The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-10-24
WHAT MADISON WANTS
II Is Railroad, One That Will Open
Her vas! Latent Re-
sources.
And Her Leading Citizens Are
Convinced That One Is Not
Far Away.
Ready to Do Even More Than Their Share
to Get It-A Bozemnn
Circular.

''"s 80 c"ihH AAuAo ous "a Guo Chplkhi Quos-
tion at this particular time, and it would |
appear that few energetic, iudefatigable |
gentlemen who are making, and who have |
made for years past. every effort to secure
railroad connection with county that has |
sufficient resour COS to challenge the richest |
in the state are made to pose in the inter
ests of Helena alone. 1t is difficult to give
the status of the situation in Madison
county without personality or passing
attention to the inconsistent roar of some
Of the itinerant writer's and solicitors of
the outlying towns. We have nothing but
the frisndiiest feeling for the Gondola
town and the greatest admiration for her
ambition, whether for capital honors or as
q center of manufacture. but it 10 hardly
consistent to food our mails with such SOL
ioitations as the following, wherein we find
among the signers three names who were
residents of Madison at the time:
BOHEMIAN, Oct. 6. 1892-Dear Sir: Boze-
man has entered the racs for the capital.
For two years ws have been shaping our
affairs for this contest. For the past sixty
days our work has been aggressive and
thorough. We have carried the canvass
into the more distant counties. and the re-
salt ia most satisfactory. We have salts
fed ourselves that Bozeman 10 q winner.
For the first time since they stole the capi-
tai from Virginia City. Helena 10 alarmed,
and Bozeman is the town she is af raid of.
When this night began strikers and hire
lings were sent out over the state with
money to corrutt the press. buy votes, and
hire men in the several counties to work in
| the interest OF Helena. Fnt such howl
has gone up from the uncorl upted press of
western Montana and the people Of eastern
| Montana who will not be migrepresented,
that Helena has taken the alarm and trotted
out her abest citizens to do missionary
work and misrepresent Bozeman.
They a'e peddlinQ the report that Bozs-
man has no chance" saving that the fight
is between Helena and Anaconda" The
Helena men who make that statement
are liars and they know it. Citizens of
Madison county, we want your votes we
want them all, we want you to stand by
Bozsman in this fight as We stood by you in
your capital fight with Helena. Gallatin
county gave you every vote but eight that
was polled in the county. You told US then
that if the time ever caIne that we wanted
your votes that you would stand by Us to a
man. We want them now. Every signer
OF TINS letter worked at the polls for Vir-
| ginia City in 1873 and voted for her. We
look upon the people of Madison county as
our closest friends. Od-timsrs. we know
you are with u.s. We ask you now to tell
your neighbors who came later of our fdel-
| ity and ask them to vote for Bozsman in
| bub COIuluR COnb0Sb. QUINN ny us sOllQl1
and we will win.
Let us hear from you. Ia it necessary
| for us to come and see you, or will you
| watch our cause? Remember we haye a
herculean task-there are sixteen counties
Friends OF Madison, We can't go into de-
| tails in this lette-. We have made our
canvass. we know our strength, and we be-
lisve we will win. We know that We have
got to meet and combat Helena's we'll
known policy of bribery, Misrepresentation,
corruption and fraud. We will meet their
corrupt methods by nm appea, to the honest
on such tactics by casting his vote for
Bozeman. Helena is out of the race, and
cannot succeed. Again we urge you to
stand with us. Respectfully.
NELSON STORY, J.. s. WILSON,
BEN BIsEL, j. S. MENDENHALL
II. A. PEAsr, VIM. WELSH
G. w. HOFFMAN, DAVID ANDERSON,
CHARLES RICH, w. j. BEALL,
l.. u. OLDs. j. Nj. LINDLEY.
We are not ou the stand. to talk capital
matters, but since the local press of Boze-
man has dragged in our railroad project it
is apropos to ask. in reply to the above cir
cular: How long since and how much ter
ritory did Gallatin try to steal from Madi-
son county? Again. at the time Gallatiu
claims to have ''stood in' for Virginia City
she had no place or object in going else
where, looking at the situation from a looa
or selfish standp oint.
1t is particularly reprehens ible to infer
as it does in the press-that ''if certain
Madison county capitalist who has 5000l
to put in railroad job, will hand his name
to this latest Helena job, there will be az
parsntly five per cent OF the requisi tt
amount subscribed" This statement il
made in an effort to prove shat the psrtioi-
patton of Helena capitalists in the railroad
project was gotten up merely to catch Mad
ison county votes for the capital. AS il
would seem to imply that our local fnan
ciers are either children susceptible of be
ing Guped and in need of a BoZemar
guardian, or else accessories to a papsl
scheme. the effect of such rhetoric can bt
easily imagined. Henry Filing, the capital
ist referred TO above was interviewed. A
shrng OF the shoulders was the only repl,
to the article In question. In relation tt
the situation he rapidly enumerated oul
. agricultural resources, the cost of raising
, and the prices commanded for cattle
sheep, grain and hay and the amassing oi
such property on his individual hands on
account Of no outside market through lack
of transportation facilities.
II would be willing" said he, ito grade
twenty miles, besides contribution, were
it necessary to depend only upon our looa
efforts" He further stated that two banks
in Helena stood ready to push the scheme
to completion as rapidly as practicable and
he would guarantee that they meant busi-
mesa with no ulterior motives; that while
he had his own private views regarding the
capital location it outs no figure in the de-
termination of the leading citizens of Madi
son county to have n railroad. i. X. Bu-
ford and other loading tradesmen were in
terviewed. Tho older settlers who wer,
cognizant of all tho faots when the Utah 4
Northern was survey cd deeply deplored the
stand taken not to have granted them al
} exemption from taxes for certain tlrue as
: they requested. Had the question been O
little better understood the line would have
gone directly through Madison county. TS
a unit they are in favor OF giving honor &
, whom honor is due;" to meet Helena cari
, talists half wav and with the assurance sha
Madison capitalists arc nbundantly able to
designate the difference between paper
rail cad and n legitimate scheme that vii
. place Madison county In the front rank nj
> amongst tho greatetst producers with I
: territory rich enough and large enough Il
' support the larRest population in years u
. como when the great bonanza minea shai
have become exhausted.
Even Though ii were fact that there arr
some In Helena who would aid our pet pro