The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-10-19
EDITORIAL r

at Racine, Wis, yesterday, Milwaukee fol
lowed suit with an ovation to the gentleman
General Grant made his customary politi'
cal speech at Harvard, yesterday, in the pres
{ ence of the Massachusetts, state central com
mittee, urging them to vote for Garfield.
some of the French journals give very fiat
tering accounts of the progress of the prelim-
mary work on the tunnel which is to connect
France and England. 1t is said that the shaft
is sunk to the stratum in which the tunnel is
to be cut, and that those engaged in the work
are about to sink another shaft and to lower
the machinery for boring under the channel.
The work on the tunnel is expected to be fin
ished in two or three years.
The Indianapolis Journal asks: "Where
is the home of fraud to-day :" Ask Mr..
Jewell, chairman of the national republican
executive committee. He will answer your
conundrum by referring you to the means
adopted by the %republicad party to carry your
state at the recent election. 1t has found an
abiding place in the bosom of the republican
party.
Our advices from Basin, Boulder and JEFF
ferson cities indicate the triumphant election
of every candidate on the democratic ticket
of Jefferson county. Well advised parties
place the majority in that county for Maginnis
at one hundred and twenty-five. The demo-
Gratis of old jefferson mean cuisines" this
year, and propose to tie close to their candi-
dates and land them safe in office.
Upon the receipt of our last Herald we
were led to believe that the "Pisneer Daily"
had bloomed out into a ffth-rate poultry
journal, and had devoted its first issue to the
advertising of some favorite breed of fowls.
Upon closer inspection, however, We discover
ed that all the fuss and feathers that decorat-
ed its first page were put on in honor Of the
"Dutch having taken Holland" or in other
words because the republicans had kept Ohio
from going democratic at the late election.
Vive la humbug.
1t is currently reported that Wilbur F.
Sanders, a gentleman who is supposed to be
running against Major Maginnis for delegate
TO congress, is seriously threatened with ap-
oplexy. 1t is stated that on several occa-
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an unnatural inclination to embrace mother
earth. These abnormal conditions to which
the Col. is subjected have excited the gravest
apprehensions of his friends, who are, it is
said, considering the propriety of either with
drawing him from the canvass or shutting off
his supply of Bourbon, to correct his tenden
cy to this dread disease.
We commend the address of the national
democratic executive committee, which ap-
pears in our published dispatches this morn
democrat. They advise that tall local dis
s~ensions should be eliminated from the issues
of the day." This advice is as applicable to
democrats in Montana as elsewhere.
When it is known that the sinking of per-
sonal prejudices and dislikes and the elimina-
ton Of sail local dissensions" in the party is
a necessary precedent to success, we believe
that the advice will not be lost upon those
to whom it is addressed. We are not aware,
however, of any ''local dlssensions' existing
in the democratic party of Montana so pro-
nounced in character as to jeopardize the
success of the territorial or county ticket.
The party has gone in to win in every county
in the territory, and it is going to 'get there"
The Herald's mathematician has turned
himself loose and regales the readers of that
sheet with an estimate OF Sanders probable
majority over Maglnnis. BY a process of 1ea-
soning known only to the inmates of the
Warm Springs Insane Asylum he figures out
a majority for Sanders of 545. The Ind
pendent, on the other hand, claims on the ba-
sis of its advices that Maginnis will get away
with LIPS majority over the "Wah Hoss."
As these papers, after trial, cannot agree in
voting either candidate in office, the people
propose to take the matter in hand and on the
I'd day of November next give Major Magin-
mis- a couple of thousand majority and send
him back to Washington.
This is the way the Courier-Journql talks
about Col. Fair, who is going to beat Sharon,
the present United States senator from Ne
vada. Sharon, who is distinguished only On
account of his persistent absence from Wash
ington, wants to succeed himself-and stay at
home while he draws his pay for services he
does not render:
"Col. James G. Fair, who has signitied bis
intention Of running for the Nevada senator
ship against old Sharon, as a democrat, has
enough money to meet Sharon on his own
ground, and will get a handsoms vote. The
Colonel is no trickster i'll politics, but a thor
ough business man. Here is the way in which
he talks.
81 haven't been anything in a political way.
l haven't had anything to do with politics to
speak OF. At any rate l have never been a
party man,and all have had to.do with politics
was in trying to get the best men elected in
Virginia and in the state. Sometimes they