Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-05-02
Of
THE DAILY MEN
NOW ATTEMPTING TO CARRY
THEIR CAMPAIGN INTO
EASTERN MONTANA,
ANACONDA POLITICIANS
HAVE BEEN IN EVIDENCE.
Toole and Tuohy Drummed UP Attend
: ance for State Committee Meet
ing-What Purpose Is.
(F'rom Helena independently

The DAILY men have been exceptionally
active in Eastern Montana for some
time past and it is said that
upon the reports made to headquar-
ters by their agents who have been in the
field will depend the question of whether
or not the campaign of corruption with
which the DAILY faction has debauched
the state ever since it became a state will
be carried into Eastern Montana. Here
tofOre little effort has been made to stem
the tide of disfavor in that section of the
state n the sentiment against Daily
methods in politics has all been one way.
The recent meetings of the Montana
Stockgrowers' association and the Custer
county woolgrower. which brought to-
gether at Miles City a large number of
representative leading men of both poll
teal parties from all over that section,
was an occasion where the sentiment was
ea sily judged. A few of the Anaconda po-
liticians had been in evidence at hat time
in different sections of the country, but
their work had not had a visible effect.
1t was freely predicted that the eastern
Montana democrats would this fall be
solid in their Reputation Of not only the
Daily methods by the Daily men who
sought vindication at the hands Of the
party, and it is 4 certainty that the peo-
pie Of eastern Montana viii be prompt to
show their disfavor of any attempt at die
tation by that faction in the councils Of
either party.
John r. Toole passed through the city
yesterday on his way UP from Livingston
with State Senator Campbell, who repre-
sents Park county in the upper branch Of
the Legislature, en- route for the meeting
of the state central committee in Butte
today, after a voyage Of discovery and an
endeaVOr to secure the attendance of pO-
litical friends and allies at the meeting.
Some time ago, Manager Tuohy was far
Their east on a similar errand, but it said
to have been a bootless one.
The DAILY men have practically had no
organization in the counties of the ex-
tr.7nc eastern end of the state, thus ar,
l%-sas:,s trusted to their ability to control
msN through the influence Of their vast
business enterprises in a few counties,
sufficient for their W purposes. Their
experience in the last Legislature. where
their faction was practically limited to
their OWL actual employees, when they had
been beaten by the people in several of
the counties where they believed they had
the balance of power, alarmed them and
they have been l~oohingout for the hitherto
despised field, in which their present fol-
towing is limited to a few men they have
found positions for one or two others of
obscure party allegiance.
'Ttere Will be a strong effort said an
eastern Montana ma last evening, "to
secure DAILY delegates to both the state
conventions. 1t viii not be an open fight,
as 4 matter of course. but the endeavor
win be, by raising local questions not
german to the subject in hand, to secure
the selection OF men previously guaran-
teed to he All tight II this is successful,
DAILY Will be able to make up for some OF
the losses he knows he will suffer in the
western part of the state. If it is not he
will probably be a loser. for he cant fore
stall the reflections that are going on
every day."
The speaker said that the sentiment of
all the eastern Montana democrats, with
the notable exceptions mentioned, wa
favorable to Mr.. Clark for senator, and
that it was more than that, it was posi-
lively and agsressively that way.
Even the republicans" he added,
"were extremely sorry to see him lose,
knowing that it was to that extent a
victory for Days crooked political meth
DDS. There is one thing certain. and that
is that the people of that section are not
going to do anything that viii give Mr..
DAILY and his followers any satisfaction
this year. 1t has been rumored that he
will make a strong fight,t to gain control of
the republican conventions, and if he does
hat ticket will be buried again as deep
as it was in 1886. Eastern Montana hasn't
forgotten the capital fight, but it thinks
it is about time for the would be dictator
from the west side to be slowed away in
his political grave.
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