Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-12-01
HEINZE NOT A REPUBLICAN.

tn Helena organ of the Hon. Joseph
X. Toole, alarmed at the senatorial cam
didacy of Butte's enterprlslnS anu
popular mine manager. is shreWdly at
tempting to kill off his chances by refer
ring to him as a republican and insinuat-
ing that the election of our townsnan by
the aggregation known as the fusion
forces is clearly out of the question.
While doing this. however. the ~Independ-
pnt andaavors to retain Mr.. Heinze's good
viii by telling him that all he has to do
is to wait patiently. keep on helping the
democrats to fill the offices. and that four
wears from now the republicans will fall
over each other begging him to accept a
senatorial toga.
This transparent trick of the Helena
lndependent to get a formidable oppo-
nent of its own favorite out of the way
By unloading him upon a party with
which he never has had, and has not
now. any connection or standing what
ever. will excite only the contempt and
ridicufe of the vast majority of the re-
publfcans of Montana. And we suspect
II will utterly fail in fooling Mr.. Heinze
himself. who probably sees in the present
irresponsible, ~unpledged elements which
make up the fusion majority of the leg
l~slature. an opportunity which may not
come again in a lifetime. Republicans
generally will no doubt equally appre-
rfa+e the humor contained In the propo-
sition of the Helena Independent assunl-
Ing to pledge Montana republicans on
any question or to anybody. If there is
a newspaper in this state which has per-
sistently vilitied the republican party and
falsely and enormously misrepresented
Helena Independent. So hat on gen
erai principles it is safe to say that any
suggestion coming from that journal
touching republicans or republican inter
ests will find few endorsers.
1t would be unfair to c~riticise Mr..
Heinze at this time upon the supposition
that he is seeking political preferment at
the hands of republicans. because so far
as we know. outside of the columns of
the Independent and a few other fusion
newspapers, there is NJ evidence hat
such is the case. And. to be entirely
candid, we give Mr.. Heinze credit for
more practical common sense than to
suppose that after the policy he has
pursued, and after the public declara-
tions made by him, he could so insult the
intelligence of republicans and betray his
own lack of consistency as to solicit
their support for any office within their
gift or expect their aid or assistance in
forwarding his political ambitions, if he
has any.
If Mr.. Heinze has ever lone or said
anything in a public way since his resi-
dence in Montana to indicate that he is
Or ever was, a republican it has not come
to our knowledge, and we claim to bt
fairly we'll informed on matters politica
as they relate to the republican party il
some part in politics, but it was as tn,
ally of the Anaconda democracy. At tina
Time oil hic fra 2, OFT h and that of his fol
lowing was cast for the democratic tick
ct. 1t is true that a few months later. il
the Butte city election. he vas foun,
working for the republican ticket for tn
first time. This was because he ha
fallen out with the Anaconda democracy
"A year later, however, in the last cit
election, his followers were again work
ing tooth and nail for the Democrat
ticket.
Mr.. Heinze's record in the campaiG
nust ended is so recent as hardly to re
quire recapitulation. His attempt to spl
the republican party of Silver Bo
county by dividing the central commit
tee: the calling of his personal CONVEX
composed mainly of his own employee
to the republican state convention
Helena; the failure of his delegation
secure a single vote either before II
committee on credentials or upon II
floor of the convention in favor of sea
ing his delegation-all these things a
fresh in the memory of the republican
of the state.
And it will be recalled too. that whe