The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-11-02
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We propose to take our sscrow'' on The
third day of next month. Will the Herdlt
join lis? #
In the late election in Ohio 23 countie
showed democratic gains and II showed re.
publican gains.
The official count in Indiana shows a totaI
vote OF 467, 1914. Porter's plurality is 1850
He lacks 1913 votes of having a majority Of
one over both Landers and Gregg.
The republicans in the large manufactur.
ing towns in the east are discharging all their
employees who will not vote the republican
ticket. This is protecting the purity of the
ballot box with a vengeance.
Indiana elected Thos.A. Hendricks govern
or IN 1872; it gave a democratic majority of
1900 in 1874; a democratic majority of $500
in 1876; $4,000 in 1873, and will give Han
cock 10000 majority Oh the I'd of next
month.
Old Gen. Rosecrans touches up Garfield
after the following style. 1t will be remem-
bered that Garfield was Rosecrans' chief of
staff for a short time during the late civil war,
The old hero says: "During the time I have
been acquainted with Garield-17 yeays-he
has committed deeds for which many a man
would he sent to the penitentiary." Rose
Grams supports Hancock.
Our dispatches refer to a let,e which is at
present creating a great deal Of excitement
in the east and i'll the Pacific states. The re-
publican wire has failed to give us the text of
the letter. 1t is claimed that Garfield wrote
it, and that it favors Chinese immigration.
Garfield denies it, but Abraham S. Hewitt
says the signature is i'll Garheld's handwrit-
ing, but he does not think Garfield wrote the
body OF it.
And now come Weaver and Gillette, who
swear that the letter published in the New
York Star, charging that Weaver was opposed
to a fusion of the greenbackers with the DEM
ocrats, is a forgery and a lie. This campaign
appears to yield a large crop of forged letters.
Probably the author of the elbow much
money and how much patronage" letter may,
like his political friends in the east, consider
that a denial bravely adhered to is as good as
a weakly championed truth, disown the au-
thenticity of it. Next!
"How much cash and how much patronage
does the Herald outfit expect from Sanders if
that gentleman be elected delegate? Would
the gubanatorial chair do, or, if that is not
.ttainable, how would the position of city
master suit? Under the law of exact
compensation for services rendered, would
lot the latter office abundantly pay the firm
or its expenditure of intellectual labor in adj
the interests of the "Wah Hoss" in
he present campaign We are aware that
duties of the position rise above the Ca
'acity of the outfit, but then, you know,
clerks can be hired. !
We have been anxiously waiting to see a
opy Of the reply that Secretary Sherman was
DING to make to Hampton's last note. At
asst advices Sherman signified his intention
o notice it at the earliest opportunity. Prob
bly, Sherman is so engrossed in delivering
upon Arthur, the republican candi-
late for ice-president--the man whom he
discharged from the Office Of collector of Gus
,oms of New York city for a dishonest ad-
ninistration Of its affairs-that he cannot
now attend to that little matter. When he
has finished eating the Arthur 'scrow" he
will undoubtedly turn his attention to swal-
the dirt he attempted to fasten upon
the Hon. Wade Hampton.
What a humiliating position do the repub-
lica2 cabinet officers occupy at the present
time. With all the zeal OF pot house politi-
clans they have stripped off their coats and
entered the arena of the hustings and are
now engaged with Chief Grant in throwing
mud at Hancock after the most approved
demagogic style. What a spectacle do they
present to the civilized world. They are men
holding high positions of trust under our gov
eminent, and are supposed to entertain a
sense of honor and propriety that would for
bid them to descend into the political mire of
the day. The custom of cabinet officers de-
serting their posts and engaging in party
broils and petty quarrels upon the hastings is
an outgrowth of the present republican
regime. The custom will end with the i'll
auguration of Hancock on the 4th of March,
1881.
ga Daniel come to judgment."-Helena
Herald.
You are right, Robert. Probably you
would like to know his Interpretation of the
"writing upon the wall" which the people of
Montana have written, 1t means that the po-
litieal days of W. F. Sanders, the Belshazzar
of this territory are numbered and will be
finished on the I'd day of November, A. d.
1880. That he has been weighed in the
balance and found wanting" That the polit-
ical kingdom of the republican party is de-
stroyed and given to the democracy, the
Amounted of the people. 1t means hat the