The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1874-08-01
Maginnis in Bozeman.
lFrom the Avant Courier. July 9th

Thursday last, Hon. Martin Maglnnls,
Democratic candidate for Delegate to Con-
gress, accompanied by Hon. H. r. Comfy,
arrived in Bozeman, the former to fill his
appointment to address the unterritied here.
| There was no ovation on his arrival not a
breeze rippled the quiet political horizon
of Bozeman. Our friend Vivion took the
| Major in tow and introduced him to our
citizens. In the evening quite IL respecta-
BILE number of our people, of both political
parties, assembled at Speith & Krug's Hall
to hear what might be said. Judge Street
was appointed Chairman, and introduced
Mr.. Comley. who unburdened himself of
much verbiage, superinduced by chronic
attack of "old Democracy" supposed to
have been secretly preying upon his yitals
since the surrender of the last principles of
that ''good old party in the nomination
of Greeley and. RnQMls He assumed tbs
+ gfandiloquent, which fell fiat On the ears OF
his practical audience. He made a MALI
cious attack upon Major Bruce, asserted
things that he knew to be false, but was
promptly corrected by the Major. One un-
acquainted with the facts, would have
thought from the remarks of both Comfy
and Maginnis that Major Bruce was the
opponent of Mr.. Maginnis in the race.
Mai. Maginnis mounted the rostrum at
about o'clock and spoke two hours. The
first hour he devoted to useless and abstract
issues, denouncing the administration, DC,
| &c. The last hour was taken up with a
review of his record as Delegate, particular
ly that portion relating to Eastern Montana,
during which he made q terrible assault
upon the Indian ring. According to his
showing he had accomplished wonders for
Eastern Montana. but his statements in that
respect do not tally with certain facts known
here.
In regard to the Bozeman Land Office, he
asserted that no petition had ever been re-
ceived at Washington, from this county
asking for its establishment that the Com
missioner of the Land Office had never rec
commended it's establishment. We know
that three petitions, each signed by over
| two hundred settlers in this valley, were ut
| different times sent to the Commissioner OF
the Land Office, praying for land office at
this place, and if we remember correctly it
was published in the Congressional proceed
ings that Commissioner Drummond recon-
| mended the establishment of a Land Office
at this place The statistics of the Land
Office furnished indisputable evidence OF
our right to such an office, and we are sat
isfied that it would have been established
|
ingtOn. -..-
The re-opening of the Powder RIVER
! route, which the Democratic papers Of the
! Territory have credited Mr.. Maginnis with
having procured, was honorably and justly
conceded by that gentleman to Mr.. Steele,
of Wyoming.
The RECESSION OF the non-mineral proof
| act, which our friend Mcguire worked SC
| assiduously to accomplish, and is no doubt
| eutitled to the credit of it's success, was
! gobbled up by Maginnis and extolled as one
of his pet measures.
He had introduced a bill asking an appro-
priation of $25, 900 for the improvement OF
| the National Park, but it had failed to be-
| come law, and when a company, headed
! by our fellow citizen, Col. l.. NJ. Black,
with capital of 81, 900, 900, presented bill
asking for lease of thirty years to build
| hotels, construct roads and improve the
/! Park. thereby making it attractive and Of
fering some accommodations and induce
ments to visitors, Mr.. Maginnis opposed the
| BILL because he thought it would be a mo-
nopoly. The law grants leases for period
| of ten years. This company proposed ex-
! pending one million dollars more i'll i'm
proving the Park, and a lease of ten years
would not have justified the expenditure OF
such an amount. 1t should be evident tc
| Mr.. Maginnis that the Government does
not intend to do anything soon, if ever, to-
ward improving the Park, and private Ell
terprise in that direction is checked, unless
upon such plan as contemplated by the
company which he opposed. In his oppo
sition to that BILL Mr. Maginnis struck
Bozeman and Eastern Montana the severest
blow they have ever received, not except
ing the failure of the Yellowstone Expedi
! ton. The passage Of that bill would have
secured first-class accommodations to pleas
ure seekers and tourists to the National
| Park, and would have brought thousands
| of them through our town annually.
/ Mr.. Maginnis made q flimsy and awk
ward excuse for his opposition to the First
| National Bank Of Bozeman being designa-
ted as Government Depository and Finan
| cial Agent of the United States. His efforts
| to blind the public as to the fact that he
! had been yoked by the First National Banl
of Helena and was whipped into his course
in this matter by the chief "whacker" o.
that institution, were perfectly Transparent
and fruitless And he only told his side o
the story. The other side we will refer tx
hereafter
Adverting to the fact that Col. Black Ell
dorsed and supported Mr.. Hedges in this
race, Mr. Maginnis remarked that two years
ago Col. Black was without Government
contract and wanted one, and had support
ed him and now he had a contract, ant
wishing to be i'll accord with the Admins
tration, he supported Hedges. Such rea
soning is worthy of Maginnis but it would
disgrace the intelligence of twelve yea
old school boy. Col. Black supported, ant
through his efforts, elected Mr.. Maginni
over Mr.. Clagett. Why? Because Mr.
Clagett had opposed measures calculated tt
benefit Bozeman and Eastern Montana, anc
how has this man Maginnis shown his graf
itude to the people of Eastern Montana ant
Col Black, to whom he is indebted for hi
seat in Congress? By opposing the mos
important bills introduced for promoting
the interests of Eastern Montana, as showl
above. This is the cause Of Col. Black
opposition to such an ungrateful publi
servant as Mr.. Maginnis has shown himsel
to be.
Take Mr.. Maginns' record so far as i
relates to Eastern Montana, and every in
telligent man will be struck with the con
viction that it woald have been better 70
our people had we been without a represen
tative. Whatever good he did is over-bal
anced By his efforts to injufe us, and w
leave it to a discriminating public as t
whether the latter was the result or a lacl
of judgment or was inspired by persona
motives.
How THE DUTeHMAN WAS MIsrooK
En.-A day or two since, several Comstock
crs, who were seated in one of our brew
8 cries slipping their lager, began in boast
full way to tell of the great men for whom
they had been mistaken. Cine stated tina
withdrawing on one occasion through th
State Of New York, a gentleman came int
the cars and walking up to him slappe,
him familiarly on the back exclaimin
Why Mr.. Astor, how do yea do p An
other stated that npon getting off q steam
er at Aspinwall, when on his way to Cali
fornia, few years ago, q gentleman ha
rushed to him, seized him by the hand an
cried, "Comodofe Vanderbilt. it gives m
great pleasure to see you here, sir !!
, While these stories were being told, it wa