The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-03-18
TWO RIVAL ELECTIONS
Mcconnell Board Orders Free
for All.
HELD ON THE SAME DAY
They Issue Notice After Holding an Al
legged Meeting The A P. A. Crowd
Trying to Get School Affairs
Into Their Hands.

Butte will enjoy the novelty and
excitement of two and rival school
elections on the same day. On Satur-
day. April ., the regular election under
the new school law, will he held for the
purpose of electing trustees to succeed
Morgan and Hawley. The selection
will be subject to the same regulations
as that of year ago. and no one but
registered voters can participate.
The old Mcconnell board of trustees,
who have been aching and smarting
ever since the new trustees have been
in office, will hold a free-for-all cleo
ton on the same day, and yesterday
posted notices to that effect The no.
tice, which pretends to have been issued
by the regular board of trustees, and
announces that no one is required to
register and that five trustees are TO
be elected. reads as follows
Notice of school election to be held
on Saturday, April 2, 1S9s-Pursuant to
a resolution passed at "a special meeting
of the board of trustees of school dis
trict No. l of Silver Bow county, Mon
tana, held on the evening of March 10,
1898, notice is hereby given that in con-
formity with sections 1870 to 1852 inclu-
sive, of the political code of the state of
Montana. an annual meeting VIII be
held on Saturday, April :, 1898, for the
purpose of electing five to) citizens to
serve, each for the tefm of three go
years, as trustees of school district No.
! of Silver Bow county, Montana. The
election will be held at the Washington
school building, situated on the north
side of East Broadway, east of Arizona
street, Butte, Montana. The polls win
be opened at eight tS) o'clock "a. IN. and
kept open until six 90 o'clock p. IN.
Nobody will be required to register
for this election.
Extracts from the school law:
Every qualified elector of the county,
who has resided in the district 30 days
next preceding the election, may vote
therear.
Women of the age of u years, who
are citizens of the United States, and
who have resided in the state one year
and in the district 80 days. may vote.
This notice is posted on the 18th day
of March. 1898. BY order Of the board.
@. j. Mcconnell. chairman; William j..
Crittenden, clerk"
The alleged meeting referred to In
the above notice was attended by one
or two of the old trustees and severai
of thir hackers, and was held in the
Office of the Thompson Investment
company on East Broadway, Wednes-
day evening. 1t is stated that the meet
ing was held and the election call made
upon the advice of the attorney of the
old and disgruntled school trustees who
has been conducting me contest against
the new trustees VINO have been holding
office the past year. The contest was
tried before Judge Clancy of the district
court several weeks ago, but he has not
yet decided the case. but in order to be
on the safe side. should he rule that the
Law under which the present trustees
We're elected is unconstitutional, the
contestants have been advised to get
ready to hold an election under the old
free-forall law, in accordance with
which yesterdays notices We're posted
about the city. But whatever way
Judge Clancy decides both elections
viii be held in order to save the rights
of both sides and have the matter final
ly determined by the supreme court.
There promises to he a hot time in
| Butte on election day,when the a. z. A
| crowd will attempt TO make another
rally and get back offices of school trus
| tees, out of which the gang made sucf
a good thing for several years.
County Clerk Weston yesterday ais
issued and posted notices of the regula
| election under the registration law. ant
| naming five different polling places II
the county for voting purposes. TIL
| A. p. A. remnant, in its argumen
| against the new law. laid great stres
| on the fact that 1t did not provide sufi
| Gent facilities for voting. yet in its owi
| call under the cid law 1t provides fe
but one polling place in the district.