The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1894-11-16
FCity of Anaconda Through the
Standard Sends Grateful
Thanks
LOYAL SUPPORT GIVEN
Those Who Should Have Been It's
Allies and Failed 1t Also Says
a Word.

1hx616td of yesterday. 1t is an honest
4 k3331n]y statement of the case, and
WI 3 had with interest by every loyal
kyiGG&p Anaconda in the contest:
Ik&N2nount for the state, with several
ecincts in eastside counties to
8, seems to indicate that Helena
\ a small lead in the total. An
rival in the fight really has less
Than are at hand here on which
the estimates that have been
but during the past twenty-four
f6&se, and Helena cannot support her
olofmtE&{ith returns. While waiting for
Amt Tres, however, the Standard finds
m&El( Hons Of a lead in Helena's favor,
Sgnd NJ DO inform our readers, because
lhat y tho news.
IfS IL the end it shall be found that
Helena gins the fight, then there will be
Inl1 y 3kEfAnt for the paragraph in the
Ind Edent of yesterday morning which
Feat is Butte, and the citizens OF
H6oI@l3Q will keep her action on Tuesday
ng remembrance" Helena never
Held in remembrance any city to
her gratitude was due; il she
I&11tto her tactics she will indeed have
obligations to pay in Butte, be-
&Su1o Butte elected Helena.
It isltrue that a generous percentage
Be Butte's business men worked and
voted for Anaconda, but in the total
vots a. Silver Bow county there were
1000 men whose ballots attest that Hell
I'M can do more for Butte than Ana
ponda can; that Helena's claim to su-
poxtor social standing was we'll founded;
k(f1qk Helena's friendship is of more &C.
eount to Butte than Anaconda's; That
D}ena's share in the business life of
~ is greater than this city's is; that
mas allegations against Anaconda's
<ked criminal and dangerous classes
right.
q opposition to Anaconda in Butte
made up of several elements. 1t in
ed some operators in mining whom
lbb4l6usy prompted; it embraced a pro.
portion Of business men and professional
gentlemen in whose opinion Anaconda
lacKe 's.genteel tone"-that is the way
one okthem put it; it numbered a share
= u11ln who have had much to say about
6ed labor and who, it is to be in
Ind in Helena a better "labor
> ban Anaconda. lis total was
ron mp to many added hundreds by
thQo4 Who sold their vote outright. They
wqiS III paid and it was Butte's money,
14t 46Jena's, that paid them. Scores OF
them o9ered themselves in squads at
no . man. 1t is a fact that Helena's
wealthy hackers in Butte actually spent
more money during the sixty hours that
closed at 6 o'clock Tuesday night than
~ the money that Anaconda used foI
tftal campaigning from first to last in
hi Bow county.
5ueee are the elements that gave to
>na just about forty per cent of Sill
Bows vote. They elected Helena
Etheir aggregate been two thousand
ID of four, Anaconda's certain vic
&eould have been joyously celebrated
2 o'clock Wednesday morning
pw the friends Of Anaconda in othel
les rolled it up! Glorious Gallatin
yellowstone, magnif cent Cascade
64ther counties, right in the region
Nj Helena ought to have been able t.
S6mmend herself to support, practically
.S0lld. Take account of the tremendous
majority with which Flathead favored
Anaconda. Look at Ravallj's sweeping
d6ure1k md notice the gratifying balance
Tor oonda in Beaverhead, where
snq01 mot Helena's money-was poured
~ 4 hope of bearing Anaconda down
&4Wsehall this city ever be able tc
saadequate recognition of the obliga.
under which these friends have
Mkc6o al As for them, Anaconda was
leotedsN TO them every roof in this city
saundlEA bond of lasting obligation
Cow them every heart in Anaconda
teuf its grateful throbbing. Fol
49, 1pconda, weighted with a sense
Is q lon that words cannot express
rold6 well prepared to answer any
all. I'm their behalf this city pledges
bself a render any helpful service, to
hde96o any labor, even of self denial
Q x~oes3 the flag for them in any fight!
h iteS cold blooded way the Independ.
b 0tognizes, as we we're saying, its
Won to Butte. II the count awards
ency among Montana towns tc
her obligations to Butte will
be great. OF course, the citizens
sN (conda regret that they must admit
sbd nch; nevertheless, we do it in q
dill way. This little city never whines
trs1 bpts the decree of the people every
even the decree of Butte, without
ling or whimper.
nj! history of it all is that, here in
tit Dnda, we put up a fight as clean, az
directed, as sturdy, and as coura.