Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1904-10-26
THE CONSPIRACY AGAINST MONTANA
All The Great Corporations Are Work.
ing Together for the DEM
OcratiC State Ticket

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appear that the people Of Montana
are confronted by a danger more
appalling than any heretofore en-
countered in all their history, and
m that can only be averted by
wise action at the coming election.
This danger lies in the signifi-
cant fact that the great corporations
and muIti-miIIionaires Of this state
who have heretofore been arrayed
against each other in bitter and
deadly hostility, each striving to
dominate and control our legisla-
lures and our courts, are today
working together, shoulder to shoul-
der, for the election Of the entire
Democratic ticket.
Today the paid attorneys Of the
Amalgamated Copper company and
w. A. Clarke, and Mr.. Heinze, per-
sonaIIy, are speaking from the same
platforms at the same meetings In
support Of the state Democratic
ticket.
II is strange, in view Of this fact,
that there is a well nigh universal
belief in the public mind that the
struggle between Mr.. Heinze and
the Amalgamated will end with the
close of this campaign. and that the
local contest between them, now
confined to Silver Bow county alone,
is a mere sham and pretense. OF
what use are Mr.. Heinze's denials
of a trade with the Amalgamated,
when he goes up and down the state
denouncing the standard Oil" in
one breath and urging the election
OF the Amalgamated Copper COM
pany candidates in the next? And
how can Mr.. Heinze reconcile the
fact of his now travelling over the
state in company with Clark and
Ainalgamated stump speakers, with
his previous violent denunciation
and terrible arraignment of these
same parties as the enemies of the
people?
Is 1t possible, in the light oft hese
glazing Inconsistencies. that the peo-
pie of Montana can be fooled?
The evidence that there is a deal
between the Amalgamated Copper
company ("Standard Oil") and Mr..
Heinze, is irresistible.
/. 1t has been repeatedly charged
in the public press for many months
past that Mr.. Heinze was negotiat-
ing a sale of his properties to the
Amalgamated, and not until within
the past two weeks has this state
ment been denied by him.
2. The Amalgamated Copper com
pany has never yet denied this
statement.
3. Judge William Clancy. Mr..
Heinze's former friend, says he be-
lieves Mr.. HeinZe has sold out.
4. Hon. Patrick Mullins, mayor of
Butte, and formerly his close per-
sonal friend and adviser, publicly ex-
presses the opinion that Mr.. Heinze
has either sold out or is preparing
to do so.
8. This belief finds confirmation
in the fact that Mr.. Heinze has let
go, or discharged, many of the prin-
cIpal men in charge of his mines
and smelters-men upon whom he
must necessarily depend in the enor-
nous litigation in which he is en-
gaged-John Kane, Superintendent
OF the Minnie Healy mine; Nick
Trealor, superintendent Of the Rar-
us mine; J.. H. Trerise, managing
engineer; K. l.. Blossum, superin-
tendent of the NJ. o. P. smelter; L.
NJ. Tower, consulting engineer, and
others. He has also permitted hi
fusion party In Silver Bow county
to turn down his old friends, Juage
Harvey and Judge Clancy.
6. On September 16. last. ibu
Boston News Bureau, a Heinze ~.
gan, said: The strength this
morning in Amalgamated shares
"a due to Heinze's great succu
in Montana; that is to say, his sue
less in breaking into the state Dem.
ocratic convention and debating
some Of the nominees. Why should
Heinze's success cause a rise In
Amalgamated stock, unless there is
a combination Why should not
his success rather have caused a
, rise in his own stock?
I. The Butte Daily Miner has
asserted over and over again for
months past that Mr.. Helnze had
made a deal with the Amalgamated
Copper company, even giving de.
tails of the transaction. The signi.
ficance Of these statements by the
Butte Miner lies in the fact that the
owner, Hon. w. A. Clark, Is gen.
orally believed to be very close 10
the eastern managers and controllers
of the Amalgamated company, and
hence the Miner knows whereof 1t
speaks.
s. The management Of the Anal.
gamated in Montana Is, and for
years past has been Democratic.