Daily inter mountain., 1900-05-25
THE TRANSLATION OF NACiNKiS.

The beautiful and artistic political GUS
tom of asserting democrats under par
ticular brands, for easy Identification by
the public, originated in ancient times in
Montana, when the Daily, Clark, Hauser
and Broadwater types never became SO
badly mixed as to cause confusion as to
ownership. ...@~
AS the years rolled by some changes
necessarily took place, for there is moth
ing in the makeup of democrat that is
absolutely guaranteed to be perpetual,
except his appetite for office.
/ If he ever recovers from that distin-
gushing feature he Immediately changes
his politics.
With a few minor losses, and the ac
mavericks. both Clark and DAILY have
succeeded in keeping their herds on sue
culent grass, since our mountain ranges
are said to have appeared above the
! ancient oceans, which at one time-be it
said to their credit-kept Montana clean.
/ When Broadwater died, honored and
respected of all men, though he departed
| from democratic traditions sufficiently
to erect magnificent public bath, his
following scattered, and his most cher
!ished thoroughbreds, like Maginnis,
went out of politics.
| With such men 1.-The jig was up, s.e5
Sn fa oat fo hn
other members of the Big Four-the
major might as well have emulated a
Hindoo widow and performed the rites
of the suttee when his political backer
passed away.
AS a political target he was non est
come at -abus.
| Figuratively speaking, he was 'up the
spout" for membership in one of the
other clans meant commencing at the
foot of the ladder, with a Long line of
courtiers and retainers between him and
the top.
So Maginnis sat down on the doorsteps
to the democratic temple and waited for
the lightning to hit him.
After awhile Hauser, another member
of the Big Four, was dethroned. =
The janitor Of the financial institution
over which that gentleman presided
struck for higher wages and it had to
close.
With Hauser's disappearance as po-
litical leader, Governor Joseph K. Tooie
followed Maginnis into political retire.
,ment, for one glance at the democratic
ladder showed him that an apprentice
ship to obscurity was in order, for Toole
was Hauser democrat.
Gradually, however, things have been
reshaping themselves.
The old, inflexible law which declares
that the earth and all which is therein
shall pass away, and the heavens roll
together as a scroll, was recognized by
the Broadwater and Hauser democrats
as applying with peculiar emphasis to
their respective factions. II
So Maginnis joined the DAILY wing and
Jos. K. Toole joined the Clark wing, and
another equilibrium was thereby estab-
lished.
Having gotten a trolly car grip on one
of those "cycles," SO elaborately de-
. scribed by the Anaconda Standard, and
other noted authorities on wheels, Major
Maginnis necessarily came to the tor
again in due time.
He sloshed around through the damf
. clouds Of political neglect until he was
, pretty thoroughly chilled, before tht
cycle whirled him up into the sunlight OF
political recognition.
Though compelled to resume business
; as a cat's-paw for the Daily democracy
he realizes that it is better to be q cats
paw at the door of the democracy thai
, dwell in the tents Of the has-beens.
), So the major is happy as he hugs tn
= senatorial delusion to his bosom, thougl
he could not but have noticed that hi