Montana News

W. N. HOLDEN

Socialist Candidate for Presidential Elector.

Mr. Holden was born in Grafton, Mass., in 1860, moved to Kansas in 1868 and came to Montana in 1880. Mr. Holden built the first cabin where Great Falls now stands in the spring of 1881, and has followed different occupations since for the past twenty years. Mr. Holden, in his characteristic offhand manner of talk, is authority for the statement that he has had many jobs offered him, but has never asked for one, and that he has been many times hungry because he would not go to the masters of bread and ask for the privilege of living, for the reason that if he had it would have been at the expense of some one else who would have been forced to "hit the pike" and look for a job. For the past seven years Mr. Holden has been in the transfer business, employing himself four years ago. He was a member of the state executive board of the Socialist party that carried on the state campaign. Mr. Holden has been an active member of the Butte local nearly five years, and has contributed his share with the rest of the comrades towards carrying on the propaganda work in the part of Rockefeller's domain in Silver Bow county. It is needless to say that Comrade Holden is a revolutionary Socialist.