The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-12-13
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The services of a fortune-teller are
not required to forecast n plans of
the republicans At Helena. They are
bent on reaching the end which the
conspiracy has had in view from the
first, and hat is h possession of two
senatorial seats i'm Washington. They
have summoned the democratic sena-
tors to join them anticipating "a refusal.
They doubtless will continue the farce
by . session Of their wi eight senators
and a house which the people never
elected and, in the end, they will pre-
sumo to elect two United States n
tors, trusting that n republican senate
in Washington will see the thing
through.
This il n very simple plan and one
which the democrats might have
adopted days ago, with much more
show of propriety. since they tie the
senate and have a house with a men,
bership honestly elected by the people.
We imagine, however. that this ques-
tionable course will never be adopted
by the democrats, but that the plan
with all its details will be left exclu-
sively to republicans who have nothing
except federal senatorships i'm view and
in whose scheme no account is taken
either of popular majOrities or of the
wish and purpose of the people.
IL is one of the open secrets of the
deadlock that the plan thus briefly out
lined would a " been carried out days
ago but for the act that Colonel
Sanders, who saw n tunnel precinct
fraud born and who has since devoted
ly nursed it's growth, cannot discover
how he is to come out of the scrape
and be named a winner. If the best
evidence i'm the world is good for any
thing, the Colonel is whipped, no matter
how hed deal is put up. lie has been
the outward and visible sign of the
conspiracy since first il was Matched. he
has risked everything even to his repu-
tation, and il any reward awaits II re-
publican he ought to have il. But he
in hopelessly gone. and every manipula-
tor Of republican politics i'm Montana,
except Colonel Sanders, knows it.
Clever as he is, carrying more brains
and more political instinct under his
hat than the rest of the republican
outfit all told, h Colonel il doomed to
repeat his old experience. lie can for
get more every day than the men ever
knew who are after him in the ranks of
the republicans; still. il il all up with
him and his sure defeat no matter what
the fate of his party in the pending
contest, is the one certainty in the situ-
alton. We're sorry for il since the
Colonel ought, under normal conditions.
to be his party's first n decisive
choice. But his aspirations have settled
to the bottom of the tureen beyond u
doubt.
This is the STANDARDS well anthem
ticated opinion in spite of the fact that
the senatorial factions have declared u
truce until Monday. The inference is.
Of course, that this truce means
a compromise. ~ the story
rum that the compromise it.
self is to land the west side demo-
cratic candidate and Colonel Sanders
in the federal senate. That would be
the reasonable outcome of IA comprom-
Use, but the men surrounding the Col
onel are not disposed tn adjust them
selves To reasonable conditions. For
that matter. all serious talk of com
promise, involving u party division of
senatorial honors. must be set aside.
That is "a deal to which democrats can
not be a party.