Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1889-08-28
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AA0 AuciAuohs VI stlic CuVer low u9{B-
CATION returned from Anaconda, yest6f-
day, with gloom on their countenances,
notwithstanding they had a brass band
along to cheer them up. Some Of the
delegates admitted 10 their friends that
the ticket they had made was a very
weak one, and this seems to be the grow
ing popular opinion.
Thomas II. Carter, who was renomi.
mated for Congress, is purely an acct
dent, growing out of circumstances that
might not occur again in a century,
Some of his friends have claimed for him
that he has been actively engaged in the
service of the territory, since his cleo.
ton last fall. Exactly in what this
service consists it is difficult to conjec.
ture. He has not attended a session Of
Congress. True, he has made n trip
to Washington to influence Window on
the lead question, but Window does not
seem to have been very seriously affected
by the weight Of wisdom that swooped
down upon him from the Northwest, for,
much to the disgust Of the people of the
territory, he does not seem likely to re-
verse the rulings Of his Republican pre-
decessors on the lead question. Yet this
visit of Mr.. Carter's seems to cover the
whole of his service to the territory. 1t
should not be forgotten, however, that he
is drawing his salary right along as a
Delegate in Congress. But of course
the party had to re-nominate him-and
that is all the strength he adds to the
ticket.
Thomas G.. Power Of Helena was, 1t is
very evident, nominated because OF his
money. He is a shrewd business man,
and has accumulated considerable
wealth, and it was doubtless with an eye
single to the business and financial as
poets of the campaign that he was nomi-
mated. He has never held any public
position except that of a member of the
constitutional convention of 1884. In
that body he never arose from his seat to
address the convention, and perhaps
would never have been heard from at all
had not Pemberton overturned a load of
hay upon him. This aroused him tO7a
recollection Of the fact, when the ques-
ton of restricting passes to state officers
came up, that he owned a line of steam
boats somewhere on the upper Missouri.
1t then dawned upon him that possibly
the law and his interests might in some
way conflict, and then and there he
turned lobbyist in the convention with a
vigor worthy Of a better cause. But he
has eve been entirely extricated from
that load Of hay, and the present cam
paign is not likely to do it.
However, The MINER does not, at this
time, propose going into the record of
MIR. Power. He is an enteTprising citi-
zen and a good neighbor. But al an Of
fice-seeker he has nothing to commend
him, and any good Democrat can beat
him, as the result Will prove.
James E. Richards of Butte, the nomi-
nee for Lieutenant Governor, is the one
redeeming feature of the ticket. Still,
he cannot Of himself carry such a load to
success. An honorable man, a good citi-
zen, he deserved a better fate than hav-
ing been found in such questionable
company.
As to the other nominees on the ticket,
TIE MINER has nothing unkind to say.
They are average fair men.
The combined talent and strength Of
the Democratic party, assembled at Ana
conda next Monday, will select a ticket
that can sweep this Republican weakling
out of existence. By making a strong
ticket, one composed Of the best men, the
will rally around them the
and sinew of the coming state, and
place Montana where she rightly be-
ongs-in the solid line of Democratic
'tates.