Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1890-04-17
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hAONF th0 hheht VI sCh1-
tors Was Negotiated with a Due
Regard 10 Economy.
For g moment this afternoon, says the
Washington correspondent Of the New
York 7Iatss, under date of April 9th, IL
may have looked to Mr.. Sanders and Mr..
Power Of Montana az il they would be
able before the session Of the day had
ended to tell Captain Bassett where they
would prefer to HAYS the chairs placed in
which they are to sit as the senators from
Montana. II they had any suoh notion
1t lasted for only moment, and until the
inosutious suggestion of Senator Morgan,
that the Democrats were ready to vote,
was corrected by the statement OF another
senator that there were several Democrats
desiring to bs heard after Mr.. Evarts.
The fact is the Democrats are aware
that they have not yet fully acquainted
the country with the character and cir
cumstances of the robbery of the state
that ia being committed by the senate
committee on elections. There is NO
business with which the senate can
occupy more proftably to the Demo-
cratic party the rest Of this week, and
perhaps day or two Of the next week,
than in the discussion of the way in
which the Republicans of Montana de-
privod the Democrats Of that state Of the
opportunity to elect senators and then
appropriated the results of an election in
which the Republicans had been squarely
beaten.
The news of the Helena election, in
which the Democrats won in city in
which the Republicans have always felt
that they had 3 secure majority, has dis
tresaed the Republicans from Montana
who arc here. Some Of them explain II
by Hayins that the Republican candidate
for mayor Was man who had been sew
eral times convicted Of robbery or some
equally serious offence. But that does
not explain the change, which appears to
have gone fucther than the candidate for
mayor. It is not asserted that all the
Republican candidates were felons, or
that they were otherwise IS personally
Objectionable NJ the candidate FOR mayor.
| When the newspaper thst is controlled
by the son of the President of the United
States went to the trouble of urg ing the
voters of Helena to say, by their vote
Tuesday, what they thought of the soma
torial election, thoGe voters were not tied
down by any Buoh party obligation ss
controls the Republican senators Ia
Washington. They must be assumed to
have taken the advice of Harrison, Jr.,
and exercised that freedom of conscience
which senator Of the Republican party
cannot be assumed to express in defiance
of the verdict Of committee on cleo
ticns.
The speech of the day was made by
Senator Turpie of Indiana. When the
elections committee made its rep TT Mr..
Sanders, who may have been misin-
formed, told some Of his acquAiptauaes
that Mr.. Turpie was not satisfied that
the Democrats had won the election, and
would make a report Recommending that
the case be sent back to Montana for an
other trial at the polls. Mr.. Sanders was
the only man who heard the news.
The speech of Mr.. Turpie was not all
uncertain. He denounced the action of
the territorial board of csnvassers In
throwing out the returns from preoinct
"a of Silver Bow county. This action,
he declared, was q cl4ar usurpat on and
therefore void. The three members of
the board were so many thugs, who had
tried to strangle the will of the people Of
Montana. Mr.. Turpie could fiud no
language too strong in which to express
his opinion Of the oanvassing board and
the course it pursued.
Mr. Turpie handled Mr.. Power, one Of
the senators chosen by the election oom-
mittes, without gloves. He knew MOTH
ing Of Thomas o. Power, he said, except
what the records showed. Mr.. Power
WAS o man Of wealth, IN old aud promi-
! neat resident OF Montana. He had been
an unsuccessful candidate for q high
office. The records showed that he had
sent Q messenger to William A. Penny
. cook, one OF tie judges of election at
, Precinct No. "a, asking him to 60 to
Helena TO see about that precinct. They
l.t.n Ak.nN sz.l1 L. ~
wanted Precinct No. 81 thrown cat. He
did not care what means were used to
throw it out. He was willing to pay
Peunycook for his time and expenses, and
sll expense that might DO necessary to
; get rid Of that precinct.
He was willing to pay for all that IL
cost Pennycock-the Justification of his
official oath, the betrayal OF his trust,
the denial Of his sworn returns, the dis
reimbursement OF oil his neighbors and
/ friends who voted there, the branding
with lasting disgrace that no gold could
gild and no shameless indifference could
hide or cover. The Crpsus or Oassius of
Montana did not have money enough.
Power did not excsct o refusal, but
Pennycook must not make his charges
too high. Wsllow of st. Paul would
! have done the work, bat his charges were
exorbitant. The natural tendency and
bias of this remarkable endeRvor to cor
rupt seemed to have been tempered by
the shrewdest and most prudent parsi-
mony.
Power" continued Mr.. Turpie, 'may
have teen dishonest man, somewhat
unscrupulous, unprinoipled. impure,
dehled. He may be p litical and social
leper, loathsome, with a stencil, with an
odor worse than he who was seven times
! dipped in Jordan to bs eleansed, but he
was no spendthrifS, He was a victim of
. the most rigid habits Of economy in the
mystery Of iniquity which he sofcssei
and practiced. He might be mistaken
about what had been done FOR them at
the county seat Of Butte; lie and those
for them he was laboring might have
been disappointed in tbs sffsct Of that
which had been done Tor them at Helena,
! but one thing he had made up his mind
! to-hs would have no more 10 DO with
, WalloE. WalloT wanted too much
money.
The pimp who psnaerH TO political
!, self-pollGtion is sometimes mistaken in
his object. This regular course OF pro-
ced1re in that hideous plan-the nurdeE
OF the ballot, the assassination Of the
FREQ vote Of the peopls-hsd been hitherto
extremely Cheap, exceedingly inexpsn-
sivs. What Power wanted Mr.. Penny
cook to do vas to throw ont the vote OF
precinct No. 81 and how he threw I; ous
, he didn't care, so long as ii didn't cost
too much"