St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-09-26
A Republican Newspaper Man
Sizes Up the Late Situa-
ton,
And Does So From the Stand
point Of His Own Party
Views.
The Fight Is the Hottest Over
Legislature and the Two
Senators.
Both Parties Straining to the
Top Of Their Bent for the
Victory.

Among the arrivals on the Northern
| Pacific train last evening, was Arthur
Bennington, lately city editor of the
Helena Journal. the Republican paper
partly owned by Russell Harrison. Mr..
| Bennington was loaded to the muzzle
with Montana politics. and as he is an
ardent, rampant and uncOmpromising
Republican, his views are naturally
cOlOred by his strong interest and preju-
dice The situation in Montana is quite
interesting, and while the Democrats
firmly believe next Tuesdays election
will show the new state to be Demo-
cratic, there is a possibility of sur
! priseS.
''As Republican, Mr.. Bennington"
asked GLOBE reporter, ''wilat do you
think of the situation in Montana"
THE MONTANA STU ALTON.
absolutely nothing is heard upon
the streets of Helena, or for the matter
of that. of any other place in Montana,
| but politics. The conversation in the
! hotels, in the saloons. in the stores and
| in every other place has but one topic.
| the political prospect. The excitement
! is running high and prominent speak
| erS, both local and imported are stump
| ing the territory from one end to the
| other. Both parties are Thoroughly Or
| ganiZed for the decisive battle 10 be
fought next Tuesday. The Importance
| of the result of the election is fully rec
ognized by all. The statement is freely
| made by the public speakers of both
| parties that whichever party carries the
! oAnfrnl If tyUp
! wears. In consequence of this seem
| ingly inevitable conclusion efforts al
most superhuman are being made. As
| Hon. Martin Maginnis says: THE eyes
of all America are turned toward Mon
| tana.' No stoDe is being left unturned,
no expense spared, no trouble avoided
| by the leaders of either party to carry
the territory.
"The Republicans are organized in
the most careful manner. Their state
central committee occupies four or five
rooms in the Pacific hotel on Main street.
Albert ]. Seligman is chairman OF their
7 committee. and is devoting his
| whole time to the work. a
large staff of clerks is busy filing
correspondence and mailing campaign
literature. of which many tons are
stored. Here may be found at almost
any hour of the day the warehouses; of
the party. Hershfield who carried the
territory for the Republicans last fall;
Power. candidate for governor; Selig-
man, Chessman. Weed, MeCutchen.
Sanders, and many others.
The Democratic state central head
quarters are at Anaconda, and Marcus
DAILY is their chairman. They also
| have an Office in Helena, connected
by telephone with Anaconda.
| bo oitiaS hntb nartiQS are
organized. Besides city clubs, there
are political clubs in every ward. The
Scandinavians, Germans, and colored
men also have clubs of both
| political comDleXiOns.l There are
! on an average six meetings in Helena
every evening, all of them addressed by
local speakers All through the terri
tory clubs have been formed, and are
doing their best to arouse enthusiasm.
WORK ON THE STUMP.
ssHen. Thomas Ii. Carter, delegate to
congress, has been travelling over the
territory for a month past, delivering
speeches every night. He is immensely
popular, and has evoked unbOunded en-
thusiasn. Hon. Maj. Martin mick
named sMeSop0tamia') MaginniS. who is
running for congress i'll opposition to
| Carter. has also had a hard months
work stumping. Hon. Joseph X. Toole,
| Democratic candidate for governor, IS
putting in some hard work, and has de-
fiyered a number of speeches. TOele
is a fine, deliberate speaker, while
| Maginnis is fiery and eloquent, but liza
| BILE to say things he is sorry for when he
reads them in print. .StenographerS
EMPLOYED by the Republican State Cen
traI committee are following both of
these men wherever they go, and fur
nTshing verbatim reports of their
speeches, from which the deadly paral-
lei has been worked with telling effect
in the Republican papers. Besides
Tom Carter, almost every member OF
the Republican State ticket is ON the
stump. Congressman Reed, OF Maine,
and George A. Sheridan are making a
tour, speaking in all the principal
places. HOrr, of Michigan, is expected
there this week, and Cassidy, of Ne
yada. has been speaking on the Demo-
. cratic side. Last Saturday night the
, | Republicans had tremendous demon
; stratiOn in the opera house at Helena.
| Tom Reed was the only speaker, and
, the house would not contain the crowds.
, | The Flambeau club paFaded the streets,
| bonfires were lighted. and at every
street corner red fire was burned.
, The fight is being made on local queS-
4
have Regulated. free trade. Maginnis
and Toole are ferveutly denying that
they were ever anything but protec-
/ tionists and are preaching protection
, pure and simple. The fact is that any
free trade talk would arouse the miners
> and WoolgroWerS to such an extent that
: il would mean sure. Democratic defeat.
? The Democrats are also trying to Undue
, the peeple with the idea that they and
: they alone were responsible for the adj
: mission of Montana as a state. BnttheiI
: greatest campaign cry is, or was, the
? ini0uity of the registration and Austria
I liam system Of election laws, passed by
. the last territorial legislature, which
| was Republican. Almost Immediately
I after the conventions were over. man.
? ifesto was issued, signed by every mem
f Der of the Democratic State Central
committee. and by almost every pr0mi
! nent Democrat in the territory, de
: nouncing these laws as unjust, partisan
I and iniquitOus. The word was given
. and every campaign speaker took it up
!: making it his text in every speech. In
: every Democratic paper this manifesto
! was printed dOuble-leaded. They have
stopped shouting against these
/ laws. however, as the laboring
q men. who consider that they
/ themselves are the parents of these
! laws. and who had been clamOring fol
, their passage for years, showed such
: undesirable signs of disgust at the pc
! sition taken by the Democratic leaders
Z that Marcus DAILY realized the mistake
5 and issued orders which have almost
. closed the mouths of the Democratic
E speakers or this subject. The Repub
$ liean leaders and papers made the mOst
e of this. and accepted the challenge with
so much vigor that the worklngmen
and especially the Knights of Labor
give them the sole credit for the passage
S of the laws. The laws were passed fol
d the benefit of the workingmen, whC
: have been voted in "bloeks of a hun
dred'' by their bosses at previous cleo
d tons. This Democratic campaign cry
< and the pledge given by the Democratic
# managers that they would repeal the OBJ
;. noxious laws should Democratic legis
:, lature be elected. have done their cause
d a vast amount of harm, especially il