Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1887-1890, 1888-08-18

1t would be a long story to trace up the
faction feuds in the republican ranks
which are connected with this fight.
rlAley lie deep in the mysteries of human
nature an the writer will ,c.'.-zr "a gre.
surrect" them. 1t is recalled dvSSywever,
that when the young county IF Cascade
came into existence she began to occupy
the tender care of the politicians in her
corporate capacity. As she did not exist
at the last campaign she was not deemed
"regular." She was a star of the first
magnitude that famed for the first time
in the political armament. In other words
she was political ward, who was regard
ed as good subject for the tender care
of the territorial committees. Col. Nc
Cutcheon as chairman of the republican
committee took the said ward under his
wing. He appointed Judge Rolfe and
two others as the county committee. This
county committee was provisional body
Its duties at the time were honorary.
All seemed lovely. The lions and the
lambs of the republican fold appeared
to be in as perfect accord as when the
kings of the forest walked before Adam
and awakened that admiration for cir
cuses which his unhappy descendants
still inherit. This committee in due time
called a county convention to elect dele
gates to Livingston and to choose coun-
ty committee, All at once the shoulder
ing fires became ablaze. Dan Mckay,
who had been hitherto in the back
ground, went to the convention and ran
things his own way. He elected county
committee to his own mind, and made
friend chairman thereof. He chose his
own delegates to the Livingston conven-
tion and announced that they were all for
Burleigh.
Col. McCutcheon and others were as
founded. The Helena press limited that
the ward had gone wrong. The demo-
cratic press generally spoke of the Cas-
cade revolt and taunted the colonel with
lack of good management. The colonel
retorted by accusing the wicked demo-
Gratis of causing all the trouble. He said
that there was perfect harmony and that
the factions were only fighting like devils
for conciliation, or words to that effect
Here the first chapter ends.
CHAPTER II-AND LAST.
The second chapter opens, as the nov
elist would say, with the warning factions
preparing to knife each other. Colonel
McCutcheon and Judge Race, the Mon
tague and Capulet of this political drama,
held consultations, but could not agree.
The Mckay party were intent on voting
for Burleigh and this gave umbrage to
the opponents of that candidate. Con-
ferences have been held to adjust local
differences and there was talk of giving
the nomination for probate Judge to
Judge Rolfe and for county attorney to
Lawyer Benton. But the demon of dis
cord has raised his hydra head, and, MS
the sports say, all plans are off for the
present.
Rightly or wrongly, Col. McCutcheon
is credited with the greater pa1t of the
blame for "excepting" Cascade. Ye
faithful reporter finds the common opin-
ion to be that he desires to rebuke Gas
cade for her stubborness, and, at the same
time, to control four votes at the conven-
ton. 1t is surmised that some one, who
is to be conveniently at hand, would be
asked to cast the four votes for that err
ing ward, Cascade. This would secure
four votes for the territorial central COM
mittee's choice and exclude four opposi-
ton votes, for the Cascade republicans
might be so unreasonable as to have
will Of their own.