The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1885-07-15


The Poughkepsie. (New York; News.
Press, published at Governor Carpenters
former home, grows .facetious over that
gentleman's removal, as follows:
Zone by ont the roses FALL" Sometimes
they fall because they are oyerripe, some
times they are plucked violently with Tell
purpose to ravish their aroma. Some
times they waste their sweetness on thedes
ert air and go unplucked. Oftines they
smell as sweet with another name. but
whatever their name or odor they fall-lt
is their fate, and no disposition Of human
wisdom or mundanerule can avert their des-
tiny. So it's with politicians and holders
of offices. The harvest time OF many o.
this important and importunate class has
passed, and they have fallen before the
sickle of reform. Many have believed them
selves to be too deep-rooted to be plucked
up and too stoutly stemmed to be cut
| down. Pride goeth before a fall. Solidity
| with the boys is sometimes only the decep-
| tive stiffness OF sand and the ~wantOnness
! of v~agrant wind.
1t may be that Benjamin PlattC Carpenter,
| sometime Governor OF the Territory OF
! Montana, has entertained during his lncum-
bency the hope, certainly the Thought, that
| he was not too much an advocate ofJames
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| subjected to the hostile influences Of reform
as manifested and enforced by the Admin
istration headed by a man who had once
whelmed the said Governor of Montana by
a majority of over 100000 votes in his
native State. If the said Governor OF Mon
tana has harbored such hopes, he knows
on this 1O9th independence Day OF America
that they are as ashes; that the roses
mentioned above have been plucked before
their aroma has reached it's full strength
and their Towering stunted ere they
had acquired the power OF titilating the
eager nose that wal of such stalwart pro-
portions at the Chicago convention in 1884.
In other words, Governor Carpenter was
yesterday informed by President Cleveland
that his office was more desirable than his
presence there, and that a gentleman who
had lived several years in the Territory,
and was identified with the history and in
terests of the inhabitants thereof, had been
selected to discharge the Gubernatorlal
duties pertaining thereto; and that his
name is Samuel T. Hauser, resident in
Helena, where he has acquired great wealth
and maintained a character OF the highest
stondard.
It is reported from Washington that
this appointment is a smashing blow to
the prospects of the Governor, and that
sshis friends have been Boosting that Car
penter's old friendship with the New York
Democrats would keep him in the place."
which is All extraordinary report to come
from Washington. Yet it is not half SO i'm
teresting as the possible and probable
thoughts that may bubble in the minds
of John II. Ketcham and William l. Thorn
when they learn of the disappointment OF
their old friend, B. Platt. There may be
funnier things in existence, but it is doubtful.
1t is understood that the Governor had
hoped to remain in his office for at least
a year, as it was his belief that he'might in
that time contract such acquaintance that
he could open a successful career in the Ter
ritory. and perhaps take a shy at the
United States Senate when Montana should
be admitted to a pew within the United
States. He was appointed Governor just
six months ago. Just twelve months ago
he was w~hooping up the boys OF the waver-
ing stalwart legion in Chicago, where he
and that other reforming statesman,
Roosevelt, went down under the stained
plume of the Tattooed Man, to come up
again in a little while as a contributor OF
two whole dollars toward the purchase OF
a Blaine banner. And now he has lost
his reward. Republics are indeed migrate
ful.