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Show UP IN MONTANA. SOME LIVELY TIMES WHEN THE NEXT LEGISLATURE MEETS. It will Prouiblr ba AR-aln Divided into Thrra Hciillrs The Republican Just as Good Now aa It Was T waive Months Ago. The democratic press continues in a highly distressed aud billions condition anent the coming session of the legislature legisla-ture in this statu, says the Butte Inter-Mountain. Inter-Mountain. It but wastes its words as it long ago wasted its opportunity to be decent on this subject. The legislature legisla-ture will probably divide into three bodies, viz: the senate, the legal house and the rump or democratic house. If the senate recognizes the legal house the business of the stato will be transacted, trans-acted, the appropriation bills passed and needed legislation put through. If it recognizes tho rump house whatever laws may be enacted will be thrown out by the courts, the appropriation bills will be of no elfect and chaos will come again. That is the exact situatiou. The republicans know their rights and will maintain them. i hey will do their sworn duty. They will not jump the country as the democrats demo-crats did last winter, nor can they be terrorized or bought by men of commanding com-manding influence in democratic p ili-ties. ili-ties. Governor Toole may recognize the democratic organization, but that fact will not give validity to the laws it may attempt to pass. The supreme court of this state has said that five republican members of Silver Bow hold the legal certificates of election. These live members with the other republican members form a majority of tho lower house, and they are not to be bulldozed by any edict even from the throne of political grace in this state. The people have some rights which the millionaires mil-lionaires will be compelled to respect. A supreme court decision is rather more I likely to be correct than the partisan motithings of the boodle press, nor can the latter endanger the public peace and safety to such an extent as it did li'.st year, when hired assassins flocked to Helena for the purpose of letting blood, if necessary, to carry into etlect the plots of the" democratic chiefs against the expressed will of the people. Tho election of three weeks ago had no effect, ef-fect, on the validity of the title by which the five republican members from Silver Sil-ver liow hold their seats. Heunessy's piajority, which was reduced over :i()0, as compared with last year, divests tho democratic claim even of moral weight. The republican position is just as good now as it was a twelve-mouth ago. |
