Show GETTING DESPERATE As the hopes of the democrats grow dim with the near approach of election day their press become more and more desperate calm and dispassionate dis cession of the tile issues of the campaign is ignored by them to arouse prejudice is the supreme end of the tile bourbon organs says tho the helena mont journal occasionally however they aro neatly trapped trapp edby by some dispensation of providence it has been customary for them to publish dispatches purporting to come from localities in which republican meetings had been held disparaging the speakers and generally belittling the meetings with a view to allowing showing that tho the republican campaign amounts to nothing and is received no favor by the people the butte miner lias has pursued this style of 0 campaigning for some time on the instant it published the following special from fort benton oct 13 special to the miner candidate ards endeavored to square himself with the voters ot of chote choteau a u county last night and made an abort abortive attempt to explain his rulings in the state senate democrats enthusiastic 1 and confident tile miner knew that RICKARD 4 was billed to speak at port fort benton on that night hence its dispatch 6 but unfortunately tuna tely for the miners veracity and its peculiar style of campaigning a railroad wreck prevented mr from reaching fort Benton atall at all and the meeting reported in the tile 11 miner iner did not occur all the dispatches that appear in democratic papers relative to republican meetings are prepared in the offices of the bourbon press just jus t as the foregoing was written this is what the democratic papers call journalism lial ism and is their method of cor conduct duct ing a campaign of education with forging interviews forging sigua signatures sig natured tures to communications mutilating quotations and resorting to fako fake te telegrams legrain s for political effect they adver advertise I 1 tise themselves as a liard hard lot wo we demana that all tho the affairs of tho the city bo be administered economically and intelligently tho the money of the people must bo be expended for the greatest crea test chod to the greatest erea lest number offices are created tor the public good and not forthe for the officeholders office holders wo we demand that all city elected shall perform the duties of their office or themselves pay for assistants except in cases of special emergency we are ot opposed posed to the ap of useless deputies atthe at the expense of thel city and we are unalterably opposed to tho the creating of sine sinecure curo places for the benefit of the few at the expense of the many osden city republican platform |