The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-04-21
In A. P. A. COUNCILS
Arranging to Elect Delegates TO the
State Convention.
1T IS OF GREAT INTEREST
aldwell Is Being Roasted by His
Brothers In the Cause Some
Apostates Who Are Forever
Banisheo-SeCretM ceilings.

The approaching matter of most in
terest in A. p. A. circles on the carpet
just now is the meeting of the state
central committee of that organization
which will be held shortly. This state
central committee corresponds to the
county central committee, or c. c. c.,
except that instead of running the pol
itics of Silver Bow county only, 1T pro-
poses to run the politics of the state
of Montana.
The state central committee of the
A. p. A. consists, or rather Will consist,
of one member from each council or
the organization in the state. Not all
the councils have as yet elected their
central committeeman, but the three
councils of Silver Bow county have done
so within the past week or two. The
state central committeeman from the
three surviving councils of this county
are as follows:
Council No. 1...............J James watt
Council No. 3.............C. -. johnson
Council No. 7................J.A A. BAKER
AS soon as the other councils of the
state select their committeeman,
meeting of the committee will be held
in this city, and the fall political cam
paign will be outlined, and candidates
for various offices selected.
So far as known, none OF the men
placed under Caldwelrs ban have apol-
ogized or have presented themselves
for investigation and pardon. AT the
last meeting of Council No. Z, Mr.
Caldwell warned the faithful on no
consideration to associate with any of
the following apostates: j. Il. Creigh-
ton, j. w. Masterson, John Week, w.
w. Dunks, L. c. Galbrabth, Frank Cole.
A. p Van Dusen and I. ]. Booker
These apostates are all guilty OF the
crime of supporting Knowlton, Davey
Ii fVaGf n
regular A. p. A. candidates.
The last meeting of the c. c. c. was
not as pleasant and harmonious as the
meetings of that organization usually
are Mr.. Hammond roasted Mr.. Cald-
we'll for being such a fool as to send
those letters to the apostates. He said
the First Epistle of Caldwell to the
apostates was enough to sicken any
man of such a leader for the great
and glorious organization. 1t was even
worse than his epistles of the past
two weeks In the Examiner. he
thought Caldwell was doing all he
could to break up the a. p. AS and
believed he was the man who Is in the
employ of the Standard, and is giving
up all the news of the secret meetings
to the Standard. At any rate he did
not know how a man could hurt the
organization worse IL he was trying to
break 1t up than Caldwell had done.
Mr.. Caldwell denied the charge. He
challenged anybody to show where he
had ever given up any of the secret
doings of the organization to the STAN
dard or any other paper. He intended
to weed out all traitors from the or
ganization If 1t cost the election next
fall
Mr.. Baker wanted to know how on
earth Mr.. Caldwell proposed TO keep
the a. p. AS alive without offices.
Mr.. Caldwell replied that offices are
indeed essential to the life of the or
ganization. That in fact is what the
organization is for. He ventured the
assertion that that statement has new
er been denied. Still there was no use
in electing men to office who will not
obey the A. p. A. after they get elect
ed. Thus far the organization, he was
free to confess. had been very unfortu-
nate in electing men to office who
proved traitors. Look at the men
elected to the legislature and to the
councili Very few of them. said Mr..
Caldwell. have pulled true in all cases.
He believed the traitors should be got
rid of before electing them to Office.
not afterward.
After a long discussion a vote of con-
fidence was passed for Mr.. Caldwell,
Mr.. Hammond alone voting in the
negative. a vote OF censure was then
passed on Mayor Thompson for not
| holding his officials in line for the A.
p. A. candidates In the Eighth and
Sixth wards.
A boycott was ordered placed on the
store of John Meek in West Park
street. and the chairman was author
lied to hire a Waterman to keep track
of all a. =. AS entering the store and
report same to headquarters at the
next meeting.