Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1889-10-19


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THE .cANyAssING BOARD FARCE.
The unmitigated farce Of canvassing
the returns Of the election held in Silver
Bow county on the first instant came to
an ingIorious end in this city at 2 o'clock
D. m. yesterday. The board of canvassers
was composed OF Chairman VIM. NJ. Jack,
VIM. e. Hall and Judge Caleb E. Irvine,
the latter being the Democratic member,
and who placed himself on record a not
being a parity to the decision Of the Re-
publican majority of the board which
illegally and with malicious partisan
ship aforethought, refused to recognize
the vote of the Thirty-fourth precinct of
this county in the face Of law and every
other consideration that appeals to the
honesty and patriotism Of all good citi-
zens irrespective of party. The public
expected nothing better Of Mr.. Hall,
whose narrow prejudices, ~partisanship
and a desire to hold Office are the only
qualifications that he has ever shown for
political preferment. But they did ex-
pect that Mr.. Jacks breadth of forehead
would be ample enough to see the right,
and that his honesty would be staunch
enough to enable him to do it; that these
endowments and his manhood would be
above and beyond the reach OF the un-
scrupulous and petty-fogging leaders OF
his party In this city, but in all of these
particulars they have been disappointed,
and Mr.. Jack is to-day and for all future
time, but the shadow Of his former self
In all that constitutes an impartial
public arbiter. As a matter Of fact,
from an impartial review of all
the circumstances which belong to the
session Of the board, the decision
was virtually made by Thompson Camp
bell, the chairman Of the Republican
central committee for this county. The
adjournment, which Immediately pre-
coded the decision Of the board, was to
his Office, and throughout the session he
was the power behind the throne whose
every whisper caught Mr.. Jacks atten-
ton and whose every motion brought
him to the foot of the throne, where up
on his Blended knee he begged to know
the will of his master. The decision of
the board, were it permitted to stand,
practically disfranchises not only a ma
jority of the citizens Of this county but
Of the territory as well, AZ it would
change q Democratic majority In the
legislature to a Republican majority OF
III rn6 senate OF rnB UnTrHu SIaC1E. THU
the board had no warrant Of law to act
In q judicial capacity, and thereby on
the ground of fraud refuse to recognize
the returns of the Thirty-fourth precinct,
Is, perhaps, as well known to the two Re-
publicans members Of it as it is to the
best informed lawyer of the land. And
while they can but know that it must
be eventually 80 decided by a court Of
Law. yet they ana their party hope that
through the delays Of the law, the legal
technicalities which they may be able
to introduce to multiply and increase
such delays, a final judicial decision will
not be reached until after the governor
shall be legally compelled to convene the
which will, in effect, enable
Them to name the United States sena-
tors, as without Silver Bow county that
body viii have a Republican ma
Admitting, for argument,
hat fraud was committed in
hat district and that the board
4 canvassers had the right to inquire
INTO it, the board would not have the
light to disfranchise a large majority of
oters who did not vote illegally and Q
rho were not in any sense a party to the l
rand. The most that it could do would "
Q to reject the illegal votes, and had '
his been done public sentiment would (
OF have been outraged nor the liberties t
the people Of Mon lana enslaved by theI
legal and u%nprincipled tyranny of mem
hose c~onsciences, at least, are clothed G.
/ the striped suit Of the convict. Aside N
ON lacking the high moral qualifca- a
ons which entitle men to act in a Judi Il
capacity, what experience, what ed "
'ation in the law and out Of it have n
+. Jack and Mr.. Hall had that they
Iould assume to pass 80 hastily upon
alters which men learned and expe- of
enced in the law, but ~decedidly more d.
Oldest, approach with extreme caution. tn
not with difidence !? Fraud was al to
yed In the Thirty-fourth precinct IT
d 1t was ~judicially allowed by this self
instituted High Court Of Fraud, which,
no misnomer. and upon what evil m,
nee ? Eight men made affidavit that NO
by voted in that precinct on October /, an
d each affirmed that he voted the Re- SD,
blican ticket, while the returns show uii
It . less number of Republican votes
n. cast. None Of the machinery oil
lrts Of law was brought into requisi- DO,
q to determine the c~redibility Of these Sol
ants, but, admitting that they are all re,
lest, some Of them may be honestly Del
taken. and 1t would only require for
or four to be thus mistaken to rel
Q the returns Of every evidence Of +
I'd. According to the Inter Mountain Ia q
voters Of the Thirty-fourth or Tunnel YEA