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!t"::1.I "i nc tin :Int nit a fInert
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1r: I 1mw r in :h- Past. w:e believe
i\till jxv U- libe -c . tiro future.
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IncP t Rejublican Conven
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: \n : 'Mlitairy Iictator : Court and No
;ý;,.and informiers. P~ro-Con
Lia .n1 a:: 111:ts .J alnisarie's or IPra~to
i" .n col~ortst, etc.. etc." F'rom all these
"? Lord deliver it-,. It'- terrible:
1('rý j- savs so, and although it is
(: (clt'ar smini preriseiy
Sha" .ing(t to 11:1 ren , it is 'pas, pvz
r-:. ivr'1 re that the -adilcals after the
* 'I#CT ion in'tell.I t(( changeý the
*l-'verntnent to a Military ce~e
x!1(r a t ron- governllt~nt of some~
l: irt~v!diII-r'"n t fromn the one we
1, .nl liv("( and 1Proitiperrd un
I: - Irety ,,caitral1ly co)nc ded
I :¾U 1idtiijt~ ti-tjionfl ar.ti ru(
v "it mau-1ý t^. :: i*.ll tthrc iy noet
!' tu? habt tiet Nv. hole' truthm.
I.'N il.!irt chan ge' i to _.:("~ ~ilace
Utution and the law:,- is n.ot so
t-tront- gverninent, of
-.:kind or ýtlter, will be established,
'. qe~rs itf treason and state righits
:.r, only s~tunnedI not killed. The e~lec
i ii ot rant anAl C olias will bruise
t h.t'r iie L- agaiu.Ltý the adamant, and
o.ithe i i s f November, (68, we can
daftt the detha o1 danger. and the gov
xliii lit will Le truly strong, for its en
a l.is will hart' perished by the hands
'ut ti~e ;ý "pie. It is the old sort of States
!:hiuts that is breaking out again on the
~- ±.Did not JTackson teach you
O0.I t -'(Ii on that, and the late war
taother' Have you forgotten the ar
to t~i of coufederation which made a
nativ n" of the colonies and that the
i-"m)til to the constitution declares "it
i=ordained to form a more perfect
niun." Do you forget that Union sig
Ullies lhe joining of two or more
thinirs into one ;" that it is a consolida
tion °Do youL forget that it was "the
I nitedi Colonies " that were to be "free
an-! independent " and not each sepa
rately f The whole constitution is a
bond of nationality between the States ;
the war has adiudgedit right, and the
peo~lde will sustata it with ballots as
they have with bullets. You ean add
this paprer to those who endorse thes
above resel utions.
BH:CH ANAN.
CoI. A. K. Mc('lure, thtan whom thert
cal in Pcnnsvlvani:t. lvritt& the- notice of
James Buchiainan for the Franklin Re
po.ritory. It is r~nalvtic in its character,
and1 the reviewv of his public acts, clxar.
acteristics an(' ae~ilities is hi one who
wais thor(n'.uilhi couversant with them.
aaI (fle wc~lst' w: 1 ei competent to
ýpvak:. lie 4o4 " l'":vond t1'"i artiz:azm
tttlt..zIlisO round by others untro1den, to view
the r ee(r~i of a lon andi busy life. \Ve
i Oeit the most inipartial, can(did,
::1(il j":-: of:au 1any the 'lecease of the
e r r u! lc ex:t ract~.s
Ilhe death of .Jamnes BuicAan:aL severs tit"
1.- ''?l, tht cUouet^"i th. j~re~ent genera
tli-i of ý-tate n with the :i~e of Clay, Web
ii(" at iion. Oats .t1ni their cotamporzmri(e.
'1:"r a the erai of stiiteml:iaship in the his.
to.r t f ((r hoven Iuient. V e have ininds no
.-ý! I. i lVirat ,r j~r fouird, but ,tatemanship
l Ieei .:r!.` ? 1 the geriet-al dlernoraliza
tALAt ot thi- .A;e. aoli the p"'a of the future
h: w jl j 3i.-1 of -r-vrenc' for Izhe
tC." VpioU ie' 1'e ort '-'t io '
i ... .i . . ~i. All the (it;,:r
statsme (1 AL-A li WA lu1re
'1 :1)e.1 [IA 1 it: (11.1' irz'** t:11" th'at Bentonf
Ioi ti cAifl an1d too i AU( h of a pol itIici.an to
1.: ao goul -ti~te-man. Ii"' wv ever a rtulien
of cx'el.a1eits.-~ n-iA ":- av .d.r. in Il
1440er.'.lr rai 010(1 A A A Il Clii'1-- I: 3 Wily
A Al~n.:.!. ':ili ic:1'. LAO' until 1. L"C.AAdIe
I'e-id'n" nau-I even i:, ti"e i're.idency. b." se
c, ~t ý 1r . t.., c": i;,,1 timc f..tr'.l policy
oý 'i. 1:i , '. ? . . the
in.31 i,." c; :toll 1,: t,o nd, but
judged
1 ~ irit en
::: . ,.: . t: t., t.'n 1t p litical
t. t" ., .r. eli. pas-jons of
lsby
t'ii p i n ier the
1. _ .t "1 thii (Hl1",3 i iiie'& br eight
...:1. v,inr it: 1; "i. IPut i~n'oirtinl
1-to-v w-il uiea-Ur :uiv iiipel the clouds
i-h1ci LI:r: i'u iii- lutio. It wil~l not be
tao wiork of a yr :r or l riaap- of 'decade,
Lint 1e w:11 roilft ro b"' esteezroi ai hetter man
riO 0n n("« a'UP' ,1 Ctii Pu ian was not atraitor,
nor vet Olizunxi-ti~ I I, lieve that he sin
cerelv "' "ireil to -ave the country from di=
m1'ui ~moix.:nt Otto 2:uisa:. liat hie lost his
.'iqýrt ait}, t- ot:; t ) ,Ii drajed, but it was
ht- chaiact"ri~tic v 'rknes_. ternporizin.; andi
LlitattrL . :11 f lint ii ctiiF he was in rympa.
tliv with i..- _trt i to dei:rov the
1"t rnmne:i1.
liP' coal . ?;. - o the ... <, acountry
redieemeid. but l:! wits too long the follower
of wrong-hie ,vas to !eeble to act-too old
to leairn. 'i itt, with on honest liurpose to
avert wa1:o~ .: : tn:titi, h. c:. ixied his ad
mumnxitm it aim tit'. the unspteakable calami
ti- 'Cur b ix in icr th~rillio- history of the
'In ' i l
Suchi is' thm- nil, such the reward, of om~e
great life. TLini.? will nevi-e: pronounce it
worthy oif imuitation, none will be so rash as
to paunt to it: +. tn success I ut the future
will removre tlx starless gloorx that now en
velope5 it. and tLae judgement of imnpartiaml
blitory will V,, that James Duchanan was one
of the 104-t: ahi ', nioL si:2ero. but most fa
tal li- mnioguid'ol of our ojoinent rulers.
~T. LOUIS AN'D CHICAGO.
>t.~ aak~ingto the fact
tth. t Liti iO1s 1 ,':i living, on tihe
iiarveS' ctf Old tithe itidustrion s enter
pris~e. Cliica--o has iii'e~n sowing piefltl%"
fully in the new and more fertile fields
of trade' sinlce (1Cfld. Something is
absolutely niecessary to 1c (done, and
the , 7irnais of that city are advising
their ire: pie to give aid to connecting
lines .f Hanil load. (iiica-o, has found
anf outlet to Yiontan t 't, the Sioux City
road and the Ml5sicurl river, and has
connlect'cII with the Kanisas branch of thle
Pacific road by way of Kansas City and
QCrmeron. St. Louis now looks to the
extension of the North Missouri rail
road to Omaha to give them communi
cation with Om~aha, and ashare of the
trans-continental and the upper Miss
oori traffic. By this route St. Louis is
10; miles nearer Omaha than Chicago
is. Tile Th'mnoirat says the Brunswick
and Chilicotho road is now being con
structed. somne 300 men being employed
upon it, and will be completed in four
months. This will complete the cut off
Sfrom St. Louis to St. Joe. For the com%
pletion of the road tromn at. Joe Lo
Omaha over $000,OOO have been sub
scribed. and the point is urged to carry
the project to completion at once. This
It is claimed will throw traffc and)
travel to and through St. Louis in pre..
ference to Chicago. The following fig
ures are given as the distances by the
respective routes from Omaha to New
York, ria Chicagopnd New York Cen
tral, is 1480 miles, via Erie, 1478 miles,
and nia Pittsburg and Fort Wayne, 1398
miles, while, by Chillcotbe and St.
Louis, via Terre Haute and Pittsburg
will be only about 1d00 miles, with bet.
ter grades and routes. While the comn
pletion of this line would offer better
facilities to that portio of trade and
}travel which 8t. IAoma old mturally
draw, and its oo.5t151u~tiowould Sid so
develop the ouentry -smog she sw5m+
bank of the Mhessuui, It bM04st be
apparent that Chicago has taken the
lead in securing connections, the most
direct, while St. Louis was apathetic
and careless, and, that, if she exhibits
her usual tenacity and energy, she will
ever hereafter retain the lion's share of
the advantages accruing from their pos
session.
TWO KINDS OF ECONOMIY.
The telegrams state upon authority of
lien. Sc'uotield, Secretary of WVar, that
the amuy will be reduced in six mouths
to 29.66J7 men, andi in twelve months to
17,150 men. This, coming from one
whom Andrew Johnson has appointed
ac succe'ssor to) Edwin MI Stanton, and
therefore not open to the charge of be,
ing a rad~ieu HeI. told for electioaeering
lprneis a tribute to the admninistra
tive ability of Stanton, the economical
policy of Grant and Congress, and a
stunning retutation of the charge that
the p~urjmse of thime Republican pafrty is
to preserve a s.,idLicr-ridden despotism in
the Southjern Stute:. TVhree years be
fore' th'* rejeliion. thet army exceedad,
uu~l'"r a (I''Iiiocra .c admninistration, 17,
t000 menf. i)uriig tne war '_,7)9,049 men
(a,- .i li: t lfito sore ic~. , Wi Iowl '-,(W ,
55:3 \.-tre furnil:!t b iy tix" various states.
'flair t a~t: thie scr the number
is again rtediw'd to 17.OjO inen, and this
reduction is the work ofi a R~epublican
ndlninist rafloie. yvitb t..u states in which,
at tb~e urg 3:i a.t' t;ll goodl citizeiJ5,
troops were stationed to px~euL the out
lawry that in every in:-Lance where they
W."., Ii:. !,re slit, existed, and to garri
Soil )t .iigLu a rapidly develop
ir iiahlijozu and ia half sqjuare miles of
frontier, and alonig routes of commnuni
cation hit horto unprotectedl. The nun
l)U o: "riojs requirel to do this has
been rapidiv dinu~nixded, until at the
Icominiencý_ment of the present fiscal year,
there were 56G,000 inen in service, whose
CIexflses to tie governmecnt were not
greater than the 17,GiJO men under a
Idemocratic administration. For this
redunction in expenditures the country is
indebte~l to (Gen. (irant, while to An
drew Johnson and his whiiskty ring, it its
inooebte-d for boein, swindled out of suf
ficienlt money to pay the0 entire current
expenses of the government without a
(lol!ar of direct taxation. Because, how
, evr, the latter stand~s by the principles
that a dlebt honestly incurred shiould be
rs ixonestly paid, he is sty led the bond
holders candidate, and by tho~se who
would barter every prnil that honor
inculcates for the control of a govern
weat they abandoned or endeavored to
subvert in its days of danger, and seek
to evade h')nest, payment of their debts,
that they may have the spoils to divide
1among themselves, as the trophies of
Itheir illbgotten victory.
GRANT AND THE JEWS.
In a lifetime, seven rears of which
have been prolific of decisivve deeds that
tlhe worIld has learned by heart, Gien.
Grant, a nominee for the Presidency,
has been arraigned but upon one-per
secution of the Jews. The opposition
have reconnoitered the camp; it is
guarded at every avenue of approach
and its position is impregnable. They
search the record of our leader, and with
a name, around which clusters deeds of
Ipatriotic heroism, greatness, aua4 wob)g
ness of character, equalled by bftt cooe
in all our coantry's annals; an escutch
eon stainless as Washington'.; a fame
Sas brilliant and immortal as ever wreath
ed a hero, or endeared itself to the
memory of a grateful people, thwy find
'but one act available for partissa dls..
tortion-Order No. 11, Department of
the Mississippi. In this an attempt is
made by Democratic papers to stir up
}a sectarian religious antagonism to
GI(rant. Does any one suppose that a
party. whose existence is a record of
holding in the most abject, debasing
slavery a whole race of men, forbidding
them religious toleration, or instruction
in the rudiments of education; grinding
,,out beneath the heel of the muster, the
liberty, manhood, and life of four toil
lions o1 people, and oven denying they
Iwere human being., cares a fig for a
Jew? We tell you No. The Jews have
tvotes, De mocracy has candidate. that
will need them. They would use the
IJews as cats-paws, and cures them of~
{terwards for getting ueorehei. The
order was issued in Grant's absmen a~d
and revoked on his return, the !m&.ter
tional blunder of a suboediaete havling
altered the purport of what wee inted
ed to be, and would have bees a uwu~u.
lation that every depeutmeam of the
army should have enforced. Any Jew
or gentil. in the arty knew. it we~
neesry~, that the ineW VM;i
rene with spies, ble~elie umaaum,
jeswindlers, sad violaters .1 Ok aply
*.ge w Ia~ e.s 1!sadout et *b t,
1 il jsrdes ot'maw tri ýd tLis~l
ty to trade and their mischief making1
dickerings and evasion of orders was
resuliting but little less injuriously to
their licensed countrymen, than to the
country. It war at the instance of those
who were legitimately trading the
order was issued. They had become
a fearful evil, and required a severe
remedy. Those who were not furnish
ed with permits from department head-!
quarters were ordered to be expelled
from the lines. This is the action that
the disloyal press are issuing to incite
the Jews to hostility to Grant. Grant
was then hurling his victorious forces
on the southern democrats; his success
over their great Generals, filled them
with malice ; a hubbub was raised then
to have him removed that rebellion
might conquer, and now when the na
tion will testify its gratitude, and its
faith in the leader o: the Union armuies,
the same element would stir up a pe-o
ple to oppose them whom tlhey would
spurn with contempt were it not for
their votes. We do not ask a Jew to
vote for (1rant or with the party, unless
he believes the one a man above the
spirit of intolerance attributed to him and
the. other the great liberal, tolerant and
only loyal party in the country. We
hayve taken measures to ascertain the
facts, and know this much talked of
anti-Grant feeling does not prevail with
the intelligent Jews here. We have
no solicitation on the subject. They
cannot be gzulled into any such suicidal
folly, and will v-ote just as independent
of order No. 11, anal the harpings of
office seekers, as ainy claiss of mien in
America. By It fai al miistake the issue
was sp~rung too soon. and' consideration
always dis1*lIs a (delusion. It was flash
ed over the country, adfillIor a moment
blinded the credulous and unthinking ;
but it bus vanished us suddenly, and u ill
tell against thos' who would have forc
ed a people who have been p~ersecuted
t.-rough ages, into hestility against the
saviors of the only governmuent under
which they haave' enjoyed equal lrivi
leges. TLe tolluiwinig ext ract from the
Jeerials fesxcuiyjcr. shows how quickly
that people have d~iscernedl the folly into
whid.i they would have hL en thrust- It
speaks of a nisiting called hy democratic
demagogues ini St. Louis :
"No een'ible Jews are taking part in the
public meeting called at St. L~uis to oppose
GIrant. They would only be the toola of de
signing politicans who hsve no luwe for the
Union, and who seek to create a sentiment in
favar of principles and men antagonistic to
the true interest of all good citizens. If He
brew members of the Republican party decline
to support its candidate, they will certainly
do so on their own responsibility, and neend
so pressure. They will not identify them
selves as Jews with a partisan movement. A
A minister of a Jewis~h congregation once
pre~ached a political sermon, to the surprise
and regret of his brethren. The experiment
has not been often repeated. Israelites are
too intelligent and too self-asserting to be
driven or led by their minister, especially in
matters that have no connecton with religion.'
THE DElMOCRAT'S MISTAKE.
In the last two issues of the Democrat
some five columns are devoted to sus
taining the Major's peculiar theory, that
the Northern Pacific Rail Road project
should be abandoned, and the influence
of Montana thrown in favoj, of a Branch
to the Central. His theory on this sub
ject will meet with about the same en
couragement and popular favor as his
attempt to have Montana organized as a
State. This last fusilade is foimed upon
the debate in the Senate, occasioned by
Howard's reporting the resoluton asking
for an extension of five years on the
vbsrter of thie Northern Pacific road.
The Democrat argues that this means
the Indefinite postponement of the
building of the road, while In reality it
means nothing only that the original
:and grant would have become void, if
.his resolution had not passed, and the
passage of the resolution, giving the
company an extension of two years from
the 2d day of July, 1868, with forty
miles of land on either side of the track,
dosbae that ever granated any other rail
read company, is one of the sunrest evi
dences that the Senate is favorably In
clineal to the Northern Pacific, and that
the subsidies asked will be granted it
at the next session of Congress. The
D mwer-at compares it to the Central
proad, and points to the delay of the Nor
road, and points to the delay of the Nor
thern road as an evidence of apathy on
the part ot she company. The Northern
road has never had any appropriation,
except a land grant, while the Central
has had a subsidy of x119,OGO,000 be:,
side the land; i. e. the geverninent goes
security for the bonds or the com
pany, as fast as the road to completed
and aocepted. The amount asked for
the Northega road is about the same.
The dillhuwse beswess having the ov -
senm t as seulity and net, is this ;
while if tla6 company construct the road
upes its own less. of bonds, they Isevi
tmy dqsIass, mrdall sanauag., and
My m~utun. to the e jaay would,
M> so" m tb he wont. at least re~daw
PWsOW Its Seandwa to aaptmr. eom
7bIf the win~rmt bscos s. -
d &ewe- be ,wsimaytli
replenished, and the work goes rapidly
Iforward. This is what the Northern
Icompany is leboring for, and as certainly
as the next Congress convenes, the road
will be subsidized, and the work begun.
The extension of the charter, has no
other significance, than, that Congress
is willing to permnit It to retain its grant
of land. We cannot but believe the
Democrat is sincere in its views, but also
believe it fearfully in error as to the best
interests of Montana. The branch road
If built would be comparatively nothing
to us ;a main trunk line everything.
IThe establishment of the coach post
service from Helena to Abercombie, the
extension of the charter, the known fa
vorable feeling in Congress in respect to
it, the surveys now in progress, and the
united voice of the Northwest, all indi
cate that unless wve are recreant to our
selves, the time is near at hand when it
wvill be undertaken and completed.
The company composed of eight Direc
tore of east and west lines between the
Atlantic and Missouri, representing
over thirty millions of dollars of capitol.
is the strongest railroad combixfi~ion
ever framed on the continent, and when
the saine aid is given this that is given
to the Central, and that they have the
right to expect, it will be constructed
with an expedition and energy never
before witnessed in railroad construc
tion. We have so frequently urged the
inducements; to this great project that to
name them would be but to reiterate.
If the Demzocert would have "all unite
on one common platform" and labor for
the best interests of Montana, it has but
to join hands with all the other papers
of' the Territory, which it would (10 if
the subject was given that considera
tion which looks beyondi the imnme~di
ate to the eventual.
RUM AND RAILROADS.
Trhe Winona Repiibliran makes up
1from the report of Commissioner Wecll'
'and Mr. Delmar's statistics of -railroads,
a comparative statement of rum and
railroads in titer nited States. We gave,
some days since, an aggregate, but the
following, specifying 31he several states.
will prove as interesting as starl~ling :
Value of retail Tutaf'value of
liquor sales for railroads and
one year. their equip tr.
New York .........246,607,520 *169,:305, ise
Massachusetts.......27,979,5 75 71.731,934
Peunsy l Cania.... ..... 15:2, , 495 t21 674, 457
Il1iois.................. 1O6, 5t1395 149,060,657
Ohio .................... 151,734,875 149,540,950
Maryland .............. 40.564.6l0 :17,106.685
Missouri ................. 54. G27, 353 55,3734.105
Indiana ................. 61,418,890 et9,560.722
Califer-la................ 59,.')24,080 27,090, (1271
Kentucky............... 50,222,115 23,719 404
Wisconsin ............... 43.848,845 40,956, 12
{ Iwa . .............. 15582,68.7 49.190,459
Connecticut ............. 35 001,230 24,997,:41
1New Jersey............. 42,648,740 54,55,'42
Maie ................5,257, 015 15,939,779
IRhode Island...... 10,254 240 4,973,6x5
New Hampshire......12,629,17. 22.230,337
Minnesota ......... 14,:394,9'70 11.25e 00
District of Columbia.. 10,376,450 ........
Vermont . 6,766,06i5 24.45 9893
Kansas .......... t+,SIX,850 2,2500,ux~u
The retail cost of liquors per annum
is $1,483,400,405. or $43 for each person
in the country. It ~is only one-eighth
less than the entire annual sales of mer
chandise at wholesale rates. While we
complain of hard times and oppressive
taxation, and reflect that we spend for
liquors e'very twenty months, enough to
liquidate the indebt'idnees of the nation.
we have more cant'e to be ashamed of
beastly dissipation, than to complain of
the treasure cost of the Union.
The following table shows the pro
portion of every 1000 persons who can -
not read or write. That of the United
States Is from the census of 1800:
United Slave States............. 368
States. Free "........3
Russia.........................96
(ireece......................... 5
Poland ......................... 910
Austria.....................80
Spain and South Italy............ 5
France.............. .......... r0
Great Britan ................ ... 400
Hololand ........................3
German States.....................1
IF UN DUS'NIT WHAT DOES MR?
As to your statements of Mr. Pendle
ton's policy, they are utterly incorrect.
What is known as his plan does not
propose to increase the volume of the
currency one doll- r.-merely to change
its character-Gazette.
If the GJaette Is correct we confess
error, but is it not Brick Pomeroy's
sch eme of REPUDIATION the Gazette has
iunoceumtly mistaken for Pendleton's.
That, in we are informed by Bdlck,
" does taot propose to increase the vol
urn.." Mr. Pendleton proposes to eon
vert the bonds bearing iatese lnaw cur
reaey beaimg no interest. Hands ar.
not curreiny. How shoe can he emeom
p11mb his psrposs wihusat uwesssing its
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HRE WOULD DISCUSS.
The Independent does itself up in a
robe of "gray" glory because we d'
dlined last week to strike at its shadowy
sophistries, as it desired, and went after
the substance. The best way to dispel
heat is to put out the fire; when shot
comes from a battery, it is better to cap
ture and spike it than to spend time in
pulverizing the balls and analyzing the
iron to see if' its component parts are
dangerous. The quotation was made,
knowing it referred to Mr. Royce, but
nine in ten of the Indep, dcui'a readers
did not know it, and swallowing it for
pure Southern applejack, it would h'ave
as exhilirating an effect as the order of
a Ku Klux Klan. You make a sorry
explanation of your joke. Why does
the Inidepenldeft not, explain the first
qluotation of the two, ere it demands
Iwhy we did not quote its entire con
tents? The interogatory as to who we
would vote for was answered to the Ga
zette in as ninny words a short time
since, and the second Article of the Clhi
cago Platform, which was framed on the.
corner stone sentiment. expresseu by
C2olfax a year ago, that "those who
love the flag shall rule the country"
meets with our fullest concurren"-e. M~r
Rogers, holding hits avowed opinions is.
to speak it mildly, at heart an alien to
the United States government, lie did
not wait for us to pharge hint so, hut
avows it in every issue of his paper, and
while he. is that, we hold that he has no
more authority to instruct Union men of
their duty, than Satan had to give away
the world when lie .? 'ered the tempta
tion on the mountain. OIn this proposi
tion we started, and by it we siand. Just
now the Isdeqwndent is trying to rival
the La Crosse Demee'r't in % it~lperatioii
against radicals, and assumes to call it
argument. It says "Blen. Butler would
steal the picture of Jesus Christ to or
nament his parlor, etc." T'r'is is one of
the "facts and principles' MIr. Rogers
would like to "elaborate" upon, and is
about as tangible an idea as lie has yet
presented. It is p~erhaps sbamnef'zl for
us to "decline" a controversy on such
p~ropositions, but really we have too
much regard for a worthy namesake of
the great martyr to dispute with him
upon such fioell/' (rawca theological
points.
FIHST TO THE FRONT.
e publish to-day. the call of tieorge
W. Irvin, Chairman of the Itepuhlican
C~ounty committee of Deer Lodge, call
ing for the election of Delegates on the
6th inst., to a County Convention for the
nomination of candidates for county of
fices and the L~egislature. Although the
other counties are moving in the inatt'er
Deer Lodge has the honor of making
the first call, and we urge the Union
men to turn out and elect Delegates who
will go for practical, honest, andi capa
ble men. The unwise local legislation
of last winter has been made as apparent
to the miners of Deer Lodge as they
could desire, and we feel confident, that
although Deer Lodge is the Democratic
stronghold of Montana, a Union selec
tion can be made that will appeal to the
common sense of Deer Lodgers andI send
a different delegation to Virginia this
winter from that which went last. We
hear the names of several prominent
and talented men, mentioned for thA
Legislature and hope that if chosen as
candidates they will deter any personal
desires and go into the field. But a few
weeks intervene between this and the
election. Republicans of Montana nev
er had so fair a prospect of success, and
the opporunity appeals to them for a
united and vigorous effort to place men
in the Legislature who will meet and
combat any such partizan and unjuset
legislation as that of last winter, which
was as disgusting to fair minded Demo
crats as to Republicans. There were
members of that Legislature, capable
men, above the contamination of the
narrow selfishness that predominated.
We hope to see them returned and with
them fully as competent and liberal 1e-
publicans, that the Legislature of the
Territory may not be a bye-word of de
rision in the mouths of the people. It
is tiwe now that each county should call
its primaries and follow quickly upon
the nomilnations of the Democracy which
which will occur during the next two
weeks.
The House Military Committee report
that the saving to the G~overnmient in
transportation by the U. P. R. R. in the
past year has been $848,382, 82. The
eomapietoln of the road to New Mexico
would save in transportation $i,083,
872, and its completion to Albuquer
que would save its entire cost to gov
ermnent in aix years. We think these
facts an argument which the opponents
of the trans-contlnejatal railways can
not successfulily rebut.
Eastern exchanges state it has do
'usloped that the money expended by
Woaley, a" which was bsaieved to
hae" bees wied to pa the acquait..
tal ofth. P2reddent ma mnlmd by the
Wb y and .ipea4ed by him to
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