The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-10-20
AFTER THE BATTLE.

The smoke has now cleared away from
the battlefield embracing the territories of
North and South Dakota, Montana and
ception, for the first time of what it
amounted to, how it was waged, those who
engaged in it and what and how they ac-
complished what they did. The Republi-
can triumph, elsewhere than in Montana,
was so uneQuivocal and complete that to
discuss merely collateral issues in connec-
ton with the result, would simply be split
ting hairs. In South Dakota and Washing
ton the Democrats have next to no show in
the Legislature and have of course lost
everything else; in North Dakota they
have Jared but little better, while in Mon
tana they have a decided majority in the
legislature, have elected the governor by
not far from a thousand majority, and lost
the Congressman by about the same figure
This is about all there is to tell of the
story, so far as mere facts go. There are,
of course, great many collateral circum-
stances to be taken into consideration, and
one of them is, why it can be that Mon
tana, situated within the same geographical
belt, with similar climate and similar re,
sources, should have acted so differently to
all its sisters, and this, too, in view OF the
fact that less than year ago it gave the
strongest indications of going decidedly
with them by rolling up a Republican ma
iority of more than 5000. 1t will not do to
say that money accomplished the result,
for the committee of the latter party had
as much ready cash on hand as the others
had, perhaps great deal more, and we all
understand that they were more skilled in
the art of using it, too; so the fact remains
that we must look elsewhere for the rea
son.
L. has been asserted with great fuency
and persistency that enough miners and
mill men were and are employed by CAPT
talists of the Democratic persuasion in
and around Butte to account for the rev.
olution-they being under the control of
their employers and thus, as the Republi-
cans would have the inference TO appear,
bound to vote against their will. This
sounds strangely coming from sources
which previous to the election were loud
in their praises of the Australian ballot
system as means of preventing the very
thing which they subsequently charge
took place so freely. They even commits
Grated the Democrats before the election
because of the latter's inability to con-
summate frauds of any dimensions, big or
little, and declared in the most positive
manner that the money which they, (the
Democrats) were wont to use so freely
would at last be unavailing. Of course
an excuse must be found for the setback
which the Republican party received, and
in their desperation they even resort to
inconsistent statements to accomplish a
temporary point.
The facts, as welook at the case, are that
the Republicans were beaten at their own
game in Montana. Counting largely on the
prestige of last years victory and the added
momentum impaired by chairman with a
bar'l, they had no doubt of their naked
ability to win. The cry of ''stop thief, 5"
which was exactly what the charges against
their opponents amounted to when all the
facts are considered, was for precisely the
same purpose that it was originally used
for-to throw those in pursuit off the scent.
Finding that it did not work, for the rea-
son that there were no thieves outside their
own ranks to stop, their bewilderment and
arrogance are painful to behold, mixed with
slight element of the ludicrous.
In Washington the Democrats were more
unfortunate than otherwise The MAORI
ties against them in many Of the legislative