Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1885-1890, 1886-10-23
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UNDER the head Of "serap Of history
the Helena independent tells how
subsidy Speaker Sanders went back
on A G. Botkin and defeated him in
1882 when the latter was running for
congress. Sanders was then and al
ways has been, determined that no re-
publican should represent Montana
in congress azcegt his war-horsa self.
"Marshal A. q. Botkin was the repub-
lican candidate Tor congress that year
with Major Aaginnis hisopponent. Mar
shall Botkin made q lively and energetic
campaign, and really deserved the sup
port Of his party. Col. Sanders was chair
man Of the campaign. He had rather
forced himself upon Bothin and the latter,
knowing his general and particular objec-
ton to federal officials, was distrustful Of
him. But as the campaign proceeded
Sanders appeared to be behaving ali right,
| and Botkin was lulleT into fancied secur-
ity, and was not SO ready to mentally ex-
claim: Deliver he from my friends
At Billings, somewhere early in Octo-
Der, l,othia and Sanders addressed the
same meeting. Vice-President Cakes hap
pened to be there at the same time and
Sanders was discovered to be in close CON
sultation with lir. Cakes. as if the
shadow Of present defeat had settled upon
his pathway, Botkin felt a chill Of appre-
llension pass over him at sight of this
rubbing of noses between his CAMPAIGN
manager and the representative Of an ele-
ment which he confidently regarded as
being opposed to him.
a few days later Sanders left Botkin
and came back to Helena, while the lat
ter continued his campaign up and down
the Yellowstone, over into the Gallatin
and to Radersburg. From the last named
point he started for Helena, feeling we'll
pleased with an idea that his canvass in
the lower country mad been a successful
one and anxious for the fray on the West
Side. The day was about October 18th.
He was travelling by private carriage
and when about half way between Raiders
burg and Helena he met the stage and it
halted. Driving alongside he was unut-
terably %astonished TO discover snugly en-
sconced therein, as if for a long journey,
Col. Sanders, his campaign manager.
"Botkin." said Col. Sanders, II have
got to leave the territory. l am seriously
affected by a threatening embarrassment
that seemingly makes it Immediately i'm
perative upon me to proceed to the east
ern states and there consult medical adj
vice and surgical assistance of greater
value than we possess in this territory,
and | am seriously advised that delay is
the greatest danger that l can possibly en-
counter, and II which I must use every
endeavor to avoid. Politically, and soci-
ally, and morally, I am filed with unut-
terable sorrow that the apparent path Of
duty lies along this stage road to the ter
minus of the Northern Pacific. There is
no code of ethics which I now call to
mind that makes it my duty to remain in
Montana. This is no primrose upon
which / have started and l shall ever
feel pangs of regret that l am not able to
remain and reply to the political hacks
that the democrats are sending out against
you. My popularity has not waned and
if any man thinks that it has let him re-
member me when l am far away and look
out for the way the votes are po1led in
November. Goodbye. Botkin; your call
ing and election are sure and / willingly
leave you to reap the reward of merit
Every word of this verbose and charac-
teristic explanation fell upon Botkin's
soul like a wet blanket, and the war cry,
"Wilder's landing is solid for Maginnis,'
which he intended raising for the benefit
of the stage driver, froze upon his lips.
The stage drove on and Botkin knew that
it carried eastward the last and only hope
of his election. He told his friends so
when he reached Helena: he told them
the same in Deer Lodge. And so it
proved. Sanders had gone back on the
man whose campaign he was managing,
and left him without the aid that had
been promised. And that's what Col.