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

uedl mas Deen maze IN DeInOCi dIAS
newspapers of the fact that the Labor
Party of Montana has declared for
Parker. What has been made Of the
circumstance, may say, is much
AT distance, doubtless the statement
sounds important. Here it is of very
slight moment in the national cam
paign, though the warmth of the local
fight, the necessity of conserving every
vote in the fight, warns each faction
and their newspapers not to speak too
slightingly of it. But the Labor party
of Montana, it should be UNDERSTOOD
in California and elsewhere, does not
by any means represent the labor vote
or the labor element of this State. IL
is a faction. Bitter opponents OF the
party to- which the faction is allied
refer to it's chief spirits as the leaders
of the fistful.''
Money has always been easy in Mon
tana so far as anybody can remem-
Der and so at election times 1T is ex-
pected that the great business interests
fighting for supremacy shall turn
loose They do. A campaign In any
of the larger towns, especially IN Hell
ena or Butte, is sight to see. 1t had
been said that the big corporations
having come together either as
financial fact (not admitted) or hav-
ing a common working basis in poll
tics, there would not be much doing
this campaign Considerable unhap-
piness among the great army of those
-Lo q SI1Cb
times has been noted. The tenderloin
and what is known in San Francisco
as the cocktail route" were especially
miserable for weeks touching the out
look. But the gloomy forecast was
in a great measure unwarranted.
THE GOLDEN DAYS.
To be sure, Senator Clark is prac-
tically out of it-and OH the glowing
memories. the legends that are told
of those many days when he had ambi-
tons to fulfill and old Marcus Daily
kept whipping the pond as fast as
he cast his bait, of how there was
carte blanche everywhere and of
how early teamsters would find their
way blocked in the morning by piles of
empty champagne bottles and of how
Tic DdII6HueI cSllIlldlcQ luC SOcN VI a
round of drinks by just running his
eye over the crowd and how no ques-
tons were ever asked. But that's a
story that has been told. Senator
Clarks ambition is realized. He is a
Senator all right and his term does
not expire this year nor next nor the
year after.
Senator Clark set aside matter of
fifty thousand dollars to spend in this
campaign in Montana, just to show
that he has not lost interest in poll
tics.
Then there is F. Augustus HeinZe,
president of the United Copper Com
pany, who runs the antitrust" cam
paign. His enemies say he is not a
spender, but he has a large following,
and they won't let him play in a game
like this unless he is at least a good
fellow. The Amalgamated, the so call
ed trust" commonly referred to as
the STANDARD OIL" is said to have
money in bank. So there is no appar-
ent need of the crowd that works poll
tics in Montana to be disheartened
even though Senator Clark this year
be only playing his ante anu raises no.
body.
The situation at large here may be
briefly stated:
STATE FOR ROOSEVELT.
The State is reasonably certain for
Roosevelt and Fairbanks. Farmers,
ranchmen, sheep and cattle men, are
solid for the Republican ticket
| Where the miner is for Parker it is
because of the influence of the Colorado
| labor troubles upon him and the be-
lief that somehow or other the Presi-
| dent should have interfered in that
matter in the miners behalf.
| The Democratic party is regularly
| organized and hopes to re-elect Cover
nor Toole, to carry the State for Par
ker and Davis, of course, to elect a
Democratic Legislature and by this
| means to promote the elected Governor
/ to the United States Senate, there to
cratic incumbent, Senator Paris Glib
| son.
The Republicans are better organized
than for many years and is making
| an active and effective campaign. The
managers are very confident of victory
both as to the State ticket headed by
| Hon. William Lindsay for Governor
as well as the national. In case of g
| Republican Legislature Hon. Thomas
Carter viii be returned to the United
| States Senate in Mr.. Gibson's stead
The third element an active and ag-
gressive one, is F. Augustus Heinze OF
the United Copper Company. He is
the third party and his methods are
PECULIAR He processes, personally. nc
/ political party. His aim Is to win. His
campaign is Antitrust" so called
and he has organized five several an
THRUST elements into as many parties
| and apportioned the offices and the
candidatures among them.
WHAT HEINZE HOPES FOR.
BY these means he hopes to wiz
away enough votes from the other
parties, or more particularly the Re-
publican party. to carry his ends. His
ends are purely local. although he has
recently placed the names of the Park
er electors among his other candi-
/ dates at the head of the editorial page
of hiS Rrtte neWSpaDer Mr. HeinZef,