The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-11-06

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We misjudge the temper Of the people
of Montana IL fraud i'm any of it's most
ingenious forms In allOwed tn rob these
representatives of their rights.
Under all circumstances. n certih-
Gates issued tn candidates from Silver
Bow by h state returning board must
be distinctly ignored for the reason that
the state board no authority to is-
sue them. and for the added reason that
no legal returns from silver Bow
county were ever before tina board.
Certificates of membership i'm the legis-
lature have been issued by the county
clerks throughout the territory. ar will
he. The precedent established in JEFF
ferson. i'm Lewis and clark and soon to
lie followed in Deer Lodge. set the right
example for Silver Bow.
Will Mr.. Hail refuse the mandate Of
the court? IL is said that he threatens
to do it. If he persists in that view.
we fancy that Mr.. Hall will discover
that there is a limit tn every mans
ability tn array himself against the peO-
Pile and the constituted tribunal which
the people have set up. We predict,
too. that in IL fight between the people
and Mr.. Hall. the people will win, and
that if he dares to set up his feeble self
against law. against order, against the
courts and against the public peace, he
will live To learn "a good deal i'm "a short
time. and will devoutly wish he hadn't.
ne KNOWS IT NOW.
II appears that the conspiracy to
steal Montana lost some of it's nerve
when il came to n count OH Deer
Lodge. The excuse is that there wasn't
enough i'm il. Mr.. Power was bent on
assailing the vote of this county M AS
the conspiracy could not carry him
through by the theft both of Deer
Lodge and Silver Bow, his little scheme
vas put aside and he WAS warmly
assured that he might regard himself
AZ u very promising candidate for the
United States Senate.
Mr.. Power is in the ring but he never
has been permitted to become I'D thor
Oughly u component part of the circle
as to tax good rare of himself The
chiefs of the conspiracy are far too
clever for Mr.. Power. lie has been
telling everybody he met that he was
SUI rely to be counted in as governor.
lie will discover pretty soon that the
gentlemen who are working the con
spiracy have no use for him.
Mr.. Power Jared pretty hard i'm poll
tics. All through the September cam
paign the managers used him to make
sacrifice hits" as they say i'm the base
ball world. Everybody was willing to-
trade him. The figures that give Carter
"a majority of I.fls, and leave Power in
the Inst of the defeated are "a sufficiently
clear indication of the treatment AZ
corded Mr.. Power by his party asso-
GATES. Like u lone fisherman, he wan
dered about the territory. spending
money which he would not trust Others
to spend for him and letting other can
didates leave him Il tired and sorry
loser. Since election day lies regarding
the Anaconda voters, which clever men
invented and to which Seligm:.n was
easily induced tn append his name,
just for n cheap nOtoriety
there was in il. have been
paraded under MIR. Powers nose.
Republicans meeting him in Helena
ter him on his chances. and then come
straightway To Anaconda or Butte tn
enjoy II hearty laugh over the mans as
founding credulity. At n time Mr..
Power persuaded himself that h time
was ripe for II newspaper quarrel and
he fired the first shot through the col
umns of the Helena .yonTnaI. in IL tight
which the independent ended i'm ten
vigorous lines.
The result of il all is that Mr.. Power
was the last man in Montana to learn
that he was whipped. It's II downright
pity that so excellent a citizen as MIR.
Power is admitted tn be- should be used
by II gang of gutter politicians just long
enough tn make his good name the
cover for their own ~rascality.