The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-10-02
MR.. RICHARDS CAMPAIGN
II Is the Most Unique Of Any
Yet Conducted In This
State. 8
Ancient kilograms, an Old Maid
and Bird the Prominent
Features.
Booming Mr. Carter for Senator and
Trying to Tell How Seven Is .
Majority of Sixteen.

MILES CRY. Oct. 1.-(Speciai. ii. Il.
Richards, the republican candidate for gov
ernor. is running one of the most unique
campaigns on record. It in a Carterian
explanatory campaign. in which the only
things that figure are GONE kilograms. Benz
jamin Harrison, bird story, the legisla-
tive candidates. and "How declared rs-
suits in the senate deadlock" Mr.. Rick
ards started ON his campaign about ten
days ago, and after a while got to Lewis
| town, in Fergus county. From there he
worked his way down, visiting Red Lodge.
| Billings. and Miles City to night. He does
not travel alone, his principal assistant be-
ing Judge Hamilton, of Butte. The speech
OF the leutenant governor is the same at
all places, with Just little local spice thrown
in, and the Carter ear marks are 30 plain in
the Introductory portions as to be readily
| recognized by any one who has studied she
eI-land commissioners methods. The re-
publican eubernatorial nominee does NOT
touch tho tariff issue, nor the silver ques-
tion, nor the mineral land dis
cnssion, nor the third party move
ment, nor any thing else save
as it affects directly Harrison, Richards
and Carter. And the methods employed
to enthuse the faithful before the explanH-
tion begins are really the reault Of much
thought. The modus operandi are the
same at ali places where q meeting is held.
so the story of the gathering at Billings
Friday evening will illustrate them all.
When the party gets to a town where Mr..
Richards is to speak the chairman of the
n{v up ia MIA in
of telegram. soiled and worn from fre-
quent handling, and requested to read it
when he calls the meeting to order. Ii the
town happens to be on the railroad the
state committee, during the day, sends
leading republican dispatch. The pre-
liminaries thus arranged when the meeting
is opened the local manager takes the plat
form, and with little or no preface reads
the following:
To Hon. j f. Hickards-The campaign is
looking splendid. heports from all over the
state the most promising. We will carry
Silver Bow for you by 1000 majority. Keep up
your end and We will win.
STATE COMMITTEE.
OF course this is duly applaudsd. and
then the chairman, if on railroad Ii ne,
reads the following:
Richards cordial receipt III by the republicans
| of - STATE COMMITTEE.
Then Mr.. Richards is introduced. He
begins by saying he will not discuss the
tariff issue and other vital questions but
will leave them to the gentlemen who will
follow him, promising hls auditors feast e
they will but remain to hear them. Then
he tells the people that this s the first time
the residents of Montana will have the
| chance to make their voices heard in a
national contest. Next comes reference
TO President Harrison. including an ad-
moniton to all republicans to vote for the
| republican electors. This section of the
speech occupies just three minutes by the
watch in its delivery. Then Mr. Richards
| tells with great detail the story of AN old
maid and bird, story that was old in
| campaign literature when air. Richards
was n boy. Ii takes just two minutes to
| reheerse the bird romance by this
time he has his audience no to the
point where they feel it is about time to
applaud some one as they invariably fail to
enthuse when the presidents name is men
toned, so Mr.. Richards mentions the name
of Mr.. Sparks and follows 1T with the re-
mark: DO you believe our own Tommy
Carter would do as he" Then the shouts
go up, and just here MIR. Richards puts in
his best hchs for the Carter senatorial
boom. With Carter on their minds he calls
attention to the great Importance of elect
ing republican legislators in Novembeis and
dwells for five minutes on the topic. The
impression made is shat the election of re-
puDllCalS means tne heleCtiou Va nSI. YAK
ter for United States senator.
So far Mr.. Richards has occupied ten
minutes, booming Harrison, telling bird
story and keeping his contract not to for
get Carter. Then he gets down to business
and with the preface, II now desire to mako
u peysonal explanation, not as an apology,
he gives his ve sion of how he made the
Reed ruling. days before Reed thought OF
it, i'll the senatorial deadlock.
lie begins on the twenty seventh day of
the session, when the epnbllcans elected the
secretary of the senate and other employees,
and endeavors in u most serious way to
prove that seven is a majority of sixteen
and that where the law saws nine is Il
quorum, and the roll call shows
only seven, he is keen sighted enough 10
put Gu We on the seven and make 1t nine.
lie goes into minute details and quotes
| authorities TO sustain his position, but he
! does not tell his audience the authorities
! were not the rules of the senate, because
! that body had not made any rules when he
called seven a majority OF sixteen. MIR.
| Richards has reheai sed this part of his ad
dress thoroughly, and to make sure that he
always gives the same version, he reads
quito good deal of it from little note
book. 1t takes him twenty five minutes to
mako his explanation, and after a final
word on the Importance of electing repub-
| lican legislators he bows and reti es.
He ia followed by Judge Hamilton, who
talks tariff. silver and mineral lands as
though he was addressing jury and was
not quite certain of the verdict winding up
with u savage attack on the peoples party,
calling it side show of monstrosities.
MIR. Riokards' covert advocacy OF Carter's
CLAIMS for tho senate arc bearing their
fruit. When he completes his campaign in
| eastern Montana Carter will have the full
support of every republican legislator in
| this section,
|
Peited by Large Haiistones.
| C., De-, .A,s Ilatmaa, D,90 anil hxaa