Show MONIANA li ALL 1UUIIT I The news from Montana comes better I than at first making it seem almost I cettoih that the Democracy Will this year recover I he state and reclaim their heritage Not aly was the Republican stronghold of Helena taken en Monday but the Demo c rats carried everything before them at Biltlnga and Bozeman the only other important ortant cities in the state where election were hold The party lines were clearly and closely drawn in these elections both parties desiring to gain whatever advantage ad-vantage there might be In the moral effect vhlch these preliminary skirmishes would h lavoon tho greater cop test next fall The I ssues were clearly defined and the battles were fought along the lines of the principles princi-ples of the two parties The victory has alien to the Bide of Democracy and the e effects necessarily be encouraging Democrats Dem-ocrats will now go into the struggle with confidence added to determination and we do not see how they can fall of success A significant circumstance may be mentioned men-tioned as indicating that this year Democrats Demo-crats will be true to party principles and will pot permit themselves to be len clt oa ide issues Montana of course is pro n tounccd in its affections for silver Practically Prac-tically everybody is for free coin nee and nobody will tolerate any suggestion of compromise or halfway measures The failure to place the BLAND bill in be line of Immediate passage in the House the other day was at once aken advantage of by tho Republican press and campaign orators and the Democratic Demo-cratic party in Congress was made to p son i so-n the attitude of haying ilefeatcd free coinage and as teing opposed to silver The Democratic party was charged with having bowed down before Wall street and confessed its subserviency to the gold bugs > If this were true the Democracy would naturally be regarded as the enemy to Montana whose prosperity depends to largely upon silver mining The business did not work however as tbe returns show The Democrats stood by their party and refused to be hoodwinked or humbugged This incident is of Interest and importance throughout tbe silver min inp region of the West We may confidently con-fidently expect that the Democrats will be true to their party this year without regard re-gard to the action of Congressmen on questions which have no canpection with party princ pies and which are cot legitl mate party issues Montana is naturally Democratic It was In IbSS that she went out of the fold and she did that in a temper of resentment the Democrats in Congress having unwisely and in a partisan spirit having opposed the emancipation of the territory If the Democrats Demo-crats had not opposed statehood Montana would never have gone astray However that has all passed The people have gotten got-ten over their feeling of resentment they have had an experience and heard all they want to know of Republican rule and now they are coming back into the ranks In November all the lost ground will be recovered re-covered and tbe great state will thereafter stand firmly in the Democratic column I |