Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1889-11-30
THE MINERAL N


at Washington is in partnership will
the Northern Pacific in an effort to grail
much of, the most valuable mineral lani
in the state. If the matter is as repre-
sented there will not be much left fol
the Northern Pacific when the admins
tratiQn "divy" and Carter and Sanders
shall have been paid. Everybody who
knows the inside workings of Montana
politics knows that Carter was elected
through the influence of the Northern
Pacific. The Missoula Mercantile com.
pany used every method that corporate
influence and unlimited money could
command to elect Tom Carter and the
returns show that it didn't work in vain.
And everybody who knows anything
knows that the Northern Pacific is the
parent of the Missoula Mercantile com
pany. 1t is true that before the election
Carter always took occasion to denounce
the Northern Pacific, but that was in &C
F%cOrdance with the understanding between
principal and agent and only contri-
buted to Carriers election upon which
neatly depended his usefulness to the
company.
Everybody who is at all familiar with
Montana history knows that Colonel
Wilbur F. Sanders was for years the
paid attorney for the Northern Pacific
and that he only resigned that position a
few weeks before the election in order
that he might be elected to the United
States senate as the representative of
that company. Colonel Sanders and his
very dark but the fact remains that the
phase exists and it can't be hidden from
gaze.
The Republican press and a few Re-
publican politicians have set up a great
howl about the danger referred to that
threatens our mineral lands. Tt is GER
well known all over this state
mat some of the Republican politicians
Who are most prominently identified {
With the mineral land grab scare are
hen who owe whatever local prominence Z
hey possess to their supreme gall and :
olltical trickery and who would gladly
.change places with the Northern Pa b
lhc should they believe that =
1e steal could be consum-
led, or assist that company in
70 undertaking if by doing so they a
'uld advance their own financial OF "
'litical fortunes. That is their charac- -
and because of which and because of o.
Q mystic ties which are known to ex- ca
between Sanders and the Northern .
ciic and Carter and that company,
MINER believes that while honest
d sincere men have become identified in at
} so-called movement Of protection, it We
J been in answer to the deceptive ."vO
RIM OF the political tricksters referred mn,
and that whatever danger the situa- The
presents that danger is really in the
ased by the prominent part which the Una
l known tricksters are assuming to aa
7 in the protection movement. The linn
'ence of these men at any time in can
a movement is suspicious and one sha'
should not escape the notice of and
est men who have interests at stake: w..
especially is it suspicious at this will
when the ambitious political INN
'sters feel the need of political free tifu.
Men with such reputa- ana
as they have always pos ~,
w no' nesitate 10 the ]
'ours VI JuStlce and a great state lock.
Montana in broad day light will not bride
,ely to become conscionco s+-ioho, trick
Tb;rI
ything which the Republican ad- . nn
I" washington may do If it j
tally if they are permitted to share acond
spoils which may be political or butte
wise. That the Republican newspa-
18th a few EXCEPTIONS are the organs rotn ~ y
tricksters and whose interests are there
mon is too well known to need any which
nal evidence. We repeat that if There
8 any danger in the situation it is n o
,,v inoro.sod H. public
"o pio'on'e oi legisla
,ksters and political wire-pullers, in look
there was no danger in the first
here is danger now because of The
,esence. tie ING
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