St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-09-01
The Mountain State Prepar-
ing for a Great Political
Contest.
Plenty Of Candidates in Both
Parties Ready to Make
the Fight.
The Power and Carter Fac
tions Having Fun With
Each Other.
Democrats Everywhere Unit
ed and Eager to Be Up
and at En-.

and at 'Ena.
Special to the Globe.
HELENA, Mont, Aug. 31.-The polit.
lcal campaign, which will open in Mon
tana in few weeks, promises to be as
lively and stubbornly contested as two
parties, evenly matched numerically,
can make it. The Republican conven-
ton will meet first, on Sept. IL, at
Butte, and the Democratic convention
ON the 18th of the same month at
Helena. The Labor party has already
held Its convention. and placed W. F.
Field, of Eastern Montana, in nomina-
ton for congress. Field is Democrat,
locomotive engineer by profession, at
presentin the employ of the Northern
Pacific railroad. running all engine on
the Eastern Montana division. He is a
bright young man, with an excellent
reputation, member of the constitu-
tlonal convention, and was the nominee
OF the Democrats of Custer county last
year for member of the lower house of
the Legislature. He was defeated, but
ran far ahead of his ticket. Though the
labor men claim they will cast $4,000
votes this fall, not much faith is placed
In Fields chances, as the stronger labor
unions have kept out of the Labor
party. and cannot be counted OH to help
that party's candidate. AS was the case
last fall, Silver Bow county will be the
pivotal point in the coming contest. and
IT the Democrats are shrewd the county
should be swung into the Democratic
column with big majority. There are
two factions in the Republican
party in that county, the Man
tie and Couch forces. The for
mer is the owner of the Inter Mount
ain, the leading Republican paper of
the state, and was. a candidate for the
United States senate when Pc wer and
Sanders were selected. He charged
his defeat first to Couch and secondly
to Power and the use of
Unlimited Doodle
by the latter just when the prize was
within his grasp. Ever since Mantle's
defeat he has been abusing Couch, and
the other day the latter submitted to an
interview and declared war against the
newspaper man. Couch is the superin-
tendent of the big Boston & Montana
Copper company, and has plenty of
money to carry on the war. As an out
come Of this fight Gen. Charles War
rem, Mantle's closest friend, has an
nOunced that the most available candi-
date the Republicans have for congress
this year is A. j. Seligman, son of the
New York banker. and chairman of the
RQnnhlfaan ctotQ oopnmittaa This in
the event that Carter's decllnatiOn of
denomination was genuine. Seligman
has acted very coyly in the matter. but
the suggestion has pleased him might
lily. But the matter of Carter's declina-
tion is annoying the Republicans. Some
of them regard him as their strongest
card, and say that he does not mean
that he would not run; that, knowing
the feeling the western section of the
state against Helena because it now
furnishes both senators and the repre-
sentative in congress, and being
certain, were he to announce
that he was candidate, that
the West side would unite against him,
he wrote letter of deciination. Before
the state convention meets the West
side Republicans will find they cannot
unite on man, and then Carter Will be
tie scheme Mr.. Carter lost sight of one
fact-that is that the ''cow" country
will not be united in his favor. Last
year he promised the stock growers and
wool men all sorts of things if they
would send him to congress. The In
dian reservations should be cut down.
the Indians removed and the cattlemen
given access to the ranges now held by
the Indians.
The Cattlemen
now say he has neither done this, nor
tried very hard for it. The wool men
were assured that If they sent him to
congress he would so fix the tariff that
25 cents would be low price for wool
this year. These men have patiently
waited for Mr.. Carter's transcendent
genius to work this wonder, but instead,
there is actually no market for wool
this year at higher price than Is cents
q cents less than they received under
a national Democratic administration,
and when j. K. Toole, Democrat, repre-
sented Montana in congress. Then,
again, the mining men have lost conf
dence in Mr.. Carter. He Skulked lust
when his vote was needed ON the silver
bill; he voted for Reed for speaker.
when the st. Louis silver conyen-
ton requested him not to, and
he has only been an out-and-
out silver man when there was no
chance of his vote doing any good for
the silver interests. Some of Carter's
close friends have written him about
these things recently, and it may be,
after thinking the matter over, that he
will clinch his first letter by another
just before the convention meets. An
oil
fear in case he were theRepublican can
dldate is the new and growing Power
party. I. G. Power, who sits in a sena-
torial chair, is anxious to become the
leader of the Republican leader in Mon
tana. In furtherance of this plan, he is
establishing new papers and buying
old ones all over Montana, his s'String''
now numbering seven. These are all
in Northern Montana, where Power is al
ready very strong, and now he is reach
ing into the eastern part of the state OF
the candidates for the state senate this
fall. Power and Sanders each know that
Carter has his eye on the senate, and as
he is from Helena. they also know one
or other will have to yield to him in
case he gains political strength. There
fore, if Carter should be candidate
for the next congress, Power would re-
edIu At do HiOoG duSpiclouS HOHeuL
to wind Mr.. Carter's
Little Bali of Yarn,
and with popular candidate on the
Democratic side he would probably
succeed. Beside Carter and Seligman.
the other Republican aspirants are
Capt. j. S. Mill5,sof Deer Lodge, and
Gen. G. 0. Eaton. The latter stands
the best chance. after Carter On the
Democratic side many names are men
toned. The Democrats viii make the
fight On platform in harmony with the
tariff reform idea, but their principal