The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-04-05
LAST TUESDAYS RESULTS.

taken altOgetner, the republicans
have no cause of feeling badly at the
results of the elections held last Tues.
day throughout the country. While
in some individual cases the democrats
may be said to have made gains, the
aggregate shows no diminution, of re-
publican strength. In Ohio the re-
suits are particularly gratifying, as
they may be taken as presagjng the
outcome of the state election next fall.
That this fact is recognized by the
democrats is made evident by the
efforts they put forth in almost every
city and town of the state to carry
the municipal elections. The larger
cities seem to have swung around, but
what may be termed the rural vote re-
NAMED true to principles and saved
the state. AS this vote is in the ma
jority, the republicans seem to have
nothing to fear next fall.
Much the same conditions may be
said to exist in Michigan. In that
state several state officers were elected
and all went to the republicans. The
cities, most with a large foreign vote,
in several instances elected democratic
mayors, but the bulk of the municipal
officers returned are republicans.
Down in Kansas party lines seem to
have been ignored, the principal issue
being temperance. The results show
that, strange as it may seem, there
are some Prohibition democrats, as
several were elected as mayors and
some to other municipal offices.
In this state the results were a sur
prise in several instances. Anaconda,
hitherto the backbone of the west side
democracy, elected a full republican
ticket. There may have been some
local influences at work which were
responsible for the landslide, but to
those familiar with politics in Ana
conda as it used to be, it must appear
as though the absence of the man who
formerly dominated political and other
affairs of the place is making itself
felt in more ways than one. With his
passing a change has apparently come
i've the town and the fear that form
erly kept many in lines where their
sypmathies were not has vanished and
from now it may be safe to say that
Anaconda will not be the one sided
town politically it was wont to be in
the "good old days. The same APP
plies to Missoula, if in a lesser degree.
While occasional republican victories
were Won there in the past, memory
does not recall one as sweeping as that
of last Tuesday. The city, if left to
itself, seems to be safely republican.
The results at Butte need surprise
no one. The republicans made a gal.
liant fight and nominated good men,
but the element which ''runs' the
city was opposed to them. That ele-
ment is ever in opposition to the prin.
ciples and things for which the repub.
lican party stands and cannot brook
interference of the sort it had reasons
to expect in case the republicans elect.
ed their ticket. The ''wide OPEN
men, the one who believe in allowing
gambling and other forms of vice to
obtain without restriction because sit
makes the town lively and causes
money to circulate do not want the
reforms to which the republican nom.
inees were pledged and they saw to
it that they would not be inaugurated.
That is all there was to the election
at Butte. The gentleman who was
elected mayor no doubt is an estima.
BILE gentleman and personally pure
and upright, but the fact that he owes
his election to the element which is
in control of the democratic party
there makes it very evident that he
must always be subject to it and give
it a degree of recognition which rem
ders futile any expectation that things
will be different in the big mining
camp than they have been under pre-
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