The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-03-05
HOW ASTNA7OR WAS LOST.
Party Treachery in Montana By
Marcus DAILY.
GREAT CONSPIRACY.
Formed Between DAILY
and Lee Mantle.
The elimination of the Deal Was the
Appointing of Mantle BY Governor
Richards to Succeed
Sanders.

The deal by which the Montana Demo-
Gratis lost United States senator was con-
summated today when Governor Rick
ards appointed Lee Mantle of Butte to
succeed Wilbur f. Sanders as senator
from this state. Three months ago your
correspondent charged that Marcus
DAILY of Anaconda had formed combi-
nation with Lee Mantle, of Butte, to send
DAILY read the story he denounced it as
lie, but the events of the last sixty days
have proved that the story was true.
The treachery to his party by Daily and
his conspiracy with Mantle and few
other Republicans began year ago when
Mantle was elected mayor of Butte city by
DAILY votes, defeating the regular Demo-
cratic candidate. The next surface indi-
cation of the conspiracy was in Novem-
Der last when the state was lost to Cleve-
land and the state ticket by the defeat of
the Democrats through the Daily Repub-
ican alliance and the election of Mantle
men to the legislature.
The next move of the combine was de-
layed because of the fact that Sanders re-
ceived the nomination of the Republican
caucus instead of Mantle. Daly's men
stood by Dixon, preventing the election
of a Democrat. Finally, however, the
Republican caucus nomination was
wrested from Sanders and given to
Mantle. After this the conspiracy was
carried on under cover. Shortly after
Mantle was made the caucus nominee.
DAILY, who was in Helena all through the
session of the legislature, called on Gov
ernor Richards. For three years these
two had not spoken. Last Sunday and
the Sunday previous Daily was in confer
ence with the governor each occasion for
an hour or more.
All this time Daily was promising the
Democrats in the east that he would see
to it that Democrat was sent to the Sem
ate from Montana so that he could not
openly vote for Mantle, but he could pre-
vent the election OF Democrat by keep
ing Dixon in the race and refusing to
support Clark. The latter DAILY was de-
termined to defeat at any cost even to the
danger OF wrecking the party in the state.
Thursday morning, the last day of the
joint assembly, one of the Daily men in
the legislature was indiscreet enough to
make the assertion that Lee Mantle would
be the next senator from Montana and
that Daily had the governor promise to
that effect. This indiscreet gentle
man also said that Daily had
managed things SO smoothly that
the charge of treachery made by the Dem
ocratic party generally could not be
proven. On the day OF the last joint bal
lot the DAILY men voted with the Repub-
licans for an adjournment sine die after
one ballot, thus giving the naming of
senator to the Republican governor, and
again the combine was unmasked.
No sooner had the presiding officer
made the announcement that the assem-
bly, was dissolved without day, than Re-
publican leader mounted chair and pro-
posed three cheers for Marcus DAILY.
After these had been given, DAILY man
got up and proposed three cheers for Lee
Mantle. Marcus Daily has sent Repub-
lican to the United States Senate without
Democratic vote being cast for him in a
body in which the Democrats held clear
majority. 1t took sixty-four days to play
the combine to the end, but it was sue
cessful, and by it one Democratic vote
has been lost in the United States Senate.
Mantle's appointment is great disap-
pointment to the better element of Re-
publicans, who look on it as not by long
ways the best that could have been made
The Democrats content themselves with
the remark that it is Daily victory and
nothing more than they expected.
Mantle was born in England in 1854 and
came to America in 1853 with his parents,
who went to Salt Lake, Utah, and con-
nected themselves with the Mormon
church. From 1872 to 1877 he was an OPP
orator in the employ of the Western
Union Telegraph company, and later
acted as agent for the Wells Fargo Express
company at Butte. In 1881 he became
connected with the Butte InteY-Mountain
as business manager, which position he
still retains. He has served one term as
alderman in Butte, was delegate to the
territorial legislature in 1882 and last year
was elected mayor of Butte. He is un-
married and of rather prepossessing ap-
pearance.