The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-09-06
FIXING UP HIS FENCES
Senator Carter Pays a Visit to
Butte.
SOWING SENATORIAL SEED
No Perceptible Change Noted N the
Political Situation-He Found Very
Barren Ground-A Hard
Formation.

No p~erceptible change has been made
in the political situation in Butte by
the visit here OF United States Senator
Thomas II. Carter. 1t may be that Tom
has sown seeds Of peace which may
bear senatorial fruit two years hence.
but the seeds of peace must be planted
deep and they haven't begun to sprout
yet. In fact by ali the signs Tom Car
ter found pretty barren ground in Sill
yer Bow county in which TO SOW peace
seeds. The Russian thistle might grow
in Butte but nothing else.
The straight republicans Of Butte are
a pretty hard formation. there is no
installing that. Tom Carter found
them so. They are the most ANNOYING
obstacle in the way of those whose in
terest II is to have the republican party
completely reunited by two years from
now. OF curse neither MIR. Carter nor
any OF the rest of them nave any hope
Of the republicans carrying any thing
in Montana this year, even If they do
set together. But they figure that If
the two wings OF The party can be
united now they will he able TO do ef-
fective work ia 1900 and perhaps carry
The state.
Now through the state generally Mr..
Carter in his travels found the Mckin-
ley republicans ready to meet the sill
Yer republicans more than half way.
They showed anxiety to get the parry
reunited. They were wiling TO make
concessions. They were willing TO rec
ognizc silver in the platform. They
We're willing to do any old thing to get
the fragments of the party together
again. In the balance OF the state 1t
was the silver republicans that needed
10 be cajoled into considering the mat
ter Of reuniting the party.
But in Silver Bow county Mr.. Carter
found a condition Of things materially
different from the situation i'm the bal
ance of the state. He talked VITA a
number of the Mckinley republicans
and he talked with a few silver repub-
licans, He found both sides equally OPP
posed To a union of the republican
forces. He found the regular" repuh-
licans particularly bitter and obstinate.
When he mentioned 10 them the magi-
cal name of plea talisman SO potent
in other parts of the state-the repub-
licans held VI their hands and shud-
dered in disgust. They could not think
of pie. 1T had no attractions for them
any more. They didn't want To see or
hear or talk about pie. They We're
through with pie for the rest OF their
born days. All they wanted was re-
Venge, and they We're going to have that
If they lived long enough.
Now when "A real, Simon-pure, dyed
in-the-wool republican won't discuss
the subject of pie you can know that he
Is pretty hot. And that is what the
Mckinley republicans Of Suite are.
They have more use for the Spaniards
than they have for the silver repub-
licans. They told Tom Garter i'm SO
many words that they would never play
with the silver republicans any more
not even to help Toms chances two
years hence. They don't want the sill
Yer republicans ever to come back into
the republican party again. They just
want them to get off the earth. They
are as mad as that!
There are some people throughout the
state who for years have had a sus-
picion that there are two factions
among the democrats of Butte. popu-
larly designated as the Clark democrats
and the Daily democrats. and that these
factions sometimes get together i'm pri-
maries and conventions and SCRAP. But
the set-tus of these democratic factions
are love teasts compared with the in
tense hatred which Tom Carter found
to exist between the republican factions
of this county.
Tom Garter has gone back to Helena.
He took back with him his little bag
of peac" seeds. The banks of Silver
Bow creek are too barren for them to
grow here vita any prospect of bearing
trult In many, many years.