The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-10-26

tFrom Sundays Daily.l
THE MINERS.
How the Renest working Men u the
Camp Regard MaSannss.
rhe Popular, Able and Trustworthy
Champion " the Mlutnv Intsrcsas.
In making the rounds Of the mines yester-
day, to gather material for the Sunday min
ing report, the MINER representative took
occasion to elicit the views of q largeHumber
Of we'll known miners of the camp on the del
egate question. 1t is for the miners of Mon
tana to decide wheth r or not Major Maginnis
shall be returned to congress and it is emf
nently fit that they should possess and exer-
else this power. To no class Of people are the
progress and development of the territory
o directly attributable. As Major Magin-
mis- said in Walkervllle, they have been in
every country the pioneers of civilization and
their dauntless energy, as they prospected
unknown regions with a pick in one hand
and q rife in the other, is the immediate
cause of the thousands OF happy homes and
thriving towns now distributed all over the |
great west. The advantages Of their success
have been shared by all classes and through
the mammoth enterprises lowing out'of their
discoveries, 1t has been made possible for the
mechanic, the farmer, and the ranchmau to
earn q good livelihood and to become indie
pendent and contented. The imperative ne
cessity, therefore, and the wisdom Of having
= representative in congress who is capable
Of defending the mining Interests from the
sharks whoare constantly planning TO augment
men, and who, by the aid of fraudulent and
corrupt land commissions and Ubiquitous
square location laws would kill off legitimate
mining by laboring men will not be disputed
by intelligent miners. In the last congress
Major Mag,nnis succeeded in standing off
this species Of special.legislation by q motion
which was carried, to lay the proposed bill
on the table. Major Maginnis was the only
man who had the courage and influence sue
c~essfully to oppose the tide of public opinion
in Washington in relation to this out -ageous
scheme to rob the miners of their rights. He
and advanced reasons so numerous, so cogent,
and so irresistible against the proposed en-
actment Of this infamous piece Of corruption
that the bill was shelved. But it was not
killed. 1t will come up again and Maginnis
IS the only man who can ana will fight it to
| ,ho L;t<ou nDI Ir ~, ,~;,oro ~ lfr,Icno
allow themselves To be cajoled into the sup
port of a man who has been tried and fO:lnd
wanting, who will he a stranger in a strange
land and entirely without influence in con-
gress when the bill is put upon its final read
ing, and who ii he have any influence will
be more than likely to exercise it in favor Of
the would-be %monopolists; if,swe repeat. the
miners of this and other camps in Montana
allow themselves to be cajoled into the sup.
port of hat embodiment Of political j~ugglery;
that apostle of everything that is vile and con
te,mptible in politics; that personifcation o.
arrogance and c%onceit; a vilifer who la!
publicly proclaimed the democrats Of thi.
territory to be horse thieves and roal age mt!
and who is now running OH the republican
ticket as the tool Of the Herald gang in Hell.
ena, they, can not charge upon the MINER
their best friend, that 1t neglected to sound
note of warning.
But from the result Of our reporters in
quirics it is quite evident that the miners O
this camp at least do not propose to be shan
dled'' ond s:used" to further the political am
bition of Mr.. Sanders. Interviews with
number Of representative miners showe'
very plainly that Maginnis was a strong ia
vorite. Said cne weather .0eaten ponce
whom we accosted as he emerged from tn
Colusa shaft: "Me vote for Sanders? Vel
l reckon not. Maginnis has served US vel
and he'll serve us vel! again. He stood o
the square location law, and while I've got
vote III give it to him because I've got loca
tons in this camp myself, and l want Il,
privilege OF following my vein wherever
goes. You can just bet that the boys in thi
mine are solid for MasinnIs, not because he
q democrat, but because he's the miner
) friend. I've prospect,d from the ColOrad
river to the Columbia, I've owned hundred
r Of prospects, have made monev and lost !
and JOINT you forget that in my rough IN
varied experience I've found out sever
! things. A good many OF Vs. miners wouldn
: make very good Lawyers, or doctors, {
preachers, because we've been Dr. ugh up
work, but since you seem to take % niue
interest in me, young feller, III just SIT
We amt the I ols that son.e politicians tax
. us for. We can tell ~ honest ma
wien We see him and have enought