The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-08-13
WHAT ARE THEY OUT FOR2
Butte Goldbugs Disappointed at
Helena.
THEY WERE TURNED DOWN
Couldn't Get Their Pet Project Through
at the Meeting of the Fed
eral O~fhceholders of
Montana.

Scarcely a ripple Of interest was *
cited in Butte by the recent meeting IF
the committeeman of the Mckinley ele-
ment of the republican party over in
Helena. If there was any more thar
a ripple of interest In the affair it did
not appear on the surface. 1t may have
been discussed in private offices and
back rooms. but IL was not heard talked
about on the street corners of Butte.
Naturally there has been some con-
lecture over the fact that a lobby COM
posed of some of the most prominent
members of the last republican city
administration went over TO Helena
and pulled for that which they OBJ
tanned not, which is getting to be quite
a usual thing with them. Now. Butte
has the proud distinction of being the
only place in the state which sent a
lobby of Observation-Disclosures over to this
meeting of the republican central COM
mittee of the state. There were ex-
Mayor Thompson, eX-City Treasurer
Yoder and e~x-Alderman Gamblers. ana
there may have been some the but
those are the only names which ap-
pear in the reports. This lobby went
over there with the idea of getting the
ItpubllCdH COHhCllllOl ubIu DtIOIe the
conventions of the democrats. silver w.
p~ublicans and populists. with the idea
of shutting out the silver republicans
from any place of refuge in case the fu-
sion proposition is knocked out. The
lobbyists failed to carry this point and
the only result of their trip to Helena
has been the raising NJ some small con-
lecture as to whether or not they We're
ulteriorly working in the interests of
any particular person, party, s.npany.
corporation or corporations, n IL SO,
who, which OF what? Is the old com-
bine combining again?
With the exception of the Butte lob
byists who failed to carry their poin.,
the meeting seems TO have been a
straight meeting of office-holders. The
following schedule is published Tor pur-
poses of Identification. 1t gives the
name of the representative of each
county at the meeting, with his official
position il he has any, and he usually
has:
Joseph p. woolman, chairman, Unit
ed States marshal.
Henry Knippenberg, Be~averhead,
Mckinley elector In last election.
Warren Dodge, Broadwater. candi-
date for meter at Helena assay Of
flee. .--5-
A. f. Dickerman. Cascade, deputy
United States revenue collector.
T. &. Power Choteau,
States senator Mr.. Power also repre-
scented FergusTand Teton counties.
sam Gordon, Custer, register IF
! limited States7land office, Miles City,
Joseph II. Audit, Dawson, mineral
land commissioner.
j. C. English. Deer Lodge, deputy
United States district attorney.
w. ]. Brennan, Flathead, just APP
pointed superintendent of Forest res
ervation.
w. w. Anderson, Gallatin. mineral
and commissioner.
S. A. S~wiggett, Granite, deputy col
lector Of customs.
A. II. Foster. Jefferson, postmaster
at Boulder.
c. c. Neuman, Lewis and Clarke, has
no office but will accept n
Henry Filing, Madison. banker.
T. Il. Miller, represented Meagher bu.
is a resident of Helena.
Gust Moser, Missoula, superintendent
of Forest reservation, recently appoint
ed.
c. A. Berg, Park, postmaster at Liv-
ingston.
L. o.. Leonard, Silver Bow, brother of
Montana national committeeman and
late candidate for Butte postoffice.
r. y. Lewis, Valley. brother-in-law
of postmaster at Glasgow.
f. II. Becker, Yellowstone, agent of
Crow Indian reservation.