St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-10-16
PART SAN TRICKERY.
Montana Repub leans Set Law
al Lefianee in Rejecting
Democratic Votes.
Honest eneof All Political
Parties Denounee the Out
rageous Proceeding.
Shady Record Of Sanders
Tool, who Furnished All
the Aff1 iavits.
President Harrison Will Be
Asked to Remove Judge
De Wolfe.
Suecial TO the Clone

Special TO the Clone
HELENA, Mont, Oct 15.-It devel-
Oped to-day that all the judges and
clerks of the election precinct which
the Silver Bow county canvasSlng
board threw out yesterday were Repub-
licanS, and also that all the affidavlts
on which the canvasSerS based their ac-
ton. were either made by one man,
or he secured the few Swedes whose
names and statements were used dur
ing the contest. His name ls Henry
Bernard and ne is a convicted murderer.
In 1854 Bernard published paper at
NJ urray, Idaho, he being one of the first
men to penetrate that then unknown
section of the country. In his employ
was a printer. an inoffensive man
named Jack Enright. One day En-
right asked Bernard for what was due
him, and without any prOyOcatiOn
Bernard shot and killed him. So
strong was the feeling against
the murderer that an attempt was
made to lynch him, and only the prompt
action of the officer who arrested him
saved his life. The officer took Bernard
to the mountains. and for several days
kept him hid in the brush, SO as TO save
him from being strung up by the eX-
cited pesple. Finally. when the ex-
citement died out, Mcdonald placed
his prisoner in Jail Bernard
was tried and sentenced to the
ppnitentiary for eight years. and
part of this sentence he served. Owing
to his usefulness politically. the in-
fluential men of his party inteceded in
his behalf and secured his pardon. The
order of the board throwing out the
Tunnel precinct is a very unique doc
ument. AS it was at first prepared it
gave reasons for the boards action, but
as fixed for the canvaSserS by the chair
uIn of the Republican county commit
tee it reads as follows:
We, the undersigned a majority of the
board of canvassers now in session in the
city of Butte, county of Silver Bow, territory
of Montana, do hereby overruIe all objections
made TO Precincts Nos. and IA. within the
limits of said county, and we do hereby Sus-
tain the objections on file, so far as Precinct
No. "a is concerned, which Is rejected by a
majority of the board OF canvassers.
This is signed by w. Jack and W. E.
Hall. A minority report. signed by Z.
E. Irvine, is as follows:
object to the rejection Of the returns from
Precinct No. 81, because the acts of the
board of canvaSsers are wholly unlawful and
without warrant OF law.
People to-day of all political parties
have awakened to the gravity of the
situation, and now that the real grounds
of the boards action are known, there
is a strong sentiment that Montana cam
not afford to have the result of the first
state election reversed on technical
grounds, especially as the entire affair
has been engineered by one man, and
simply for his own political advantage.
Wilbur f. Sanders, who has always
been a corporation lawyer, and since
the Northern Pacific built into Mon
tana, its attorney, is the man who
| planned the scheme to throw out the
vote of Democratic precincts to gain a
majority in the legislature. As his
helpers he has had Chairman Seligman,
| of the Republican state committee: L..
! G.. Power, the defeated candidate for
governor; l.. Ii. Hershtield, Lee Mantel,
! and E. ID. Webb, United States district
attorney. These men
WOULD NOT DARE ATTEMPT ALONE
what Sanders is doing through them.
| Sanders is pioneer and brilliant law
yer, who twice ran for delegate to con-
| gress on the Republican ticket, and
both times was badly defeated. About
a month before the late campaign
opened he resigned his position as at
torney for the Northern Pacific,
and by close attention to cOun-
ty conventions succeeded in hav-
| nominated to insure his election to the
| United States senate in case the Repub-
licans secured majority in the first
legislature. Failing to secure this ma
! iOrity by fair means, and recognizing
the fact that Democratic legislature at
this time meant his perpetual retire
ment from active political life, he has
| undertaken to secure control of
| the legislature by methods which
are condemned by every man
who wants the fair name of Montana
to remain untarnished. This feeling is
not by any means confined to members
of the Democratic party, but is shared
by an overwhelming majority of the
| people of Montana. Judge Blake, Re-
| publican, Justice of the supreme court,
| saws: "The action of the canvaSsing
| board in Silver Bow county is an out
rage. without apparent law" Ex-Gov
Carpenter says: No noble man
would be guilty of such base attempt
to oyerturn the result so clearly shown
by the poll books. Mayor Fuller, Re
publican, has also emphatically ex-
pressed his opinion, denOuncing the
acts of the canvassing board. Delegate
Carter, Republican repreSentative-elect
to congress, says: SANDERS and his
| friends are not only making grievOus
mistake, but are undertaking to dc
something, which, if successful, will be
a direct violation of both law and Gus
TOM" The
DEMOCRATS ARE MORE OUTsPOKEN,
G. A. Broadwater in conversation
with the correspondent of the GLOBE
says the action of the canvassing board
was one of the most dastardly Outrages
ever attempted against the purity oi
the ballot; the outrage was not only q
political one, but that from business
point of view, if the Republican rogue;
continue their preSen course, they
would seriously injure Mon
tana among conservative men
many of whom already had ar
idea that the people of the territory
were a wild and reckless sort of animal
Now they would be justified in charg
ing that Montanians could not even
have an election without row. He
had no doubt that the decision of the
courts will be in favor of the Demo
Gratis. and that Montana will come out
of the contest more Staunch in hel
Democracy than ever" EX.GOv
S. T. Hauser said: ''The entire
proceeding is the worst example OF
political outrage he had ever heard of.
more than this he could not find Ian
guage sufficiently strong to express
himself. Hon. Martin Maginnis said
the action of the Silver Bow board was