The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-01-28
COUNTY SEAT CONTEST
The Fight Is Getting Hotter Day
by Day.
PLENTY OF EXCITEMENT
The Hamilton Campaign Is Being Act
lively Waged-Grantsdale Is Tagging
Little-Some Remarks by
Miles Romney.

Missoula. Jan. 27.-The county seat
contest in Ravalli county is assuming
an active form and the fight is getting
hotter every day. At SteYensvilie yes
terday there was another meeting ana
that town is now preparing to look
after its interests in the contest. The
Hamilton campaign is being actively
waged and 1t is reported that there are
already nearly enough signatures at
tached to the petition of that town To
enter 1t in the race. The Grantsdale
campaign has Jagged somewhat during
the present week, but the supporters OF
Victor are hard at work for their town
and have not lessened their efforts.
The fight is an interesting one and its
early start indicates that there Will be
plenty of excitement in the Bitter Root
this summer. AS an instance of the
torridity of the temperature where the
fight is being waged, the following re-
marks by Miles Romney in the West
ern News of this week will serve to
show how things are done in the Bitter
Root:
Some carbuncle- crowned Individual
or individuals. who lack only opportu-
nifty to become character aSsassns and
sacrament pilfererS, are circulating the
report that we are lying awake nights
To concoct 'roasts' of Grantsdale peo-
pie for entering that town in the coun-
ty seat race. We would not deign to
notice the ephemeral emissions exploit
ed by the bearers of paralytic tWitching
fbers damned into vacuums that were
created to contain brains. were they
not designed to ferment feeling against
this towns county seat aspirations and
to do us wilful and malicious injury
To say that we deny the right of any
one or of any community to petition
for whatever he, or IL, pleases-even to
encircling st. Mary's peak with barbed
for those who would cut off the nose
to spite the face-requires macadam-
lied effrontery that bewlders us. In
private, and now publicly. we have al
ways maintained that Col. Pat shan
non. Judge Steele, O. w. Sauires ana
other leaders of the Grantsdale move
ment were fair-minded and men OF
judgment: that interest constrained
/ them to support their own town, as
4 long as 1t had a possible show, and that
4 when convinced that it was not fac
/ tor, they would work for the next best
! thing-from their Standpoint-and give
/ Hamilton loyal support. AS a matter
| of fact they have stated their position
as such in almost identical words. Tt
ascribe hostility or other than personal
feelings towards citizens of GrantSdale
to us is absurd. We have always had d
penchant for Grantsdale people. We
! attended school in the little log schoo
/ house. on the banks of the Skalkaho, q
barefooted kid. long before our detrac-
tors ever heard of the Glitter Root anC
when the Hamilton town site was Z
bowling and unterrified wilderness-w,
are no tenderfooted pilgrim. We start
ed out to intimate that the circulation
or circulators of such reports, as
I touched on in the foregoing, is an Ala
bama liar-that is saying a good deal
/ for. forsooth is not an Alabama coor
the blacklist of his kind?-and trus
that we have made our meaning
! clear"