The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-04-09
HOW IT TRANSFERRED
Netting Of the G. G. G. Of the A. P.
A. to Examine the Situation.
PALMER WANTS TEBO FIRED
Caldwell Says the Cause Is Lost.
les on the Hog Train. and No
Voice Says Nay-1he Sign
of the Cross.
PALMER WANTS TEBO FIRED

last evening for the purpose of explain
ing how IL happened. Room of the
Hauswirth block, where the meetings
of the committee were held, had been
newly kalsomined in a blue tinge. sbut
Schatzlein didn't do the job. The entire
nine committeeman were present
A. N. Yoder was there. the quiet,
but shrewd chairman of the committee
Professor John F. Davies. the superin-
tendent of schools, writer of resolu-
tons and secretary of the committee.
was present, and so was ]. A. Baker,
treasurer of the committee. George
Hopkins, Charles Q. Johnson, Francis
Brooks, w. j. Palmer and DIR. c. v.
Norcross, made up eight members of
the committee, while the ninth sat in
the obscurity of the corner and, as he
took no part in the proceedings, the
reporter could not tell who II was.
The committee was a little late in be-
ing called to order, and a feeling of dis
content and nervousness seemed to per-
wade the committee room.
AS soon as routine business had been
transacted, Mr.. Palmer, the manipu-
lator of the machine, was called on to
explain how 1t all happened and how 1t
was that his scheme had not worked,
and the committee had gotten into the
soup.
THE trouble down in the Eighth
ward" said Mr.. Palmer, lis that Mayor
Thompson would not leave things en-
tirely in my hands, and allowed city
officials to work against my interests
there. Why. there were eight police
men down in that ward and seven of
them were working for Knowlton. How
could we win when there was such
treachery in our own ranks? i demand
now, in justice to myself, that Chief
Tebo be fired. He is a democrat. any
way and, worse than that, he has per-
mi N
my interests. / shall demand of Mayor
Thompson that he fire Tebo."
1T seems to me that you are doing
good deal of demanding for a man who
has only been naturalized six months,
remarked Baker. why didn't you do
your demanding with your Cornish
friends in the Second ward?"
II am tired of all this talk about ma
tionalities," retorted Palmer. 1T have
my naturalization papers and / have
had them several months. / would like
to know IL a naturalized citizen is not
as good as native-born citizen and If
some of us are not better?"
Except the Irish," gently suggested
Hopkins.
"Of course, the Irish are always ex-
cepted," continued Palmer. AN Irish
man who had been naturalized 40 years
would not of course, be on a footing
with me; yet some of them have the au-
udClly 10 III tie pOlitiCS VI
this great and glorious country"
Mr.. Palmer insisted that resolutions
should be passed at once requiring
Mayor Thompson to fire Chief of Police
Tebo. Mr.. Palmer's influence did not.
however, seem to be as all-pervading
as 1t was a week or two ago, and some
dissenting voices were heard 1t was
finally concluded that it would be
proper to have Mayor Thompson up be-
fore the committee to explain haw 1t
happened, and 1t was also decided to
send for j. ID. Caldwell, grand chief OF
the A. p. AS in Montana. These gen.
tlemen are not members of the c. c. c.,
but are occasionally called in, when
knotty points are to be solved. Messrs.
Thompson and Caldwell appeared at
the outer door of Room at the same
time.
wat tell, Bil?" asked Caldwell
"Dam-I mean darn you, wish you
wouldn't call me Billr' returned the
| mayor.
The American magnates were ushered
into the presence of the nine and there
was not a ripple of applause or any
evidence of hilarity. Mr.. Caldwell was
called on to explain how IL happened,
but was evidently either reluctant or
non-plussed.
1T looks to me-" said Caldwell, ''as
though we are on the hog train. There
is no use talking, our situation for
NEXT fall is bad. Had we made a clean
victory, every office next fall would be
filled by a man friendly to the Cause.
But now the enemy has discovered our
weakness and is emboldened to fight
us, and / don't see anything that can
save us now. Anybody but a fool
would have known that we can do
nothing without the Cornish and the
Swedes and yet both these rationale
ties were ignored by our wise and far
seeing mayor. Had even a semblance
of an appointment been given TO the
Cornish. we might have held them in
line. The Cornish were ignored and
now we are on. of IL unless we make
some sort of an arrangement with the
Irish"
Mayor Thompson was called on for
his opinion and said that II was ride
ulous to attribute the defeat to the
Cornish. The Cornish, he said, cut no
figure except in the Second ward and
in the Sixth and Eighth wards the de-
feat was even more terrible. He said
that the defeat in the Sixth ward was
owing to the fact of a democrat run
ming on a republican ticket, and in the
Eighth ward Knowlton was a good
man anyway and no attempt should
have been made to beat him.
There you are" exclaimed Palmer
How could / win when / had half the
A. p. AS. all the Junior orders, all the
democrats and populists and the ma
yor himself to fight down i'm my ward.
to say nothing of seven policemen"
Professor Davies said he thought the
defeat was owing to the fact that A. p.
A. voters were required to make a
cross in front of the name of the can
didate in order to vote for him.
mo true American Citizen" declared
the professor, could be expected TO
sink his patriotism so low as to be re-
quired TO make the sign of the cross
on his ballot. The election laws should
be changed. We lost hundreds IL not
thousands of votes just in that way
How could i. as superintendent of the
schools of Silver Bow county. educate
the children up TO the proper patriotic