The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-04-15

publican candidate for mayor was a man
who had several times been convicted of
robbery or some equally serious offense.
But that does not explain the change, which
appears to have gone further than the can
didate for mayor. 1t is not asserted that
all the republican candidates were felons,
or that they were otherwise as personally
Objectionable as the candidate for mayor.
| When the newspaper that is controlled by
the son of the president of the United States
Helena to say, by their vote Tuesday, what
they thought Of the senatorial election.
those voters were not tied down by any such
party obligation as controls the republican
senators in Washington. They must be as
| sumed to have taken the advice of Harri-
science which senator of the republican
party cannot be assumed to express in de-
fiance of the verdict of committee on cleo
tions.
The speech of the day was made by sena-
tor Turpie, of Indiana. When the elections
COMMITTEES con, made ma its report, Mr.. Sanders,
who may have been misinformed, told some
of his acquaintance that Mr.. Turpie was
not satisfied that the democrats had won
the election. and would make report rec
ommendlng that the case be sent back to
Montana for another trial at the polls. Mr..
Sanders was the only man who heard the
| news.
The speech of Mr.. Turpie was not at all
uncertain. He denounced the action Of
the territorial board of canvassers in throw
ing out the returns Of Precinct "a of Silver
Bow county. This action, he declared, was
clear usurpation 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 cou
find no language too strong in which to
express his opinion of the canvassing board
and the course it pursued.
the senators chosen by the elections COM
mittee. without gloves. He knew nothing
of Thomas G. Power, he said, except what
the records showed. Mr.. Power was man
of wealth, an old and prominent resident
of Montana. He had been an unsuccessful
candidate for high Office. The records
showed that he had sent messenger to
VIM. A. Pennycook, one of the judges of
election at Precinct No. "a asking him to go
to Helena to see about that precinct. They
showed that Power told Pennycook he
wanted Precinct No. "a thrown out. He
did not care what means were used to throw
| it out. He was willing to pay Pennycook
for his time and expenses, and all expense
that might be necessary to get rid of that
precinct.
He was willing to pay for all that it would
cost Pennycook-the Justification of his Of
fetal oath, the betrayal of his trust, the de-
NAL of his sworn returns, the disfrancbise-
ment of all his neighbors and friends who
had voted there, the branding with lasting
disgrace that no gold could gild and no
shameless indifference could hide or cover.
The CrBsus or Cassius of Montana did not
have money enough. Power did not expect
refusal, but Pennycook must not make
his charges too high. Wallow, of St. Paul,
would have done the work, but his charges
were exorbitant. The natural tendency
and bias of this remarkable endeavor to
corrupt seemed to have been tempered by
mony.
"Power," continued Mr.. Turpie, "may
have been dishonest man. somewhat un-
scrupulOus, unprincipled, impure, defled.
He may be a political and social leper,
loathsome, with a stencil, with an odor
worse than he who was seven times dipped
in Jordan to be cleansed, but he was no
spendthrift. He was victim of the most
rigid habits of economy in the mystery of
iniquity which he professed and practiced.
He might be mistaken about what had been
done for them at the county seat of Butte;
might have been disappointed in the effect
of that which had been done for them at
Helena, but one thing he had made up his
mind to-he would have no more to do with
Wallow. Wallow wanted too much money.
THE pimp who panders to political self
pollution is sometimes mistaken in his OBJ
ject. The regular course of procedure in
that hideous plan-the murder of the bal
lot, the assassination of the free vote of the
peOple-had been hitherto extremely cheap,
exceedingly inexpensive. What Power
wanted Mr.. Pennycook to do was to throw
out the vote of Precinct No. 81, and how he
threw it out he didn't care, so long as it
didn't cost too much.'
From the New York SUM-
The senate to-day got into ludicrous
snarl. Senator Turpie, of Indiana, had
just finished his speech, which is conceded
| to be one of the strongest yet delivered on
the Montana cases, when it was found that
nobody wanted to talk, and yet that nobody
! wanted the senate to come to vote. Some
fencing took place between the republicans
and democrats, during which the fact was
| developed that the republicans we're prepar-
ing to play snap game on their democratic
colleagues. Not more than a dozen sena-
tors had been listening to Mr.. Turpie, and
when he sat down no one knew what to do.
To relieve the embarrassment, Senator
Voorhees, moved to adjourn. This brought
| forth a strong protest, az it was not vet
O'Clock. Seeing the slim attendance on the
republican side, Mr.. Voorhees, said there
page was sent to the cloak room and
a procession of republican senators came
forth. ready to vote with their ewes shut.
The democrats would not allow a vote to be
taken, neither would they present anybody
who wished to speak. They said, however,
that several on their side wished to make
speeches, but were not ready to-day. Dur
ing the controversy it was learned that the
republicans had reserved Mr.. Evarts as
their big card to close the debate, and that
he would not speak until he had been as
sured that no more democrats wished to
| talk. This made Mr.. Morgan, of Alabama,
angry, and he absolutely refused to make
his contemplated speech until after every
member of the committee, including Mr..
Evarts, had made his argument. The If
repressible Mr.. Call finally took the floor,
and will speak tomorrow. The speeches on
these cases have all been dry legal argu-
ments, with the exception of that made by
Mr.. Turpie. He created a stir by making a
bitter personal attack upon Mr.. Power, one
OF the asplrants for seat. His arraigu-
ment of this would-be senator was not even
clothed in parliamentary language, and was
most scathing one. Mr.. Turpie has made
several speeches since he has been in the
senate, but his intimate friends did not
credit him with the surprising vigor and
ability which he displayed to-day. He was
fairly overwhelmed with congratulations.
and modestly retired from the chamber and
received the homage of his colleagues in
the retirement of the cloak room. Mr..
Power was not present while MIR. Turpie
was deuouncing him, but his republican
colleague, Mr.. Sanders, occupied 4 chair on
the republican side, while one of the demo-
cratic contestants, Mr.. Martin Maeinnis,
sat on sofa among the democrats. His
colleague, Mr.. Clark. heard Mr.. Turpie's
speech from the gallery. where he sat sur