The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-10-20
BY S. w. WALL.

hustling and generalship. Realizing
! this was to be the case, Heinze at
the beginning of it purchased an au-
tomobile and has kept in full evidence
for some months. 1t will be seen by
the names of the parties that their Ia
bors are directed at local issues. The
trust of which they are anti is
| the Amalgamated Copper Company,
spoken of here quite Familiarity as
| Standard Oil. The charge that Heinze
| had sold out to Standard Oil, made
| before it began and persistently re-
peated during it's progress, lends It's
own interest to the campaign. He1nze
! does not spend a great deal OF time
denying the charge, but keeps his hgnt
| by organization and every other means
at his command, including two news
papers, daily and weekly, at Butte
the News and the Reveille. The
Butte Inter- Mountain and Helena Rec
| ord, Republican papers, and said to be
Amalgamateds keep up a hot fight
upon him, using the cartoon and plain
English unsparingly. The Helena In
dependent, Democratic, addresses it
self more mildly as against Heinze and
| directs its assaults chiefly against the
Helena Record The Independent is
! the principal of Senator Clark's string
OF papers. They all. you see, have
newspapers to burn the other fellow.
This little joke seemed so obvious that
l had to introduce ii.
THE LOCAL FIGHT.
The local fight is just now Of In
| terest, of course, for its possible effect
| on the national ticket, but ii is and al
| ways has been of such a character as
to have attracted attention far be-
! yond the borders of the State, the
greater interest in the national cam
| paign just now having served to over
! shadow it. The fight between the cor
porations, as 1 have said. has been for
the control of the Legislature for the
making of laws and of the courts for
interpreting them. This is the allie
| cation of each-that it is the aim of
the other In Silver Bow County,
where the city of Butte, the great
mining camp. is located, Heinze IS
acknowledged to have won in this
| battle and to have elected Judges VINO
are, or were, grateful to him for the
honor. In important litigation last
year judgments were rendered so
hurtful to the interests of the Anal
| closed down it's works, throwing
thousands out OF, employment in the
middle of winter-and winter in these
mountains means exactly what it says
| Great distress Immediately resulted.
| The Amalgamated said they were
at the mercy of Heinze's Judges they
| (the Amalgamated) must have some
relief; if the Governor would call
special session of the Legislature to
pass laws that would give it them they
would fire up; otherwise, no.
1t was an extreme case. The blow
! ing up of the mines would serve no
end; it was wages the men wanted. for
their women and children were hun
cry and cold.
Heinze had been for Governor Too1e
| in the election that seated him;
Heinze's mines were running all right,
such as were not involved in the liti-
cation; personally he was quite con-
tent.
But it was a time of stress. pc
tition of the miners, largely signed,
begged the Governor to call an extra
session-any old thing to start the
works.
THE SPECIAL SESSION.
1 Will a DTONlSO lndI the mines De
started at once upon it's issue. and
another proviso or declaration that he
would not advise the Legislature as to
any action it should take nor guaran-
tee any action that it might take, the
Governor-these conditions being ac-
copied by the amalgamated-called
the Legislature together.
What is known as the fair-trial law
was passed. 1t gives litigants the
right to challenge, so to speak, as
many as five judges for the trial of
cause-five on each side. Silver Bow
County has three Judges; no other
county has so many. The effect is ap-
parent. Besides releasing any litigant
from the necessity of having a case
tried in Silver Bow or any other
county, the time consumed in the
process of challenge or appeal makes
it possible to postpone the trial of
any case indefinitely.
But the mines have been running
right along ever since. and Heinze
himself is said to have benefited in
other cases by the workings of this
flair trial. law. some of which work.
ings are said to be very curious. The
effects of the judgments of the courts
upon the Judges themselves are also
most interesting to consider. 1t was
Judge Clancy who delivered the judg-
ment that resulted in closing the
mines and throwing several thou
sand men out of work. Having
done this, he adjourned court and
was about to take a run into
the hills on a rabbit hunt or some
thing of the kind. but some hundreds
of miners assembled at the railway
station and induced him to postpone
his trip 1T will be seen how very
interesting all this is and how Gu
riously it works out. Heinze has not
renominated Judge Clancy nor Judge
Harvey, who has also been accredited
to him or his politics. Since the de-
cision referred to, Judge Clancy has
not been popular with the workers
and was not therefore deemed a safe
candidate. So both these Judges are