Daily Inter Mountain

A RUMP DELEGATION.

Upon what argument will the minority delegation to the state republican convention apply for seats in that body? What honest man with a serious face will summon the nerve to defend the action of the minority and ask for the admission of the delegation headed by Hon. John W. Cotter and Hon. C. R. Leonard? The reasons, if truthful, will be something like these:

(1) That the movement originated with a minority of the county committee—who, without reason or excuse bolted the committee and called primaries of their own.

(2) That arrangements were made with democratic mine owners for the 'loan' of a few hundred democrats and populists for use at those primaries.

(3) That at the convention illegally called and illegally held sixty-two delegates were chosen to represent the party at the state convention.

(4) That these men will apply for admission and hold a convention of their own with other disgruntled gentlemen and nominate a second state ticket or support the democratic ticket if not admitted.

(5) That although the delegation is opposed to mining company dictation, it represents a mining company itself and nothing else.

(6) That the delegation is emphatically opposed to the idea of mining company lawyers being put forward to control and regulate political conventions and that Hon. John W. Cotter and Hon. C. R. Leonard will themselves explain the dangerous tendencies of such manipulation.

Other gentlemen will expose in all its naked hideousness the peril of corporate dictation and denounce every man having more than $10 as an enemy of the state and a menace to industrial enterprise. They will also warn the party against lawyers on general principles and point out that William Scalon, John F. Forbis and W. H. DeWitt are three of the toughest propositions now at large in this state and that they must be driven into the democratic party if possible.

(7) That no compromise goes, that the party must be divided and kept apart in order to be successful and that in union is there weakness and disaster.

(8) That the minority delegation must be admitted in order that the republican party may be compelled to take sides in mining suits and become an instrument in the hand of one company as against another; otherwise there will be a bolt in every county in the state where enough men can be found to make up a 'rump' ticket and the whole party from McKinley down will go to everlasting smash. The rule or ruin faction of the republican party is now on deck and must be recognized or chaos will come again.