaparilla. -\ One of my children had a large sore break out on the leg. We applied simple remedies, for a while, thinking the sore would shortly heal. But it grew worse. We sought medical advice, and were told that au alterative medicine was necessary. Ayer's Sarsaparilla being Recommended above all others, we used it with mar- velous results. The sore healed and health and strength rapidly returned.\ — J. J. Armstrong, Weimar, Texas. \I find Ayer's Sarsaparilla to be an admirable remedy for the cure of blood diseases. I prescribe it. and it does the work every time.\ — E. L. Pater, M. D., Manhattan, Kansas. \ We have sold Ayer's Sarsaparilla here for over thirty years and always recommend it when asked to name the beat blood -purifier.\ — W. T. McLean, Druggist, Augusta, Ohio. \Ayer's medicines continue to be the standard remedies in spite of all com- petition\— T. W. Richmond, Bear Lake, Mich. Ayer's Sarsaparilla PREPARED BY Or. J. C. Ayer & Co., Lowell, Mass. Pilo. $1; six bottles, $5. Worth $5 • bottle. T. F. MORGAN, DEALER IN bneral Merchandise. DUBUQUE. Fergus County, Montana. Special 1.iducenients Offered to Rancb and Stockmen. Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diar- rhwa remedy is the only remedy that can GOOD HOTEL, STABLE AND BLACK. always be depended upon for bowel coin- Si‘f7TEf SHOP IN CONNECTION. plaint in all its forms. Twenty-five and fifty cent bottles for sale fbv M. A. Flana- gan. MI 'RI; t-xiimine goods and prices. T. C. POWER Ellt, —DEALERS IN— DRY Go *ins, Staple and Fancy Groceries, HATS, CAPS, BOOTS, SHOES and NOTIONS. Our stock in the above lines is now full and complete, and we ar e offering special inducements to Stockmen and Ranchmen in the shape o r reliable goods at bottom figures. We are enabled to do this by buyin g largely from first hands, at inside prices. - AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS W. are sole agents for the celebrated Wood's Mowers and Binders, and for t 11,s, machines have always on hand a full line of extras. Rake in use. Walking and Sulky Plows, Etc., Et c . COOPER WAGONS: Wool Sacks. Twine, and Cooper's Sheep Dip. —We keep a full and complete stock ot— WINES, LIQUORS, BEER AND CIGARS, Both Imported and Domestic heands. :o: 111 %RN Es* and SADDLERY rattent ion is called to our stock of Ifirness, 64(1.11es, etc., which are of the_be-- California and other celebrated makes. We keep a full stock of every thing in this line required by the Cowboy trade. Our Dry Goods Department! Is the largest and most complete in Northern Montana. We have recenti% secured the services of an experienced Dress Maker from the east. and are now prepared to take orders for Dresses and Ladies' Garments of all kinds. Satisfaction guaranteed. : Inspection invited in all Departments : T. C. POWER SE BRO. - - Fort Benton, M. T. WM. G. BAILEY JEWELRY COMPANY, —DEALERS IN— WATCHES, DIAMONDS, SOLID SILVER AND PLATED WARE Vir SEND YOUR WATCHES to us for repairs: the liorit will be thorough and the charges moderate. We make a specialty of replacing the broken parts of Simi.. and American Watches. =-..s . M INTAA. AdEC:ONT R. S. HALE & CO., 33 lEt ITGS, Patent Medicines, Paints, Oils, Glass, Etc. Ale- Orders by Mail promptly attended to. 27 MAIN STREET, HELENA, MONT IN - 1)8 A_ V - Sir CO., m01.7 Jobbers of Meats, Fish, Fruit, Produce, Poultry, Oysters and Game. t.} 0 PO 01? 9ff,SHORT-TTE Ikalr Address: The Americen WrIfing Machine Co., Hertford, Conn.; New York Office, 237 &cadre .) . • Montana Agency— CHAS. K. WELLS. Bookseller and Stationer HELENA - MONT. sir DEALER IN OFFICE SUPPLIES OF EVERY DESCRIPTION. JOS. SULLIVAN, Ff30.11•7* T ft 4i • • MANUFACTURER OF - :Harness and Saddlery:- 1111M=11■11•10. r STOCK SADDLES A RECIALTI. Buggy and Team Harness of every description. CHAPS, BITS AND SPURS' OF EVERY KIND. BEST LINE OF ClOrDS IN MONTANA. Give me a eati before porebasin: elsewhere. re , or 7' ft r.,t*T11.V. •p, 'r. 7 • F. cis tio Jog
