Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1889-01-02
TWO PATSY BOLLIVARS.
Mantle and Hamilton Conn
PEELED to Shoulder Endless
Blame and Abuse.
Some of Their Party Bedfea.
lows Decidedly on Their
AuricuIar Appendages.
From Tuesdays Daily.

From Tuesdays Daily.
Everything in the local camp Of the Re.
publican party is notin ~thatexalted degree
oil loneliness which by common belief is
supposed to be attendant upon the eleva-
ton OF q member Of the family Anatidae.
No sir, everything is not lovely; farfrom it,
and like Truthful James a very large num-
Der oil the gentlemen are 'far, farirom gay"
The cause Of their dependency is the news
which came waiting across the sombre,
pineclad, s~now-covered mountains from
far away Helena yesterday afternoon.
"D-n Mantle anyway and d-n Hamilton
too" would be heard on oneside, while ad.
mirers and adhsrents OF those two greatly
malinged gentlemen would give q whoop
and vociierously inquire as to the exact
nature Of their ~indisposition and being as
sured that they were "all right" would re-
lapse into happy silence and gleefully grin
at their enemies. Small knots OF faithful
ones were holding down convenient corners
or more hospitable bars and in undertones
discussed the situation and incidentally
also the cnntents OF bottles of amber col
ored liquid. Poor Mantle poor Hamiltoni
How their names were connected with re-
marks Eanything but complimentary
and how their owner execrated and in
Vulnerable times consigned to the pit
where no fire clay has yet been found to
Withstand the heat. Then again how they
were glorifed and homage paid to their
memories and curses heaped upon their
enemies. Their foes accused them of every
crime and offense known to moral law,
rom being cappers for Japanese Tommy"
and other bunco men down to working the
free lunch routes and introducing Russian
influenza. They were even accused OF having
murdered McGinty and assisted Gallagher
to escape from the South Butte lodging
house. To get even, their friends would
hold them up as paragons OF virtue and
morality and benefactors of the human
ace, nothing was too good for them aud
nothing was too great for them to &C.
complish. More drinks and more ~consola.
ton would follow every outburst of com.
mendation or condemnation just accord.
ing to the crowd. 1t was indeed q great
day for the Democrats and if they failed to
benefit by it the Republicans certainly were
not to blame, for they were only too will
ing and too anxious to unbosom themselves
and expose party secrets to all who
would listen to them. Charges
and ordinations were maue as freely and
flowed as deeply as Sam Clover says cham.
payne flows in Butte. The mt i.Mantles
versa, and the result was that the public
was greatly benefited, inasmuch as it vas
made acquainted with many q dark,
bideous transaction aud scheme, and
many things heretofore enshrouded in
mystery were made as plain as open day.
The crisis III reached when the an.
nouncement was made that Charley War
rem had openly declared the Republic
cans had no right to elect senators and
that Precinct 81 should have been counted.
This was q signal of q general uprising oil
they blamed Lee for having
prompted Charley to make the remark,
and swore vigorously and fercsly that it
was a Mantle dodge to encompass the de-
feat OF several great and noble men who
are anxious, like Arnold Winklereid, to re.
ceive the spears OF their enemies so that
their country might . live. The Pros, OF
course, denied the vile Islander and hurled
the lie into the store teeth of the malign.
ing Villains that they dared utter it.
When the second report came,
"ANVu duuOuuCou 1udU AlOyu AuQ damllUOn
Attempted to make q gun play, the
fun did commence and the excitemeat was
simply indescribable and wild-eyed, and
for a while it looked as though the play
was to be repeated on this side with an en-.
tirely new company and scenery. Unior-
~tunately for the people the performance
did not take place, and attempts to get
v will not be made until the next Repub.
liean convention meets. Then look out for
q settling OF old scores; both sides will be on
hand in full force and some very fine work
will DO done. Moccasins are being repaired
and scalping knives sharpened, soon the
warpath will be resounding with the tramp
the Antis and the Pros and the dying
shrek OF many q victim will be heard echo.
Jog and re-echoing from mountain to
mountain, while the highways will be
strewn with shastly, mangled and putri-
Tying political corpses.
"D-n Mantle!" Oh Hamilton!"
''Rurrah for Mantlel" "Hurrah for Ham.