New-York tribune., 1900-10-13
NEw:YoRK Daily rRIBUNE. SATURDAY. ocroBER 1a. 1soo
THE PASSING THRONG.

EN-GoVerhor ) T. HauseT OF Montana, speak
ing yesterday at the Fifth Avenue Hotel OF the
somewhat complicated political
MONTANAS outlook in that State said: "You
THREE COR know. there is a triangular polti-
NERED cal contest going in Montana
FIGHT There the straight Re
publicans and the Democrats
divided in twain. The Daily Democrats bolted the
convention that the Clark wing of the party con-
fGGIed f2eS After bolting this convention the DAILY
effort to secure the Legislature and also to elect
certain judges The coming Legislature will elect
Thomas H. Carter. Of Helena The ad interim
appointment Of Senator Clark only carries to the
meeting Of this Legislature. : it will choose his
sue successor as well Thus the incoming legislature
tn Miis eifGt o0tn senators n the DAILY Democrats
anomaly will be presented of Montana-an unques-
RpubcsS sena64 s eh oes n9 S
AFFECT the electoral vote. which will go 10 Bryan.
this point The fight is on state. not National.
issues have been absent from Montana for some
venture prediction on the outcome. A DAILY man.
gretted to acknowledge H. he feared the Clark
Heinze combination was going TO succeed and win
out when the votes were counted
Walter Emerson OF Portland. Me. who Is speak
ing throughout this State in behalf of the Repub-
lican ticket. when seen at the
CAM Hotel darlington yesterday said:
PAIGNER'S Il have uniformly had good meet
EXPERT ings and the people have been
ENCE. enthusiastic everywhere In fact
I have had better meetings and
been better received than at any time in my pre-
vious campaigning. From what 1 have and
heard in my travels. il is all but the shouting.
although the campaign should hold for the
next three weeks. Bryan will be overwhelmingly
beaten in this State Up the State they per-
fectly confident of being able 10 come down TO the
Harlem River with at least one hundred thousand
more votes than Bryan can come up to the river
with. | hear. too that the Republicans have made
notable gains in Erie and Kings. and that ii is not
at all impossible that we will carry the latter
county.
Il had one amusing experience during this cam
paign and. | secured a rattling good dinner
rishtfulIy belonging the Congressman with
whom | was spellbiEding, while he nearly starved
to DEATH can we'll AFFORD TO tell the story II
about in this way: The Congressman and
myself scheduled to speak at a town where
the railroad station lay at distance from the
town proper. On arrival / went to the ticket
Office to look up the trains. On my return found
two men in hot controversy to who should
have the honor of conducting the Congressman
to the town. One of them turned out to he the
chairman of the town committee having the meet
ing in charge. and the other was the postmaster
of the town. As | joined the group. the pOStmaS
ter, who stout, good natured said
Very well. I'll escort Mr. Emerson, provided you'll
allow go first. This agreed and so
off we started. In response TO my inquiry as to
what the trouble was, the postmaster explained
that there two factions in the Republican
party in the town. He the head of one faction
and the committee chairman of the other He
had beaten the latter in the fight for postmaster.
but it had been a close thing, and every move
in the game counted. II for this that
they had both made such point about escorting
the Congressman. The postmaster wound up his
held up his head if he had had to return to the
town without escortng somebody. If such had
been the case he didn't, in fact think he would
have returned at all