The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-09-18
HOW The BATTLE GOES
Their Last s~trugEle~ tO stem the Tide of
Defeat Prove Futilc-The DrOwW-
ing Party Catchimg at
ktrnWs.
Special to the standard.

BUTTE. Sept. 17.-Thc political situation
improves as the days roll around. Every
Democratic meeting. however local, seems
more strongly to cement the bonds of
y and harmony existing between
the different organizations that conpo
the democracy of Silver Bow county. and
more completely to bar the feeble efforts
of the republicans towards recovering the
ground that they have lost. The OPPOSE
ton is OH the run. scattered, perplexcd
and overcome with the forebodin9s of
their approaching defeat. The of
the republican party arr. skulking about
from place tn place, a~pologizinG for past
mistakes and making the same old prom
Uses of love for the workinRman and
economy of government, and losing
ground at every step. The influence of
the city election of last spring, when DEM
ocrats were elected upon merit and fitness
for office, over the ring candidates on the
republican ticket, is mt work among the
voters of thisc community, and tho whisper
IL going around now, as IL did then. that
the rule of the BOSSES and bossism must
Ro. Nantes candidacy for the United
States senate has become SO apparent
that even the most skeptical upon the
subject cannot hut admit the fact. The
packed republican convention, the
absolute Dictatorship, that Man:
nominating the candidates. for the state
legislature, point with u~nmistakable di-
richness at his desire to the
potltlle'Tu u TllAFO0tsl tOthlpStIy VI tlht
upper house at Washington. A laudable
ambition i'm so young u man, but doomed
TO disappointment more bitter than ever
Tantalsis experienced i'm his moments of
sorest hunger and thirst.
ANemesis, in h cguise of Couch and the
Other s6r eheads 81 the republican party.
bitious Gentleman's trail, and trade as the
BOSSES may, knife as they please, the re-
legislature from the county of Silver Bow
will fall on the first of October. A prom
inent republican of the anti-Mantle wing
was heard to remark O-lay
These growing feathers plucked from Nantes
Wha n .iss M nun ny so: am S SS%,na II. l sishi of men.
And Keep ms all in servile fearfulness."
A significant fact which points clearly
republicans of Butte IL k i'm the success of
their state ticket. is that upon the occasion
the only ~pall-bearer that accompanied the
funeral procession through Walkerville.
C~cntreville and Meadville. was that much
misrepresented political hereto A. +. Bray.
The grand moguls of his party left
Power to his own devices. and that he cut
his own throat wherever he appeared is
he was in. High as Mr.. Bray stands with
the business element of our community,
political death, as the result of ''big-
head" was announced months ago. We
doubt Mr.. Bray's sincerity i'm the cam.
postmastcrship, and being like the rest of
his present party--a republican for rcve-
nue. only-he is likely tn switch. ''Side-
tracked Bray should ''switch' to keep up
the simile.
The most general topic of conversation
upon the streets to-day is the insane break
of the Inter Mountain i'm it's issue OF yestcr-
day. That unfortunate leader on the
subject of the meditated attack upon Tom
Powers record as contractors,
has caused more. CONSERVATION among the
republicans, and more hilarity among the
democrats. than any bomb the democratic
press could possibly have thrown. Truly.
'whom the gods would destroy they first
make mad. If the Inter Mountain could
only have kept its mud gun quiet, there
are IL thousand voters i'm Silver Bow
Mr.. Powers record, who would hay taken
il for granted that he had no record. The
democrats had no intention of releasing
that cat. What insanity moved the re-
publican press to let il out of the bag only
the spirit of republican mis-rule can an
for il. The democrats are laughing i'm
their fleeves at the blundcr.
A novel case OF the pot calling the Kettle
black and having its own ex-
posed forthwith has come tn light to-day.
The republicans of Butte have been howl
his final papers as IL citizen OF the United
States, since his nomination by the demo
Gratis for the legislature. This mornings
kilograms i'm the Daily Miner reveal the
fact that Charles w. G~oodale, republican
candidate for senator from this county has
against the possibilities of n contest for
his fast vanishing seat i'm the senate of our
commonwealth.
Carter at MissOuia.
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