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THE TRIBUNE Oreat FPlls. Mont
FRIDAY, 8EPTEMBER 21, 1894.
COUNTY DEMOCRATIC TICKET.
For Otote Senator -
tt)ORBItT 8. FORD.
For Ropresentatives -
JIRE LESLIE.
J. ('. BUNDY,
LOtER IT FLYNN.
W. N. FLE'I~IILL.
For Shorrli
tIHl:RtIT PON f'LT.
Fo ('lerk umn ltrcordnir
L. 1. M.)oDONAI.l).
For Ti, ,rr
DAVID WILILAMt.
For Cot.L) Attorony -
JOHN W. TrANION.
For Auditor
II. L. DES2IOMBES.
For Assessor
J. K. C(LARK.
For Superintendent of County Schools
Mkil. CLARENCE A. O(IDEN.
For barveyor
B. W. FERt(ICON.
For Coroner
W. A. LONG, M. D.
For Public Administrator
C. C. TUNIER.
For County Commssioners -
ROBERI JOHNSON,
IROBERT BLANKENBAKEK,
W. P. WREN.
Justices of the Paee (Grent Falls Township)
J. P. FITZGERtALD,
F. A. MERRILL.
C('ttables ((treot Falls townehip)
D. W. WHITE.
MICtHAEL HICKEY.
TiHE TICKET.
'T'h democrats of Cascade county in
convention assembled Wednesday nomi
nated i ticket that will commend itself
not only to the support of the democra.
cy but to all citizens of the county who
believe in an impartial and economical
administration of affairs. The list will
be found at the head of this column and
the nominees will receive the hearty
support of ToE TRIBaNi:. .Personal
mention of them and their individual
qualifications will be made hereafter.
though most of them are so well known
as not to need any introduction to the
voters of Cascade.
In its wisdom the convenntion saw fit
to place in nomination a couple of gen
tlemen who have received a like honor
at the hands of another party. There
can be nothing said of the gentlemen
that is not good for their personal char
acter and their ability is unquestioned.
Yet in spite of this the later action of
the committee in instructing its dele
gates to the state convention to oppose
any fusion appears a little inconsistent.
Be this as it may, the gentlemen are the
nominees and will receive the party sup
port. The conditions for success were
never more favorable for the democrats
of Cascade than they are today, and
with earnest and united effort the entire
ticket can and must be elected.
THill t.MI'AIGN ()I IN-I'I.T.
A couple of years ago tie Independ
eot. as t nuow ic, arrived from the far east,
ani b f ,re earning a citizenship, or
before ,, n becomning acc.htuatd, it at
onl pr.t, ledud to instruct thie people of
Nlonui.a a, to their ,lties in riJard to
munilcl i and state Hffaiz. 'Jo this no
man of r.y party made oh.-.ction. The
Ind-pst. lent, as it now it, was made
welacme. It was not called "an imper
tinent ir,terloper or a carpet bagger."
It was lt called an "irresponsible, friv
olous, a andering gypsy.' It was not
even celed "a hired braggart." Yet in
the line of its present reasoning and
practice, all these terms would have been
applicabie to it. About one year ago the
Independent, as it now is, was appointed
to the nmost lucrative federal office in the
state. The appointment was not hailed
with abuse by either party men or the
press of the state. The recipient was
not made a target for mud, nor was it
insisted that the office should not have
gone to a new arrival, but to one of the
old timers in Montana who had grown
gray in the service of democracy in the
state. Even the Independent did not
launch the vials of its wrath and dis
pleasure at the absorption of the fat job
by itself. Of course money was no
object to the Independent, as it now is,
in coming to Montana to instruct the
people - polically, or in grabbing the
oBoe referred to. Oh, no. It was patr.
otism pure and simple. It was miselon
ary work without the hope of reward or
the fear of punishment. It was a
sublime spectacle of self sacrifice laid
upon the altar of Montana.
It I. strange, however, that the Inde
pendent took the precaution to take out
a paten on the virtue of self abnegation
when it came to Montana. It evidently
thought it could supply the market and
in pomsuance of this thought it Is now
making a meet seunrrilous onslaught
upes two gentlemin, already a o acti
ses of, end the other a householder In
the lsate sd a prospeotve llises, sad
applyig s them the surullus lepthets
above qussd. lad why? Almply be.
ea the sramsmes sesee to Lave es
ew r b a m eae rs Assads lor the
capital. Only thli and nothing more.
Both are gentlemen of ability and in
tegrity, good citisens in any community,
yet they have opinions that run counter
to Helena interests, therefore let them
be anathema.
According to the Helena gospel, as ex.
pounded by the Independent, as it now
is, and subscribed to by all the Helena
devotees of high and low degree, Helena
is Montana and there ie no room for any
man in the state, no matter bow honor.
able, enterprising or capable, who does
not bow down and worship the Helena
god. THE TRIBUNe yields to no one in
respect for the "Old Timer," and by the
way it is acquainted with very many of
them who favor Anaconda, but it would
warn Helena that it it relies upon the
old timere for its votes and continues to
heap abuse upon all who did not croes
the plains in a bull team It will be
mighty short on election day.
There is room inMontana for all who
desire to make it their homes and they
are welcome, in spite of the attacks of
the Independent upon them as a class.
It does not represent the feelings of the
hosts of people of the state in its coarse
and unjustitiable attacks upon any ele
ment, but it does represent the narrow
prejudices and imperious disposition of
Helena, and those self-respecting men
and women who have settled here during
the past few years will take notice oft the
insults to which they are subjected and
govern themselves accordingly.
NO USE FOR WORKINOMEN.
As is well known the labor element
comprise a large proportion of the per
manent residents of Anaconda, yet the
Helena press misses no opportunity to
slander this element, and through it the
workingmen all over the state. In a re
cent issue the Helena Herald falsely
speaks of Anaconda being a disorderly
city and says, "the crimes are the natur
al consequence of the disorderly element
that makes up more than a fair propor
tion of the population of Anaconda." As
a matter of fact there is not a more or.
derly, peaceable community in the state,
and this attempt of the Herald to make
it appear that workingmen are as a class
law breakers is an illustration of the
olinion in which that element is held in
Helena.
MATERIAL 'IPROGRES.
There is now no question but that af
fairs at Belt are in first-class shape and
from this time on the progress of the
city will be in accord with the expecta
tions of all who are interested. The rea
sons for this are apparent, the great coal
fields have been developed to a great ex
tent in the mines already opened, others
are to be opened up, the coking plant is
to be built at once, and, better than all
this, the question of labor has been sat
isfactorily adjusted for a long time to
come. This cheerful condition of affairs
leads the Belt Valley Times to say:
"Confidence again pervades the atmos
phere in the Belt valley. The announce
ment that a full force would be em
ployed in the company mines within the
next week; the activity displayed by the
railroad company in putting in the
tracks, etc., to the coke ovens; the pres
ence of Mr. Coombe, who has the con
tract for building the ovens, on the
ground and ready to go ahead as soon
as the track is laid, and the numerous
strangers in town looking for locations
all tend to create a feeling of joy such
as we hL.ve nut experienced since the Gth
of August. At the time of the strike
ltlt was the mnot prosperous town in
tie northwest and from present indica
tions it wii lie again within another six
This outlo.k is as cheerful to the resi
ldent, of g'reat Falls as it is to those of
lielt. for the prosperity of the latter
must inure to the benefit of the former.
This being the ease while the people of
this city rejoice with their neighbors at
the satisfactory state of affairs and the
happy prospects they can hardly be ac
cusedof selfishness if they rejoice a lit
tle on their own hook.
ELECTION OUTLOOK.
From all over the country and from all
classes of men there come the glad tid
ings of a gradual renewal of business
and those who are in position to know
give hopeful assurances for the future.
While it is admitted that the masses in
their anxiety for good times and conse
quent work are somewhat impatient, it
cannot be denied that after so great an
industrial depression as we have exper
ienced resumption must be gradual
rather than radical, and unless some ex.
traordinary momentum is given and an
emergency ariss it takes time to readjust
political as well as industrial conditions.
After leaving to the democratic adminis
tration a heritage of bankruptoy, aenused
by etravaganmoe, and to the people a
heritage of idlemes and want, the result
of legislation in favor of the great trusts
and corporations, the republicans with
amasing effrontery, when the blow tell in
the first months of Mr. Cleveland's
term, boldly charged it to the ad
ministration change and have been
singing that way ever sine. That
song now appears to have become
threadbare and the people are
beginninog to wonder how they ever per
mitted themselve to listen to it. They
now realise that a puani is not the rea
tion of a day or a month, but is the logi
cal sad Inevitable result of sateIedent
Sevents, and that otr all the ll through
which we have pased the republee,
s not the demoaltic., party Is esapenAble
The republiesa leades know at this
Schsageof esatisat athe parst of the
Svoters and they know also that it is well
-founded, and they view with alarm the
brightening skies in the industrial hod
son, for it bodes them no good. To keep
i up their courage they are with the aid
of the Associated Press, making a great
" hurrah over the result of the elections
in Maine and Vermont, but these the
i democrats can more than offset in Ala
i bama and Arkansas, in which there
were populist and republican combines.
It is however in the doubtful states
that the republican gentlemen are on
the anxious bench. With the defection
of Jones and Stewart of Nevada, with
the advanced anti-republican position
taken by Cameron, of Pennsylvania, on
the silver question, and with all the
western states that have been hereto
fore republican arrayed against them
on the money question the gentlemen
are entering the November campaign
with serious misgivings. This is es
pecially the case in New York, where
there is factional fight that shows no
signs of being h saled, though the politi
cal doctors are hard at work on the job.
Of the situation in that state, the ob
servant, Mr. Depew, recently said it was
very doubtful and in a later interview he
is quoted as remarking that the demo
crats would present a united front, for
Tammany, would surrender to Mr.
Cleveland, and the New York Tribune of
late date makes mention that a promi
nent member of the stock exchange has
bet $1,000 to $500 that the next gov
ernor of New York will be a democrat.
In Indiana and Illinois and Wisconsin
the democrats are full of confidence,
and these signs should urge the demo
crats of Montana to renewed and active
vigilance.
Here the republican party I. split in
nearly every county. Tom Carter and
Tom Power have been ignored by the
state committee. In both Lewis and
Clarke and Silver Bow more than dis
satisfaction exists and independent
tickets are freely threatened. With
this state of affairs the field is surely
open to the Montana democrats if they I
see fit to occupy it. In Cascade county
there is no question but that a good
ticket and good work will win, but both
of these are essential to success.
MOlt ANACONDA SPEAKERs.
There are a few of the 3 7-77 crowd
about Last Chance gulch yet, and the
Independent as their mouthpiece sug
geets that the public meetings in favor
of Anaconda for the capital be broken
up by attacking the speakers with "an
cient eggs." What do the people of
Great Falls think of the monstrous prop
sition? The right of public assembly
and free speech is to be denied. The
public are invited to these meetings in
Great Falls, and those who have attended
will bear witness that in spite of the ac- I
cusation of the Independent they were
neither "whipped in" or "dragged in" by
corporations of which they are "the
slave", and yet the attendance has been
large and the proceedings interesting.
The Independent realizes this and now
attempts to break their force by inciting
its paid men in this city to mob the
speakers.
Go it Helena and remember that if
your "ancient egg" suggestion is carried i
out the people of Great Falls will be on
hand and will have something to say.
HELENA AND THE COUNTY BI.I.
During his remarks at the opera house
meeting Geo. W. Taylor, one of the
speakers, took occasion to remind the
audience that at the regular session of
the legislature the Helena influence had
defeated the Cascade county bill and
when it was pending at the speci,.l see
sion it did all in its po wer to defeat it
.rd would have done so but for the ex
ertions of Col. Broa'lwater and "Uncle"
Jesse Taylor. lie may have mentioned
other gentlemen, but if he did, they
have escaped the memory of THE TaRB
esv:. For this he was roundly and vile
ly abused by one of the speakers at the
Helena meeting and the Independent of
yesterday devotes half a column to the
subject, quoting from one of its ex
changes which says that among the ac
tive supporters of the bill were Col.
I Broadwater, Hon. Jesse Taylor and Hon.
r Thos. L. Gorbam, then a representative
from Lewis and Clarke county, all now
k dead, but itf they were alive they would
be supporting Helena. In his remarks
I Mr. Taylor dad not esy which city the
i gentlemen, itf alive, would be supporting,
- he left that for the Helena people, who
I are supposed to be in close communion
. with the spirits. The point is not what
i individuals did or would do, it is what
i the Helena people, as a class, did. Col.
6 Broadwater, who supported the CaOsed
bill was at that time the presdent of
I the Great Falls Townsite company, and
a of the Montana Central railroad. Mr.
SGorham was a resident of the
I town of Cascade, which was to
be taken into the new county,
a and Jem Taylor was a repesntative
s from Choteau who realised the possibi
L. litias of this seotion and inslsted that in
a spite of the oppositioa of Helena It was
t entitled to a county government. It
s will be seen that though at the time a
SIILewis and Clarke represetative the
Snterests of Mr. Gorham were with the
i oreation of the new county and he could
- not he controlled by the Helesa gang.
I- Mention is also made that the extra
t session was called by a citiase of elesna,
h then governor. This s a neat
a, patting it. How ler had Oovd.lim
l the been a idtise, sad was a that
l sae due eatirely to Col. Broedn
e The ladependest further sps: 'The
creation of Uascade county involved the
loe to Lewsl and Olaice county of a
oonsiderable part of its area, population
and taxable property, which might have
afforded them a reason to oppose it, but
they refused to take any narrow or sel
flah view of the question." This is rich.
They did just the reverse. The Helena
men stormed and foamed and threatened
about the legislature at its regular
session until they defeated the bill, and
during the special essielon in addition to
log-rolling they went so far a to hold a
public indignation meeting to protest
against the bill. This meeting was en
gineered by the Helena chamber of com
merce and was largely attended, as will
be verified by the files of the Independ
ent. If they are not handy let the Inde
pendent ask Mr. Parchen, or Wm. Muth,
or Herechfield, Seligman, Power, Wal
lace, Kleinschmidt, Curtin, Woolman. or
any of the men then as now prominent
in affairs. A glance at the report of
this meeting will show where Helena
stood as a city on the question, and the
singling out of a few honorable excep
tlons will not relieve it of the charge of
having bitterly, unrelentingly and vici
ously opposed the creation of Cascade
county and the growth and development
of the city of Great Falls.
A H51ENA ATTRACTION.
In all the florid literature sent out by
the Helena for the capital committee,
calling attention to the place it holds as
the center of social and intellectual c!r
cles, and in all the many varied compli
ments bestowed upon the city by the
Helena for the capital papers through
out the state, there has been one remark
able omission. This omission must have
been the result of forgetfulness on the
part of all, yet it is a remarkable coinci
dence that all should have forgotten one
of the chief elements of Helena's great
ness and one in which they seem to take
a pride. Reference is made to the Chi
nsee population of Helena, which is
probably larger than that of all other
portions of the state combined. An il
lustration of this fact is to be found in a
recent issue of the Independent, which
publishes olficially a list of licensee is
sued to Chinamen in Helena for the
quarter ending September 1, 1891. Here
is the list:
Shing Fat & Co., gambling house
and one faro game............$73 33
Hing Look, gambling and taro
game..... ... ................ 73 33
Wo Lee, gambling and faro game. 73 33
Shing Fat & Co., gambling and
taro game......... ........... 73 33
Foo Long, gambling and faro
ame.. . . ... .. . ........ ...... i 7
Shing Fat & Co., gambling(No.3). 73 33
Yat Sing, laundry................ 5 00
Lin Web, tootpeddler............ 5 00
Quong Chung, merchant ........ 500
On Wah, laundry ............ 00
Yee Ching, merchant............. 500
Sam Lee, laundry............. 5 00
Hop Hing Chang, merchant...... 5 00
Quong Yen Co., merchants........ 5 00
Sing Lee, laundry............... 5 00
Fung Loak, gambling house...... 73 33
Quong Wo Ling, merchant....... 5 00
wong Lee, laundry ............ 5 00
Wing Hing Lung, merchant..... 5 00
Lee Sing, laundry ..............5 00
Quong Weah, laundry ........... 5 00
Moon Yen, ftoot peddler....... 5 00
Shing Fat & Co., gambling (No. 4 73 31
Sam Wah, laundry.............. 5 00
Hip Young, merchant ............ 00
(uong Lee, laundry ............ 3 00
'lung High, On Kee & Co., mer
chants .............. . ..... 10 00
Yee Wan & Bro., merchante...... 10 00
Quai Fong Kee, mecrhant...... 5 00
Isue Ching Wang, merchant.. 3 00
Caey Sing, gambling house and
faro game................... 73 :33
Sam Gee, laundry ............. 5 00
Chung Wah, merchant........... 5 (N)
lien Sun, merchant.... ........5 NI
Chu Ching Lung, merchant..... 3 (NI
Quen Yack, laundry ............ 5 (0)
Shing F'at & Co.,gambling (No. 573 :
Sam Lee, merchant ............ 5 (N)
Charley liee, laundry ............ 3 00
The above is official. Sixteen Chinese
merchants, twelve Chinese laundries and
ten Chinese gambling houses in the city
as far as heard from, and it is very prob.
able some had not settled with the treas
urer when the report was made out. But
this is only a list of those who pay li
cense; no mention is made of the China
men who are employed by these firms or
of the gardenere and those who work and
sell for them, of the cooks and house
servants who are there in abundance and
who by their cheap wages have crowded
out industrious white men and women.
Who supports these Chinamen who pay
licenses, for they would not be there un
less they did a paying business? The
answer is simple. It muat be primarily
the white residents of Helens. This is
certainly the case with the laundries and
the gardeners, though no mention is
made of the latter in the list because
they do not pay license. The real and
file of the Uhinamen are wage-earners
from the white residents, and they rup
port the Chinese merchants and gamb
liog houses. Let any thoughtful man
stop and think how large a town of
white people it would require to support
'elxten merocants and ten gambling
houses and he can form an idea what
the Chinem population of Helena I.
and how many white men and women
they deprive of employment. Of
course these China mercheate and
laundrymen and gamblers have been
compelled to oontribuate freely to the
Helena oampaign fund, and as a onee.
quenre some of the "boodle" which is
lbeing o freely distributed in Graet
Pall. oomes from the Chines. What
m in Great Falls would think of tak
'ng a drink with aChinaman, and. what
is the dlfferene between drinking with
him and teklag a drink he pays fort
SAttendant upon the ceremonies of the
entry of the Veled Prophet I. St. Loenl
will be a gred tell cad seeptloo ot the
propbet. Speaking of it the St. louis
Republic aess: "One feature of the en
tertainment before this select audience
is seld to be the introduction of the
worship of Vests. The belle of" the
ball will be the virgin goddess, while the
maids of honor will be the vestal virgins
who watch over her and worship at her
shrine. The ancient customs will be
carried out in this ceremony and the
beautiful maidens will be clothed in the
simple and graceful costumes worn by
the vestal virgins before the Christian
era. These innovations will relieve the
ball of the monotony that has to a car
taiq extent characterized those of past
years." It is not stated that an invita
tion has been extended Col. Brocken
ridge to be present.
ABOUr THE MINER.
The Butte Miner has, in a long article,
announced that in the capital contest it
will support Helena. The only reason
that it gives for the course it will pur
sue is that Anaconda is a corporation
town. In its screed annoucing the stand
it has taken the Miner pleads that the
capital campaign be devoid of personali
ties and abuse, yet with the inconsistency
that is characteristic of every one who
gets the IIelena fever, it, in the same
article, denounces all the newspaper
publishers in the state who are for Ana
conda as "venal and subsidized." If this
is not personal and uncalled for abuse
TiHE TRIUDUYr does not know what term
to use in defining it. The right of the
Miner to advocate Helena is unques
tioned, but it is exceedingly bad grace
and worst taste for it to denounce those
who differ with it as being corrupt. The
gentlemen who support Anaconda cer
tainly have the same right to express
their views without being subjected to
slurs and insults as has the Miner, and
for that matter, as the campaign pro
gresses, it may be developed that the
Miner does not wear an invincible armor
on this very question of subsidy.
IBi.OHIN( THr.sIR HORNS.
The Butte Miner a few days ago en
tered the capital campaign and espoused
the side of lelona. All of the Helena
'-pirates" and all the voters of Silver Bow
county have known for eighteen months
that the Miner would pursue just such
a course. It was no surprise in that sec
tion. But the Helena "pirates" in their
desperation are playing it for all it is
worth and claiming it is the highest
trump out. For that reason the Indend
ent, which is circulated free, and the
subsidized Helena for the capital papers
throughout the state have been hailing
the supposed accession to their ranks
with display type and copying what it
says upon the subject as though it werea
great Sir Oracld and spoke the sentiments
of Silver Bow county. Only in this way
could the people know where the Miner
stood, for it is absolutely a local paper
and has no circulation outside of Butte,
and not as large a circulation there as
the 8tandard.
For fear that this break of the Miner
might be misunderstood in other sec
tions of the state, for it is well under
stood in Butte, a number of well-known
residents decided to hold an initial meet
ing and take steps to put the voters
right upon the record. The news that
it was to be held, though no previous
notice had been given, spread rapidly
and Monday evening the club was or
ganized, the crowd in attendance. being
far in excess of the capacity of the ball.
The assemblage was a repr, bentative
one in all respects, and a glance at the
names of those who were active partici
pants shows among them llenr~ Mueller,
twice a member of the city council,
mayor for one term and the present dem
ocratic candidate for state senator; W.
W. McCraken, president of the Silver
Bow National bank and toe republican
candidate for mayor in 1893; Judge C.
M. Colman, justice of the peace, elected
on the populist ticket in 1892, and the
present candidate of that party for sheriff
of Silver Bow county.
There is no need to single out
other names from the list of 360 who
signed the roll that night. Those
quoted are fair samples and show that-in
Butte the question of politics and the
question of capital are to be absolutely
divorced.
The tone of the speakers, however, is
worthy of consideration by the voters of
Great Falls. They all brushed aside as
hardly worthy of notice the superoclious
claime of Helman for social, intellectual,
or busness superiority. No attention
was paid to the olub houe, the acert
house, the Broadwater, or the vacant
blooke. They belonged of right to Hel
ena and she was weloome to them. Nor
was the geography of the state exhibited
and studied to point out the exact cen
t tar. Oh, no. They simply knew that
Helena i as near to Butte sad Ana
oonds as Butte and Anaconda are to
Helena, and there was no reason on
earth why the latter should not come
t to the former as weail s the formeanr go to
the latter. They knew that for years
Helena had been the enemy of
Butte and had done alllin its power to
disparge and retard it, and compel its
people to dance attendanoe upon it, and
now that the time is at hand they pro.
t pose to give Helena a doe of its own
medicine.
Helna had ben taklag oare of Itself
these many years at the expense of all
other ommunlti ens and proting by the
example, Butte decidad to look out Ior
a Its own interests and let Helena do what
a It has always done, generally by devious
Saleth·ds, ee its owa row. There was
I no mistakig the sentiment of the met.
g. It was exprepnesed in plain English.
A communlty of interest, commercial
and industrial, exiete between Butte and
Anaconda, it was to the material advan.
taqe of Butte to give its heartyand
unanimous support to Anaconda and it
proposed to do so. It was a matter of
bunems, and material advantages were
not to be serflod to pull any gentle
I mnn'seehetnt out of the fre.
This Ie the answer the people of Silver
1 Bow send out in response to the est',n
º the Miner has taken. It is a message of
" utter repudiation. It is an announce.
I ment that the Miner does not speak for
them, and they reject its utter
ances. Now let the Helena "pirates"
make the most of the Miner's advocacy
of its broken down cause.
ANACONDAL WILL WIN.
With some slight changesT TxaTarsaU
I takes the liberty of adapting the follow.
ing from one of its exchanges: The hun
I dreds of men who are being paid to work
I for HIIelena are naturally demonstrative
with their lung exercise for the purpose
of making it appear that they are earn
log their money, but such creatures rep.
resent one vote each and that rather an
uncertain one. It is absurd to suppose
that they:have any influence.
The support of Anaconda comes from
quite another class; it comes from the
quiet, sober-minded people who have
made up their minds with refer
ence to what is best for the
future of Montana. They are content to
pursue their regular avocations and
will express their opinion at the ballot
box. There they will cast their vote for
Anaconda, and their number will be a
surprise to the conspirators who imagine
that the people of Montana can be
bribed, coerced or cajoled into a betrayal
of their own interests and the welfare of
their children and their childrens
children. The success of Anaconda
will simply register the sober judgment
of the unpurchased and intelligent
votere of Montana. There are twenty.
one counties in Montana and it is ex
tremely improbable that Helena will
carry five of them.
HELEMNA iOOi)LE AND VOTES
One of the Helena cappers who has
money to spend made the boast the other
day that Helena had the stuff and that
by its use twenty-five per cent. of the
voters of Montana could be influenced.
While this is not true, let it be admitted
that so large a proportion of the Mon
tana voters are as corrrupt as Helena
claims they are, even then Helena would
fall far short. The total vote in the lo
cation of the state capital two years ago
was 45,950, of which Helena received
14,010. There were 31,940 votes cast
against Last Chance Gulch. Suppose
that by the grossest corruption, the ex
penditure of vast sums of money, the
Helena conspirators should verity the
boast of their boodle agent and buy
twenty-five per cent. of the votes cast
against Helena in 1892, that would swell
its vote this year to 22,000, or 8,000 more
than it got in the first race. This would
still leave a vote of 24,000 against it, or a
majority of 2,100 for Anaconda, and we
predict that Anaconda's majority will be
nearer 5,000 than 2,000.
. The name of Dr. Ernest Crutcher hav
ing been mentioned by many of his
friends in connection with the nomina
tion for representative, it is only justice
to him to state the mention was unsoo
Icited and the use of his name before
the convention was respectfully pro
hibited.
CAPITAL MTRA We.
The abuse that has been heaped upon
Marcus Daly has proved a boomerang.
It is worse than folly to court favor from
the laboring men Iof Montana by de
nouncing Marcus Daly for, whatever his
faulte may be, going back on the labor
ing men is not one of them.-Kalispel
Herald.
Despite the ettorts of the iHelena sub
sidized pros to create the impression
that a man who is for Anaconda for the
capital is a poor miserable creature, a
degraded being, a villian a scoundrel,
thief, liar, coward, nceondiary and all
degrees and shades of a ruffian, men
continue to step out boldly and take
their stand against Helena.-Western
Democrat.
It does not require the aid of a mi
croscope to discern the reasons why An
aconda will become the permanent cap
ital of the stateof Montana in November
next. For the same reasons which
Great Falls gives through the epras
same of Ho Parsl Gibson, s at
below, likewise will Missoula, Bavalli,
Flathead, Deer Ledge and Granite aon
ties uast their vote for a town whlch Is
doing more to support the etire state
than Helena has or ever will do.--ilver
Its.
Ielena never miles a oppotunl to
dborir or lajure some oth section of
true In her teesatment of tes loasltir
whm p.opl have the tesmerti to de
uare the spiratiamt of Last
Chance guich to besemtbe permanent
be gratiingto the Helen people but
they are n no wise calculated ton
han. the prepeots or seouring the
ovete capi lcatl.m.-Uv-agton
Enterri
AAI g the strosgest of supporter
whih naonda has in averhead
county aes the laboring men n general.
Themenwhowork la the minesh
who till the soil, as well as the railroad
employs throughout the osunty, are
alest unanimous In thelr preference for
Anaconda. They will have nothing to
Ido with Helena and no prom ore l
lremesets however tmtin can In
does them to desert the town which
ever elase its lateastne has been am of
te sreagbobl o raganed labor in
IDL Mqtea.-Oc Nuuwse.