The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-09-15

sweeping victory and the most decisive
defeat ever known in this county, began
with the morning. The workers were
out early and the streets began to fill
up with those who were to participate
in the contest and those who were Curl
Gus and were out to see the fun. Early
in the afternoon the hacks hired by the
Clark people began moving about the
streets. They had big banne with
the motto, "Anti-fusion." Their OPP
ponents haS no hacks. but they had the
voters. Thu streets were lively enough
at 4 o'clock. the hour when the pri-
maries .pened, and from that hour to s
the battle was waged in every precinct.
The Clark tckets we're headed Anti
fusion" The caucus tickets did not de-
clare for or against fusion, but bore
the motto. "Silver's welfare first of all"
When the results became known IL
seemed at first glance surprising hat
the Clark forces made no better fight
than they did. With the weeks of care
full preparation, the careful organization
and the abundance Of money, it seemed
that they hou a carried some part
of the county, but the primaries showed
very plainly that the people of Silver
Bow county are not hankering after
that result. Clark had workers in the
various precincts, but in nearly all
cases they were paid workers. The citi-
zens of the precincts, the old residents,
the business men, in no case got out and
worked at the polls for Mr.. Clark.
The victory was even more sweeping
than that at Monday nights caucuses.
Precinct %. west of Missoula gulch, was
wrested from Clark, and Precinct 81,
South Butte. which had gone for him
Monday night, also switched and that
left him not a solitary precinct in the
city of butte.
Out of the les delegates who will have
seats in Saturdays convention, the
Standard has the names of $50 elected
men. OF these seven were elected IN
the Clark ticket and 14S on the caucus
ticket. In case Clark receives one-half
of the balance of Is delegates to be
heard from, he will have Is delegates in
the convention. The precincts to be
heard from are Rocker. Burlington, Sill
yer Bow junction, Basin. Black Tail.
Gregson, Ralston, Divide, Melrose and
Feeley's, all lying in the outskirts of
the county.
The Clark ticket carried nothing in
AiN NlAs Va DhANt VI III wiz
Centerville or South Butte. He saved
the two delegates sent from the Braund
house in East Butte. the three delegates
from the Centennial brewery precinct
and one from one of the Meaderville
precincts. and he also got one of the
three from Precinct 80. the Silver Bow
park corner. In addition there is a
contest in one of the Meaderville pre-
.aspa.e IL 1Y,. 49,. a.
could not be held in the place an
nounced by the committee. So one fac
ton went to one place and the other
faction to another place and each re-
turned delegates. on the combined
vote of the two primaries the anti
Clark ticket had the best of it.
There We're contests in two of the
three Walkerville precincts, Joseph X.
Clark e~ndeavoring to save something
from that section, but the caucus tick
cts were triumphant. Peter $. Schon-
berg states that he was put on the anti
fusion ticket in Precinct / without his
knowledge or consent. In Centerville
only scattering anti-fusion ballots were
cast. Dublin gulch was unanimous for
the caucus ticket. In Precinct 8 Tom
Kilgallon fought as hard as he has al
ways done, but could only muster 81
votes against 234. In Pecinct 10 the
caucus ticket went through by 391 to
"A. In the court house precinct there
was a repetition of the big fight of Nom
day night, Charles w. Clark N Cap
tain Dawson leading the fight for the
opposition. The anti-fusion icket car
ried the names of Ed Lynch, Sam Clerk,
w. j. Dawson. j. F. Brazleton and c..
w. Clark. 1t was defeated by So votes
to 247. The opposition faded away
completely in Precincts II and IL. while
Precinct IA got into a fight on it's own
hook. just for the sake of having a
scrap. Precincts Is. 16. Il. Is and 19
went for the caucus ticket by over
whelming majorities. The opposition
c in Precinct Is carried L. A.
Brooke. c. G.. Terrell and NJ. s. Abra
ham. There were lively contests in
Precincts 20 and 81, where the Clark
forces expected victories, but the ma
~jorities for the caucus ticket were big.
In % west of Missoula gulch there were
three tickets in the field. The Clark
ticket carried w. II. Henry. Z. l..
Mayo and +. f. Corbett. Opposed to
them were ID. II. Kehoe. NJ. p. Lavelle
and John Gillie. In addition there was
the ticket headed by Reber. which won
Monday night. After a smart contest
the ticket headed by Kehoe won by a
small majority.
Precinct % was a warm boy, for il
was Jack M~cLaughlin's home precinct.
While il was warm. Jack was simply
overwhelmed. He even ran behind his
ticket. receiving only 40 votes, while
the balance of his tick received 40
and the caucus ticket received 232. A
very bitter fight was made against
Chairman Haggerty in precinct "a, but
he came out triumphant. as usual. In
precinct 20 the caucus ticket won by
124 to SIS. The anti-fusion ticket car
ried Thomas Boland, NJ. Lalande. w.
A. Pennington and c.. c. Willis. Spleen
did work was done in precinct %. No.
IS was lost by the narrow vote of %
TO ITO. No ticket was placed in the