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HORSE CARS IN HELENA. Inauguration of the Helena Street Railway. The First Cars Make Their First Trip Under the Direction of Officers and Directors. Flags a ml Manners Flutter in llie .Morning Air and the Small Hoys Catch on. Through the courtesy of John B. Wil son, Vice President of the company, a Hebai.d reporter was invited to a cushion ed »eat this morning for an excursion trij) in a Pullman car on the Helena Street Railway. At the southern station of the road, on the south side of Cutler street, there was a lively scene of preparation this morning for the inauguration of the Hele na Street Railway by the Mayor, City Council and ofiicers generally of the muni cipality, press reporters, Board of Trade and citizens. Two beautiful cars of.the latest approved design were stationed on the track, in the southern part of the city, decorated with tlags and ready for the first trip under the management of the oflQcers'and directors of the company. Yesterday's trial trip was made under the auspices of J. J. Palmer, construction contractor of the road. This morning the road was formally turned over to the company and their ofiicers put in charge. In a few minutes after the formal transfer Ry Zeigler hooked on to the van car with four horses, decor ated with llags. The second car was under the ribbons iu the hands of Chris Yasube, who hooked on two of his heavy weight horses, which were also decorated with flags It is but proper to mention here that Chris. Yasube pulled the brakes upon the lirst omnibus in Helena, and now engineers one of the first carson the official trial trip of the lirst street cars. Conductor A. N. Richards, an experien ced car man from Massachusetts, was put in charge of car Xo. 2, and H. B. Nye engi neered car Xo. 1. At five minutes to 11 o'clock J. A. Strong, {Superintendent of the Helena Street Railway, souuded his little hells and called out "all aboard." The lirst car was hoarded hy Acting Mayor Sted man and the City Council, directors of the company, and Vice President John B. Wil son, L. A. Walker, Secretary, and invited guests. The second car was reserved for the press, ladies and gentlemen of the city and visiting friends. The cars started with about fifty passengers, which were aug mented to sixty on the way down Main street. It beiDg a free ride the small boy was a very lively factor in the inaugura tion, and was a good make up in not only filling up the interstices between the adults, hut in "catching on" while the cars were in motion. THE STAUT was signalled hy a hearty approval hy the hundreds who had gathered to see the send-off. The trip down Main street was watched hy many hundreds more who lined the sidewalks for near a mile. The motion of the cars was almost noiseless, and the road bed well settled and smooth. Many of the prominent citizens of Helena availed themselves of the first ride to the depot, among whom were A. J. Davidson, President of the Board of Trade ; A. M. Holter, Vice President, and Robert C. Walker, Secretary ; Henry Klein, S. C. Ashby, William Humbert, of the Helena Cab Co.; Henry Cannon, William Reed, Geo. E. Boos, Win. F. Wheeler, George Foote and many others. The gentle curves of the track and its well ballasted road bed is complimentary to the engineers, Reeder & Walker, as well as to J. J. Palmer, the construction con tractor. The trip, after fifteen stops, was made to the depot iu eighteen minutes and back in twenty minutes, demonstrating that under favorable circumstances the trip can be made in fourteen minutes, or the round trip iu a half hour. There was one lady on the rear car who would not ride for nothing and chipped in 50 cents so as to try the new way of paying fare. Her two quarters and several nickels, with a con federate $20 hill—thrown in for fun—were the first receipts of the Street Car Com pany. 9 The inauguration of the Helena Street Car Company to-day marks an era in the city that foreshadows wonderful changes in all things else that presage the require ments of a great metropolis. The enterprise of the Helena Street Railway Company deserves great commen dation, and the successful establishment to day of a city passenger railway in Helena is a lit occasion for the people to rejoice that such enterprises as these are but an other evidence of the kind of stuff her citi zens are made of. The railway will make trade, the busses and hacks will prosper as before and the people who walked once, will ride now for ten cents as comfortably as any other traveler in a Pullman car—and if the cab man says, "I ride as snug as a bug in a rug," the street car man says, "I ride snugger than that other bugger." All success to the street cars. STOCKHOLDERS. C. W Cannon James Blake T. C. Power Reed & Rinda C. A. Broadwater Gans & Klein H. M. Pärchen R.H. Kleinschmidt J. B. 'Wilson Clarke, Conrad & Cur A. M. Holter tin A. J. Seligmau Moses Morris If. W. Child A. Kleinschmidt E. W. Bach E. Sharpe L. A. Walker Jos. Horsky, Jr. S. E. Atkinsou S. C. Ashby Win. A. Chessuiau Sanford & Evans R. C. Wallace John T. Murphy Wm. G. Bailey DIRECTORS. C. W. Canuon T. C. Power A. M. Holter L. A. Walker J. B. Wilson H. M. Pärchen A. J. Seligman OFFICERS. President— C. W. Cannon. Vice President—J. B. Wilson. Secretary & Treasurer—L. A. Walker. General Manager—Juo. B. Wilson. Superintendent—J. A. Strong. A Good Start for the Street Cars. The way the street cars gathered in pas sengers yesterday must have been extreme ly gratifying to the stock holders. At no timt of the day did they run empty or even half tilled. Many people were attracted hy the sound of the bells on the horses necks, and many were the favorable re : marks passed on the appearance of the cars i in our streets. The trips to the station I averaged fifteen minutes each, and return ing twenty minutes, the long up grade ! from the station to town requiring the ex tra five minutes. Saturday afternoon the cars carried 357 passengers and took $35.70 in fares. Yesterday 870 passengers were carried and $87 weie collected. This far ! exceeded the expectations of even the most sanguine of the well wishers of the road, and argues success for the future. At present there has been no regular schedule I of trips made out, hut one will he an nounced very soon. Meanwhile the cars run at intervais of about thirty minutes, and are always to be found at the station for incoming and outgoing trains. One funny incident happened yesterday when a man got on who was evidently unused to horse cars, and who couldn't exactly "catch on" to the method of procuring change and depositing it. After looking around for a while his eye caught the box at the end of the car. He came up to it, and af ter cautiously examining it, put his hand in his packet and fished out a five dollar gold piece. He dropped it in the box and then stood waiting with his hands spread out under the box in a position that indi cated that lie was expecting to catch some thing. After waiting patiently for a few moments he turned to one of the pas sengers and inquired if "the blamed thing wasn't working." The passenger ad dressed naturally asked what he meaut. and was amused to lind that the man was waiting for the "machine" l as he called it,) to grind out his change to him. His mind was set straight on that subject, aud he was advised either to go to the company's office and recover bis change from them, or to take the $4.!)t) out in riding between the statiou and Bridge street. He choose the former alternative. Une or two of those who rode yesterday showed their ap preciation of the line by pitching a quarter or a half dollar iu the box aud refusing to take change—putting it in "for luck." From each of the trains the cars brought up a good sized load, and were well pat ronized this morning for the early East bound. They have come to stay and all wish them luck. ----- » -- A Kailroad Accident Which .Might Have Been Serious. As the train from Wickes yesterday af ternoon was nearing Clancy, a collision oc curred between the rear and front cars of the train, which completely wrecked five or six cars, piling them high in the air. Most fortunately there were two loaded cars ahead of the passenger coach, and these ac ted as a buffer, relieving the coach of much of the shock. None. of the pas sengers were seriously hurt, although all sustained a severe shaking up. The acci dent was caused by the breaking of a coup ling pin on one of the open ears. The train parted iu the center, leaving six freight cars, the passenger coach and baggage car behind. The first end going faster than the rear end drew away some distance. Going through a narrow cut the engineer seeing a hand of horses on the track, and being unconscious of the fact that he had left half his train one-half a mile behind, slowed down to almost a dead stop, while the rest of the train at a high rate of speed came crashing into the forward part, be ing completely telescoped, one of the cars being shot over twenty-five feet in the air. Had the train parted nearer the passenger coach, the loss of life would have been large, as nothing could have lived in that wreck. The coach was crowded with people, who did not realize their very nar now escape until they got out and saw the frightful wreck—lour cars occupying the space of less than two. The railroad com pany has cause for great congratulation, as had any one been injured they would un doubtedly have been heavily mulcted. An instance of what an excited IMAGINATION MAY DO. Just after the accident a gentleman from Helena, turned to a friend with a face ashen with terror, and said : "My God, I am ruptured. I can feel the blood trick ling down my leg." An examination showed that his fears were groundless. The Harvie negotiations recently report ed by the Herald as looking to the trans fer of the Livingston Enterprise to Mr. Toole's support, is referred to by that paper, as follows: We would advise our esteemed cotem porary, the HelenallERALD, that Jas. Har vie has never been connected with the Enterprise only as an employe, and in that capacity has not been associated with the paper for the past two weeks. If he ex hibited any freshness as an attache of the Enterprise while in Helena, it was without the consent or sanction of its owner and publisher. The Herald's best information is that after some correspondence, Mr. Harvie re ported at Democratic headquarters in re sponse to an invitation, and to those hand ling and dispensing Mr. Toole's "news paper fund" was submitted certain plans for the purchase and incorporation of the Entcrprese, with Mr. Wright left out. We hear it said that the conclusion reached was that in another way and at less cost the Enterprise could be swung around to Mr, Toole, with the prospect that it could be influenced to support both the general and local Democratic tickets. We believe Mr. Harvie thought a new management in dispensible to render the Enterprise alto gether subservient to Democratic uses. But it appears that Mr. Harvie is mistaken it Mr. Toole's friends are to be credited. They express the greatest confidence that the Enterprise will be brought to do just as effective service for the Democracy under Mr. Wright as under any other man. We shall see what we shall see. "Well, for that matter, we can get along without Maginnis," is the opinion of a con siderable number of Joes friends. WHICH IS WISEST AND BEST? As for our>elves we have a higher re gard for the good sense of our delegate and Major Maginnis to believe that they approve of the action of Cleveland in vetoing the right of way hill for the Manitoba road, and that it is hstter to await the uncertain action of any In dian Commission, as the organ holds. We do not believe President Hill or any of his associates think Cleveland's way the wisest and best. Else they were very foolish to spend so much time, money and effort to secure the passage of the hill. The railroad we want, and we want it as soon as we can get it, and we believe the company has as much right to build through the reservation now, under the Stevens' treaty, as it will have after making a new one, whether the reservations are reduced or not. Who ever heard of a treaty still standing on the records of the country, unaltered and unrepealed, losing its significance and virtue hy the lapse of time. Ar ticle VI of the Constitution says: "This Constitution and the laws of the United States which shall he made in persu ance thereof; and all treaties made, or which shall he made, under the author ity of the United States, shall he the supreme law of the land ; and the judges of every State shall be hound thereby, anything in the Constitution or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstand ing." A treaty from the moment it is ratified becomes a law, and the Stevens treaty of 1855 is as much a law to-day as it ever was, and the judiciary arc hound by their constitutional oaths to uphold it, as much as any law on our statute books, and President Cleveland is as much hound by it as the humblest citizen in the country. Stevens was sent out ex pressly to secure a riglit of way for the construction of a railroad to the Pa cific, and he made the language broad aud specific. Xo new treaty could make it more so, nor would our right, so tar the Indians are concerned, be any more complete if we were to pay a mil lion dollars. In the name of the people of Montana we spurn the idea that it is wiser and better to wait for the negotia tion of a new treaty. We can go through the northern reservation with any kind of a road in any direction un der the terms of a treaty that the consti tution declares to be the supreme law of the land, and what more do we want ? Surely the mo3t servile endorser of Cleveland's administration will hardly claim that he can veto a law framed over thirty years ago. The burden of proof rests on those who assert that it is wisest and better to wait and negotiate. Show it if you can. If the people of Montana are foolish enough to stake their chances for admis sion as a State upon any compromise which will induce the President and the Democratic majority of the House to con sent to the admission of Dakota, then sim plicity is monumental and tkeir degrading servility will merit not only disappoint ment but contempt. The oath has been registered in secret Democratic conclave that Dakota shall not lie allowed to par ticipate in the next Presidential election. Under no possible circumstances would Cleveland ever sign a bill admitting either Dakota or Montana singly or jointly. There is no hope for us but in a Republi can administration and a Republican Con gress. The proper thing for the people of Montana to do is to get ready for the grand struggle in 1888 that will admit Dakota, Montana and Washington together. It will have to he made a national issue. It is easy enough to see that this is what it will come to, and no cringing or crawling will alter ihe result. And we fail to see, and we fancy the people of Montana will fail to see, wherein it is better to await the uncertain action of the Indian Commission, before we can have a right of way and a railroad over it through Northern Montana. We claim that the right of way is granted hy the Stevens treaty of 1885, that the act of Con gress was unnecessary aud the President's veto a gratuitous insult to the men build ing the road and to all the people of Mon tana. Who knows what sort of a treaty the commission will negotiate? Who knows when Congress will act upon it? The Mexican reciprocity treaty has been pending in Congress several sessions with out final action, and from the notorious hostility of the administration and the majority ol Democrats in Congress to every thing that can benefit the Northwest, we are pretty sure that every obstacle possi ble will oe thrown in the way so long as there is an opportunity and the power. Ofk Meagher correspondent enables the Herald to preserve Mr. Toole's speech at White Sulphur Springs in very close re semblance to the text of his first public utterance. Mr. Toole boldly faces the music and stands pat on the endorsement plank of the administration, incorporated au part of the Democratic platform. The Land Commissioner, with all his abomin able acts and rulings, is a friend in dis guise to the settlers of the Territory—a shining mark for Mr. Toole's glorification. The defense of Sparks is a desperate un dertaking, but consistently no other course is open to Joseph. He has evidently made up his mind to "cheek it through" on that line. _ The October number of Harper's Maga zine has a most interesting article on Soldiers' Homes, giving us pictured views of them, telling where they are located, how they came to be built, how they are conducted and how many occupants they accommodate. Among the governors of these five Homes, the likeness of Col. A. J. Smith will he recognized by his host of Montana friends. Every man, woman and child will be proud to think that our "brave boys in blue" are so thoughtfully and handsomely provided for. GIVE US SOMETHING FRESH. When a party gathers its leading men in council and they formulate a plat form and candidates are nominated pledged to the principles set forth in these platforms, we are entitled to go to these platforms for the issues, and though the "organ" may find it very hard and disagreeable to defend the issues presented thus, and may well wish to accommodate itself with some thing easy, if it is old, we propose to hold it down to business. Tue first proposition presented to form an issue of this campaign is whether or not the people of Montana endorse the administration of Cleveland. That is something tangible, present, practicable, living. The Democratic leaders iu convention said they en dorsed it, they pledged their followers and their leader to its endorsement. And now the main and pertinent in quiry of this canvass is to ascertain it the majority of the people of Montana endorse Cleveland's administration. II they do they should by all means vote for Mr. Toole as their Delegate, and when he goes up to Washington with his new credentials he can say, without any reservation, "Mr. President, the people of Montana, on a direct issue presented by our platform, have en dorsed your administration, they ap prove of your policy and the principles you have uniformly adhered to. Though the administration has dil fered widely from the views of a 1 large portion of the Democratic party on the further demonetization of silver, the reduction of the tariff and the application of the treasury surplus to the payment of the national debt, yet the people of Montana who have made me their Delegate, have endorsed your administration rather than that of Con gress. Some few have found fauit with Sparks, whom you have appointed and sustained, but the majority think he told the truth when he said that ninety per cent, of our people were frauds and rascals. They think that you probably knew best and they confess that they are liars and thieves and deserve the treatment they have received as such. They approve of your veto for a right of way over the Indian reservation for an other railroad. That treaty of Stevens, approved some thirty odd years ago, was a fraud. The Indians did not know how valuable their lands would some time becouie. It might scare some of their ponies to have locomotives pulling and whistling around in that section. As you say there are not many white folks out there, and it is not well that they should have any facilities of getting to market, or that others should he en ) couraged to go there. "The Manitoba railroad people should he especially grateful to you for saving them from squandering their money. It is a great deal wiser and better to wait a few years more. Our people have had years of experience in waiting; they make good waiters. Bayard and Sedg wick have covered the country in glory in the Cutting affair, and what matter is it that a few of our fishermen have been insulted and robbed by Cana dian cruisers, and ,why should we not send Irishmen back to be tried in Eng lish courts for crimes to which centuries of crime and oppression had goaded them. They recognize in Whitney a natural born marine. He has bank rupted Roach and it served him right. Since then he has bought a lot of models for war ships that the best English au thorities condemn and he will probably create a wonderful navy in time. Gar land is especially commended and ad mired. He has shown in the telephone business that he knows a good hand when it comes to him. Your foreign diplomatic appointments have carried the luster of our glorious institutions into all lands. In fact our people en dorse all and every part of your adminis tration." That is what Mr. Toole's commission will cover and signify and before it is filled out we want the voters of Mon tana polled, to see if they assent indi vidually to this endorsement of the ad ministration. What does it matter for the present what] was thought or done about sub sidies years ago, when we had no rail roads and very little prospect of one? What matters it what Sanders or any one else thought about the Chinese years ago, before we knew very much about them? It was not many years ago that all California was enthusiastic about China, its rich trade and industrious people. The thing didn't pan out as we expected. We might as well discuss the naval architecture of the ark as the dead and gone, buried and forgotten issues that the organ is frantically hurry ing to the front. With as much pro priety could it hold Col. Sanders re sponsible for the Charleston earthquake as for the Coal Company s regulations. Sometime when the campaign is over and business is dull we might accommo date the organ by cracking some of its conumdrums, but we havn't time now. It is stated that the West End states man, Wash McCormick, is doing some heavy work for Joe Toole in Missoula county. Iu grateful appreciation of the numerous postoffice appointments con ferred by Joe at the instance and upon the | recommendation of Wash, Missoula is to poll a solid vote for the Democratic candi date. A cheerful, breezy letter from the West Imd promises "every Democratic ballot for the ticket." The November verdict in Missoula is to show a double en dorsement, so to speak, of Joe and Wash, toward which every Democrat is fighting to contribute. Glory for Wash—glory for Joe ! another issue. Going to the Democratic platform for another issue besides the endorsement of Cleveland's administration, we find it in the remarkable statement that the Dem ocratic party has rescued the country from twenty-five years of Republican misrule. This was intended to cover the admin istrations of Lincoln, Grant, Hayes and Garfield. What the other odd year is thrown in for can only be a randsom sur mise. But the period covers the slave holders' rebellion, the extinction of slavery and the pestilent doctrine that State rights were superior to the preser vation and prosperity of the Union. It includes the complete restoration of the Union in greater strength and glory than it ever before possessed. It wit nessed the greatest financial achieve ment in the whole history of the world. So low was the credit of the government in the last month of Buchanan's admin istration that it had to pay at the rate of one per cent, a month, and could only secure a small amount for a short time at that rate. During the period of Republican "misrule" the greatest and most expensive war of all history was carried through to complete success, hundreds and thousands of millions raised and spent. The debt that was two and three quarters billions in 1866 was more than half paid oil' during this period of "misrule," aud such was the credit of the government that it could procure ail the money wanted for any purpose at from two to three per cent. It is the most wonderful chapter in the financial history of the world, and it would take a whole volume to do it j ustice. The population of the country in 1860, just on the eve of this era of "misrule" was a little over thirty millions. Near ly the whole population of the country capable of bearing arms were in hostile array during four years of this time, de cimated in battle and by disease and starvation. It was a terribly fatal war to human life. And yet the population of the country nearly doubled during this quarter of a century. It is the first instance in the world's history where "misrule" seems to have promoted rapid growth in population, as well as in wealth and credit. In 1860 there were about 30,000 miles of railroad in the country. During the succeeding 25 years of "misrule" this mileage had been increased to 125,000 and included several transcontinental lines. We know that it is unpopular just now to defend land subsidies to rail roads, but we are willing to assume all the odium that can reasonably attach to the policy, if the proper credits are given for the advantages. At the time the great grants were made these ladds were practically worthless. There was much talk and some danger of. the establish ment of a separate Pacific coast repub lic. The East was separated from the West by a trackless, almost interminable desert. So long as this barrier con tinued there could be no intimate social and political or commercial relations. These grants of land were made when the nation was in the throes and perils of a cival war. The government needed every dollar of its resources and had nothing to offer but a portion of the wilderness that the railroads would have to traverse and might possibly render habitable and valuable. The result justified the highest hopes of the most sanguine promoters of this poliey. The building of these great roads, to be laid with American iron, has done more to compact us as a nation, to build up our iron industries, to .promote railroad skill and enterprise generally, to advance settlement and production, to extinguish Indian wars, to say nothing of other in cidental advantages almost without num ber, than all other causes combined throughout our national existence. For every dollar granted thousands have been received in return, and every year will swell these returns as long as time endures. For every acre given away, others were rendered valuable and habi table that before were utterly worthless, and that which was given away is re turned to the nation in condition to pro duce from every acre for every year more than the land was worth when the grant was made. The nation is richer to-day by several billions for the land grant policy of the Republican party that called into existence our trans-conti nental lines, the greatest triumph and wonder of this age of wonders. While it would take volumes to ex haust this subject, every citizen of Mon tana can make a hasty inventory of what this period of "Republican mis rule" has given us in the shape of nationality, freedom, wealth, credit, en terprise, and everything elso valuable and desirable, till there can be but one opinion that it was not only the most critical and eyentful, but by far the most glorious, prosperous and produc tive period in our country's history. | Upon the "organ's" theory that the "most objectionable" of Arthur's special agents was the best one, we suppose it would have us draw the inference that the most objectioable of the two candidates for Delegate is the best one. If we are going to have paradoxes, by all means let us have a pair of them. It seems to us that the "organ" has adopted Sparks' rule of action. The most objectionable agents are the best for his purpose of proving that ninety per cent, of the land entries are fraudulent. And the Democratic House was anxious to entrust Sparks with the power to vacate any entry on the bare re port of one of these "most objectionable" agents. We never heard that our Dele gate ever protested against this action of the House, where he had a voice at least, if not a vote. The story of the distress among the agricultural classes of Italy, especially the grain growers of Piedmont, is but a re-echo of the same wail that comes up from every corner of the continent and to some extent j from the residents of our own eastern I States, The extension of railroads out into j the cheap and more productive lands of , the West and the general introduction of agricultural machinery, havt vrought this , revolution so disastrous to some classes especially the landlords and the land ten ants and laborers. The landlords cannot get enough to pay their taxes, the tenants ; cannot pay their rent and help and come out even, and the poor laborer cannot get enough to support himself and family. If the foreign governments impose a duty on our wheat, corn, meat, etc., it raises the i cost of living to all the classes engaged in I manufacture, and there is no margin for , them. It is a two-edged sword and the | governments of Europe are handling it by the blade instead of the hilt. The only sensible thing that would bring any per manent relief is to be found in disarming, stopping the waste of large standing armies, reducing taxation, giving more skill, energy and hope to labor by general education. We fancy that President Hill would hardly have bad the assurance to tell the people of Helena, as he did at the banquet iu this city not long since, that the Mani toba road would he completed through to our city next season if he depended for his right of way upon any new treaty to be negotiated and subsequently ratified by both houses of Congress. There may have been a time when he thought it would he better to haye a fresh concession of this right, hut when this fresh concession which was so readily and almost unanimously voted hy both houses of Congress was met hy the unexpected and insulting veto mes sage of Cleveland, he did not think it was worth the while to attempt to pass it over the veto. He was ready to stand on the law as it stood and as the courts are hound to uphold and declare, Presidential vetoes to the contrary notwithstanding. Nexo Northwest: There was never a Delegate nomination made in Montana that fell as flat—with such a kind of wet blanket weariness—on the people of Mon tana as did the recent one of Mr. Toole. No wonder that his backers found it nec essary to capture the Benton Press, that has strongly condemned him for the past several months, the Sun River Sun, edited and published hy Mr. Lawrence, who is said to be a Republican, and another Choteau county paper, to espouse his cause in Northeastern Montana. It is a desper ate cause that compels Mr. Toole's man agers to acquire these agencies, but their efforts, however industrious, ingenious and able, will he futile. Mr. Toole and the Democratic administration are being held to trial on their record by the people of Montana, and the verdict will he "guilty as charged." _ The Republicans of Dakota in Terri torial Convention, put on record the follow ing resolution, unanimously adopted, con cerning Sparks and his administration of the General Land Office : Kcsotced, That the administration of the general land office under Commissioner Sparks has been characterized throughout by gross ignorance on his part of the char acter of the people who have planted the homes, built the cities and developed the resources of Dakota, or else he has purposely wronged and vilified an honest, loyal and intelligent people ; that his gen eral policy toward the Northwest, and par ticularly toward the honest settlers of Dakota, is based neither on law, precedent nor justice; that he has reversed the well established principle that a man must he considered innocent until he is proven guilty, and that his oft-repeated statement that 90 per cent of the public land entries in the Northwest are fraudulent, is in spired by ignorance, uttered with malice and sought to be sustained hy the most unwarrantable, unjust and hitherto un heard of rulings and regulations. The statement that the present admin istration has addressed itself with zeal to "the broad view of reducing the reserva tions and securing the vacation of as much as possible of the public domain," is not borne out by the facts. About the first act of Cleveland was to reverse the order of President Arthur vacating the Crow reser vation in Dakota and driving out several hundred settlers that had gone in there to take up lands and make them productive. Has anybody heard of any reduction of reservations during the nearly two years that this administration has been in power ? _ The Livingston Enterprise, w'hile con vinced in its own mind that Col. Sanders "cannot be considered as the wisest selec tion that could have been made from the political timber at hand," is persuaded that "he is well qualified for the ofiice, as he is reputed one of the ablest men in the Ter ritory, and ability in a Delegate, brought to bear in oar National Congress solely in the interests of our whole Territory, would work great advantage to our many wants." Mr. Toole's claim in his speech at White Sulphur Springs that he has accom plished more for Montana than any other Delegate, was ably supported by a state ment from Mr. Shober, who declared in substance that Joe was ahead of Magin nis by many laps. Was Governor Hauser's remonstrance against the warfare on silver, contained in his report to the Washington authorities, all pretense, all hnmbug? It does soap pear from the unqualified endorsement of the Cleveland administration by the Mon tana Democratic platform and by the Governor's organ as well. Maginnis as yet goes unposted for speechmaking for Toole. Joe's opinion is that he has done more for Montana iu one session than ever the Major did during all his terms. Mr. Shober, who is reported as of the same mind, is announced to speak for Toole. Bar silver, quoted at 96 on a fractional vising market, is yet many points below the market price for the twin of the precious metals before Cleveland got into the White House and Manning into the Treasury. , ; i I , | THE CAMPAIGN. Colonel Sander's Meetinqs in North ern Montana Arraignment of the Administration. Its Defenders and Apologists. Popular Ovations to the Republican Standard Bearer. [special herald correspondence, j Florence, September 27.—Col. Wilbur F. Sanders, the matchless Republican leader, and Arthur J. Craven, Esq., Mon tana's most magnetic young orator, ad dressed the electors of South Fork at this place on Friday evening. The meeting, held in Manix Hall, was called to order by E. Lippincott, sen., member of the Repub lican Central Committee, and on motion of A. C. Fleming, Mr. Wheeler was called to the chair and T. G. Woods elected secre tary. The chairman, after a few appropriate remarks, introduced as the first speaker of the evening Mr. Craven, of Helena, the gifted young Helena lawyer, and his de lighted hearers will never forget the good fortune that favored them with his maiden political effort. It was a presentation in brief of the principles and achievements of the Republican party in its administra tion of the Government for a period ot a quarter of a century, aud a masterly grouping of the living political issues upon which the people of Montana are called to pass at the approaching election. A better impression no young speaker could have made, aud it is predicted that Mr. Craven in the near future will take Iront rank among the silver-tongued ora tors of Montana. The chair presented "Col. W. F. Sanders, our next Delegate in Congress, who was greeted with loud and continued cheers. He began hy expressing surprise at the marked improvement in South Fork vai ley since his last visit six years ago. Then as now numbers of ladies graced the occa sion, and was a pleasant feature of his visit. For an hour the grand exponent of Re publicanism held his audience spell hound. He handled in detail the questions that absorbs the public attention of Montana iu the pending Territorial canvass. His arraignment of the Cleveland administra tion, endorsed hy the Democratic party, was unsparing. The President, his advis ers and bureaucrats, lor a warefare unre lenting upon every interest of our people, were dealt with according to their deserts. Equally the enemies of Montana, of the Northwest, were those who sanctioned hy resolutions and platforms the detestable acts of the administration. "No settler, Republican or Democrat, could cut the tire wood to build his winter fires or poles to fence his farm without be coming a criminal under the rule of Sparks." The Colonel's speech no report can do justice to. It struck home to every hearer, and was continually interrupted hy applause and other marked expressions ol approval. Be sure of a good account for the party and the cause from South Fork in Novem ber. E. G. W. I special herald corre.spondence.1 Sun River, September 27. — A delega tion of citizens in carriages met Col. Sau ers some ten miles out on the Choteau ,.oad, giving him an enthusiastic reception by ringing cheers, tossing of hats, etc , and escorting him to the Crossing hy a proces sion. The Colonel spoke to splendid audiences at Augusta aud Choteau. Noth ing has more surprised him than the growth of the settlements in northern Lewis and Clarke and southern Choteau. Most of the recent settlers are Republi cans, and radical political changes may be confidently looked for in many of the northern precincts at the coming election. Wherever the Colonel has gone he has carefully and strictly invited the atttentiou of his audiences to present issues, and at all points comes the assurance of Demo cratic support and votes. The settlers have had quite enough of Sparks and his land and timber edicts, and they will not sup port a party which will endorse the ad ministration with its railroad vetoes and hostility to silver and every material in terest of Montana. The Colonel enjoyed his Sunday rest, and tc-day visits Fort Shaw, en route to Great Falls, where he speaks in the even ing. Thence to Fort Benton, to fill his ap pointment Tuesday. [special dispatch to the herald.] Fort Shaw, September 28 —Col. San ders, with A. J. Craven, Esq., spoke last night at Great Falls to a large and enthu siastic audience. To better accommodate himself to the great crowd assembled to hear him, the Colonel consented to speak from the balcony of the new hotel, and the entire population of the city seemed to be gathered at the open air meeting to hear and welcome him. No such masterful political addres was ever before heard in the ambitious river metropolis. The Great Falls Republicans [are hopeful of a large majority and are going to work with their coats off to secure it. Col. Sanders speaks at Fort Benton to night. The meeting at that point prom ises to be the grandest political demonstra tion in Northern Montana during the cam paign. [special to the herald.] Fort Benton, September 29.—Colonel Sanders opened the campaign at this place last night with the most eloquent address ever heard in Choteau county. The whole town turned out to give him a reception, which was in marked contrast to that given Toole. The utmost enthusiasm pre vailed. Northern Montana can be safely relied on giving a severe rebuke to the man who has been misrepresenting Mon tana at Washington during the present Congress. One More Democrat Made llappi Washington, September 29. —- The President has appointed Geo. McNamara . ™ \ m_________ 1 w r r