Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1899-02-28

The Choice fell on Clarke who was born
Between Uniontown and Connells-
ville-Some inside facts on the Fight
in that State Bribery Rampant
Hundreds Of Citizens went tn the Cap
ital to Break the Deadlock Fielding
O'Kelly gets letter from one on the
Spot-A very Interesting peep behind
the Scenes i'm that Conflict.
FIELDING X. O'KELLy
My Dear Nepheae.
WHITEHALL, Montana. Feb. lS~-As
it has been some months since | heard
from you embrace the prese mt to write
that you may know am again en-
joying life having slowly recovered from
a long siege OF nervous debility and la
grippe as Il contingent. Since Oct. LIST
/ have gained LIS lbs. ia weight.
On the 18th of October | had the good
fortune to get back to my home dear
old Whitehall OF precious memory to me
and mychildren two of whom Walter and
my daughter Mrs. Mary Brooke Noble
reside in sight of my home though two
miles distant in the town of Whitehall
My youngest daughter the wife of Rev.
+. j. Stanley lives in the bitter root
valley $50 miles Southwest, the great
fruit producing country of the North
west. They supply me with fine APP
pies and delicious honey.
Well | have just returned home after
a ten days visit to Helena our state cap-
ital where our legislative assembly is in
session, their most important business
being that OF eecting free coinage
silver democrat Is to l, to the United
States Senate to succeed Senator Lee
Mantle.
For the past ten years the democratic
party of Montana has had a faction
known far and wide as the Marcus A.
Daily followers. 1t has been Mr.. Daily's
pride TO defeat our best men for Office
when it was his interest or pleasure to
do So Especially was it his pleasure to
do so should the democrats name our
most distinguished citizen, pioneer
among the early pioneers who in the
front endo' the sixties helped blaze
the trail to Montana, whose only capital
consisted Of good common sense, an
abundance OF politeness and kindness
to his fellowmen, backed by persever-
ance, energy and honest dealing with
ALL To-day he is largely the wealth
and is honored by all who know him
(save the Daily faction) not for his vast
wealth but for his many charitable
deeds. He has thousands Of laborers
on his monthly pay rolls including his
vast copper mines in New Mexico, his
gold and silver mines in Idaho and
Montana, also his vast coal mines in
Montana and his great sugar refinery
mi a1 or fI
strike has never been known among his
thousands of lsborers.
Not SO with the great would be Mon
tana boss, the head of the greatest COM
bination in tile Northwest if not in the
United States, with the Rothchilds, of
England, atthe bottom of it, including
the great Anaconda copper mine of
Butte. the vast reduction works in the
city of anaconda as we'll as the city
itself with many other silver and gold
mines including thousands of acres OF
coal in Montana, also the same Anacon-
da COMPANY own and central the largest
and most complete mercantile estab-
lishment said to be in the United
States 1t is located in Butte with
branches wherever the Anaconda have
men at work, and stealing government
and state timber from our forests in the
western portion OF the state. This same
Marcus A. Daily as head manager and
boss of the Anaconda Rothchilds com
pany came near locating the capital of
Montana at Anaconda at our general
election in 1896 by practicing the most
daring bribery ever known. Unfortu-
nately for the good of Montana too many
of our voters are not permanent citizens.
1t matters not to many OF them where
our capital is located or who is elected
to fill our many offices. Some OF them
sell their votes at low down rates while
many acting as they say on a business
proposition demand and receive larger
rates. The trouble is American citizen
ship and the privilege of voting have be-
Come too common, too cheap, so much
SO that often | think there is but little
left for Americans to be proud OF.
The large general mercantile estab-
lishment referred to as belonging to the
Anaconda Company located in Butte
was built last summer and fall. 1t COW
ers an entire block and is five stories
high, with statesmen, book-keepers and
others and spies to ascertain who of the
many laborers employed by the Ana
conda or their families deal at their
stores. III any they are at once dis
charged. In short all who are in any
way employed by this great monopoly
must purchase all their wants of every
description from the one big concern.
By this means they rob their laborers
Of the liberty Of purchasing their sup
plies where they can get them cheapest.
Tha. is one specimen Of American pro-
lection.
Al informed you in the first Of this