St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-02-20
TWO IN THE TRICK.
Sanders and Carter s. Elk to
Control Montana Pat
ronage.
The Pair Have Determined to
Give Power the Cold
Shoulder.
Indications Of a Coming
Breeze Appear on the
Horizon.
Carter Wants to Get Into the
Senate at the Next
Election.
special to the Globe .

Special to the Globe.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 19.-Col. Sanders
and Tom Carter, of Montana, have
formed a combine with the intention of
running everything appertaining to
Montana to suit themselves. Sanders
and Power will get their seats I'm spite
of the CRIME of the false count in Silver
Bow and the incontrovertible evidence
of the right OF their opponents to the
seats. In view of this fact Messrs. San
ders and Carter have combined forces
in time so as to control all federal pat
Fcnage and leave Tom Power out i'm the
cold. Whether they will be able to do
this remains to be seen, but they are
determined to make a vigorous effort.
They are both Helena men and opposed
Powers nomination for governor last
fall in accord with the rest of the dele
CATION from Lewis and Clarke county.
They were also antagOnistic to his NOM
inatiOn for the senate. and would have
preferred to have seen any one else get
it. The fact is, Power is weak man in
his own town, and the figures show that
he was beaten for the gOvernOrship by
Republican votes at home. But Tom
Power is shrewd politician, and few
men can manipulate convention or a
legislature as well as he. His nOmina-
ton for the senate was hard pill for
the West Side Republicans, who had
succeeded in defeating him a few
months before. 1t is conceded that
Carter
CAN NOT BE RETURNED
to congress next term. Several things
initiate against him. The city of Helena
has the leading four positions. COVER
nor, both senators and representative.
In order to succeed at the next election
q West side man must be nominated.
This is true of both parties. If Carter
is renOmiuated and the Democrats
nominate West slider the latter will
elect their man beyond doubt. Carter
himself practically comedies that his re-
nomination would be suicidal folly.
b 1t Carter is ambitious. His ambition
scars high; he fears not that the wax
with which his wings are welded TO his
body will be melted by a too near ap-
prOach TO the sun and that he will fall,
1carus-like, to the earth. Now, Sanders
was elected by the pseudo legislature
for the long term and Power for the
short. A similar thing was done by the
DakOtas, but the senate decided it had
nothing to do with that. and made the
newly elected ballot for terms. 1t will
be remembered that this balloting re-
sulsed in leaving for the Montana se4la-
tors the chance of balloting for a four
and siX-year term. So that Power has
an equal chance of drawing the long
term. The scheme of Messrs. Sanders
and Carter depends for its ultimate
success upon Sanders drawing the long
term. The chances are even. The
scheme is this: If Sanders draws the
long term. when Carriers term expires
ne is to magnanlmOusly stand aside and
allow West side Republican to be
dominated in his place. Two years
later. when Powers term expires. Col.
Sanders is to do all in his power to
have
CARTER NOMINATED
In Powers place and the latter rele-
gated to private life. 1t is a pretty
scheme, hut may be defeated by San
der's luck giving out and Power draw
ing the long term. Tom Carter would
scarcely care to wait six years, as no
one knows what might happen in the
meantime. 1t will be interesting to
watch Sanders and Carter controlling
all the patronage with view to setting
up the pinns for their own benefit.
This may work for little while, but
Power is not the sort of man who will
stand it long. He is one of the shrewd-
est politicians in Montana, and will not
stand idly by and let his colleagues pull
the wool over his eyes; he will just
kick, and is rather liable to place them
In the same embarrassing position in
which the hawk found himself when he
tried to fly away with the ferret. He
has multitude of friends, is man who
can cause his opponents a heap of
trouble before allowing them to ride
over him. The friends have demon
Strated their strength on two notable
occasions, first, when they nominated
him for governor in the face of bitter
opposition from the delegation from his
own county, and second, when they
nominated him for senator in the teeth
of the same opposition. As a lobbyist
and manipulation of caucuses Tom
Power stands multi secundus. There
Is another phase of the Sanders-Carter
combination which is among the posi-
bilities. That is that in 1891, when
Carter retires from congress to allow
West slider to take his place and to
stack the cards so as to succeed Power.
he may seek the Republican nomination
tor governor and try to defeat Toole,
thereby putting in the
TWO LONG YEARS
of interim between the house and the
senate in running the state. This has
not yet been limited at by any of the
Montanans in the city, but is hereby
rendered to Messrs. Sanders and Carter
as suggestion. OF course, in all these
prospect We moves on the political
chess table the prime movers are bank
ing on their ability to make Montana a
Republican state. Their calculations
may all be upset by the return of a
Democratic legislature. The events of
the past few months would seem to ad-
init OF little doubt that Montana will be
Democratic in future. and the events of
the past few days would seem to give
additional reason for this. Men who
have proStituted their political honesty
deliberately and avowedly stacked the
cards in the game, violated every prin-
ciple of equity and justice, ridden
rough-shod over the people of great
state. violated the constitutional rights
OF the people, usurped power that does
not belong to them, and set at naught
the will of the people as expressed by
their votes, cannot hope to meet with
the rewards of honesty and uprightness
and evince more sanguineness than
sagacity in expecting the very me N
whom they have betrayed to support
them in the future. They cannot sue
coed, even though backed up by state
supreme court and servile Republican
majority in the United States senate.
Protection and silver will never be the
issue again. Precinct "a will be the
only issue. A. b.
Western Rural Chips.
If man cannot make money with
sheep at the present time, it is his own