The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-01-11

courteous cOn0lOer0tlOn anu VINO uao .
right to demand that he DO let alone.
The whole subject would have been
charged mp days ago tn h political
profits and loss account, to be forever
forgotten. but for the Inter Mountains
persistence in loading its with
the theme. Satisfied that our Butte
contemporary summarizes the
from a wrong standpoint, we submit
these considerations:
First: Not many days ago q man
high i'm Northern Pacific official circles
declared that SANDERS sent in his resig-
nation with a string to it," I'm n sch
ate or out of it, WILDER F.. Sanders has
been and will he n Northern Pacitic's
obsequiOus servant At Helena he was
ready to listen to whispers of a COM
promise which would send to the senate
himself and Air. Iauser, who, con-
fessedly, il the roads representative
friend in Montana. "A to Mr.. Power,
we have the testimony OF the Inter
Mountain that he is a senatorial for
nation with well defined walls of the
land-grab type. These men were elected
by u pseudo Legislative body which was
republican to a man. The plain deduc-
ton is tina the railroad ringsters and
land grabbers whom the Inter NOnn-
tain claims to resist, controlled the
elections made by an exclusively re-
publican body which our Butte con-
temporary openly supports. The roster
Of the Northern Pacific shows that, al
most without exception, its chief OIL
GERS are republicans, many or them
being staunch supporters and earnest
workers for the party i'm every field. At
Helena, there was no power made
operative tina could name Mr.. IIauser
"a winner, and two democrats We're sent
to Washington who never were accused
of alliance with the railroad.
Second. The fact that no republican
| senator was chosen from the west side,
is the good fortune rather than the
fault of Helena. without prejudice,
! we say that Mr.. Mantle is largely to
| blame for this. There was need of "A
man who could command west-side
nominating strength. Mr.. Mantle
could not do it. Men wisely hold the
tirm-girt fort. but not the fort Of
broken bulwark. Prompted by stall
wart purposes in politics for which
the STANDARD has nothing but admir-
ation-Mr. Mantle thought he could
compel support at the eleventh
hour, but he was mistaken. From
first to last, his own county was
rabidly m almost solidly against
him. "a condition usually fatal to any
candidates. There was nothing for him
Ill uetlocTitlc lpeeT lsotSt, Ill Iepuo-
lean Missoula was his sworn foe. lie
believed that, as the canvass advanced,
things would come his way. They never
came man of less ardent tempera-
ment could have foretOld that they
would not. lie staid in the field till the
end of the fight. lie had IA right To stay,
as his rivals did, but he cost the west
side IA republican senator, and every
candid observer who has average pOliti-
cal instinct knows that his is true.
Third: Mr.. Mantle was not n vic.
tim of any corporate influence that can
make itself felt in Montana politics
The hostile agenc of "a railroad ring Oh
n mineral land grab was not needed t.
insure his defeat. lie died in the house
of his friends. lie vent down, not
under the crushing weight of any cor
poration. but simply in liquidation OF
old and petty scores relating to ward oI
town politics. lie never was in posi-
ton, during the tn make him
self dangerous tn amy corporation
Had he been able to "a reas
enable amoun of west-side strength
the railroads and the land grabbers VIII,
finally ike the ticket would doubtless
have taken him up ard. outside the of
flee of his newspaper. everybody admits
that Mr.. Mantle woul gratefully hav,
!. welcomed the friendly lift. The follow
, ers of Tom Couch and Mr.. Rickard'
did not speak AS those having authorit,
of any railroad. TN the contrary, the,
departed from the rules that govern
| every square fight in politics, openl!
, to assail the moral qualities
, and the social weaknesses which Nr
| Mantle was said to personate. giving
| him IA name and Il nature which, the.
: piously avowed, made hin unfit 70
I any public service. In every sense thi
manner of campaign WAS grossly IN
fair. in many respects il was indecent
5 In foul assaul on MIR. Nantes charac
ter there marched from bar room L
A bar room in Helena many Il nan who's
conduct constantly reveals in "a corne
what Mr.. Mantleis conduct has pre-
a claimed from the housetop. Mr.. Mantl
{ knows that not one line of all this iilth
I gossip ever found place in these columns
|. nor will it ever lind repetition here. Il
n our opinion the republican plan adopte
n in fighting Mr.. Mantle was coward
r and vindictive, yet it was effective, |;
everybody knows. The vile strear
WAS turned on full head in Helena b