The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-01-13

believed that the rise in political gossip
is due to a meeting held a few weeks.
ago. pursuant to this call:
Butte, Dec. %, 1895.
Alderman
1.-THE A. p. A. county central COM
mittee respectfully request you 10 meet
them on Thursday evening, Dec. 20. at
O'Clock, in room 3. Columbia block, to
discuss matters OF Importance. Yours
in f. p. &P. ]. F. Davies,
Secretary"
The above notices were sent to most
of the Butte aldermen who are under
stood to be members of the A. L. A,
and that includes a decided majority OF
the council The meeting was held at
rrhe date named, and a number OF the
aldermen met the members of the A.
p. A. county central committee at that
time.
There 10 a good deal of reticence con-
corning what was the subject matter OF
discussion at this meeting where mat
tiers of Importance" were to be as
cussed. There are some who think the
meeting was called from patriotic mo-
tives, and that 1t was feared by the A.
=. A. county central committee that IN
case of war with England over the
Venezuelan question, as threatened,
the city hall might be annexed TO can
ada 1t was supposed by some that the
conference with the aldermen was to
prevent, II possible, this dire calamity.
1t Will be remembered that about the
date at which the notices were sent out,
q strange flag made its appearance on
the flag staff of the city hail, and many
mistook the flag for the national en-
blem of Canada Closer inspection,
however. revealed the fact that II was
the fair weather signal flag, washed.
pf ~a,u Ssearcaly he conceived that the
meeting between the patriots and the
aldermen was for the purpose of pre-
venting the city hail from being an
nexed to Canada. for some of the
strongest adherents of his Canadian
majesty were present at the meeting.
1t Is more likely that the meeting was
held to get the aldermen ITO further the
plan to move Pete Hale's boarding
house in to the First ward. This is a
matter of vital Importance. 1t Is cur
r,enrly reported that THE pope has lately
engaged apartments i'm the Hale house
and ts about TO run for alderman in
Butte city. The awful consequences or
such pernbcious influence can only be
Imagined. The First ward is already
surrendered to the devil, and If Hale
boarding house were only moved into
the First ward tlhas antagonistic infiu-
ence would be concentrated where II
could do the least harm.
difficult to understand why the removal
OF the Hale house to the First ward Is
a matter of such concern to the A. Z.
A. county central committee. There
are so many A. p. A. aldermen In the
city council at present, and so many
of them hold over, that there is not a
shadow of doubt that THE A. Il. AS VIII
continue to have a majority of the al
dermen after next springs election.
Conceding that the Hale house snail
prove of sufficient political Importance
TO remove the Third ward from the A
p. A. column, that only means the
election of one anita. p. A alderman,
and would only be a drop in the bucket.
The fact Is, however, that the A. +.
AS are not figuring against the Irish
so much as they are against the diNl-
sion i'm their own ranks, and the posi-
biltty of "a new element springing up to
ovearthrown the dominant Canadian
power. 1t seems that whereas, last
spring the various foreign elements In
the A. p. A. We're united. discussions
lhave now arisen and the question is no
longer one of beating the old enemy,
but Us a question of which faction OF
the A. p. A. shall be the dominant fac
tlon. This is shown by the fact that
some of the A. Il. A. aldermen We're
not anvited TO the conference with the
"A. p. A. county central committee.
One element which will not fight for
the administration as hard next spring
as IL did last spring is the Cornish-Am-
erican element. The Cornish Ameri-
cans were OF great service to the Cana
dams in carrying the election last
spring and without their united sup
port the election could not have been
carried. But when His Canadian Ma
1esty came 10 make up his Jewels he
entirely overlooked the service of the
Cornish Americans and they didn't
even get job on the police force.
Another element which cannot be re-
lied on to give as enthusiastic support
TO the dominant faction of the A. p. a
as 1t did last spring is the American
American element. 1t seems that there
are some people in Butte who were
born in the United States. They have
been figuring a little themselves sincs
last spring. Counting over Butte:
mayors since 1890 they find the list tc
include French Canadian-A G
German an English-Ameri
can, an Irish nadianAmerlcan, anC
now an English Canadian American
During all this time there has been NJ
American-American at the head O
Butte's affairs. There has been a sim
liar condition Of things in the admin
istration of county affairs. one foreign
element after another being the admin
istrative element
The American-Americ have com
TO believe that they are of sufficien
importance and sufficient strength 4
demand an Office once in a while. Man,
of them have withdrawn from the A
p. A. and with a number of American
Americans who never Joined the A +
A, have organized an association
known as the Junior order of Ameri
can Mechanics. This organization pro
poses to be heard from at the next cleo
ton.
With these things kept in mind Il I
easier to understand why the A. p. A
county central committee should con
slider IL necessary for the aldermen {
move the Hale house into the Firs
ward so that the Third ward may cleo
an alderman who shall stand by TN
dominant element Last spring the 4
y. AS carried every ward except IN
First ward. But some of the aIderme
elected by the A p As have hoe