New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-11-08
THE TRUE TALE ABOUT MONTANA.

Montana's electoral middle has been so lar
clarified by the action of the State Board OF
Canvassers as to permit the states immediate
admission to the Union. Certificates OF cleo
ton have been issued to the Democratic can
didate for Governor, whose choice by the people
is denied. and to the Republican legislative can
didates in Silver Bow County, whom the Dom
ocrats declare to have been beaten. The State
government will come into operation upon the
Presidents proclamation, and the contests al
ready begun will be continued in an orderly
way. This is a commendable and wise issue
from an ugly situation.
In THE TRIBUNE of October "a remark
able letter was printed from the Hon. A.
J. Seligman. chairman of the Republican State
Committee in Montana. Mr.. Selgman laid
bare the amazingly dSreputable methods en-
ployed by the Democrats to secure control OF
this new State Since the election which took
place October /, Democratic newspapers in the
East have been freighted heavily with reports
from Montana alleging that the Republicans,
having failed to win through the balot-boxes,
were engaged in a conspiracy to steal the State.
So persstenty has this falSehood been repeat
ed, in such varied forms has it been worked
I'D. so widely has it been circulated, as to rem
der the conclusion inevitable that the Demo
cratic leaders in Montana are endeayOring to
manufacture false sentiment throughout the
country to aid them in the contests they are
arranging to enter upon. They were willing to
resort to the most Infamous articles in their
efforts to prevent the rule of the majority; they
were willing to trampe law, honesty and de-
fon ;, tloir off NJ 10 10 hn
returns lie their candidates into office, and it
is not unnatural, therefore that they should
be willing to blackcn the reputation Of their
new State and to delay its entrance into the
Union, if by such course they see the slight
est possibility of succeeding in their political
conspiracy.
1t is not to be questioned that Montana con-
tains to-day larger number of Republicans
than Democrats. Both parties in the late con-
test were united, harmonious and resolute.
The Democratic campaign manager was Marcus
DAILY, the partner Of James b. Haggin and
Senator Hearst in the great Anaconda copper
mine. DAILY himself employs at least one
tenth Of the voting population Of the entire
State. With him were associated four other
milionaires, S. 7. Hauser G. A. Broadwater,
w. A. Clark and ]. II. Conrad Mr.. Conrad
was candidate on the Democratic Safe ticket
for Lieutenant-G overnor Mr.. IIauser and
Mr.. Clark were open aspirants for seats in the
United States Senate Mr. Broadwater's per-
sona friend and attorney was the candidate for
Congress. so that the Democratic campaign
was really made upon deliberate parceing-
out Of the offices among these rich and power
f,,I In, tbo;. I'd,
ence it is not too much TO say that they are the
employers, through their mines, their smelters
and their railroads, of not less than 40 per
cent Of the legal voters.
Mr.. Seligman's charges against the Demo
cratic managers show that they stoned nj
nothing in furtherng their ambitions Not
only did they subject their men to every kind
of persuasion and coercion, discharging Repub-
lcan workingmen by the wholesale threaten
ing all hands WIN the closing down Of works
and mines If the Democratic ticket should be
defeated removing Republican employees from
the counties within which they were regis
tered and entitled to vote into other counties
where their votes were lost, and substituting
substituted men being hired to personate the
removed ones AT tnc poilS-nOt only did they
commit this class Of outrages but they actually
imported carloads Of ignorant and debased
dagoes' from Idaho and Utah, supplied them
with fictitious naturalization papers, and sent
them to the polling booths armed with dummy
tickets and pacards bearing the words az
cannot write, read or speak the English lam
puage and desire TO vote the straight demo.
cratic ticketw They actually brought Federal
Judges into their service, legacies from the
Cleveland Administration, who manufactured
deputy clerks Of their court in large numbers.
and sent them of with grip-sacks loaded with
the court records and seals, securing the oun
try after ignorant haf-breeds and other
aliens who were straightway converted into
American citizens and Democratic voters
This is the sort Of campaign the Democrats
conducted, and yet in the face of it, upon I'M
disputed returns, the Republicans elected their
Congressional candidate, Mr.. Carter, their three
Supreme Court Judges. and every member Of
their State ticket except the Governor They
carried their county tickets in thirteen out of
sixteen counties The Democratic millionaires,