The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-01-24
ANACONDA NEWS.
CAST YOUR VOTE EARLY
Every One Must Do His Best to
Increase the Majority.
LOCATION OF THE POLLS
No Citizen Can AFFORD 20 Let His
= Interest in the Eonding PROPOSE
ton Lag-Need NOT Be Tax
payer to Vote.

payer 70 SoLo.
ITO morrow morning every man in
Anaconda should be out bright and
early who has the welfare Of the COM
ununity at heart. Tomorrow is the
day fixed for holding. the election to de-
eide whether the county shall have a
court house. What the issue of that
question will be is easy to forecast. The
Bonds will carry by big majority. 1t
is the business of sAnaconda people to
see that that majority is overwhelming.
A faint expression of the will of the
people will not do. 1t must be en-
aphatic. 1t is to the interest of property
owners to see that it is emphatic. The
more emphatic 1t Is the more ready
market will be found for the bonds. The
first question that intending buyers
will ask is How great was the vote
cast. and how great was the major
ity?" If these questions can be an
swered by the presentation of large to-
tails, then will the interests or Anacon-
da people have been well served. If,
ON the other hand, there is but a fee
BILE showing, the capitalists will shake
their heads and say: They don't seem
to want a court house very badly"
Thus 1t is that it behooveS every voter
to do all he can to make the majority
for the bonds so large that no question
can be raised as to the real sentiment
of the people.
That the county needs a court house
and needs it badly no one who is con-
yersant with the existing conditions
can deny. There are some not ac-
quainted with the state of affairs who
honestly believe that the county officers
find ample accommodations at the city
hall. To those who hold this opinion
honestly, let it be said that it is not so.
There is at present not room enough in
the city hall for both the county and
city officers. This is not mere talk; it
is a fact, and can be verified by even
the most casual observer. Half the
city officials have no office. Even the
city clerk, who has in his keeping the
records of the city, has no office. His
business is transacted in an uptown Of
flee. When a certain paper is called for
at a council meeting, the answer invar-
iably is that it is at the uptown office.
Books and papers must be logged to
the city hall every time the council
meets. There is not even a committee
room available. When a question is to
be discussed in private the council
room must be cleared of it's audience.
The mayor has no office, the chief of
police has no office, the street COM
missioner has no office. All of these
officials had rooms at one time
When the county seat was removed
to Anaconda there was room for both
the city and the county. Slowly one
by one, the city officers We're compelled
to give up their rooms to the county
officers in order that the business of
county might be conducted. The city
has now about reached the limit of its
ability to give up rooms. Soon, how
ever there Will be demands by the
county for more room. Then one or
the other will have to give way
IN ID. hon 5tsf 1,.a
at the present time, after an associa-
ftion of the two governments for a per-
sfod-0f year, what will be the condition
in two years more? In that time the
lease now in effect will have expired
and the city will say that she needs
her city hall and that the county must
seek other quarters. The county will
say that she has no other quarters, and
the city will say why did the county
mot build court house when the op-
portunity was at hand.
1t will take two years to build and
equip a court house. If the building is
begun at once. all will be we'll and
good, If the proposition is deferred
there will be trouble. and the county
will rent offices all over town at exor-
bitant rates and of Indifferent charac-
ter. and the amount thus paid out for
rent will be enormous.
But while there is the great fact that
the court house is an absolute neces-
S1ty, there are other reasons WHY a
court house should be built. Anaconda
is the heart of Deer Lodge county. 1t
Is to Deer Lodge county what Butte is
TO Silver Bow county. In Anaconda
are many indications of permanent
values and stability. Nothing so much
as tine structures gives a city perma-
nency There are the smelling works.
the handsome school buildings. the
elegant library building the city hall.
the Montana, and hundreds of equally
handsome and substantial buildings.
Eastern capital seeks investment
where a permanency in values is as
sured. Nothing that could be con-
eeived will add to the permanency Of
Anaconda so much as will a court
house, and in INDUCING capital to come
here every property owner is serving
his own purse.
There are many other things that
might be said with reference to the
building of a court house but most of
these have been gone into and a repeti-
ton is superfiuous Let it suffice TO
say that people in Anaconda who do
not take an interest in the proposition
that tomorrow goes before the people.
can hardly be said to take an interest
in their own welfare.
The polling places for Tomorrow
election in the city of Anaconda are To-
Gated as follows.
For the First ward-The Lyceum hall
on Commercial avenue.
For the Second ward-The Fitzpat-
rick building at No. 500 East CONNER
cial avenue.
east corner of Third and Birch streets