The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-08-17
NO USE FOR CARTER.

Billings Gazette (Rep.): The democratic
press of Helena and Butte seems 70 be in q
whole peck of trouble because this paper
has not set in motion its annual boom for
Carter to continue as Montana's represent
alive in congress-. 10 anyone who has kept
track of affairs in congress on matters Of
the most vital concern to eastern Montana
an explanation Of why the Gazette, q the
leading republican journal Of the Yellow
stone country, has declined to urge Mr..
Carter to withdraw the words written to
the chairman Of the state central commit
tee would not be necessary. To tho Helena
and Butte press, whose writer's rarely ever
pay any attention to affairs beyond their
respective corporate limits, however. we
wish to say that the Gazette's reasons of
refusal to be drawn into line with the usual
amount of political ..tafy'' are am
pie and sufficient. Chief among
these are that Mr.. Carter
has ''stood i'm with influential people in
matters concerning the Grow Indian reser-
walton to the detriment of the masses of
people of this section OF the state. He has
bungled up the Indian reservation bill until
now it has become such q mess that the
people have become thoroughly Disguised,
for they see in the measure that no relief
will come even should his reservation bill
receive the sanction of both branches of
congress and the signature of the president.
It seems that Mr.. Carter saw far more i'm
portance in the matter of restoring strip
of worthless land on the Fort Keogh mill
tary reservation to Miles City and the re-
moval of the Cneyennes on upper Rosebud
for the benefit of one or two large range
stock owners, than he did in a measure
looking to the immediate and lawful restor-
alton to tho public domain of
portion of the Crow Indian reservation
which is more than 125 miles square.
As Mr.. Carter's bill stands, for the opening
of portion of this reservation, it will have
to receive the sanction of the next congress
as to the acts of commission, which is
provided to be appointed, and what the
next congress might do when the report of
that commission is laid before it is consid-
cradle of conundrum. OF course, the
people here did not expect Mr.. Carter to
take half the Grow Indian reservation in
his arms, set it aside and declare it public
domain, but they did expect that when he
found the present congress friendly toward
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tage of the situation and furnish the relief
this year to the people which they have SO
long prayed for. The people here
are inclined to believe that Mr.
Carter has not acted in good
faith in this matter, and should
that gentleman again become the standard
bearer of the republican party in the cam
paign this fall it will require no little effort
to remove the ill-feeling that has been Gre
ated for him by his seemingly unfriendly
attitude toward us in the reservation pro-
ceedings.
The democratic press of Helena and
Butte need not have any fears but what the
Gazette is just as loyal a republican jour
nal as ever. It adheres to the principles OF
the republican party and will be found
fighting in the last ditch for those princi.
pies, but it also knows that the people
among whom it is published and who fur
nish our subsistence (scanty at times
though it be) have rights as we'll and when
those rights are trampled under foot 1t
stands ready to take up the cudgels in their
defense. This is why the Gazette is not
urging Mr.. Carter to withdraw his lette1
declining to be candidate.