The Great Falls leader. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1888-1900, 1889-08-10
on Montana Politics.
Democratic Jealousy, Doodle and
Party Leaders.
The MilliOnaires Of Montana are III
Democrats.
Republicans not Troubled With Am.
bilious aud Warning Leaders.


Df Montana stand, lies in the great wealth Of their
adversarles. Ex-Goyernor Hauser, Colonel Broad
water, Marcus 1Daly, w. A. Clark, Dr. Mitchel
SAM Word-all prominent candidates for the
United States Senate-are all men Ofgreat wealth
The millionaire bankers and miners Of Montana
are democrats, and their method, whether In btsi
ness or politics, is the simple method Of how
They are all large employers
Of labor, and they have never allowed any delicate
sensibility to stand IN the way Of their knowing
how their men vote. Mindful Of this democratic
proclivity the last Territorial Legislature adopted
a registration law and the Australian system of
voting, and it is under this system that the cleo
tiOn in October will be conducted. There is vein
of intellectually and Independence among the
miners Of Montana which will be potent factor
in the contest, especially when 1t is thus protested
against the warp!ng influence OF rich and selfish
employers.
The democratic leaders are not, it must be said,
on very good terms with each other. They are all
rivals in business and III politics. Several Of them
do not speak as they pass by. They are divided
by geography as we'll as sentiment. They all live
either IN Helena or Butte. Helena is OH the east
Side Of the main Rocky range, Butte OH the west.
1t has been the policy Of the Helena milionaires
to minimize and humiliate Butte to circulate the
impression that 1t is Il suburb Of Helena and Il
mer, mining camp whereas 1t ls no more suburb
of Helena than Philadelphia Is Il suburb Of New
York. This business Jealousy between the rich
men Of the two cities has jauldiced all other rela
tions, and they fuss and fight like parcel Of toni
cats. III either town the situation is no better.
The two greatest great men In Helena are Cover
nor Hauser and Colonel BrOadwater, The two
greatest great men in Butte are DAILY and Clark
The only time Ha,lser and BrouGwater join hands
is when they arc raiding DAILY and Clark The
only time DAILY and Clark exchange soft glances
is when they are humping Hauser and Broad
water. The situation, Is, therefore, highly inter
| esting. Mr.. Hauser and Mr. Broadwater have
each his lesser light. Ex-Delegate Maginnis, who
! has served in several congresses, is fathercd by
Broadwater MI. Maginn1s calculates upon being
| the democratic candidate for governor and hopes
thence to be lifted into the senate. Tho trouble
with that is, he will come in conflict with the Col
ole himself as well as with every other promi-
nent man In his party. Ex-Deegate Toole is Mr..
Hauser's younger party in politics, and he, too.
esteems himself the most available candidate for
Jne gOvernorsnlp anil, of course, for later and
higher honors. At the recent election for menu
bers of the constitutional convention, Mr.. Toole
and Mr.. Maginnis ran on the same ticket The
feeling between them was not improved by that
experience. 1t Is openly and hoty charged by the
friends Of Maginnis that he was cut by the Haus-
er-TOole following, SO 1t might appear that TO0le
was the more popular man and ergo, the safer
candidate for governor. The returns show that
Maginnis ran far behind Toole in district where
he would naturally have led the ticket. Mr.. Haus-
er, though appointed governor for brief term by
Cleveland distinguished himselfb by rising In open
: rebellion against the administration, as to its
free-trade policy, and even more particularly as to
Sparks This renders him all the more popular,
however. and gives him /; handle by which Mr..
Broadwater will have difficulty TO break his terri
BILE grip.
Another great democrat on the east side Of the
range is the Hon. Sam. Word whose fame IS chief
ly identified with q place called Camas Prairie.
, When Chief Joseph, undoubtedly the greatest
Indian warrior-general that ever lived, whose fa
nous fighting retreat Of over l5O0 miles of wilder
ness rivals the march OF Cseser through Gaul had
: reached the mountains OF Montana, Il volunteer
? troop was formed In Virginia City to cooperate
: with General Howard aglnst the Indians, Mr.
Word was q prominent member Of this troop
One night the Indians made break and canlt
with wild resounding w:.r-whoops pell-lnell upci
: the volunteers 1t Is said there was great scat
f tering of amateur soldiery. In the campaign o.
n 1883 Mr.. Word madea number GI feroci0us speech
es, In one of which he brought charges agains
. Mr.. Carter, the republican candidate.
When anybody says rude things about Montan;
K republicans it is always left to Colonel Sander
e to reply And in this instance the Colonel replied
SO heartily that Mr.. Word was moved 10 challeng
:. him to mortal combat The Colonel accepted th
y challenge publicly and announced the place o
J. meeting and the weapons. "We Will fight" h
h said, ION Camas Prairie, and my weapon shal
d be an Indian war-whoop." 1t is feared By MI
z Words friends that Camas Prairie and the wal
q whoop stand grimly between him and the senate
y On the west side Of the range Mr. Clark Is u
l. dOubtedyu powerful leader Of the de.noclati
host and the most likely candidate for the senate
e His friends were sadly mortified Ut his defe;
for congress in 1855, and they will work the NOR
is ze.lo,!sy on that account to secure for him VIII;
he Is said often to have declared to be the sun
init of his ambition. His rivals include ID
Mitchell, wasi,burn, Stapleton, whose creates
Il drawback Is his eminent respectability, and Nj
w. w. Dixon, frequently styled 'the frigid ba
rister Of Butte" Dr.. Mitchell Is Il strong MI.
In hts party. lie Is the sort Of man who cOu
20 into IL saloon in the earliest and rudest da!
without fear of insult. A considerable part
his wealth has been derived as the keeper of
territorial lunatc asylum, in which enterprise
~ has been continuously subsidized by public CO.
tracts. These west side tempters OF political to
tune all stand us trembling SupplicantS for syl
~ pathy, support and favor in the presence OF Ella
Gus Da':. Mr.. Daily Is the manager and one Of Il
four propYietcrS Of the Anaconda milling int
prise. The Anaconda company owns the create
and most profitable mining plant in the worl
ls and Mr. Daily IA his,-brained Irislman, who beg;
life In the west as Il 50 miner, is the life Of 1t Il
lie made the mine whit it is, he established
smelling plant that is the wonder and admin
9 ti0n of mining experts, he founded city, and
~ today the head and frcnt of business that c
~ =" plOys 5000 men. DAILY has been charged WI
49, unaterable fealty and treachercus conduct
~ -, prominent democrats on both sides of the ran.
~ according as his Indifference and aggressive $,
W. ". port happened from one election to another
~ affect their Individual fortunes. In the prest
~ situation he keeps his own counsel, and btyo
IL announcing that he is not himself Il candidate
the senate or anything else, which Is believed
not just as people prefer, he maintains an a
tude Of inscrutable reserve.
Is, The republicans are not troubled with amb!tit
Is, and warning leaders. They aro united and
)n, dead aggressive earnest. The talk about Russ
lat Harrison having compromised tho situation
he ihterferences OF ole kind or another is ridicu
10 !ie As lie 1t has utterly failed OF its lurEo
'er 1t was so persistenty repeated and with s,
ha particularly, that not knowing Mr. Harrison
. ut first supposed there must be something; in