The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-08-24
A LITTLE CHAT WITH THE ORGANS.

We perceive that since his arrival Major
Maginnis has '.fxed" two newspapers, the
Independent and Record, which are now
figuring in the highly dignified role of Per-
sonal Organ. Well, so be IL. We have no
objections to offer but, remembering the hide
pendent's request OF a few days ago, when it
asked us to define the ''machine" TO which
the MINER has so frequently alluded we may
as well comply with that demand by pointing
out some work of the machine. Before doing
So, however, we have a little request of our
own, a request which we hope the Organs
will have the kindness to grant without de-
lay. In its last issue the Choteau Organ says:
The democratic asplraEts have become so
numerous, and so seltishly eager for political
honOrs that rather than nominate the only
man that couli be elected they are willing to
sacrifice party interests and g;ve the position
to their opponents." Now, will the Organ
have the kindness to mention by name a few
of the democratic aspirants alluded to in the
above extract? Will 1t have the kindness to
put us on the track of even one prominent
democrat who will announce himself a candi-
date for the delegatcship? BY so doing it
will confer upon the anti-machine wing of
the party a favor for which we shall ever hold
the organ in grateful circumference. The
trouble with the auti-titth termeIs is precisely
this. We can find scores and hundreds of
democrats who will not vote for a fifth term
under any considerations. No matter how
great may have been the past services, the
honor conferred in four consecutive terms of
the only important Office in the gift of the
people of Mantana is considered a fair recon-
pense for such services, whatever the same
may be, and they wW not support a fifth term.
But, while we have no difficulty in finding
plenty of democrats who are not at all back
ward in uttering such timer in the most
emphatic manner, we cannot for the life of us
find so much as one prominent democrat who
will consent to lead the opposition by an
nouncing himself a candidate for congress:
Some positively decline it in advance, declar-
ing that their business interests will not per-
mil of their entrance into public life, at least
not for some time to ONE while for the rest
GuC NCIS iloSU tlGS WILL NoiLoCh1 W IL Gidt
they will accept Il nomination provided the
democrats of Montana choose to offer it Of
teeir own free will. In fact our one great
want is the want Of leader, SO the Organ
will confer upon us a very great favor indeed
if it will but mention a few of its ''democratic
aspirants, scltishly eager for political honors."
te 60. 10 ar,,ac ytt frrurorJ Iu tl,, ntJuu
Organ we reply to it as follows: The ma
chine is a very complicated piece of mechan-
ism, provided with various qualifications, and
he is blind indeed who is so utterly blind as
to be unable to detect the evidence of its ope-
~rations. To cite an example we shall not go
very far away, but, instead, will begin at
home Adjoining Butte is the town Of
WalkerviIle, believed to be a Maginnis camp.
On this subject we have no issue to make
with the democrats of VAUDEVILLE. If they
choose to support Major Maginnis for a fifth Or
for a tiftieth term it is their unquestionable
privilege to do so, and not only that but it is
their right to demand and they are entitled to
receive a fair representation in convention
according to their numbers. But Butte is I'M
questionably anti -Magin.lis, and the demo-
Gratis of Butte, also, are entitled to representa-
ton i'll proportion to their numbers. But are
they allowed such a representation ? When the
central committee met it was controlled by a
lot oflittle M~aginnises, creatures of the ma
chine who allowed to the Maginnis pre-
cincl of Walkerville a delegation amounting
to one delegate to every fourteen votes cast
there for the democratic nominee for delegate
at the last election, but to the anti Maginnis
precinct of Butte they allowed a delegation in
the proportion of one delegate to every twen-
ty-tour and a fraction of such votes cast and
this, be it remembered, while Butte has I'm
questionably grown much more rapidly than
Waikerviile during the past two years.
Here's your machine, Mr.. Organ.
How do you like the looks of the
outfit and what have you TO say
in is defence? We would also call at
tention to the fact that the "iittle Magin-
nises . aforesaid were not regularly elected
members of the committee. They were all
appointed TO fill vacancies, and we do wish
that the people Of this world were so %clarita-
bic aud SO free from suspicion that they could
believe such appointments to be the result
merely of chance, and that the central ma
chine had nothing to do with them. Now
when this appOrtiOniient was made we felt,
to use IA Montana phrase, that the machine
had 'got u.s." The Orgahs will remember
that We Conceded the victory to our oppo-
nents provided Major Masinmis were SO in
sanely rash as to risk his political future,
which with a little good management can be
made more brilliant than ever, upon the for.
lorn hope Of securing his election for a fftl,
term. We frankly conceded the victory &c
the MaCinniS men. evan within this cnnntu