The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-04-05
2ntte 2seeelp 2diner.
TUESDAY, APRIL 5, 1881.
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The utmost harmony and unanimity OF feel
ing prevail. The majority for the ticket will
reach 800 and upwards.
Its new charter makes Deadwood the long
est city in the word. By its provisions it
excludes the most populous part of the town
and makes the balance Of it 80 miles long.
Deadwood is entitled to the banner
The court martial in the Whitaker case
preferred a request to the secretary of war
for permission to sit a greater number OF
hours each day in order to get through with
the trial before the Worlds Fair opens in
New York.
Our evening contemporary is not satisfied with
the democratic ticket. We would think there
was something wrong about it if it received
praise at its hands: The best evidence we
have that it is the winning ticket lies in the
fact that our neighbor acorss the way attacks
it with a bitterness and venom born only of
desperation.
The Inter Mountain of last evening says
s.that Mr.. Lou P. Smith neglected his official
duties last winter to visit the capital to log
roll against the division bill" Mr.. Smiths
answer to the above is that it is a wilful and
malicious falsehood without a shadow of
foundation in fact. Next.
Mr.. s. Marchesseau is one of the heaviest
merchants, an educated and refined gentle
man which, added to his acknowledged prob
bity of character and business qualifications,
make him the most invincible candidate
upon the ticket. Mr.. Marchesseau will get
there by about 400 majority.
Silver Bow county is assured in having a
number one set of officers to start in with.
The enthusiasm with which the democratic
ticket is received by all the democrats and
the two or three hundred conscientious
republicans who are disguised with the man
ner in which the cut and dried republican
ticket was forced upon them, assures its cleo
ton by 800 to 500 majority.
Our candidates for County Commissioners
are men who are so we'll and favorably known
that the mere mention of their names is suf-
fcient to inspire confidence in the safe and
economical administrator of the affairs of
our young county. Mr.. Chris. Nissler is one
of the heaviest tax. payers in the county.
His honesty is not doubted and his qualifica-
tons are admitted. He will be elected and
Silver Bow county will have a COMMISSIONS
of which it may be proud.
The Blackstone who presides over the law
believe that Mr.. Smith, when elected Sheriff
of this county, as he surely will be, can hold
Office in both counties. We do not hold our
selves responsible for the obtuseness of the
Inter Mountain, nor shall we at this late hour
attempt to teach it wherein it is wrong. The
law that we published in yesterday mornings
MINER is so plain upon the point in question
that the "wayfaring man though a fool need
not err therein" 1t will be noticed, however,
by our people that Mr.. Smith and his family
are still here and that the time has passed
wherein he may gain a residence in Deer
Lodge county and retain the office of sheriff
therein.
The Inter MOuntdtns attack on Mr..
D.. j. WEIGH, the democratic candidate for
treasurer, has gained for that gentleman at
least 200 votes in the county. If the canvass
could continue two weeks longer, and the
Inter Mountain should be permitted to
champion the cause OF its party for the time,
the democratic ticket would be carried by at
least 1000 majority. Mr.. Welch has lived
too long on the west side to be injured by the
assaults of the Inter Mountain. Those who
know him best and who have known him the
longest, are his warmest personal friends.
His character as an honest man is above re.
proach, his qualifications for tie office to
which he will be elected, are unquestionable,
anu the mud-throwing of the Inte1 Mountain
cannot sully the one nor detract from the
other.
The Inter Mountain, forced to the wall by
the MINER, admits that that plank in the re,
publican platform to which the MINER tool
exceptions, referred to the early history Of
the counties in the territory, Or, in othel
words, TO the prehistoric ages. We accep
the apology of our candid contemporary. TIT
fattering financial condition of every coun
ty in the territory makes that particular planl
appear rather awkward-using a mild word
but as it has been stereotyped and patente'
by our republican friends, and used by then
for the last generation or two, 1t may be KEEP
standing in the columns of their papers with
out benefit to themselves or harm to the de
mocracy. 1t is not intended for home COL
sumption but merely designed to captur
credulous pilgrims. 1t won't work. Bette
take it out.
Recent dispatches state that Conkling
hobnobbing with democratic senators. TIL
audacious familiarity of the great saliva
with his political enemies is producing a
uneasiness in the ranks of the masculine
that is being rapidly developed into pr