The Butte inter mountain., 1902-09-23
FlUTTERlNG BITS OF RIBBON
DESIGNATE TWO DEMOCRATIC
FACTIONS IN CONVENTION.
PLENTY OF ROOM FOR
ALL OF THE DELEGATES
Fully One Thousand People in Beauti-
ful Bozeman in Excess OF the Nor
mol Population and Every Resident
Is an Active Member OF the Recep-
ton Committee for the Visitors.
tsrfCtAL TO INTER MorNrAtNl


Bozeman, Sept. s5.-"Whiies' and
Reds" were designations applied to those
who wore badges rs delegates IN the con-
vcrton town. The WHITES were the
Hcinze jumpers and the reds the regua
lar delegation from Silver Bow county
Speculation regarding the chances OF each
faction has been rife from the time the
delegates with their iuttcring b,s Of rib
bons proclaiming their allegiance to the
contcnding faction until the final coup,
All the delegates were comfortably
housed for the night aud eating accom-
modaiions were provided that satisfied
the most exactins Citizens of Bozeman
wore badges with reception committee"
conspicuously displayed and system of
registering the delegates by streets and
numbers as they took their rooms made
everything move as smoothly as il the
strife Of democracy was not in the air
and political peelc about to burst about
the ears OF the people of the peaceful
town.
Bozeman seems like huge hotel.
Every private house has lodger. every
room is tenantcd. All told there must
be fully 1000 people here in excess of
bands, the tramp Of feet and the chin
music of convention days makes the town
hum. Not since John Bozeman came
through the pass in the mountains east
OF town and hammered in the first stake
in the virgin soil of the Gallatn valley
nave the natives seen such a sight
Joke Each Other
The whites" aud the reds" lived
pcaccably together all night. Each jolsed
the other on the prospects Of the days
contention.
Are you a white of red 2" was
query frequently answered by the tart
reply: I'm red the man with the
blues Is Just around the corner" The man
with the blues was, of course, +. Aug.
lieinze lie cuts a smaller figure here
than he ever has before Among the
men who resent his interference in poll.
ties he walks with an air Of hesitation
almost reaching timidity. His hcelers
with the white badges are on every cor
ner. John MacGinniss, Carlos WarGcld,
J. A. O'Farrell, Jake Kennedy and the
rest are busy with schemes TO rccoup
the fortunes Of the bogus man of dcs-
tiny but il is no go. The temper Of
the delegates is such that Hcinze tactics
WIZ lIol 20 IOWn,
Senator w. A. Clark came in on the
special train bearing the Silver Bow dele.
cation arriving AT midnight {. W. Clark
came on special that reached here i'm
hedialely after the lleinzc train pulled
III at S 80 p. m. All night long special
rains bombard Bozcman bringing in the
delegations from distant parts Of the
state.
TooIe Has No Friends.
ne stock OF Coy. ]. r. Toolc has
fallen lamcntably. He had friends galore
at one time in Gallatin county, but now
the old time democrats seem to rejoice
'hai he Is up against il politically and .
the turning down he received in Helena
Yesterday has made no sympathizers. The
tide oi sentiment has SET strongly against
hclnze and iIcinze rcdlight politics.
democrats who two years ago and four
years ago were flying at each others
throat over party factiona fights are
united today fighting IIeinzc. They
s,anh together to protect the judiciary
they say. II there has ever been in Mon
tana an exalted sentiment among demo-
Gratis It has come to the surface here.
hey want clean man for the nominee
ior supreme judge and they have no
"''o opohR enough to express their
dctestation of ileinze and his plue-uply
political methods in attempting to con,
trol the supreme court by rounding I'm
inc states democracy to do his bidding.
Clark has his headquarters at the Bozc-
man hotel, and the Heinze political dead
rail- is set up in Maxcy's hall, across the
street.
10 the buttonholc of each prominent
party leader Heinze hcelcr is attached,