The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-07-16

milton for having downed Butte once
more. Helena enjoys the immense ad-
vantage Of having control of all the
offices in Washington that are of nc
count in the scramble for federal
favors.
They tell ms now that, whatever
Helena's chances may be, Butte's
building is hopelessly beyond reach.
OF course il is. When the sessions at
Washington opened, Mr.. Carter hurried
to get Ilelena's claim on the calendar.
Nothing was done for Butte until the
STANDARD started agitation which re.
suited in a bill for that city. Butte has
made a pretty good race, but Helena
had the lead by many days and it is at
decided advantage now. IL Is the old
story national and state politics run
in the interest of one of the smaller
cities of Montana. That is a disagree
able situation, but it is likely to be
continued by the direct help Of some
of the west-side republicans.
A casual view of the situation shows
how this thing will work. A few weeks
hence the republicans will nominate a
candidate for member of congress. In
Helena there are a good many inilu-
ences hostile to Mr.. Carter, who is a
recognized candidate for the nomina-
ton. Sanders is jealous of Carter,
Power has doubts about the congress
mans loyalty when the senatorial fight
was on. With a large number of prop.
erty owners in Helena the manifesto
tons of Montana's WEAKNESS owe
that city's g%rasping policy are ominous.
They want above all else to hold the
capital and, rather than risk its loss,
they would throw overheard any man
or any number of men now in the
enjoyment of political ,honors. These
people are afraid that the cry of Hell
ena's h~oggishness would be revived
were they to press Carriers nomination.
They are satisfied that he can command
the nomination if he wants il, but they
adroitly propose To leave that business
to the east side, particularly to Silver
Bow. These old hands at the business
assume that Butte will rush right in for
Carter and that, therefore, Helena will
not he blameworthy IL added honors are
thrust upon her. Probably this is just
what the Butte republican managers
will do. They have been asked TO name
a good man from Silver Bow for the
congressional candidacy but, with one
accord, they protest that among the re-
publicans of the county 10 such man is
in sight. They will be Carriers most
lusty shouters, and when any man with
n memory recalls their reference TO
Helena as a hog, they will tell us, for
sooth, that Helena is not an issue this
year.
state politics ought to he considered
from the standpoint of state interests.
There ought TO be in Montana no con-
ditions that separate the state into two
provinces which find their dividing
line at the crest of the main range.
These conditions do exist, however,
and they are directly chargeable upon
a few east-side men who have persist
emily confused the interests of Mon
tana with those of Helena and who see
in national and state politics only that
which contributes to the upbuilding of
their own town. In Washington or
out of il, these people are for Helena
first, for Montana second and for
Butte last of all. The result is that
Butte, largest city in Montana by
nearly 81 per cent, with larger business
and greater than any city in
Montana can match and, at the same
time, with more urgent postal needs
than any other city can urge-Buttp
must wait until handsome provision is
made for n much smaller city in which
the republicans Of Silver Bow county
have uniformly vested the politics, the
power, the pull.
Aud this is the unbalanced condition
which Butte republicans are proposing
Ia %perpetuate.