The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-25
Special Dispatch to the Standard.

Special Dispatch to the Standard.
Great Falls, Jan. 24-The Standards
bulletin from Helena on the senatorial
vote of to-day bore in a foot note the
bitterest blow which the people of
to sustain. That foot note stated that
Flynn and Gillette of Cascade had de-
serted Conrad and voted for Clark
Through the campaign of this fall the
county was placarded with cards, large
and small, which bore this statement:
'One vote for George H. Stanton for
state senator; for Pat Kelly, William
Bonner, j. Fl. Gillette, E. H. Cooney,
Robert Flynn for representatives means
six votes for w. G. Conrad for United
States senator"
The people of the county believed that
statement the men whose names ap-
peared on the card accepted the state
ment and it's publications they pledged
themselves in person to Mr.. Conrad,
they solicited votes on the strength of
the affection of Cascade county voters
for Mr. Conrad, and they won out on
that fact alone. Democrats voted the
ticket solidly on that ground; it induced
many republicans and populists to vote
the ticket; in a word, the Cascade coun-
ty delegation owes it's success in the
campaign to that pledge and it's wide
publication.
To-day the same placard appears
again all over this town and others
where the word has reached, but on
the travesty the names of Flynn and
Gillette are printed in letters twice the
length of those in the other names.
There is no talk upon any other sub
ject. When the bulletin first arrived
it was doubted by all save the receiver
Subsequently from half a dozen diff
ferent sources the bitter news was
confirmed. Since that time the people
have been divided between sorrow and
cursing the names of those whom they
openly call traitors and even worse
names.
Unfortunately for the friends of the
men who to-day deserted the Cascade
county candidate some ugly rumors
followed the first news from Helena.
All of it is implicitly believed and their
sin is multiplied by stories coming
down from the early days of Montana S
history. There are no party lines in
the discussions; democrats and repub-
licans and populists are alike in their
wrath and sorrow: each man feels that
he has been personally defrauded; that
the names of Gillette and Finn are
hereafter to be spoken only with loath-
ing and curses. Never has feeling been
expressed so freely and by every class
of society as this of to-day. Some few
jest and ask one another, "How much
do you suppose they got?" and this
insinuation passes without challenge,
for there are none left to defend the
two deserters. No one attempts to eX-
plain their action, and it is probable
that should they ever return to this
county no one will ever ask them for
an explanation. 1t remains to be seen
whether they will have the effrontery
to ever attempt an explanation on their
own part.
Finn and Gillette are receiving some
hot messages tonight from those who
were formerly their friends. One reads
as follows:
Congratulations on contempt you
and Finn inspired. Liar. traitor, thief,
bribetaker are the mildest names YOU
were called to-day. He'll will be a
pleasanter abode than Cascade county
for you hereafter"
This telegram was, of course. ad-
dressed to Gillette. Another asked that
Gillette do the sender the favor of
never again recognizing him or even
acknowledging that they We're ac-
quainted, The sender says in the tele-
gram that he has never pretended to
anything but an ordinary grade of
morality, but he is forced to believe
that that same grade excludes all ac-
quaintance with Gillette
The news has been taken into a thou