The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-01-05
SUNDAY, JANUARY s. 1880.

u.. s.m,., U,us.r been elected senator,
the STANDARD would not nave prsHia'icu w
ulegaiity Of his election and wouid nave lhs,s'e"
on his Immediate departure for Washington
Butte later Mountain.
Fourteen DAYS before any caucus
vas held in Helena. h STANDARD de-
elared that neitherof the rival houses
was competent to elect senators. sew.
eral days before either party selected
candidates, this newspaper urged deih-
ocratic members of the legislature 10
let the republicans send their cahdi-
dates to Washington. but to oppose
them in the presence of the iederai
senate, not with rival cahuioa,es,
but with the facts which have left
Montana helpless to give fitting title
TO any two men.
This is the course which democratic
concluded not to follow. Me-
from the east side who are
with personal ambition, have forced "a
situation which puts the democratic
party to scorn and h people to con-
tempt.
A caucus was unwisely agreed upon.
II voted the favor of the democratic
party to Martin Maginnis and w. a.
Clark. Mr.. IIauser, holding some of
his followers back. prevents a formal
vote in Joint session on the DEGREES of
that caucus. Mr.. IIauser may buck
against his party till he breaks his
neck, if he wants to; he will never read
in these columns one word in applause
or defense of his course. Mr.. Maginnis,
Mr.. Power, Mr.. Clark. Colonel Sander
the whole band of them may 60 to
Washington, if they wish. to fight for
seats to which non of them have title;
their course never will find favor with
the ANACONDA DAILY STANDARD; it
certainly deserves no respectful atter.-
ton in Washington. We trust that, if
they do go to the national capital, they
will be forced to come trooping home
again under instructions to perfect
their titles in Montana before they pre-
sumo to present themselves in h fed
eral senate.
So far as the west side is concerned.
it's democrats have cordially supported
Mr.. Clark from the first. But the I'M
seemly contention involving east-side
democrats and republicans everywhere
in the state has sickened the public and
made the people tired. These men.
prompted purely by selfish personal
motives. AVE stood squarely in the
pathway of organization and order for
the new state. Their motives have
been indecent. their conduct is without
0clcISt. iCpuoiiSdh hhhihnSSiS
started out with elaboration to steal
this state, and it is not surprising that
they should set up two senators whose
titles are founded i'm fraud. At Wash
ington they should have been fought
with the fact that this state has no leg
islature competent to elect senator's.
The situation has now passed the
point where political compromise is
possible. If Mr.. IIauser proposes to
array himself against the people, repub-
licans will view him with indifference
while democrats will bury him under a
load of whitening epithets. II the four
me already selected go tn Washington,
We trust that they will be returned tn
Montana with their claims refused
every last man of them.
This state wasn't set up to toe man
aged by any set of men, republicans or
democrats. The self-selected leaders
who have sacrificed every public inter
est to the their personal ambition are a
positive curse to the community. but
we fancy that. i'm the long rum. the PEG.
pie can tire them out.