The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-01-30
WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 30. 1895.
What We Are Coming To.

BY and by, not so very long hence, a
new field for making money will be
open in Montana, and, for that matter,
in all the states of the republic 1t
will be the organization of 1.-The Can
didates' Insurance and Trust COM
pany" All that is needed in a given
locality is a little money and one man.
This mans duty Will be TO learn by
heart the election law. lie must be a
pretty clever mantle legislative
thinkers have put TO the law more frills
and fur bellows and flounces than 60 on
an eighteen-thirty gown.
This man will have an office, of
course. The candidate of any conven-
ton will call at the office, pay twenty
dollars, and, within a stipulated num-
Der of days, he will receive a policy in
suring him that he is properly nomi-
mated, properly filed, properly certified
TO, properly recorded and properly in
his candidacy; the agreement being
that If the SAID candidate is elected by
the people and then thrown out by the
courts on some little fly-specked tech
nicality, the aforesaid, the Candidates
Insurance and Trust company, will
pay to him the cash equivalent of the
salary of the Office in question. In
case the stake is seat in the legisla-
ture, the candidate, by paying an extra
premium at the outset, can carry an
extra risk on the amount he figures he
can swipe during the session by the
sale of his vote.
Last November, there was in Deer
Lodge county a hot three-cornered
fight over the Office of county treas
urer. More than $500 votes were
polled. ID. f. Ilallahan had a
plurality of about $50 lie was
elected, but he doesn't get the place
There was something or other he for
got to do Either he didn't part his
hair on the north side, or have cork
soles TO his shoes, or he didn't have his
hip pockets six and seven-tenths
inches deep, or he didn't have a gold
filling in the back tooth of the left
side lower jaw-we do not know what
he failed TO do but, whatever he
omitted, compared with the weight of
the will of the people, was just about
as important as the things we have
mentioned. The district court de-
cides against Mr.. Hallahan.
Nor does the man who stood second
on the list get the place-.here was no
election. And we understand that the
district court was guided to its con
illusions by the former decisions of
the supreme court of Montana. Votes
don't count. 1t is idle to expect
familiarity on the part of the average
candidate with the complexities of the
election law; the only safe way is to
take out policy in the Candidates
Insurance and Trust company. A con-
Germ of the sort could prosper.
The patriots at Helena are purifying
our elections just now. If they keep
on at their present pace with the pend
ing bill, we shall have clarified cleo
ton purity In ten-gallon casks at every
precinct In Montana. Isn't II wonder
full that the world got on so long and
so comfortably on the ten command.
ments; you can print them with dis.
tinct nonpareIl type in forty-two lines
of the STANDARD.
Surely, good, honest, common-sense
provisions, such as we suppose Mr..
Monteath intended at the outset are
TO be desired, bu' if the mockery they
are making al Helena prevails, with
the amendments already in and pro-
posed, the result will be IN witness of
the fact that the fourth legislative as
sembly in Montana is an aggregation
of idiots.
1t will happen, about the time of
the next general election that two
acquaintance will be jogging along in
a railway coach One man will
venture 10 ask his companion for a
chew of tobacco, and the companion
will say: Sorry, but | can't do il:
I'm candidate for the Office of lock
tender on Silver Bow creek" That
will seem ungenerous; but it will be
according 10 law