The Bozeman weekly chronicle., 1888-05-23
COLONEL AND COMMODORE.
Eaton and Power Easily Secure the Coveted
Prizes.
Waters Withdraws, but Another Colonel
Is Found.

only eleven out OF ninety falling to materl-
alze. Three of these were from Madi-
son county--the home of COLONEL
Galloway, who had agreed that the dele
CATION should be Waters men; but
failed to deliver the goods. Knowing
ones say that Col. Calloway's friendship
for Col. Waters began at the last meet
ing of the encampment OF the G. A. r.,
and was irmly cemented before that
meeti.., ijourned The failure of Mad
ison countys delegation to show up was
the final act of the somewhat entertain
ing engagement in which Col. Waters
has been the star actor for several months
past. lie seemed to confidently believe
that he had IS of the delegates solid;
those less sanguine and in a position to
receive more accurate information,
placed the sum total of his votes at 10,
and it was by no means sure that even
they would remain loyal. Such is the
brief history of Col. Eli Waters's boom,
which he chased all over the territory,
only to find at Livingston to-day that it
was will o the wisp, and sorrowfully
changed his destination from Chicago to
Castle.
With CoI. Eaton it was different. A
radiant smile ever and anon fitted
across his broad countenance, and, reach.
ing to the full length of his magnificent
form and new store.clothes, Cast its full
reflection upon his polished shoes below.
1t was his day to smile. Four years ago
he had been rudely sat down on by San
ders-but why go into unpleasant
history! Eaton had smile acoming,
and everybody smiled with him. The
man who punched the bass drum and
clapped the cymbals smiled as he punch
ed and clapped, and the wind, as it came
geeiully down the Yellowstone canyon,
seemed to sing the sweet lullaby of
Waters, wait little longer;
Wait until your hands are stronger
And the lowering clouds, chilling the
air. with their mists, seemed even to
withheld their outpouring until the
gladstone day was done. No wonder,
then, that the COLONEL (Eaton) did not
seem surprised when the first ballot
showed that he had received all but one
vote in the convention.
Other men were also happy. These
were the Power men. Power had come
into the fight at late day, but he had
come to stay and no matter if boats
were slow and waters low" he proposed
to "get there" which he did with only Il
few ballots to spare. And, fortunately
for him, the boom of his antagonist
another COLONEL, by the name of Estes
was placed in the hands of man who
talked like an auctioneer, and, dragging
in the bloody shirt, proceeded to whip il
into shreds. He did downright damage
to the cause of his candidate from the
start. The nomination of the evel
cheerful Tommy mot CoLoNEL) was
more than gratifying to several old-time
friends, present, and the "oldest inhabi
tant," who has known Power since he
was beardless boy, not only lost con
troll of the facial smile, but had no con
troll of the ''smiles," which gurgled
inwardly in rapid succession.
Under such cir cumstances then, o
course there was plenty ofspeech- making
There was COLONEL. Dennis McCutcheon'.
opening address which will appear in
several Republican papers tomorrow
without ''cheers" marked throughout
Dennis came down heavy on the pres
ent administration which had compelled
him to .jar loose" from office and spoke
in the fondest praise for the G.. O. p.
which had placed him in office. The
COLONEL most eloquently tipped the
hand of his party during his speech, out.
lining in glowing words the plan of the
campaign. Loudly and earnestly he call
ed for the speedy formation of Repub
lican clubs, that delegation might be
sent to Chicago to attend the meeting OF
the National League. Perhaps the
doughty COLONEL would like to go?
Then there were Craven and Carter
the Fourth-of-July orators, loaded to the
muzzle with speeches. 1t was Carter
who was to make the speech nominating
COLONEL Eaton, in which he was to say
that the COLONEL had known Blaine
since he was sixteen years old and was
under deep and lasting obligations to him
but under no circumstances was he
to pledge Eaton to support Blaine, first
last, etc. Unfortunately for Carter, a
young man with whiskers in his throat
or else had lost his voice in endeavoring
to secure brand Of nerve food that
would stay with him on al! occasions,
was too quick for HIM and Carter had TO
be satisfied in seconding the nomination,
but did not lose the opportunity to say
his speech.
GENERAL Warren was present also.
He with the loud voice. Who assured
the convention that all the inhabitants
of Silver Bow county were going to vote
the Republican ticket this fall. In short
he promised that he would deliver over
to the party 500 majority. This robust
bluff of course was received with cheers.
Then there was Irvine, also of Butte,
who played Pythias to Warren's Damon
and had the latter appointed chairman
of the National committee and also Sc
cured the appointment of DeWitte as
Eaton's alternate. 1t was Irvine who
had Mr.. Borquin prominent Knight of
Labor appointed secretary of the meet
ting and used the sorowful expression
when he introduced the unite rule that
he did not propose to be "cold decked," !"
casting his eyes in tho region of the
Helena delegation.
This has been a great day for John
Potter. 1t is the day for which he long
has looked and mourned because he
found it not. John was arrayed IN his
best together with beatific smile that
was more than heavenly. Think of it
gentle reader of this county, in the light
of the proceedings at the Republican con.
vention less than two years ago, John
Potter presiding at convention by
which CoLoNEL Eaton is elected to an of