The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-05-13

relations with his native Jefferson
county; the little city of WATERFOWL
always deemed itself to be Roswell P.
Flowers real home.
Mr.. Flower saw service in congress
in three terms making in New York
city one or two campaigns that at
tracted wide notice, especially the one
in which his defeated rival was w.
Waldorf Aston. But Mr.. Flower ar
IDENTIFY longed to be governor of New
York. That honor came to him, al
the eve of the New York state demo-
cratic convention of 1882 the group of
Flower shouters was confident that it
would land its man. Cooler and better
judges felt confident, on that rather
memorable evening, that, next day, the
democrats would give the nomination
to General Henry w. Slocum. Indeed,
Slocum certainly was the slate, with
Daniel S. Manning, the heir to Tilden's
regency. On the following morning,
pass or two in the way of unpleasant
words. in the meeting of the state
commttee-the participants being Mr
Manning and Boss Mclaughlin of
Brooklyn-resulted in the sudden
breaking the slate. Slocum was a
resident of Brooklyn. A little later in
the day, Daniel s. Lamont acting as
Mr.. Manning's lieutenant, was the
bearer of confidential messages to
Mayor Cleveland, of Buffalo, whom. a
few hours before. Lamont had met for
the first time in his life Up to that
hour, Mayor Cleveland had not been
seriously in the race; that afternoon,
by the aid of the Manning forces, he
was nominated for the office of COVER
nor, and in the fight the Flower forces
were not figures of account.
Thereafter Mr.. Flower contested for
the nomination again and again. He
was nominated in 1891, he was elected
and, withal, his record in the office of
governor was quite up to the average
Of excellence. Meanwhile, the vice
presidency and the presidency itself
were goals which Mr.. Flower aimed TO
reach, but these ambitions remained
unsatisfied. In 1896 he sat in the dem
ocratic national convention that nomi-
mated Bryan, but he sulked there. and
after the convention he showed little
Willingness to support the rival ticket
which some of the dissatisfied demo-
Gratis tried to fioat--he was for letting
the republicans have it.
At about that time. Mr.. Flower seems
to have surrendered his ambition to
score success in the political arena He
plunged with what seemed TO be reck-
less daring into the markets mael-
strom. His name is linked with some
of the most gigantic business ventures
of modern times and his recent trans
actions gave him conspicuously high
place in the financial world The popu-
lar belief is that these ventures have
been phenomenally successful The
West had its attractions for MI Flower
Long ago he made himself intima tely
acquainted with it's resources. He
learned to have faith in Montana, and
it is known that he familiarized him
self with its poscihj1itiac II, ,,,;r;pp IL,
readily Joined those who recently be-
came interested in Butte's copper prop
critics and at the time of his death,
he was a director in the Amalgamated
Copper company, of which Marcus
DAILY is the president. He evinced deep
interest in this undertaking, and it was
in his plans to become more closely as
ISOLATED with Butte's business affairs
Roswell P. Flower was a man of
many excellent traits He was a plain
man, without ostentaton, practical
affable, kindly disposed generous AL
ways tireless in his undertakings he
must have been a man of ability much
above the average to have reached the
heights in the business world where
death found him and so sudden made
him its victim. Yet, during most of
Mr.. Flowers career he really was not
credited with the qualities for leader
ship in any field which, indisputably,
he revealed in the Closing years of his
life-he had never been deemed a brill
liant man or one of extraordinary men-
tai resources. In respect to personal
life and habits his record is altogether
praiseworthy and, in view of it's bril-
liant rounding out-measuring success
by this worlds standard-his life was
one whose story is of much more than
common interest. He died at the age
of sixty-four