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IT IS SETTLED.
The State Canvassing Board Complete the
Official Count.
Silver Bow County Canvassed as Returned
by the County Canvassing
Board.
The Legislature is Republican i by Six
Majority.
Toole and Two District Judges the Onlv
Democrats Elected.
At 10 o'clock this morning the State
Canvassing board, consisting of Governor
White, Chief Justice Blake and Secretary
Walker, resumed the official canvass of the
State vote. All the returns having been
examined previously, the Board had noth
ing to do but foot up the totals and sign
their report. This was done in about five
minutes. Chief Justice Blake then moved
to adjourn tine die. The motion was sec
onded by Secretary Walker, put by the
Governor and carried unanimously.
The abstract of the votes and the report
were then placed on the Secretary's table,
where the press reporters and groups of
politicians immediately gathered to inspect
them.
Following is
THE REPORT OF THE CANVASSERS.
Territory of Montana, \
Cot nt y of Lewis and Clarke. /
We, Benjamin F. White, Governor,Henry
N. Blake, Chief Justice, and Louis A.
Walker, Secretary of the Territory of Mon
tana, the duly appointed and authorized
Canvassing Board designated in the act of
Congress, approved February 22d, A. D.
1889, providing for the admission of Mon
tana as a State of the Union, and also under
and by authority of Ordinance Number
Two, passed and enacted by the Constitu
tional Convention of the said Territory, do
hereby certify that the above and foregoing
is a lull, true and correct abstract of the
votes cast in said Territory at the election
held on the first Tu*s^ay in October, A. D.
1889, as appears by the duly certified re
turns from the c ounties named, and as
counted and canvassed by us this, the
fourth (lay of November. A. D. 1889.
And we further certify, that having con
vened as s uch Canvassing Board on the
31st day of October, A. D. 1889, the same
having been the 30th day after the close of
said election, and h iving received no duly
certified returns from the county of Silver
Bow, in said Territory, we duly appointed
and commissioned Benjamin Webster a
special messenger to proceed forthwith to
the said Silver Bow county, and to de
mand and receive from the County Clerk
of said county a properly certified copy of
the abstract of votes cast in said county at
said election as canvassed and declared by
the proper Canvassing Board.
That the said messenger, Benjamin Web
ster, duly appointed as aforesaid, did pro
ceed to the said Silver Bow county, and
did demand lrom the county clerk of said
county, the duly certified copy of said ab
stract of votes as aforesaid, and thereafter
returned to Helena and made his sworn re
turn that the demand for said abstract was
by the said county clerk refused.
Being therefore without any propei copy
of the abstract of votes cast ia Silver Bow
county, and having exhausted the authori
ty given by the statute, in endeavoring to
obtain the same, it now becomes their duty
to ascertain and declare the same from the
best sources of information obtainable.
We have before us the official certificate
of Chas. F. Booth, county clerk of Silver
Bow county, showing that a certain num
ber of votes were cast f< r the different can
didates in that county, in the different
precincts thereof, naming each of them,
and the number received by each of the
candidates in each precinct, and including
the 34th precinct as having voted at said
election. We also have before us an
official notice signed also by Mr. Booth as
county clerk of said couDty, stating in
effect that the Board of Canvassers in said
county met as such on the 14th day ot
October, 1889, and did then and there can
vass and count the voie of said Silver Bow
county, and declare the result thereof, and
that they did not count, liut did reject as
false, fraudulent and void, all of the votes
reported as cast and counted in election
preciuct No. 34, in said county.
No other or further action having been
had by the canvassing board of said county
in relation to the canvass of the vote
therein, we conclude that the true result
as canvased and declared must be found by
eliminating from the list of votes cast by
County Clerk Booth the vote of precinct
34, which was rejected by said canvassing
board as stated in the certificate of said
county clerk, and which shows the true
vote of said Silver Bow county to be as
follows:
Silver Bow's Vote.
For the Constitution...........................3,902 votes.
Against the Constitution..................... 467 votes.
FOR REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS.
Votes
Thomas H Carter....................................... 3,506
Martin Maginnis......................................... 3,456
FOR GOVERNOR.
V. tes
Joseph K. Toole.......................................... 3,010
Thomas C. Power....................................... 6,444
FOR LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR.
Votes.
John E. Kickauls ....................-.................. 3,559
J. H. Conrad................................................ 3,40b
FOR SECRETARY OF STATE.
Votes.
Ixmis Rotwltt............................................. 3,445
Joseph A. Hrowne....................................... 3,458
FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL.
Votes.
W. Y. Pemberton....................................... 3,521
Henri J. Haskell........................................ 3,381
FOR STATE TREASURER.
R. O. Hickman.....................................•
Jerry Collins........................................
FOR STATE AUDITOR.
Thomas D. Fitzgerald..........................
Edwin A. Kinney...............................
Votes
. 3,501
. 3,404
Votes.
. 3,453
. 3,427
FOR SUP. PUB. INSTRUCTION.
John Gannon-..........
James R Russeil.....
Votes.
. 3,202
. 3.650
FOR CHIEF JUST*CR SUP. COURT.
Votes.
Henry N. ............................................... 3,382
Stephen DeWolfe........................................ 3,495
FOR ASSOCIATE JUSTICE SUP. COURT, 7
YEAR TERM.
Votes.
W. M. Bickford.......................................... 3.3J0
William H. DeWitt............. ..................— 3,482
FOR ASSOCIATE JUSTICE SUP. COURT, 5
YEAR TERM.
Votes.
Frank K. Armstrong.................................. 3,432
Kdgard N. Harwood................................... 3.346
FOR JUDGE DISTRICT COURT, 3D JUD. DIST.
Votes.
Levi J. Hamilton....................................—• 3,475
John J. McHatton.......................-.............. 3,334
FOR CLERK OF THE SUP. COURT.
Vote«.
George F. Cope ........................................... 3 317
William J. Kennedy-................................. 3,454
FOR STATE SENATOR.
Charles W. Good ale.........-................-........ 3,263
Daniel J. Hennessy.......................—......... 3,597
FOR MEMBERS OF THE 8TATE ASSEMBLY.
Votes.
Absalom F. Bray......................................... 3 356
Joseph K. Clark.......................................... 3.532
Thomas F. Courtney................................... 3,235
A.M Dav................................................... 3,3 3
Peter K. Dolman......................... 3,364
Alphonse M. Dusseault.............................. 3.283
Henry L. Frank.......................................... 3,351
John W. Gilltgan...................................... 3,271
Krank H. Hoffman...................................... 3,392
Joseph Hogan............................................. 3,261
James H. Monteith..................................... 3,352
AlbertG. Noble.......................................... 3,164
John J. O'Meara.......................................... 3,168
W. J. Penroee............................................. 3,311
William H. Roberts.................................... 3.322
Leopold F. Schmidt.................................... 3.332
Newell J. Scott............................................ 3,243
Thomas Sturtridge................................ 3,171
William Thompson.................................... 3,356
Abraham 8. Yoder...................................... 3,170
Wm. C. Riley.............................................. 1
William Scalion.......................................... 1
That the foregoing is, aud the same is
hereby found and declared to be the result
aud a true and correct statement of the
votes cast at said election held on the first
day of October, A. D. 1889, in Silver Bow
County. Montana, according to and in
strict conformity with the abstract of votes
made and certified to by the duly and le
gally constituted Board of Canvassers of
election returns for said county at said
election, and we hereby further certify
that the following named persons, having
received a majority of all the votes cast for
the respective offices named and hereinaf
ter designated, are, and they are hereby
declared to be duly elected:
For Representative in Congress—Thomas
H. Carter.
Governor—Joseph K. Toole.
Lieutenant Governor—John E. Rickards.
Secretary of State—Louis Rotwitt.
Attorney General—Henri J. Haskell.
State Treasurer—Richard O. Hickman.
State Auditor—Edwin A Kinney.
Superintendent of Public Instr.—John
Gannon.
Chief Justice Supreme Court—Henry N.
Blake.
Associate Justice Sup. Crt. 7 yrs.—Will
iam H. DeWitt.
Associate Justice Sup. Crt. 5 yrs.—Ed
gar N Harwood.
Clerk of Supreme Court—William J.
Kennedy.
DISTRICT JUDGES.
Distiict No. 1—William H. Hunt.
District No. 2—Levi J. Hamilton.
District No. 3 —David M. Durfee.
District No. 4—Charles S. Marshall.
District No. 5—Thomas J Galbraith.
District No. 6—Frank Henry.
District No. 7—George R. Milburn.
District No. 8— C. H. Benton.
STATE SENATORS.
Beaverhead County—Lawrence A. Brown
Choteau county—Joseph A. Baker.
Custer county—Robert G. Redd.
Cascade county—J. T. Armington.
Dawson county—Wm. S. Becker.
Deer Lodge county—Wm. M. Thornton.
Fergus county— C. J. McNamara.
Gallatin county— C. W. Hoffman.
Jefferson county—Robert Fisher.
Lewis and Clarke county — Cornelius
Hedges.
Madison county—Loren B. Olds.
Meagher county—Wm. Parberry.
Missoula county— M. E. Rutherford.
Park county—James 8. Thompson.
Silver Bow county—Daniel J Hennessy.
Yellowstone county—Albert L. Babcock.
FOR REPRESENTATIVES IN THE LEGISLA
TIVE ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF
MONTANA.
Beaverhead county—A. C. Witter, R. T.
Wing.
Choteau county.—John M. Boardman,
Samuel L. Mitchell.
Custer county—Charles H. Loud, Hugh
MoraD.
Cascade County—Edwin D. Hastie,
Charles Lochray.
Deer Lodge County—J. W. Blair, C. M.
Crutchfield, Silvan Hughes, R. G. Humber,
C. K. Hardenbrook, Frank Hollywood, J.
R. Toole.
Fergus County—John R. Barrows, John
D. Waite.
Gallatin Connty— C. P. Blakely, D. P.
McElwee.
Jefferson County—Peter Breen, Gus. E.
Pool, James C. Twohy.
Lewis and Clarke County—Elizur Beach,
Alexander F. Bums, Harry Comly, David
A. Cory, Anton M. Holter, John Horsky,
Robert H. Howey, William Wallace, Jr.
Madison County—Patrick Carney, Fay
ette Harrington.
Meagher Connty— E. H. Goodman, John
A. Woodson.
Missoula county—A. S. Blake, Thos. L.
Greenough, W. B. Harlan, F. G. Higgius,
J. T. Phillips.
Park county—Charles H Eaton, Charles
H. Stebbins.
Silver Bow county—Joseph K. Clark, A.
F. Bray, Peter R Dolman, Henry L. Frank,
Frank H.Hoffman. James H. Monteath, W.
J. Penrose, Wm. H. Roberts, Leopold F.
Schmidt, Wm. Thompson.
Yellowstone county—Wm. H. Norton.
Dawson and Cascade counties—Martin
Newcomer.
Jefferson and Gallatin counties—Wm. C.
Whaley.
(Signed)
Benjamin F. White, Governor.
Henry N. Blake, Chief Justice.
Louis A Walker, Secretary of Montana.
REPUBLICAN MONTANA.
Every Candidate on the State
Ticket, Except Power for
Governor, Elected.
The result of the official count in the
State shows little difference from that an
nounced in the Herald shortly after the
election. The Republican candidate for
Congress and every candinate on the State
ticket is elected with the exception of T. C.
Power for Governor, who is defeated by J
K Toole by the narrow margin of 576
votes. The total vote of the State on Con
gressman was 38,176 and on Governor
38,552. Taking the latter as the vote of
the State, the result shows a decrease of
1,462 votes sime the election of 1888, when
the total vote on delegate to Congress was
40,014.
Appended to the foregoing report is a
statement of the votes cast for the Consti
tution, Congressman, State officers, mem
bers of the legislature and district judges,
as officially announced by the State can
vassing board. The figures on members of
the legislature and district judges have
already been given by the Herald. Fol
lowing are the official totals on the balance:
For the Constitution................................... 24.676
Against the Constitution........................... 2,274
Total vote on Constitution....................... 26,950
Majority for Constitution..................... 22.402
FOR CONGRESSMAN.
Thomas H. Carter, Rep.............................. 19 912
Martin Maglnnis, Dem ...........-.................. 18,264
Carter's majority................................. 1,648
FOR GOVERNOR.
Thomas C. Power, Rep.............................. 18,988
Joseph K. Toole, Dem ......—..................... 19,564
Toole's majority.......................-........... 576
FOR LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR.
J. E. Rickards Rep....................... 19,764
J. H. Conrad, Dem ................................. 18,198
Rickards' majority................................ 1,566
FOR SECRETARY OF STATE.
Louis Rotwltt, Rep.......—................-........ 19,803
Joe A. Browne, Dem .................................. 18,048
Rotwitt's majority.............................- 1,755
FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL.
Henri J. Haskell, Rep............................ 19,251
W. Y. Pemberton, Dem .....-....... 18,517
Haskell's majority.............................- 734
FOR STATE TREASURER.
Richard O. Hickman, Rep.......................... 19,726
Jerry Collins, Dem ................... 18,126
Hickman's majority............. 1,600
FOR STATE AUDITOR.
E. A. Kenney, Rep-.................................... 19,487
T. Fitzpatrick, Dem .................................... 18,252
Kenney's majority-............................. 1,235
FOB SUPERINTENDENT PUBLIC INSTRUC
TION.
John Gannon, Bep...................................... 18,326
J. R. Russe. 1, Dem ...................................... 18,022
Gannon's majority..............................- 301
FOR CHIEF JUSTICE.
Henry N. Blake, Rep................................ 19,690
Stephen DeWolfe, Dem .............................. 18,082
Blake's majority................................... 1,608
FOR ASSOCIATE JUSTICE —7 YEARS.
Wm. H. DeWitt. Rep................................. 19,27*
W. M. Bickford, Dem ................................. 18,208
DeWltt's majority................................. 1,066
FOB ASSOCIATE JUSTICE—5 YEARS.
E. N. Harwood, Rep.................................. 18,859
F. K. Armstrong, Dem ............................... 18,375
Harwood's majority........................... 485
FOR SUPREME COURT CLERK.
W. J. Kennedy, Rep.................................. 19.571
Geo. F. Cope, iiem..................................... 17,684
Kennedy's majority.................................... 1,887
THE LEGISLATURE.
The result of the State canvass gives the
Republicans a majority of six in the legis
lature. T at is, the Senate will be a tie,
8 Republicans to 8 Democrats, while the
Honse will have 30 Republicans and 24
Democrats, the result on joint representa
tive in Beaverhead and Deer Lodge conn
ties being a tie. If, as seems probable, the
Republicans elect their candidate at the
special election soon to be held to decide
this tie, there will be a Republican ma
jority of 7 in the legislature.
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J. K. TOOLE
Governor Elect of the 'State of
tana.
Mon«
Without flattering him, our portrait is a
fairly good one of Hon. Joseph K. Toole,
Governor eleet of Montana, the only Dem
ocrat in the list of candida'es of that party
for State officers chosen at the October
polls. As declared by the State Canvass
ing Board-, which to day completed the
canvass of all the votes, Mr. Toole's ma
jority is 576.
Mr. Toole was horn at Savannah, Mis
souri, in 1851. His early school days were
at St. Joseph, in the same State. He en
tered the Western Military Academy at
New Castle, Kentucky, in 1867. Iu 1869
he removed to Montana, making Helena
bis residence. He was admitted to the
bar and elected District Attorney by the
time he attained his majority. In 1880 he
was elected to the Legislative Assembly of
Montane. He was made President of the
Council. Mr. Toole was elected delegate
to Congress in 1884, and has served two
terms as a Democrat in the National House
of Representatives.
NATIONAL SILVER COVEN! ION.
We publish below, from a letter just re
ceived from E A. Elliott, Chairman of the
Press Committee, some account of the prep
arations that have been nude iu St Louis
to entertain the delegates to the National
Silver Convention. No State has a greater
interest in the results of this^convention
than Montana. In common with all the
Western and Southern States, our people
waut au expansive as well as a coin-based
currency. The free coinage of silver as well
as of gold will hardly keep pace with the
growth of our wealth and the volume of
our business. But Montana is interested
equally as much also as the foremost pro
ducer of silver. Tde enhancement of silver
that must follow its free coinage, will give
an impetus to silver mining such as it has
never before seen, aud mines now of little
value will be worked to profit. It is not
too much to say that the aggregate of ben
efit to Montana from the free coinage of
silver will reach hundreds of millions :
''The arrangements for the National Sil
ver Convention, to assemble in grand Music
Hall, St. Louis, November 26th, have been
closed. The promoters ot the movement
in that city have shown a great deal of
earnestness in the work, and from advices
received, the business people of the city ap
preciate the importance of the convention
by ihe manner in which they have sub
scribed to the fand for the entertainment
of the delegates and visitors. The indica
tions are, that the convention will attract
an attendance of upwards ot 20,000 people,
coming from all parts of the United States
From the mining <eaters there will be
several special cars and displays of minerals
from leading camps. The grand Mnsic
Hall, which has been secured for the con
vention for November 26, 27, 28 and 29, is
one of the largest and best arranged halls
in the country. It has an adequate seat
ing capacity for both delegates and
spectators, while at the same time
the former are placed compactly
and advantageously. The entertainment
being arraigned by St Lonis will include a
grand Thanksgiving dinner. This will be
of an elaborate description, and a decided
novelty. It will probably be held in the
hall ot the Merchant's Exchange, which has
the largest floor area of any hall in the
country. The hall will he elegantly deco
rated with flowers ani the trimmings
usually used. Tnere will also be enter
tainment during the other tour days of the
session of the Convention, and St. Louis
will ma<4e every effort to surpass herself in
caring for her guests. The delegate reore
sentatiou will be large from all the States
and Territories of the Union. The Gove
nors of the States and Territories to whom
is delegated the authority of appointing
delegatee, have shown a great care in
selecting the best possible men for the posi
tions. The same care will be taken by the
executive committee in its selection of 100
delegatee-at-large, ^provided for from the
United States. The attendance from mem
bers and ex-members of Congress, will also
be large. From present indications, the
convention will reealt in a great deal of
good, and in educating the people of the
country, particularly of the agricultural
districts, np to the importance of the silver
question, outside of what benefit it may
be to those actnally engaged in the mining
industry, there can be little doubt."
THE FUTURE.
Now that the late political contest has
been finally settled a feeling of gratification
possesses men of intelligence of all parties.
The material prosperity of the new State is
now assured, and we shall move forward
on planes of prosperity and progress hith
erto nnknown. It is a great transfiguration
from territorial existence to the dignities
and dnties of Statehood, and it will not be
ungrateful to Democrats even that Mon
tana has declared herself in political
harmony and sympathy with the people
along the lines of latitude conformable to
her own. She pays homage to the morn
ing and evening star. She will require the
services of her beat citizens to do for her
all that men can do to make her great and
enowned in the sisterhood into which she
Will this week enter, and we can but hope
that there will be between parties and
individual citizens an emulation as to
who can best serve her in the new
relations on which she is now to enter,
No intelligent lawyer or person in Mon
tana expected any different result from
thfU which has transpired. No excuse in
law or morals can be found to justify any
4>ther result, and while oar Democratic
' brethern hoped a month ago for different
results, they did not so hope confidently
and they are already reconciled to the re
snlt. It is fortunate that the personnel of
our State canvassing board was of such a
character and quality as to assure impar
tiality aud give confidence to their de
termination.
It is fortunate that the Republican
party is entirely free to select from the
ablest men of the new Ktate the persons to
represent it in the Senate of the United
States. Unlike the Democratic party it
owes to no man this position by reason of
monied contributions to the campaign,
nor is tne party owned by any one or four
men. Great questions will hereafter arise
profoundly affecting oar welfare and the
prosperity and good name of the country
and men who can deal with new
questions as they arise in a
spirit of wisdom will he selected
The dnty of the hoar is apparent and
snpreme. If faction shall intrude its hydra
head, if coarse or corrupt policies shall be
suggested we may confidently rely on the
sober sense of our people to condemn aud
suppress them and henceforth along Hues
easy to be found and followed the young
State we have made will travel
"With sunshine on her joyful way
And freedom on her wing."
ADMISSION OF THE DAKOTAS.
Satnnlay, Nov. 2, will ever be remem
bered in history as witnessing the last act
necessary to complete the admission of
South and North Dakota. By the terms
of the enabling act these two new sovereign
States have taken their place in the Union
along with their 38 sisters, possessing
eqnal rights in all respects. Their people
are go verned by laws of their own enact
mer o and f>y officers of their own choice.
The magnificent dowry of school lands and
for various other public institutions has
passed to the States and is a fortune that
cannot be squandered or overestimated.
We congratulate the Dakotas on this tardy
act of justice. But the people have their
first revenge. If Dakota had been ad
mitted when first ready, it would have
come in as ooe State. The Democrats who
objected to two Senators now have to tu
tertaiu four with two additional ''members
of the House of Representatives.
In congratulating the Dakotas we ar
unpleasantly reminded that the people of
Montana voted on the same day and much
more strongly for a constitution aud noth
ing but the obstruction of the Democrats
has prevented our simultaneous admission.
The returns of several counties were with
held purposely to prevent the canvassing
hoard from making a return to the Presi
dent. This was not because the vote on
the constitution was in doubt, but that the
admission might be delayed until a Demo
cratic judge might get in his work in Sil
ver Bow. The interests of the vast Jmajor
ity of our people center in Statehood and
they care comparatively little about the
minor results. If Montana had been ad.
mitted on Saturday there would have been
judges to try all disputed cases. If the
Democrats say that they could not trust
Republican judges, there are as good rea
sons for the Republicans to say that they
could not trust the Democratic judges. .
It was a manifest outrage to make all
the people of Montana suffer iu order jthat
the Democrats might win a partisan ^ad
vantage.
As to those holding County Clerk
Booth's certificatei taking their seats in
the Legislature, we venture the remark
that the decision of that question does not
belong to the editor of the Independent.
The adoption of the conaitnlion providtd
the rule to determioe who shoald Lsue the
legal certificates. That cons'itution was
adopted by the vote on the first of October
and has ever since been' the only rale of
action. It provides how the votes for
members of the Legislature shall be can
vassed aud that supersedes the method pro
vided in the Territorial statutes. The
adoption of the constitution aud the admis
sion as a State are two very different mat
ters. Our constitution derived its breath
of life from the votes cast on October 1st,
and has been onr controlling law since its
adoption. __
The columns of Mr. Daly's paper, the
Anaconda Standard, are thrown wide open
to the Democratic attorneys and their
clients, aud it is expected that they will
avail themselves of the invitation to ex
plain their failure to steal the State. Says
the Standard : "If any gentleman having
average horse sense can explain how the
situation got into its present muddle he
can have in this newspaper all the space he
needs to pat his explanation into type."
We publish to-day at the request of
many of our readers the beautifal address
of Grand Orator Charles H. Goald, at the
recent session of the Grand Lodge at Great
Falls. Its beantifal sentences will charm
all readers and stamp Bro. Gould as a nat
ural orator.
CLAIM TO MINERAL LANDS.
A St. Panl special to the Herald eives
the views of a representative of the Northern
Pacific railroad as to its position on the
mineral land question. It differs widely
from that held by the people of Montana
They hold that the surveys made prove
absolutely nothing as to the mineral char
acter of the land. No means were pos
sessed and no attempt made to determine
the character of the lands by the surveyors.
The grant of Congress was only of non
mineral lands, and onr people hold, and we
think jostly, that either the Northern Pa
cific railroad most present positive proof
that the land claimed and every section of
it within the mineral prodneing portion of
the Territory is not mineral, or that the
government shoald make a mineralogical
survey and determine the character of
these lands.
The fact that the Northern Pacific has
already made conveyances of some of these
mineral lands and that it will produce a
confusion of titles is of very little import
ance in comparison with the more import
ant consequences that would follow from
adopting the coarse insisted upon by the
company.
While we have always favored living np
to the agreement with the Northern Pacific,
and overlooking the fact that the .road was
not completed on time, we could never go
further and by any neglect or favorable
construction allow the company to gain
possession or control of any portion of onr
mining grounds.
If patents are issued to the company
anywhere within the mining portions of
Montana, they shoald expressly reserve aDy
portions containing mineral not included
in the graut. _
THE NEW ALLIANCE.
There is a pretty solid alliance now in
Europe with Germany as the head center,
including England on one side and Austria,
Italy and Turkey on the other. It includes
all the center of Europe, and cuts off the
two great powers that threaten the peace
of Europe, France aud Russia, from co
operating effectively.
The present visit of the German Em
peror to Constantinople emphasizes the
change that has taken place, and the trans
fer of the leading role in Turkish protec
tion from England to Germany. England's
fear of Russian aggression in Asia makes
her a ready ally of Germany to resist Rus
sian influence in European Turkey.
It looks to ns as if it were an almost in
vincible alliance, calculated to possess per
manency, too. The other countries of
Europe are of little significance in affecting
the balance of power, as none of them
would be likely to side with France or
Russia in cjseof war.
Besides there is no natural alliance be
tween Rnssia and France One is actuated
by ambition aid the other by revenge, as
against this German alliance.
At the Berlin congress England was
the principal power, but under Salisbury
Eagland has abandoned her lead in Earo
peau affairs. England has the support o
Germany, not only as against Russia, but
as against France in retaining her hold on
Egypt.
Perhaps with a younger Prime Minister
England might reassert her old influence,
bat it looks very much as if it had gone
forever.
Onr interest in the dismemberment of
European Turkey is to see Greece built up
into a powerful stste occupying all that
country that still remains in EuroDe. Aud
besides this we should like to see Palestine
wrested from Turkish control aud erected
into an autonomous state whose independ
ence aud security should be guaranteed by
the joint Christian nations ot Europe.
Our declartd opposition to having our
elections controlled by the votes of men
who cannot read the ticket they vote, what
ever else it may be called, cannot come
within the widest bounds assigned by
name or substance to 'knownothingism."
It is a part of the "know somethiug"
rather than of the "Knownothing" policy.
A country that, like ours, depends as much
upon the intelligence of its voters, and
that spends so mmy millions every
year for public schools, cannot consistently
endow confessed ignorance with the high
est privileges of citizenship.
The ownership of the Times-Democrat
plausibly accounts for the Louisiana half
million defalcation ot ex Treasurer Barke.
His was one of the "boom" papers of the
Pellican State preceding and duriDg his
term of office, and the presumption is that
it took all the treasury swag to satisfy the
doable-header's debts.
The coarse pursued by the Democratic
couDsel in the Silver Bow election cases is
termed by Mr. Daly's Standard "legal
monkeying." The Standard is the one and
only Democratic orgau that dares to talk
ont in meeting and call things by their
right name. It is all owing to the fact,
probably, that Mr. Daly is the only one of
the Big Four who hasn't a Senatorial bee
in his bonnet._
We are told that the Democrats were
lamentably weak in their pleadings. That
is true to the letter.— Anaconda Standard.
So says Mr. Daly's paper, and we have
no reason to donbt it speaks by the card.
But we submit that the Democrats hardly
deserve so Bevere dressing down when it is
revealed that to start with the attorneys had
□o cause and all the pleadings in the world
cnnld not have been otherwise than weak.
Let 'em down easy.
The recent suicide of Albert E. Wells
brother of Frank Wells, of Radersbnrg, was
so strange and sadden that we coaid hardly
think it possible. We have known Mr.
Wells for many years and know his family
connections back in Connecticut. A dis
appointment in an affair of the heart, in
early life, as we have always understood,
had given him a tendency to reserve, secln
sion and melancholy. Mr. Wells was a
T P an of high character, honor and ability, a
most worthy, capable and exemplary citi
zen, whose untimely end at his own hand,
in a paroxysm ot insanity, will be widely
felt and long deplored.
"BOOMS" AND THEIR PENAL
TIES.
The " boom " reactions and the loss and
suffering entailed upon thousands of set
tlers in Kansas and Dakota prompts a sen
sible article found in the New North West,
from which an extract is printed below.
The article emphasizes views held by the
Herald and from time to time expressed
in these colamns when the " boom " frenzy
has shown in these parts evidences of un
due enconragement. Helena has never
experienced a "boom," nor, we hope, ever
wants anything that takes on the sem
blance of experiment in that line. It is a
vigorous, enterprising, progressive, substan
tial city, bound to grow just as rapidly as
we coaid reasonably wish, and become one
of the great communities of the Northwest
jnst as soon as the people rationally
desire to make it. Helena has had no
reverses simply because it has had no
" booms," and on this line let onr people
proceed, as now and heretofore, to bui.d up
the healthiest, wealthiest town of Montana
and realize, too, the destiny which marks
it for the largest and most enduriDg. Says
our Deer Lodge contemporary:
"Last spring a leading paper of the Terri
tory attempted to inaugrurate a real estate
and imgration boom for Montana. The
attempt failed, as it shoald always fail, in
this fair land of oars. Ficticious values
aud stimulated industries benefit the few
at the expense of the many. So it has
been in Kansas, in California and iu Da
kota, aud so it will be in Washington un
less a halt is speedily called. Montana,
content in he. conservative prosperity, has
thus far escaped. Let ns thank God that
it is so. It is but right to extend a wel
come hand to all who come among us of
their own motion, but let us keep the inex
orable law of supply aud demand in mind,
remembering that capital, ever alert, will
seek out our avenues of profitable invest
ment, aud that labor will follow where
capital creates the demand. A natural,
healthful growth will carry with it con
tinued prosperity. Forced immigration
will bring done up^n us the disastrous con
dition in which Dakota, Kansas and South
ern California now find themselves. Mon
tana is rich in resources, but the greatest of
these, her mineral wealth, is hidden be
neath walls of earth and granite. Money
and muscle are both required to remove
these. Let the world know this and then,
if it will, let tht world come. Why paint
the lily or perfume the rose ?"
EDUCATIONAL TEST.
We would no more disfranchise foreign
ers who conld not read and write, than na
tive born citizens. In relation to the
Southern blacks, their case was exceptional
in this that until set free they were pro
hibited from instruction. Still we have
always felt that it wjnld have been better
to have attached an educational qualifica
tion to a right of franchise in the Southern
States. Very few negroes at first would
have been qualified to vote, Dot enough to
excite race prejudice. With such a stimu
lous before them as citizenship to be ac
quired by their own efforts, they would
have addressed themselves to the subject
with such general enthusiasm and success
that they would have become voters, but
the awakening world extended to the in
dustrial interests. Such a general cry for
education would have brought oat the
m^ans for its accomplishment from some
source, either by aid from the general gov
ernmedt or by charitable contributions
from the North. The folly of giving the
ballot to ignorant men is illustrated
by the fate that has overtaken it among
the Southern blacks. Ignorance is wt ak
ness. Knowledge teaches men to combine
for mutual protection. This is the reason
that most Southerners oppose "educating
the blacks. They know that they would
thus become conscious of their strength
aDtl exert it for the assertion and protec
tion of their rights. If the Blair hill ever
does pass, it ought to be accompanied with
a provision that none shall vote for'mtm
bers of Congress and presidential electors
who cannot within two years after the
passage of the act read the constitution in
telligently and write their own names.
And in every State where public free
schools are maintained such a law should
exist. In the New Eagland States where
such legislative restrictions have existed
for years, it works with the very best re
salts, and none would hear to their repeal.
SHARP PRACTICE DEFEATS
I TS ELF.
Perhaps the Democrats conceived it im
possible for the State canvassing
board to do its duty without their permis
sion. If so, they have mistaken egrgiously
After waiting the utmost limit of law aud
exhausting all prop» means to secure the
properly certified returns of Silver Bow
connty, they have gone on with such evi
dence as they could procare and fortunately
found it at hand, furnished by those who
were attempting to prevent their action.
We commend for aptness, if not consola?
tion the following from Bryon:
"So the struck eagle stretched upon the plaii,
N>> more through rolling clouds to s »\r again,
Viewed his own feather on the fatal dart
And wlngedlhsshaftthatquivered iu his lie,at.'
Iowa Probably Democratic
Chicago, November 6.—A special dis
patch from Des Moines, Iowa, at 3 a. m., to
the Herald (Dem ), says the Republican
State committee concedes the election of
Boies by 5,000 to 8,000 plurality. Later
returns show the election of the entire
Democratic State ticket by a majority
probably exceeding 10,000. A dispatch to
the Tribune (Rep.) admits that if the gains
so far keep up the Republicans are de
feated. __
Tbe Outlook Favors Campbell.
Cincinnati, November 6.— Incomplete
returns from all the counties in the State
except twenty-six give Campbell a plural
1 ity of 4,725. The twenty-six connties not
heard from gave Powell,Democrat, in 1887
a plurality of 19 Tbe outlook from these
figures is that Campbell's plurality in the
State is about 8,000.
Bay 8tate Result.
Boston, November 6.— Eleven towns are
still to be heard from. The total vote,
with tboee towns lacking, is: Brackett,
124,747; Russell, 118,202; Blackmer, 14,
159.
New Jersey re-elects Abbett(Dem.) for
Governor._
Brackett (Rep.) is elected Governor of
Massachusetts.
The Republican estimate is 20,000 ma
jority in Nebraska.
Maryland, yesterday, was riotous and
of coarse Democratic
Mississippi rerorts no vote id the State
that was not Democratic.
There is no "disrupt" of the Solid Booth
The Old Dominion votes Democratic.
Wyoming wants Statehood, as evidenced
by a pronounced vote for the constitution.
Iowa Repubhcans met with mere than
the usual mishaps incident to an off yeaT
election. _
The State Canvassing Board knocks the
stuffing out of the shrieks of the Big Four
organs.___
Jerry Collins is for wah. We thought
Jerry had enough in that little skirmish of
October 1st. _ _
The anti-prohibitiou sentiment reveals
itself in the general and local contests in
Iowa and Kansas.
STEVENS, Republican, succeeds the late
Col. Wiley S. Scribner as Recorder of Deeds
for Cook connty, 111.
It is the exception and not the rule tha t
the "boom" newspaper escapes the clutches
ot the money-lender.
Joseph K. Toole is the one and only
Democrat whom the Republicans of Mon
tana have elected to office.
Honops are divided in New York, the
Democrats retaining the State officers and
the Republicans the legislature.
Election advices to-day show that the
Ohio Legislature is Democratic; also
Foraker'8 defeat for a third term.
The Democratic lawyers made^the best
fight they could, and the Democratic press
shoald give them the credit justly their
due.__
Subtract the Senatorial squad and their
few and widely scatter:*! skirmishers, and
there isn't a Democratic kicker in all Mon
tana. ___
The lamentations of the Democratic
brethren are that the law wasn't on their
side and that Knowles and Campbell were
ou the other.
Wyoming and Idaho voted yesterday on
their constitutions. If they are approved
by a general vote, we hope to see admis
sion follow as soon as practicable.
''Shining lights of the bar!" Sharper
than a serpent's tooth is the sarcasm of tbe
Anaconda Standard leveled at the Demo
cratic barristers who "made such a muss
of it."__
Having completed the count and issued
certificates to all tho ffices elect, including
members of the Legislature, the State
Board of Canvassers, this forenoon, ad
journed sine die.
The Anaconda Standard as much as de
clares that the lawyers who appeared for
the Democrats in the Silver Bow manda
mus cases proved themselves of little or
no worth to th » party.
If the wattr service proves to be all
that the consolidated company promise,
the contract can be extended. Five years
seems a reasonable period for ihe contract
to run, to commence with.
New Mexico has been visited by a
enow storm of unusual severity, even for
midwinter. We should be glad even for a
good snow storm for Montana. Moisture
in any shape or quantity would b« accepta
ble and no questions asked.
There were three Congressmen elected
yesterday to fill vacancies caused by death,
one in the Second Nebraska District ard
two in New York, in the Ninth aud Twenty
seventh districts. Two Republicans and
one Democrat were elected, but it makes
no change in the relative position of the
parties. _
The shrieks of Attorney McCoDueli in
Judge DeWolie's court are liktned by a
Butte witness to the o'd rebel yells heard
in the wilds of Tennessee during the time
o' the wah. Tbe ceiling of tbe Silver Bow
court house was cracked and tho walls
rent, to say nothing of the damage sus
tained in other quarters.
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