St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-11-24
IL WILL NUl UUWN
Precinct 81 Bobs Up Linz
Banquo's Ghost in Mon
tana Elections.
Dixon Is Chosen to Congress:
With the Fraud as an
Issue.
The Democrats Also Gather
In Five Of the Eight New
Senator'S.
Prospects Of a Legislative
Deadlock at Helena Again
This Winter.
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HELENA, Mont. 23.-The result ~
the election in Montana is perhaps as
great rebuke as the Republican OF
any other party ever received for fraud
ulent practices and Over:urning the
will of the people as expressed at the
ballot box. When the campaign opened
i'll Montana the Democrats determined
to make the great issue on the throwing
out of Precinct 81 in Silver Bow
county, last year. by the county ant
state boards OF canvasserS. This issue
was made on the ground that if the
people Of Montana by their ballots for
the Republican nominees this year de.
cided that this throwing ont was right,
then hereafter either party, when it had
the majority in the county canvassine
board, could and would do the
same thing. The Mckinley bill
was also made point of attack
and the Democratic press ami speakers
came out boldly against the bill and in
favor OF the system of taxation advo.
Gated by Mr.. Cleveland. The next
point Of attack by the Democrats was
Congress Sman Carter's silver record. Sc
sharp was the battle Oh this point that
Garter hurried back 10 Montana, took
the stump, and tried To explain his
dilly-dallying course. But the Demo.
Gratis had the record on him, and lie lost
the support OF every prominent mining
company in the state which had before
supported him. The Official canvass of
the vote for representative in congress
is now completed in all the counties,
the result giving II. Y. Dixon, Demo-
crat,
About 800 Majority.
Carter's majority last year was near
ly 1,700. In addition to electing the
congressman the Democrats have Sc
cured FIVE out of the eight state Sena-
tors voted for, giving them ten of the
sixteen members of the state senate.
This latter victory is likely to have re-
suits altogether unexpected by the polf-
ticians. The contest over five seats i'll
the house of representatives from Silver
Bow county is still undecided. and with
the Democrats in control of the senate.
unless a compromise of some sort can
be reached, there is likely to be an
other deadlock this wiBte.. Just be-
fore the adjournmentof the last legisla-
ture the Den rats made proposition
to the Republicans that the ten contest
ants each resign, and that the governor
order new election for these five seats.
THIS the Republicans refused. The Re-
publican leaders are now III favor of
the ten contestants staying away. and.
as the Democrats elected joint repre-
sentative from Deer Lodge and Beaver
head counties at this election, 1t would
leave the house tie. It's not thought
thn HpnnncrafS wilt 1aonnt fhi..
tion, as 1t will leave Silver Bow county
without the representation il is entitled
70. There are many Republicans in the
state, and they are not by any means in
the minority, who say that the recent
election has shown what the people
want and how they feel, These men
advocate the retirement of the five Re
publican contestants from Silver Bow,
who claim their seats by reason of the
throwing out of
Precinct
and the giving of the seats to the Dem
OcratS. This would give the Demo-
Gratis a majority on JOINT ballot of nine.
The objection 10 this course comes from
the friends of the pseudo-senators, San
derS and Power. who were given seats
in the United States senate by strictly
partisan move. But the Democrats
have not dropped the senatorial fight.
and it is now in contemplation 10 send a
memorial to the United States senate
from the legislature, asking that the
senatorial case from Montana be re-
opened. Meantime. the two most un-
happy men in Montana are MessrS.
Sanders and Power. The people
have branded their so.calied elec-
ton to the United States senate
as fraud, and show that they consider
laI To
the seats. This feeling on the part OF
the people is shown in many ways, and
so prom ounced has it become that It is
now all open secret that one of these So
called senators is seriously contemplate
ing resigning his seat, giving as his rea-
son that his business interests suffer
severely so long as he stays III the SEN
ate. What the final outcome will be it
is hard to say. but one thing is sure, and
that is that the Democrats have as good
a chance to carry the state in 1892 as
their opponents.