The new North-west., 1889-09-27
OBSERVATIONS OF ,LooKER-uS

w. ID. otcFells, staff correspondent Of the
Globe Democrat, discusses Montana politics
again i'll his last letter. He directs his OBJ
scrvations particularly to the Big Four and
"thc Infamous thing" us the Democrats
are pleased to term the registration law.
Concerning the Democratic Central com
mittce's address he saws:
The first four names signed to this re-
markable document are Marcus DAILY, S,
L. Hauser, w. A. Clark and G. A. BroadWa-
ter. These four men are the Democratic
party Of Montana. They have kept It in
power when they wanted to-, and when
they fell out the party went to the dogs to
me music !ic ,of - Wealthy men. There is
nothing that can be said against them per
sonally. Every one Of them came UP from
the ranks by superior merit aud hard licl,s
Each has had the control and direction in
large enterprises of considerable bodies of
men. Accustomed all their successful
business lives to handle men, to expect
obedience, to enforce discipline, these four
mllionaires have carried into the politics
of Montana the ideas which have been in
grained by their business experience.
There is the evil Mcssrs. DAILY, Hauscr,
Clark and Broadwater are not leaders in
their party. They are autocrats-b bosses of
the strongest type. 1t is only natural that
they should be so, but that doesn't make
the situation any the less unfortunate
The theory Of the millionaire employer
that he can command the sufrrages as well
AS thc services Of the employed IL bad; ;and
attempts to carry out such II theory are to
be condemned whether they occur in
Pennsylvania or Montana.
Revering to the new registration law,
which has aroused the Democracy to Il
state Of frenzy, he comments:
70 put it briefly. the registration law Of
Montana is i'll all material details like that
now in force III several other states 1t is
familiar TO the voters of st. Louis. 1t con-
lers no eStraorllnary powers upon the rrg-
lstry agent. It is designed to prevent colo
nlzation and the voting Oi nOn-rcsiGlrnts
Democrats H. well as Republicans Voted
for il ii the Legislature, and yet opposi-
tion to it IS made the chiefi issue of tile cam
paign. Election reform aud the rule of
bosses are irreconcilablo. Hence the '.in-
fanny Of registration law" 1t will be
vastly int"restnyio see what will come of
such Tactics Is these. III what other State
oftlls Union would a party have had tie
merry" to commit itS"'! to such Il platform:
Then this again for the Biz Four:
DAILY and Clark haze no reason 10 love
each other. llauser and Broadwa1er. as
representatives Of tie two biz rival rail
road systems or Montana have little in
common but their Democracy 1t is really
more proper 10 say that two pairs rather
than The biz four control the party in Mon
taDa. DAILY ana lla,lser are usually 10 be
found acting together, while there is an
utilization between Clark and Broad water
The four mIllionairrs were delegates to the
late State Convention. They got together
in Il room by themselves, and after a while
the rank and file We're informed that an
understanding had been reached The
mil!ionaIres. il WAS ~ivcn out. had wiped
OFT past scores and We're going in 10 Win.
Mr.. lark WAS made president OF the CON
vention. Mr.. DAILY was made chairman of
the State Central Committee. Fix Governor
ilauser, as soon as he could arrange mat
t"rs, left for the East. and everybody un-
dcrstood that that meanta talk with O;,kes
MIR. 'rnalwater never asks anything for
himself. bnt when political favors are he
ing distributed never torgets tn SLY; "Grn-
,lcmcn! My friend, Major Martin Ma
@innis."
Th" Domocracy's proposed disposition
of the Scnatorships 10 IIaus"t AMI Clark is
discussed. SO much Of it III least It's was
agreed upon at the Anaconda convention.
and break in the combination is limited
in the closin" paragraph, as follows:
But since then there have been develop
uients which have given rise to ugly sus-
picions. When the Legislative ticket was
mad" up in Silver Bow county, where
Clark lives, it was naturally expected that
his friends would be named upon it. But,