The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-12-29
THE WEATHER.
SANDERS VERSUS CARTER.


SANDERS VERSUS CARTER.
The Washington correspondent OF the
New York Sun evidently has been talk
ing with the War Horse, and sends out
this remarkable mixture OF truth and
mislnformation:
Sanders has the reputation OF being at
least an uncompromising republican. and
in the muddle into which politics has
drawn his party in Montana, he sees no
hone of being returned to the senate. In
fact. he believes that a democrat will be
returned, but says that such a result 10 con-
tingent upon the inability of the ~populists
TO control the legislature. If the repubii-
cans should accede to the oVertures OF the
populists which are COW being made, there
is a chance for a republican to be sent to
the senate. These overtures are based on
demands that the candidate shall endorse
the principles of the popullst party. San
ders. in retiring to private life, has the
satisfaction of seeing the hopes of Thomas
Il, Carter as a candidate blasted. 1t is to
the chairman of the republican national
committee that Sanders lays his anticipated
defeat. He firmly believes that outside OF
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republican. and that fact would have been
demonstrated in the last election If Carter
had declared that he was not a candidate
for the senatorship. Sanders will start for
Helena after staying a few DAYS In New
York next week. hoping to put a republican
Tin name at least) in his place, but 1T IS
hope against hope, for members OF the re-
publican senate steering committee have
eliminated Montana from the doubtful
states and placed it among the democratic
c~ertaintie5.
The one truthful statement in the
article is the announcement that San
ders will be succeeded by a democrat.
That is a solemn fact which all the man
damuses that the mill can grind out
cannot reverse. The attempt to make it
appear that Carter lost the legislature to
the republicans is ridiculous, not to say
malicious. The party owes it's defeat
more to the unpopularity of Sanders
than to any other cause. In all the
years he has been fooling in Montana
politics Sanders has never succeeded in
getting an office in any contest where
the people could get at him. The last
time he ran for congress he was beaten
in his own county by more than a
thousand votes, and had he been run
ming for governor, or any other office,
this year, where a popular majority was
needed, he would have been beaten by
not less than ten thousand votes.
Sanders absurd statement that all
but two counties IL Montana are repub-
lican, is amusing to those who know the
facts. OF the sixteen counties the dem
ocrats carried six this year and they
would have carried seven but for the
democratic slump to the populists in
Silver Bow. Had the democrats of Sill
YER Bow done as we'll as their brethren
in other counties, the party would have
swept the state. Mr.. Collins was de
feated by the vote of that county alone
and Cleveland would have had a plu-
rality in the state il hat county hat
held in line. In three successive cleo
tions the democrats have had the besi
OF the fight right in Lewis and Clarke
county, the home of Sanders, 1t was
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1889 Toole carried it and the democrats
elected four out of eight members of tn,
legislature. In 1890 Dixon, for congress
had 100 majority in the county. In 1879
the democrats elected five out OF of nint
members Of the Legislature and gave tn
vote of the county to Cleveland, Collins
Dixon. and to d majority of the looa
candidates on the democratic ticket
Montana is steadily growing democratic
The revolt against the theft of the stat
by Sanders and his confederates la
spread and grown. 1t will be a safel
democratic state in the future. TIL
electoral vote of Montana was on
given TO Harrison this time through til
tremendous efforts Of Chairman Carte
and the corrupt deal in Silver Bow.
Right here Il word as to Carter. +
is the ablest and strongest fepubliea
In Montana. The INDEPENDENT hi
persistently fought him as IA partisan
the past, and it will continue to do SO
the future, but, for all that, he is ii
brains and energy Of the republican c
ganization of the state to-day and Il
small measure of success the par
achieved here in the late election is d
wholly to his management. At Was
ington he worked for Montana. In t
military post matter he was not a tri
tor To his own town. He does not
about TALKING through his hat to new
paper reporters or posing as a vigilan
What-Is-It. He attends to his hnsine
works for his constituents, and if t
republican party ever gains the aseer
ancy in Montana again, which we We
much doubt, Thomas II. Carter will
found at the head of it.
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