The weekly tribune., 1894-09-21
BLOWING THEIR HORNS.

The Butte Miner few days ago en-
tered the capital campaign and espoused
the side of Helena All of the Helena
'pirates" and all the voters of Silver Bow
county have known for eighteen months
that the Miner would pursue just such
course. 1t was no surprise in that sec
ton. But the Helena pirates" in their
desperation are playing it for all it is
worth and claiming it is the highest
trump out For that reason the Indend-
ent, which is circulated free, and the
subsidized Helena for the capital papers
throughout the state have been hailing
the supposed accession to their ranks
with display type and copying what it
says upon the subject as though it were a
great Sir Oracle and spoke the sentiments
of Silver Bow county. Only in this way
could the people know where the Miner
stood, for it is absolutely local paper
and has no circulation outside Of Butte,
and not as large circulation there as
the Standard.
For fear that this break of the Miner
might be misunderstood in other sec
tions of the state, for it is we'll under
stood in Butte, number of wellknown
residents decided to hold an initial meet
ing and take steps to put the voters
right upon the record. The news that
it was to be held, though no previous
notice had been given, spread rapidly
and Monday evening the club was or
ganized, the crowd in attendance being
far in excess Of the capacity of the hall
The assemblage WAS a repre- sentative
one in all respects, and glance at the
names of those who were active partici-
pants shows among them Henry Mueller,
twice member of the city council,
mayor for one term and the present dem
ocratic candidate for state senator; w.
W. MCCraken, president of the Silver
Bow National bank and the republican
candidate for mayor in 1893; Judge Q.
NJ. Colman, justice of the peace, elected
on the populist ticket in 1892, and the
present candidate of that party for sheriff
Of Silver Bow county.
There is no need to single out
other names from the list of 360 who
signed the roll that night. Those
quoted are fair samples and show that in
Butte the question of politics and the
question of capital are to be absolutely
divorced.
The tone Of the speakers, however, is
worthy Of consideration by the voters Of
Great Falls. They all brushed aside as
hardly worthy OF notice the supercilious
claims Of Helana for social, intellectual,
or business superiority. No attention
was paid to the club house, the court
house, the Brosdwater, or the vacant
blocks. They belonged Of right to Hell
ena and she was welcome to them. Nor
was the geography of the state exhibited
and studied to point out the exact GEN.
ter. Oh, no. They simply knew that
Helena is as near to Butte and Ana
conda as Butte and Anaconda are to
Helena, and there was no reason on
earth why the latter should not come
to the former as we'll as the former 60 to
the latter. They knew that for years
Helena had been the enemy Of
Butte and had done all in its power ia
disparage and retard it, and compel its
people to dance attendance upon it, and
now that the time is at hand they pro
pose to give Helena dose Of its OWE
medicine.
Helena had been taking care Of itsell
these many years at the expense Of al
other communities and profiting by tht
example, Butte decided to look out fol
its own interests and let Helena do wha'
it has always done, generally by devious