The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1894-09-29
MONTANA's CS]PITAL.

Der next is that of the location of
the seat of government of Montana.
On November 6 the people of the
state must meet this issue and say
by their votes whether the capital
shall remain in Helera or be re-
moved to Anaconda. Every voter
in the state who is of sound mind
will take deep interest in the con-
test. No man who is interested in
the welfare of the state can fail to
have choice. No citizen who ap-
precfatee his citizenship can be in
different or negative. No property
owner who knows tie Importance
of just legislation can be neutral
Certainly no newspaper which lays
claim to public respect as an expo
nent of good government can re-
main silent.
Within eight weeks the contest
will be ended and the verdict rem
dered. During those eight weeks
the people will be called upon to
consider the claims of the rival
candidates and suffer as victims of
every artifice and subterfuge known
to politics. Every string of preju-
dice will be played upon; every
word and act of men representing
the respective candidates will be
magnified or misconstrued, exag
gerated or obscured, with a vie "
to aiding one or the other of the
candidates.
The Miner is confident that the
intelligent people of the state will!
ignore all small methods and set
the seal of their disapproval upon
the campaign tricks by which un-
scrupulous partisans may seek to
confuse the public mind and appeal
to the passions instead of to the
judgment and patriotism of men
There may be some good reason
why the capital should be removed
from Helena and located at Ana
conda, but if such reason exists il
has not been presented by any
newspaper or politician, working in
the interest OF Anaconda. The
Miner believes that it expresses
the sentiment of large majority
of the loyal and untrammeled citi
zens of Montana when it says thai
such a removal would be not only
a fragrant violation of every prin
ciple of justice and common sense
bat crime agains+ posterity ant
a stigma upon the fair name of The
state. That the campaign has, tt
some extent, descended to person
ality and acrimonious accusation i:
to be deplored. There should bt
nothing personal about it. The
question does not lcgitimately in
volve the private or individual in
terests of any man. 1t is not ;
question of whether this or tina
man shall be victorious, but an is
sue which involves the general wei
fare. 1t should not be contes
between ambitious or avariciCu.
persons, but matter of public
spirit and public pride. 1t is not {;
question between political manipu
lato.s, but an issue which deals
with the rights, prerogatives ane
best interests of every man whC
hopes to see Montana grow ant
prosper as free and Independent
state of the union. The appea
should not be to the petty faction
alism or selfshness of the little
minded partisans, but to the hon
esty and sincerity Of the people
With this understanding of tn
question and with a desire to rep
. resent the best interests of tn,
state the Miner is unalterably ant
emphatically opposed to the loca
tion of the capital in town whicl
, is owned and controlled by on
corporation and in which the press
, trade, commerce and public senti
ment are under tine dictation O
+ men who are not residents of tn
t state. That the selection of sucl
a town as the seat of governmen
would be a calrmity no unbiase'
/ voter can deny, and that is tn
. duty of the people to prevent tn
consummation of what is known t
, be an at empt to subordinate pub
lie IL erests to the avarice of