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The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-04
TUESDAY, APRIL 4, 1899.
TWELVE PAGES.


. N view of the quiet that had marked
the campaigns days in Anaconda,
the poll at yesterdays election was
large. The registration itself rolled UP
to total of nearly three thousand, but
when succeeding events left the demo-
cratic ticket without organized rivalry,
the prediction was that the vote would
be light. This prediction was not made
good, the poll being about twenty-three
hundred. In Anaconda. as in Butte,
the democratic city convention went
squarely on record with a resolution
denouncing W. A. Clark's purchase of
the senatorship. The only opposition
! magistrate. Over that office a lively
! brush was the feature of yesterdays
election, with the result that the demo-
cratic candidate was defeated and the
independent aspirant elected with a
majority of more than four hundred.
The "era of good feeling was car
electon-there was no opposition to the
democratic candidates for aldermen. AS
the result, the new city government
will include a democratic mayor, with
eight democratic aldermen and three
republicans The vacancy caused by
the removal of a holdover alderman
from his ward will be filled by the
selection of a democrat.
Placed in the mayors chair as a can
didate who had no rival at the polls,
Mayor-elect Madden is. at the outset
of his career in municipal affairs, the
recipient of a noteworthy compliment.
He enjoys the respect and the fullest
confidence Of his fellow citizens: the
Standard congratulates him and places
on record its confident prediction that
the Madden administration will be pro-
gressive, efficient honest, of good re-
port, creditable to its head and salts
factory to the community.
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Mr.. Mccarthy Is. In their case questions
of patronage and salaries and spoils had
a more direct bearing. The Clark fac
ton was especial bitter in it's opposi-
ton to the democratic candidate for
police magistrate personal record
being that he had persistently refused
to sell to Clark. soldier record was
helpful to the republican candidate for
treasurer who. for The rest, is Butte
resident Of wide PERSONAL popularity
AS for the city council over which
Mayor Mccarthy Will preside, It is DEM
ocratic by nearly two to one.
Butte's results are the product of a
poll which Is, by odds, the largest ever
recorded for city election there; it is
the sequel, as has been said, of the long
est campaign. ever conducted in that
city. 1t was not noisy campaign; 1t
was not spectacular but 1t was deeply
was that it brought the voting public
into an alignment new and quite unlike
anything that has characterized former
elections in that city
Locally, Mr.. McCarthy's election Is an
assurance that the office of mayor will
be in competent hands. At the same
time, the successful Mccarthy plat
form is the denuncation by democrats
of an alleged democratic senator-elect,
and this within less than seventy days
after the close of the senatorial CONTEXT.
If you search the presidents, you will
not find parallel for this in the annals
that deal with senatorial elections, in
the history Of the United States.
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How All Great" Men Do.

From the Chicago Journal
The announcement that Senator William
A. Clark, the Montana millionaire, is
sending each member of his houshold to
Europe in a different vessel in order that
one shipwreck may not extinguish the en-
tire family is only a curious bit of news
to one who fails to reflect upon the habits
of some of our greatest men. THE Clark
method, which the Montana senator is
said to have borrowed from the Roths-
childs. is not entirely new in this country
Men who have felt that their simultaneous
taking off would be a calamity to the pub
lie have long observed similar habits
Mr.. Mckinley and Speaker Reed for
example. rarely ride in the same hack or
occupy the same compartment of Pull
man car. Recently both had business at
Jekyl island, but the president went in
one boat, the speaker In another.
Mr.. w. j. Bryan and Mr.. Perry Bel
mont can with difficulty be induced to eat
dinners cooked by the same chef. They
can hardly be coaxed into the same polit-
ical bed. and utterly refuse to take their
bromo from the same bottle.
Secretary Alger and General Miles will
not eat beef from the same can. This is
not much of a privation to either, how
ever, as they are almost certain to quar-
rel over the flavor.
Grover Cleveland and Arthur P. Cor
man never hunt nominations in the same
boat. Mr.. Cleveland considers that it is
perilous enough when he is alone, and
Mr.. German objects to perching upon the
elevated end of a skiff, the other end OF
which seems utterly Incapable of floating
the other passenger.
Senators Mason and Hoar almost never
ride on the rear platform of the SAINT
street car If Senator Mason gets ABOARD
Senator Hoar insists upon giving him thu
entire space.
John P. Altgeld and Carter Fl. Harrison
| have made 1t point to avoid speaking il
| the same hall from the same platform OF
| the same evening. The danger from fir,
| in such case would seem to be somewha
| increased and neither will consent to be
| ing the only democratic candidate befor,
| the people for fear a republican should b,
elected.
| Altogether. It is wise plan that keep
| these persons apart. 1t might almost b.
| called preat plan of nature for guarding
| the public against disaster.
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McCarthy's Significant Victory

HILE some Of the minor places
Wv were captured by the opposi-
ton, in yesterdays Butte
election. the handsome majority for the
head of the ticket is one which, under
the circumstances, is especially crafty
ing for those who stood by Mayor-elect
Mccarthy and his democratic associ-
ates. -tt
In Butte 1t started OUT this year to be
a square fight between the Mckinley
republicans and the democrats. In city
convention, however, the democrats
manfully put into their platform plank
denouncing W. A. Clark's purchase Of
the federal senatorship. That declara
ition was due to Butte and to the demo-
cratic party, as Butte. with it's suburbs,
is the home of thirteen democrats who
We're in the legislature and who, ito a
man, refused steadfastly to sell out to
W. A Clark They well deserved the
approval of their fellow democrats.
Of course, the Clark faction, under
the lead of Mr.. Clark's Butte newspa-
per, found this democratic utterance
altogether too sour for their uses. They
took up with the gold republican candi-
date and did what they could ITO break
Mccarthy down. There was also in
Butte the remnant of what used to be
known as the silver republican party.
Clark captured the little delegation
which that party had in the Montana
legislature. and the Inter Mountain,
practically the last of the silver-repub-
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-04

* PEAKING of Samoa. our rela-
~ tons with the Samoans have
been been of the comic opera or
der from the start. The curtain rose in
the days Of Grant in 1872. Grant was
something of an expansionst himself.
An erterprising German named Stein
berger made Grant think that Samoa
offered the United States every facility
for picnic if matters were managed
properly. Grant appointed Steinberger
a special agent to go to Samoa and
look the property over and return with
report upon which recommended
ton might be made to congress. The
German agent went there and i'm
mediately began to exercise diplomatic
functions without authority. He prom
ised the Samoans the full protection of
the United States against all the pow
ers, and he made himself otherwise so
obnoxious that the American consul put
him on British man Of war and sent
him out of the country. Before he
went however, he made a bargain for
fat price with a German mercantile
house to throw all the trade of the l.
ands into this house.
Things ran along until 1877 when the
Samoan chiefs couldn't agree among
themselves, and like all Gaul they di-
vided into three parts. One party went
to Washington to make a treaty with
this country. another party went to
England on like errand, and still an
other went to Germany. Although the
United States declined to have any
thing ITO do with Samoa for year or
two by way of a treaty. we did finally
agree to take Pago-Pago as a coalng
IN the consideration of which was
that we should use our mediation in
their favor in case Of Samoan trouble
with any European power. Meanwhile
Germany had secured a coaling station
in the harbor of Saluafato, and Eng
land also secured a like concession.
The three-cornered protectorate went
finely for several years, but in 1885, DIR.
| Stuebel, the German consul agent, pro-
fessed to have a grievance against the
Samoans, and seized all the territory
o. Apia as security for good behavior.
Then the American consul got too gay
and ran up the stars and stripes and
proclaimed a protectorate but the act
was dishonored and the flag came down.
For the next two years the three pow
ers We're more or less busily engaged
monkeying with the situation. In 1881
King Malietoa for a few brief moons
had war with Germany Malietoa
was kicked off the throne and another
king was set up in his place. At last
the three powers got together ant
agreed to give Samoa an autonomous
government. Up to that time they haG
given her nothing but the double cross
In 1888 the natives rebelled and pulled
off fine article of anarchy. The re-
bellion Was suppressed by the three
powers and peace has existed until tht
election of a new king, the accounts O.
which are recent history. A protector
ate by the three great powers, the Unit
ed States, England and Germany, is al
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-04
Republican Opinion of Hanna.

From the Seattle Post-Inteligencer.
The conditions confronting the national
republican convention in 1900 will not be
the same as in 1896, so far as President
Mckinley is concerned He will come be-
fore that convention asking a renomina-
ton, and the experience of presidential
candidates for denomination in the past
should teach him that the methods of Mr..
Hanna, if followed at that time, viii not
be conducive to party success or to party
harmony.
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ways liable to develop computations"
1t has been suggested that the easiest
way out of the difficulty would be for
the powers to agree to divide the is
one and assuming responsibility for it's
government and the welfare of it's peo-
pie. If it be a question as to which
power shall have the largest and best
of the islands it may be settled, other
things being equal by lot
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-04
Current Comment.
Plan to Make Hotels More Safe.

From the New York Times
If the law enabled every person injured
or the heirs of every person killed by fire
or in attempting to escape from fire in a
public inn or hotel to collect considera-
BILE fixed sum by a prompt and approx
mately summary process, the precautions
against fires and against fatal conse-
quences from them would be made very
much more effective. The vigilance and
ingenuity of the inn-keeper would be far
more effective than any official supervi-
sion.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-04
why Ayers "Pull" Is Strong.

From the st. Louis Republic.
The people have already placed the re-
sponsbility for these conditions upon an
incompetent secretary of war. They are
wondering now what binds the presidents
eyes to the proved Shortcomings of Alger
and the Alger gang They hope the blind
ness is not caused by the fact that Alger
is good campaignafund contributor and
solicitor and that he will control the
Michigan delegation to the next republic
can national convention.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-04
Merely Getting Their Dues.

FROM the Louisville Times.
We are calling the skilled and unskilled
laborers fortunate whose wages are being
raised. and so they are, but it is because
they are getting only what is their due
1t may be accepted as sound business
sense to pay men as little as possible, but
until the reverse of the rule is applied
and workers are given the highest wages
consistent with the equitable rights OF en-
ployes. so long will dissatisfaction and
strikes continue.
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Swelling the Army of Unemployed.

From the Springfield, Mass. Republican.
Every trust that has been formed has
closed some factories and discharged some
wage labor. and people have talked of It
as baneful influence of consolidation and
monopoly. And what. then, of the trust
when it begins to add commercial travel
ers to the army of the unemployed, and
then other salaried or commission agents,
and then MISUNDERSTANDING the very
mainstays of the existing industrial and
social fabric?
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-04
Not Good News for Americans.

From the Springfield, Mass, Republican
England's threatened abandonment of
free trade in order to meet the enormous
cost of jingoism through customs duty
on wheat and other staple imports causes
some joyful remarks in American high
protection papers We do not understand
why it should. Are British taxes on food
stuffs from the United States calculated to
help the American farmers?
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-04
Republicans Need Watching.

From the Minneapolis Times.
If the democratic party knows its BUSH
ness it will not let the republicans steal
it's time-honored thunder and fight the
trusts with low tariff. There is no dam
ger of any real fighting from that quarter.
but there Is some likelihood of the manu-
facture what is popularity known as
campaign ammunition
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-04
Alarm Throughout the Land.
From the New York World.

T
From Maine and from Texas. from
Washington and from Georgia, and from
states between these four corners of the
country comes the same story-of alarm
at the extraordinary multiplication of mo-
nopolies and of a nearly unanimous agree
ment that the intervention of both the
national and the state governments is nec-
essary to the protection of the people.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-04
swg One Spot Avoided by sparrows.

From the Chicago Chronicle.
In the fourth edition of Yarrells Brit
ish Birds" Professor Newton, F. r. S,
gives In a foot note the curious fact that
in the village of Shepstor, a moorland viii
lage of Devon, England, the sparrow Is
never seen. This is the sole exception
known to the professor to the sparrow
universal distribution in England.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-04
Country and City Boys.

From the Dubuque Herald.
The country boy is early taught the les
son Of self-reliance, which the city boy
is not. The average city parent Is more
concerned to give his child good edu-
cation. if possible send him through the
high school and college, to learn a trade
or read a profession. and thus brought
up generally to always lean for support
and guidance upon his parents until he Is
% years old.
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and leaves them friends commercially
and politically. 1t was much wiser
method of adjusting their differences than
fighting them out and is beyond compar-
ison from an economic point of view. But
that is usually the case with the victories
of peace.
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Better Than Fighting.

From the Philadelphia Ledger.
The signing of the Anglo French de-
| limitation treaty probably gives each of
| those nations as much territory in Africa
| as it could have expected to gain by war
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The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1899-05-26

The New Work press Is hot after
Guy. Roosevelt. who Is - claimed,
through the power %, Boss platt and
the corporations. hI, called an extra
session Of the legislature to defeat
the Fnrd Franchise Tax BIN. which,
If carried uut vii, make the corT0r.
attun> bear IL part u the public
burden. The session now called Is
termed the extraordinary session. aud
when one takes into consideration
the fact that the bill. before its dnai
passage, was nvlurc the legislature
three months and he said ui it when
1t hecamc a law. THAT the Ford
Franchi>e-Tax btll marks Il step OF
welg'Ittc>t lmpottaucr IN the policy
OF seeing that hereafter the corpora
tion> getting great advantages from
the public burdens. | am well pleased
Will VIA h'> uttu V'hV' tuVu u
call the body to assemble in ics>
than three weeks after adjournment
looks to 4 man down IN Mississippi a,
\ very extraordinary piece OF work
for the young governor. We would
suggest that the MaTet committee
summons their governor before them
to give an explanation of the matter
and how much he receives for his en-
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1899-05-26

mas n ucdIt as uoDle Huu true. anu u
mind as strong and steadfast as those
who have their hair frosted by age. His
opportunities in youth were very lin
tied. but he is today a splendidly
equipped man, educated by his own eff
forts, He has ,erved his state as speak
or of the house of representatives. and
he made a most admirable presiding
officer. He has served IS party as
Democratic elector for iue state at
large, he has served his country by en-,
listing in her service and Drawing the
dangers of Spanish diseases. There
never lived a better man than Jim Var
daman, He is absolutely true in every
sense of the word. True to himself,
true to his country, true to his God. 1t
is expected that Major Vardaman will
he mustered ont of the service some
time this spring, and it is hoped that he
will yet be heard from before the cam
paisn is over, He has a powerful sup
port from the press of the state, and his
brother editors are rallying to his sup.
port AS N man.-Cptteeville Times.
In the beautiful pen picture of
Major Nardaman, which is given
above, Editor Roland shows the
young candidate in his true colorS,
and places him easily the strongest
in the rae for the governorShip.
quite agree with our good brother
when be says; There never lived a
man than Jim Nardamap,n
rue in every sense-tO himself. his
'od and his country. No higher
recommendation should one want for
he position lie aspireS to. especially
When it comes from a supporter of an
'ppoSiUg candidate.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1899-05-26

Rev. J, 4. Bown. of Columbus, has
been carrying on a meeting all the
week at the Methodist church. Owing
to the condition of the weather. a good
attendance, at botl night and morning
services, was had. Mr.. Bowen is a very
earnest and convincing preacher. He
impresses his listeners as a mar of con.
yiction, and with the bible as his
weapon, he fights sin in every form.
Up to the time of going to press there
has been only II few converts but it is
said many more are expected before the
close of the week.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1899-05-26

II Kinds comfy endorses the GOV
cruur after Ur u.> tried To- >adI.v if>
di>srarcml deed, u.y,n H., t,;>leu>htp
and the truth of which was denied by
its citizens and given to the world.
the state viii then justly believe the
report now circulating from county
to county that a trade for county of.
fees has been made with McLaurin
forces which means their election.
We trust the report is false and the
ballot viii prove it. Tie Plcayunc
Of May list plaitly shows what a
vindicatiuu means.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1899-05-26

Gallant James X. Nardaman is ex
pectnd home from the war" within n
few days. and The Commercial j. of
the opinion that the weIkin will then
ring with eloquence az has not yet been
heard III the guhernatorial canvass.
Always forcetnl, ever logical. never
dull, naturally brave and chivalrous.
major Nardaman attracts to himself n
following that would do honor to the
greatest. Whatever may be the result
Of the guberna ORAL contest, Nardaman
will come ont of the canvass with n
magnificent following of truly loyal
citizens and admirers.
The above compliment paid Major
james *. Nardaman By the editor Of
the Commercial shows plainly the es-
teen IN which Mr.. Nardamau is held
in that county, While many Of the
papers claim that Longtime will carry
that county, we believe that in this,
Is well aS others, they viii come up a
Y ardaman majority, All We ask IN
fairness for our champion. is, hear
him before you decide. He Will be
there. as in every other county in the
aud viii give you his position
N all matters concerning its we'll
are, and if you then decide for an
you VIII ind in hlm a man who