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WHERE THE BATTLE IS GOING ON
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A bitter fight is being waged in California
on Theodore A. Bell, tho democratic nominee for
governor, but Mr. Bell seems to be making prog-
ress and winning new friends wherever he goes.
Mr. Bell is 34 years of age and is a native of
California. Ho began the practice of law at Napa
in 1894 and was elected district attorney of
Napa county. In 1898 he was re-elected, although
Napa county was a republican county. In 1902
Mr. Bell was nominated for congress and he was
elected in a strong republican district by 355
plurality. In 1904 Mr. Bell was renominated, but
he went down in the Roosevelt tidal wave Mr.
Bell running more than 10,000 votes ahead of his
ticket
Referring to the democratic nominee for
governor the Sacramento Bee says:
"Physically, as well as mentally, Mr. Bell is
a flno specimen of manhood. He is about six
feet in height, well knit and muscular and of
great strength and activity. He is a most tire
less worker, and a fine campaigner. He makes
friends readily wherever .he goes and wins gol
den opinions among strangers. His word is as
good as his bond. His earnestness and simpli
city of manner and his evident ability, sincerity
and helpfulness, gain votes for him- quickly and
he has the tact to say the right thing at the
right time in the right place.
"Mr. Bell is an effective speaker, clear and
forceful in all he has to say. He is argumentative
rather than rhetorical in stylo, go,ing straight to
tho point and supporting his arguments with
facts. In congress he earned an enviable repu
tation as a diligent worker for his district and
proved himself a ready debater on several oc
castons when California interests demanded his
championship."
MONTANA' ,
The democratic campaign in Montana opened
October 6. The candidate for congress is T. J.
"Walsh- of Helena, one of the most learned law
yers, and most successful practitioners in the
Ta5tirjiclhwe6t He is a student of public affairs and
an effective campaign speaker. He has been en
dorsed by the labor party. Mr. "Walsh has made
a study of transportation questions and to him
'Is clue the incorporation into the state platform
tof a plank demanding that locomotive engine
boilers be inspected by the state boiler inspector.
Ho Is 4,7 years old.
The candidate for associate justice of the
Supreme court is John B. McClernan, now Jn his
fnTi- v.vm tojiu ut) uuu UL LU.K3 U1HLI JUL JUClKeB OX all
-vev Bow county (in which Butte is situated).
I 'Ho has the reputation of being one of the ablest
lUudges in the state.
There are three avowed candidates for the
-senate among the democrats: Governor J. K.
Toole, W. G. Conrad of Great Falls and H. L.
Frank of Butte. Governor Toole is now serving
his third term as governor.
The democratic platform demands a railroad
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plicablo to the whole state, to all state officers
and to candidates for United States senator; a
law to put the Initiative and referendum amend
ment into effect; an anti-pass law and a law to
turn the profits on public moneys into the public
treasuries.
The republican nrriAnia - . 4
Lee Mantle, former senator, and Congressman
Joseph M. Dixon. Senator Carter is for Mantle.
WISCONSIN
-t ThellS?nl,lttonB in Wisconsin are very encour
aging. The democrats look for a marked Increase
in the vote, if not for a victory. The democratic
nominee for governor is John A. Aylward The
nominee for lieutenant governor Is Michael' Blon
eki of Milwaukee. Martin L. Leuck is the nomi
nee for attorney general. Clarence J. Noel is
the 1 nominee for secretary of state. Henry
J. Neuens is the nominee for insurance commis
sioner. Andrew Jenson is the nominee for state
treasurer, Wisconsin dispatches say that this is
f l1(?ot ever put UP fey I0 demo,
orats in that state.
Mir' ylward tne nominee for governor, was
born in Dan county, Wisconsin, March 16, 1861.
He has lived for the past 17 years at Madison.
'Mi. Aylward has been a hard worker in tho ranks
of democracy. In the campaign of 1896 he played
SoilSiplSTB partx ln a flh; for demoqrtlc
iickot Referring to the democratic nominee for
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governor the Wisconsin state committee,, speaking
through their chairman, Colonel George W. Bird,
says:
'Taken all in all our candidate, Mr. Aylward,
represents the highest type of the self-made man
one who has shaped and molded a career by
the strength of his own unaided hands. Sheer
force of brains, character and tireless energy
have brought him unmistakable success in largo
degree. And yet achievement has not spoiled
jiim. His manner of life has continued as simple
and unstudied as in the days of earlier hardship
and those who were strong friends then are
stronger now. Those like him best who know
him longest Born a fighter, he has no fear be
cause he has nothing to cover up. No friend
has ever suspected him of treachery and no
enemy has ever made the charge of fear. To
party as to friends his loyalty has been un
questioned. Inviting the suffrages of both, he
makes no strident proclamations of superior vir
tue, but rests content to let his record and his
actions speak. His life has been an open book
and in its pages his friends are confident that the
party will find ample warrant for electing him
to leadership at the primaries and the people as
a whole a sure and lasting guarantee of faith
ful service in the governor's chair. A lawyer
whose reputation is state wide, a business man
whose success has been tainted by no corpora
tion, a man whose Integrity is unspotted and
above reproach, John A. Aylward combines, in
happiest degree, the qualities which the chief ex
ecutive of Wisconsin should have. Mr. Aylward
pledges himself if elected to devote his best
energies in an effort to write upon our statutes
the principles enunciated in our platform and
to restore the supremacy of the people and to
an honest, economical and business-like admin
istration of the affairs of our state. We ask
those who believe in our platform of principles,
those who believe in a strong, aggressive, de
termined fight for those principles and against
the party in power, those who believe in Mr.
Aylward's stylo of a man, to assist us In his elec
tion ' and that of tho other candidates on our
ticket"
NEW JERSEY
William C. Gebhardt of Jersey City, New, 'Jer
sey, who has made a faithful fight in New Jersey
for democratic principles, was renominated for
state senator at a convention held at Clinton,
New Jersey.
Mr. Gebhardt is famous throughout his sec
tion as a faithful democrat, and while for years
.he found himself in a minority, he is now able to
say "things are looking brighter for Jeffersonian
democrats in this state than for some years
past"
INDIANA
, The democratic ticket in Indiana Is as fol
lows: Secretary of state, James F. Cox, Barth
olomew county; auditor of state, Marion Bailey,
Hendricks county; treasurer of state, John Isen
barger, Wabash county; attorney general, Walter
J. Lotz, Delaware county; clerk of the supremo
and appellate courts, Burt New, Jennings county;
superintendent of public instruction, Prot Rob
ert J. Aley, Monroe county; state statistician,
David N. Curry, Sullivan county; gtate geologist
Edward Barrett Hendricks county; judge of the
supreme court, First district, Eugene A. Ely Pike
county; judge of the supreme court, Second dis
trict, Richard K. Irwin, Adams county; judges of
the appellate court, First district Milton B. Hot
tel, Washington county; E. W. Felt Hancock
county; judges of the appellate court, Second dis
trict Richard B. Hartford, Jay county; Henry G.
Zimmerman, Noble county; Henry A. Steis Pu
laski county.
The dempcratic .congressional nominees are
. as follows ; First district, Major G. V. Menzies
Mt Vernon; Second district, Cyrus E. Davis'
" 5lTflla: rd distrlct W. E. Cox, Jasper!
W. T. genor , Corydon; Fourth district, Lincoln
Dixon, North Vernon; Fifth district, Claude Bow
ers , Terre Haute; Sixth district, Rey. T. H. Kuhn
Richmond; Seventh district, Frank E. Gavin, In-
S!!SPSilBi-,3B5rtt? dIstrict' J- A' M- Adair? Port
' I ' Inth d,qtrlct' Mar,on B- dodfelter. Crawl
tordsvme; Tenth district, William Darroch Kent
Hon, Twelfth district, John W. Morr, Albion;
Thirteenth district, Benjamin F. Shlvely, South
Bend.
The, democratic committee is making a hard
fight While Governor Hanley is not a candidate
at this election, having two years yet to serve
he has injected his personality Into the campaign
and as a result state issues are being largely dis
cussed, the republican administration being gen
erally and vigorously attacked. In three congres
sional districts both Cox and Zenor claim to be
the regular nominee, but it is believed the differ
ences in that district will be settled. Reports
say that aside from that district there is harmony
among democrats in all the congressional districts
and that large gains are expected.
NEW YORK
The New York Sun, publishing ln garbled
shape W. R. Hearst's acceptance of the nomina
tion of the Democratic party, says that Mr.
Hearst "harks back again to days of Jefferson
and Jackson." Further on the Sun says of the
acceptance:
"There is a good deal of Jefferson and Jack
son in it"
To this Mr. Hearst replies through the New
York American as follows:
Yes, Mr. New York Sun, and Mr. J. Pierpont
Morgan, owner of the New York Sun, there is
"quite a good deal of Jefferson and Jackson" in
W. R. Hearst's letter of acceptance.
And there will be a very great deal "of Jef
ferson and Jackson" in W. R. Hearst's adminis
trationif the people decide to elect him.
We might ask the Sun why it objects to so
much Jefferson and Jackson in a. letter of accept
ance written by $ candidate for office? But we
don't need to ask, Mr. Morgan himself is tho
answer.
Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Inde
pendence. Mr. Morgan feels that that foolish document
is out of date and the Sun is bound to say so
for him!
Jackson is the man who smashed the banlf
that declared Its right to be a power rivaling the
power of the United States government
Mr. Morgan feels that he, with his ship
trust and his other manipulations, and his gov
,ernment bond bargain, is the kind of a person
that a Jackson wouldn't like. And he is quite
right
Jefferson's theory that men should be equal
before the law in a republic Is offensive to Mr.
Morgan, and therefore offensive to the Sun.
And Jackson's statement that he would smash
any power within the government menacing to
the government 1b extremely offensive to an ar
chitect of Mr. Morgan's financial kind.
No wonder the Sun complains .that there is
too much Jefferson and Jackson in Mr. Hearst's
letter of acceptance.
On Mr. Morgan's behalf the Sun will have
good cause to complain bitterly of too much Jef
ferson and Jackson in Mr. Hearst's action as gov
ernor, if he be elected.
"AS GOOD AS GOLD"
The New York Press, a republican paper,
commenting upon the outcome of the Ohio repub
lican convention, said:
"There could be no more impressive example
of the dire consequences to parties of the political
system by which bosses are maintained than the
situation in Ohio. The Ohio that gave McKinley
49,000 plurality in 1896 and 69,000 in 1900, and
that gave Roosevelt 255,000 in 1904, is as good as
gone to the democratic party. For this the repub
licans of Ohio and of the country have to thank
.Senators Foraker and Dick, the bosses of tho
state machine. Those able servants of the cor
porations have defied the public opinion not only
of the nation but of their own state something
far more serious from the point of view of practi
cal politics, for the voters of the nation can not
get a Foraker or a Dick, while those of Ohio can."
The editorial concludes: "They have named their
state ticket They have remortgaged the state
organization to themselves. They have had them
selves gloriously Indorsed by the 'party' God
save the mark s assembled by thent In conven
tion. But' now the case goes tp the jury the
voters. Every sign points to the loss of Ohio,
but the Dromiog will still hold th 'machine.
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