Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-03-25
ANOTHER MONTANA nEcsslox
New Ycrk ,yeckly Tribune.

ei "'N biS heSl lTiDutai OIL lHt
state, had decided that The FIVE Re-
publican members OF the Legislature
from Silver Bow County were entitled
TO their seats, it followed as matter
OF course that Colonel Wilbur Fisk
Sanders and Thomas G. Power were
legally elected United States Sena-
tors from Montana, and also, as a
matter of course, that the so called
election Of Millionaire Clark and
MAJOR Martin Mesopotamia Maginnis,
IN which five persons from Silver
Bow had participated who were not
entitled to seats in the Legislature,
was Illegal and void. Perceiviug the
force Of the decision, Millionaire
Clark and Major Maginnis at once
set about the procurement of judi
clal decision which would revive their
withered claims. They found a
ready tool for their service in man
named McHatton, whose zeal was
the most ardent because, in deciding
that they were elected Senators, he
would also be deciding that he him
self had been elected District
Judge.
Silver Bow County was a judicial
district, and in the late election Mr..
Mediation was the Democr candi-
date for District Judge. The same
electors who voted to fill that office
voted also to fill ten seats in the
Montana House of Representatives.
With the returns of Precinct No. 81
included, the entire delegation from
Silver Bow to the House would have
been Democratic. The Sheriff of the
county would also have been Dem
ocrat and Mr.. Mediation would have
been District Judge. But with those
returns discarded, as they were dis
carded, first, because they were not
returns at all but an unofficial, 1lle-
aally prepared imitation of returns
and, second, because they were the
record Of outrageous and palpable
frauds without those returns the
delegation to the House consisted ot
five Republicans and five Democrats
a Republican Sheriff was elected and
Mediation was defeated
For sixty days after the election af
fairs in Silver Bow county moved to
ward anarchy. Two claimants were
demanding every Office, with the com
munity in a turmoil. Mr.. Mediator
and his Republican opponent were
each holding court, each rendering
decisions. In this situation the Re
publican Judge displayed great hon
or and patriotism. Although tn,
Governor Of the State was Demo
crat, he proposed to Mediation tha
each should send letter of resigna
ton to Governor Toole, who shoult
then appoint third man to the of
fee. This was done, and Governo
Toole, to his infinite discredit, disre
garding the arrangement entirely
and in violation of every principle 0
good faith, Immediately appointe'
MeHatton. And McHatton showet
the kind of man he was, and the kin,
Of Judge he would be, by acceptin!
the appointment. 1t is in this way
which carries with it its own re
proaches, that he gets the right noN
to decide that the returns from Pre-
cinct No. 81 were legal and valid
i i He has confirmed the Dem
ocratic candidate for Sheriff in all hi
claims. This means that McHattO
says that Mediation and the rest c
the Democratic candidates in Sllve
Bow wore elected, and consequently
= that Clark and Maginnis are entitle
, to seats in the United States Senat,
; But, unfortunately for Clark and Nj
ginnis, what McHattan says is of n
more account than the tainted re
turns he has undertaken to enforce
The Supreme Court had already rt
/. versed Mediation before he rendere
n his decision. 1t had decided that IL
;, frauds in Silver Bow should not aval
h that the Republican Legislators wei
& properly qualified, properly seate
Il and entitled to act. This disposes
" Clark and Maginnis. As for McIla
g ton, he has disposed Of himself.
is L. p. LISvnLE has sold his on
half interest in the Snow Bird loc
ton, at the head of Deer creek,