The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-01-06
YE GODS IT'S AWFUL
Ten Thousand Office Seekers In the
Push.
NO PEACE FOR ANY ONE
Candidates Crowd the Walls Of the
Helena Hotel Until They Bulge
Out Threateningly-Ca
and Mantle Lead.
Special Dispatch to the Standard.

Special Dispatch TO the Standard.
HELENA, Jan. 5.-The republican cau-
cuses for the organization OF the house
and senate was not held tonight, some OF
the members being still absent. Tho
contests for the nominations to be made
by these caucuses has, for tho time, COM
pletely overshadowed even the senatorial
fight. 1t is a rush, q scramble, siege.
Nothing like il was ever seen before;
nothing like it may ever be seen again.
At times to-day it seemed as if all
Helena was trying to crowd into the Hell
ena hotel. Everybody was a candidate or
had friend who was a candidate.
Two pages are to be appointed by the
senate and four by the house. For these
six Offices about all tho boys in Helena
are candidates. School was out and
they bore down on the hotel in scores,
in hundreds, in droves, in mobs. Ihey
swarmed all over the hotel, upstairs and
down. There were big boys, little boys,
fat boys, lean boys, persistent and clam
orous: many of them with tales OF
widowed mothers; most of them with
large and impoverished families to sup
port; all of them begging, beseeching, en-
treating.
And then the girls after committee
ClGIkSDlDS--uOZonS
all tocged out in their most bewitching
costumes with captivating smiles and
tremulous eyela shes. They filed the la
dies waiting room adjoining the lobby
and sent their male champions out into
the surging mob TO the members who
came in and promised. Oh, Lord, how
some of them did promise. One man
says he has committed himself to % girls.
Besides the boys and girls there were
white men and black men, young men
and old men, one-leggcd men, all sorts OF
men, the lame, the halt and the blind,
who wanted positions as janitors. watch
| men-anythinC at all that has few dol
lars attached to it.
And SO they stormed the hotel until
some OF the members actually fled In dis
may and terror.
1t is an absolute fact that not few of
/ the members not being safe in their own
| rooms from the intrusion OF the invading
| horde made their escape 10 other quar-
ters of the city. Sauve qui pent was the
cry that went up at last. 1e gods II was
| fearful. The senatorial candidates were
not in it at all. They practically retired
from the field. The hotel was crowded
till it seemed as though the walls would
burst. 1t was sitting hot. 1t was sceno
never to be forgotten.
And the Joke of it all is that in all prob
ability nine-tenths of the Helena candi
dates will get left. Even those of the
! members who were friends of Helena dur
ing the capital fight declare that Helena
has got enough and the legislative offices
should 60 to other portions of the state.
As for the senatorial fight there is NJ
change except that both the Mantle ant
Carter men claim to be gaining strength
with every hour. Carter is now generally
understood to be the Northern Pacific
candidate. The Northern Pacific wants
both Carter and Sanders, if possible, bu
they must have one of them.
| Tom Power says he doesn't care who j
the choice for senator to-day. What h
| wants to know is who is to be the choic
five minutes before the ballot is taken.
1t is commonly conceded that Carter
| away in the lead on the east side, bu
Power is getting at work and his friend
predict n brilliant finish. All of them ar
confident.
''This is tho first sure thing game | eve
got into" said Colonel Sanders to-nigh
''Every body is sure of it and laughs at tn
other fellows for their misplaced conf
| dence.'