The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-10-28

ltCOAa IA ~ tC8Aei8&oAC may DC J00k@0
from h fact that he has never been
honored by his party with any nomina-
ton since. At the session OF 1891 he
bobbsd up In Helena as q worker for
the division Of Deer Lodge county.
The people Of Deer Lodge city
were working for that end
because they honestly believed that
county division was for their interests.
But Edwards showed up as . pretended
citizen Of Anaconda and openly boasted
that he was working for county divi-
sion not because he loved Deer Lodge
but because he hated Anaconda. One
OF the most terrible tongue-lashings
istered to this man Edwards by an
Anaconda gentleman one day during
that session. and Edwards stood there
like a whipped cur and took it all-he
hadn't a word to say In his own de-
tense. he knew the chastisement was
merited and he didn't dare resent II.
Such Is Billy Edwards. the man who
is leading w. A. Clark's forlorn hope
in Deer Lodge county. the man who is
trying to organize the kickers. the heel
ers. the loafers. all the disreputable
elements in an insane effort to beat
the democratic legislative ticket.
Taking their instructions from w. A.
Clark n The Butte Miner. the whole
effort of Billy Edwards n his gang Is
TO work up prejudice against the Ana
conda company. To hear them talk, a.
stranger would hin that the sole OBJ
ject OF the existence of the Anaconda
company Is to crush the life out of
the city Of Anaconda. to blot il from
the face Of the map and to restore the
site to primitive prairie land. II their
wild. anarchistic talk means anything.
II means just that. Anaconda is the
most prosperous and thriving city of
its size in the United States of Amer
lea and the Anaconda company made
1t so. but the Billy Edwards gang
would have o believe tina it is the
most miserable. down-trodden. power
ty-stricken. God-forsaken town on the
face OF the globe: that it's Inhabitants
are starving to death like SO many Gu
ban reconcentrados-and all on account
Of the Anaconda company. 1t is a good
thing that this anti-Anaconda company
cry has been raised in the city Of Ana
conda itself. for it affords the people of
Anaconda an opportunity to pass judy
ment upon it. II you agree with Mr..
Clark and Mr.. Edwards. IL you are sat-
isfied that the interests of the Ana
conda company are antagonistic to the
interests of the city Of Anaconda, II
you are convinced that the Anaconda
company is trying to rob. cheat and
swindle you-if you believe this. vote
for the ark-Edwards legislative
ticket.
The Inter Mountain Of last evening,
on it's editorial page. printed this para
graph:
twenty-five or thirty Austrians
came over from Anaconda to-day to get
n~aturalized. Why were they not nat
uralized in Anaconda
Why. indeed. We're they not natural
lied in Anaconda? They were not nat
uralized in Anaconda because Judge
Brantly found that he had not time to
a for the hearing of applicants for
citizenship papers. Judge Brantly
found 1t necessary to leave Anaconda
at s o'clock on Wednesday evening.
He had intended to leave at 8 o'clock.
but there were SO very many anxious
applicants hat he couldn't very well
do 1t. so he consented to keep on until
evening. When he did adjourn court
TO- 81. I.x- Thea -.~o ~ssyt $1,000
or so who had not been granted a hear
Ing.
The Anaconda Recorder say IL
doubts whether Mr.. Glover of Avon, a
pop-republican candidate for the legis-
lature. voted for Helena for the capital.
Under the Australian ballot system. it
is. of course. impossible to tell how any
man votes in this state. 1t is the Ana |
conda Recorders privilege to doubt
how Mr.. Glover voted and to doubt
anything else 1t pleases. 1t may doubt
that the earth is round. that water re-
fuses to flow up hill. that W. A. Clark's
money is being freely used In Anaconda
to defeat the democratic legislative
ticket. that two and two make four. |
that the notorious Billy Edwards is a |
w. A. Clark heller, that honesty is the
best policy. that water freezes at a
temperature OF 80 degrees Fahrenheit, |
that Dewey licked Montejo and that A.
c. Glover voted for Helena for the state
capital. Granting that Mr.. Glover
didn't vote for Helena, he at least
worked for it night and day. he ex-
erted all his influence in that direction, |
he assailed Anaconda and Anaconda |
people. bitterly. violently. constantly; |
and he continued to do so
long after the election was over
in fact up to the very day OF his
nomination. He has always been a
pronounced anti-Anaconda man and is
yet. The Anaconda Recorder NAV