The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-02
Pat Points in
Passing Politics.

The polls for the city election will
open at o'clock tomorrow morning
and will close at o'clock in the even
ing. The polling places in each ward
will be as follows:
First Ward-No. 40 East Quartz
street.
Second Ward-At the northeast cor
ner Of Granite and Montana streets.
| Third Warden the vacant lot on
East Broadway between Arizona street
and the Hale House.
Fourth Ward-At the Armory, in the
basement of the Library building.
| Fifth Ward-At No. 1884, East Park
street.
Sixth Ward-At No. 35 West Galena
street.
Seventh ward-At No. 1910 East Sec
| ond street.
Eighth Ward-At the corner of Main
and Aluminium streets.
1t is important that voters get to the
| polls early. In every ward there are
| more voters registered than ever be-
| FORE and for all to vote it will be nee
|
polls Many wait until late in the after
noon to vote, but those who do so to-
morrow may find themselves unable to
| vote at all. In the Third ward particu-
| larly, promptness and celebrity will be
| required, as there are more than 1900
voters registered in that ward. The re-
publican plan of campaign is to delay
| hi y, i,,n rIn to-
| disfranchise as many voters as posi-
Bile.
While it may be true that there is
some illegal registration, it is fact
beyond question that most of the
names presented to the court as hav
ing been Illegally registered are The
! names of men who are entitl I'd to vote.
Mr. John Cumba, of No. 1856 East Wo7l-
man street, is mentioned as "na of
those who live outside the city limits.
Mr. Cumba called at the Standard CT
flee last evening and stated that he has
| paid taxes in the city for the past Is
years and has lived in the city II o. Is
| years. Mr.. Cumba exhibited cnrtifi-
| cate from the city treasurer stating
| that he paid city taxes last fall on his
| house at No. 1856 East Woolman street,
| which he occupies. There are many
other similar cases. The republicans
will put in as many challenges as pos
sible in order to delay the voting.
The Inter Mountain winds up it's
| campaign last evening with the, inane
statement that the democratic admins
tration has prevented the investment
of millions in real estate" 1t certainly
cannot be that the Inter Mountain eX
| poets that any citizen will believe that.
| There has been more building done in
Butte the past two years than during
| any other five years in the city's his
| tory. Investors have had confidence in
| city which shows that it has conf
dence in itself. During the last rerub-
lican administration the streets we're
! filled with mud, the streets and alleys
were neglected, 20 sewers were con-
| structed, no streets We're graded or
| opened up. What was the conse-
| quence? Capitalists looking for real
| estate investments naturally concluded
that Butte had no confidence in it's own
future and therefore they would not in
vest here. But a new era arrived with
| the Harrington administration. The
| streets have been paved, the streets
and alleys have been cleaned, new
streets have been opened up and are
now lined with dwellings. This enter
| prise on the part of the city. manifest
ing the city's confidence in itself. has
given an impetus to the town. Old
shacks have been torn down and re-
placed by magnificent building blocks.
| Residences have been erected in the
suburbs, east, west and south of the
city. Investors from the east have free
ly loaned money on real estate in a city
as progressive as Butte has proven to
be in the past two years.
| No newspaper editor familiar with
| the conditions in Butte would have the
temerity to start a comparison of the
Thompson and Harrington administra-
tiors. 1t dropped the comparison after
one issue. While nothing whatever was
done in the way of public improvement
during Thompson's administration,
vast amount of work has been done
during the past two years, work paid
for out of the general fund instead of
being charged up to abutting property.
Among the items may be mentioned the
following: Cleaning streets and al
| leys that had not been cleaned for two
years, $4,000; grading Montana street,
$3.50; macadamizing Arizona street
s3,1O5; removing dirt from sidewalks.
$3,718; repairing Garden avenue, $1,275;
| improving Warren avenue, $500; i'm
proving George and Second streets,
$425; improving Oregon avenue, $3.50;
opening Covert street, $780, improving
| So,+b Main South Dalofa Silver