The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1894-09-01
NATURAL TO BE SELFILH.

NATURAL TO BE SELFILH.
| The next charge is, "Helena
knocked Bozeman out in the first
Legislative efforts that were made to
locate the Agricultural college, and
it was not by Helena's help that the
second effort was more successful" i"
| am not familiar with the first at
tempt to locate the college, but l
AIN with the second. Every repre-
sentative from Lewis and Clarke
county voted for its location at
Bozeman. These are the plain facts,
as the journal of the last Legislative
assembly will show. | do
not doubt that Helena would have
been an asprant for the prize had
she not been candidate for the cap
ltal. do not see anything wrong
in city or village aspiring for such
prize. 1t is certainly laudable.
1t was generally conceded by the
last Legislature that Gallatin county
was entitled to the college, and her
only competitors were Miles City
and Great Falls. Miles City was
soon convinced that she did not
stand a ghost of a show, and was
content to take any of the public in
stitutions.
Next he deals us out a little
"gush" on Anaconda, and winds up
by styling it an adjunct of Butte,
"the greatest mining camp on
earth?" Why not call Great Falls
an adjunct? She is as much entitled
to be called an adjunct. Her smelt-
er is run on Butte ore; that is all the
connecting link between Butte and
Anaconda. The facts are, they are
separate and distinct towns, and two
years ago were warning competitors
for the race this fall. A prominent
citizen Of Butte writes me, referring
to the "annex or adjunct as ''rot."
He says: We have nothing in com
mon with them; we know how they
treated us two years ago, when we
were in the race" He also says
that no less than three of the prnci-
pal mining companies Of Butte will
oppose Anaconda" So it can be
readily seen that such claims are on
ly idle talk.
PROFOUND MYSTERY.
How any democrat can vote for
Anaconda is a mystery to me, when
they have only to 60 back to the
last session of the Legislature to get
the true inwardness of the corpora
ton that owns and controls Anacon-
da, soul and body. The whole com
pany are of foreign birth, and have
none of the instincts AMI love for
American institutions that genuine
American has. Our beautiful state
has but one representative in the
United States senate. The demo-
cratic party were supposed to have
decided majority on a joint ballot,
and were entitled to an election.
Where did the trouble, or lack of
election, come from? answer from
the Anaconda company, and defy
contradiction. In the first place,
when a caucus was called to unite
upon a candidate where were the
representatives from Anaconda?
Did they attend the caucus? They
did not Why? Marcus DAILY, from
imaginary or real grievances of
personal character, and not of any
concern to the state, through the in
huence he seems to possess over the
people of Anaconda and the Bitter
Root country, refused positively to
caucus simply because he knew from
counting noses" that Hon. w. A.
Clark would be the nominee. He
then opened up headquarters for the
session with full determination to
defeat w. a. Clark if possible; with
a regiment of lieutenants set about
to thwart the will of the people,
which he successfully did. We find
him voting his contingent on the
last day of the session to adjourn the
joint assembly twelve hours before
the Legislature adjourned, which
could have been employed in trying
to elect, and l firmly believe would
have elected; therefore he and his
corporation are solely responsible for
Montana having but one representa-
tive in the United States senate.
care nothing for his "manifes-