Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1887-1890, 1888-11-17
GREAT FALLS TRIBUNE.
SATURDAY. NOyEM Der IS, 1888.
SEMl-W EEKLY
PROOF OF THE PERFIDY,

Referring to the Tribune's plain and
unvarnished statement of facts in regard
to the defeat Of w. A. Clark for delegate
to congress, the Helena Record is moved
to say: .. ...
This is the utmost folly. Mr.. S. T.
Hauser was in New York on election
day and had been there for considerable
time. Mr.. Marcus Daily was at his usual
place Of business on election day, attend
ing strictly to the important duties de-
volving upon him as manager of the
great Anaconda company's mines and
smelter. Why the Great Falls Tribune
should pitch upon these two gentlemen
in this unexpected and ferocious man
ner is difficult to explain on any other
ground than this-that it knows its
party was beaten fairly on the issues,
and rather than acknowledge the fact
that its own arguments have been sat
upon by the voters, it prefers to make
it appear that it was Treachery, with a
big 7, which caused the disaster. Does
the Tribune believe that the two gentle
men named had enough influence in Cas-
cade county to cause Mr. Clark to run
SO much behind his ticket as he did ?
And did their baleful influence extend to
Meagher county, to Beaverhead, to Mad
ison, and to other counties producing a
great quantity Of wool and lead? No.
Mr.. Clark's defeat is due to nothing else
than the fact that the opposition policy
and candidate were too popular to be
beaten. Montana democracy, speaking
through the Great Falls Tribune, cannot
thus evade fate.
We know very we'll that Mr.. S. T.
Hauser was in New York and that Mr..
DAILY was paying strict attention to the
duties devolving upon him, ETC., for
neither took the slightest interest in the
campaign and did not by word or deed
seek to aid their party or its gallant stand
ard bearer. This has not been their Gus
tom in the past and of itself is enough to
arouse suspicious Of party disloyalty, the
positive proof of which is shown by the
election returns. .M.-...
Every concern and corporation in Mon
tana, with which Sam Hauser is in any
way identified, from the Northern Pacific
railroad company to the Sun River ditch
outfit, in this county, put forth all posi-
BILE efforts to secure Carter's election.
This is true of the Montana Improvement
company, and readily explains Missoula
county's big majority for Carter; it true
of the Helena Smelling company; it is
true of the Toston smelter; it is true of
the Livingston coal and coke works, and
even in this county, where about 10 men
were employed on Hausers ditch, the
democrat in charge received imperative
instructions that the men must vote for
Carter, and SO they voted. Yes, sly Sam
my was in New York city, hobnobbing
with "rainbow chaser" Brice and
betting his thousands on Cleveland, but
he "fxed things" in good shape and left
it to his lieutenants to carry out the
treacherous work by which the truest,
staunchest, ablest democrat in Montana
was slaughtered in the house of his
friends.
AS to Mr.. Marcus Days part in this
perfidious business, his apathy during the
campaign and the vote at Anaconda and
Butte tell the tale. Comment would be
idle.
The Record shows amazing ignorance
when it says Clark ran behind his ticket
in Cascade county. He carried this city
by 90 majority and was defeated in the
county only by 26 votes, although it Is
well known that the republican majority
is much more than this. If it had not
been for the bulldozing of Sam Hausers
ditch workmen, Clark would have had
majority in the county.
Cascade, Choteau and Fergus counties
produce more wool than all the rest of
the territory. In these counties the dem
ocrats fully held their own. If the tariff
caused the unexpected result Carter's
greatest gains should have been in this
section, but he made practically no gains.
The same is true of Gallatin, Custer and |
Dawson counties, where the Hauser or
DAILY Or Bonner influence is not felt, No
1T was not the tariff that defeated Mr..
CLARK; it was Treacbery, with big T. i
The evidence of the fact is unmistakable |