The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-11-10
Progress of the B-ss Narrow
Gauge.
Political Tricks and Bulldozing IL
Montana
Republicans Trying to Buy Demo
cratic Votes.
Some Corruption Business.
Correspondence Of the HERALD.l
DILLON, MONTANA.
Nov.p,har 1870

AGNAIk lCNhA6Ca iAOLA y 6OA -
= and having q little leisurs, l conclud
no that q few lines from this oountr
,il once 10 q while may not be uninter
esting to come OF your readers, ant
although at the present moment | d.
ID not think OF anything very startling
ne or Important. il may not be amiss
of lndite few lines to assist in filling W
your space should you have any Il
spare.
Since writing you last, the inhAbi
tants of Dillon have been very busy
ii putting their houses in order and
IS getting ready for winter, whose ap'
ID proach is by no means stesltny, and
sheir efforts are 40 far crowned with
success that to-day Dilloo present,
t. toe appearance of = rather neat but
unfinished town.
Shipping stIil Continues active, SO
much so indeed, that irAckl.yipg has
been suspended temporarily, 10 con-
sequence of the large amount Of pri-
vaie freight GAliy arriving oy rail to
the exclusion Of iron and ties with
| hA1h W SObblLuO wv LOLNtA0ONlOA VI
: the line.
The grazing Is nearly completed as
far north as Camp Creek, which ia
distant from Glendale only about five
miles. Camp Creek is thirty miles
irsm this place, and thirty. sigh,
miles this side of Butte City. 1t has
been expected that Camp Greek
| vr,At,in h,p,r,,n Nhn
but at the present moment appear
ances seem to indicate that Dillon
will be the terminus until next spring.
l have vague impression that
there occurred on Tuesday last, an
election in the Dis-United Siatee, OF
America, but not being in possession
OF the returns, do not know the re-
suit. OF courss tue HERALD and it's
numerous readers are better posted
than l am, and you know whether
the honest people Of the Dis Uuited
States prefer an honest man for
President or whether they have se-
lected q representative OF the 329
stripe to fill that heretofore honor
able Office.
On the day before mentioned. as
you are aware, an election did take
place in several of The territories. ,
am ,a.isfied that Montana has spoken I
in endorsement OF that able and hon. j
est man, Martin MaginniS, a fact /
which rebounds to The credit Of the {
people. The only objsction ever
raised by democrats 10 the renOmina- ,
ton OF Major Msginnis was the fact
that he had sIresdy been elected to
four consecutive terms, which would :,
seem to be contrary to the old demo- :
cratic doctrine OF rotation III ofics,"
but once nominated the democrats
would not "go back on" the gallant o
msjor b
l was absent, further north. on the ?
day Of election and consequently did b
not personally observe the disrepu- a
table course pursued by the 1929"
politicians here and st several ether
precincts in this (BeAverhehd) county. 4
but have learned their policy, which 4
| propose briefly to veutilste.
1t is well known that this Utah and y
Northern Railroad has been built, r
almost entirely, by Utah men who
are principally members OF the
church commonly denominAied Nor I
mon. Many OF these men have been II
ill MoptAua since March last, and it r
WAS expected thai they would claim II
the rigot to vote at the late election, y
seeing that only residence OF three Q
months il requisite. 1t Was also
generally believed bore that the
majority OF them were disposed to \
vote the democratic ticket. I
It is now Iumorsd-aud believe h
the rumor-that Col. Sanders, the re- /
publican candidate for delegate. a
eithsr in person or by proxy, under
the impression that these men were
in the market ana had votes for sale, Il
made an overture TO purchase the ?
entire outfit, but for some reason un- :
known 10 him, the vote was not cold =
and was declared TO be unpurchasdbte. !
Failing in this, the Credit Mobllier u
outfit concocted a most villainous Z
scheme By which they hoped to defeat
the democrats in this county, where n
most Of the graders and tracklsyeIs d
have been at work all the season. =
This plan YES 10 challenge every O
person engaged in railroad work who a
was not known to be 3 republican, A
and by a system of bluff and BULLDOG q
ing attempt to drive them from the c
polls, and this plan was attempted at Il
every voting place, with varying sue t,
cess. In one or two places BULLDOG c
ing succeeded, but here it proved n
signal failure, fo- the reason that the f
democrats knew their rights, and o
dared to maintain them, and although
challenged and compelled TO ''swear
in" their ballots, the same medicine
was administered to many OF toe re-
publicans who we're similarly situated
and who had doubtless concocted the
scheme. The result has been bril-
liant victory for the democratic ticket
with the exception of the candidate
for sheriff, who believe was defeated
through the influence OF q very i
wealthy and politically interruptions {
corporation whose headquarters are
at Indianapolis. Indiana.
When l become aware of any items
OF interest l will writs again; in the
mean time, l remain. most truly
yours d. ID. }.