The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1924-06-26

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Hogan got into politics or ever
dreamed of getting into the oil gam'
and before he developed a ~financia
bent of mind, he made his living b.
the sweat of his brow and the
strength of his back feeding the furn
aces at the silver smelter at Ana
conda for which he received the goins
wage of $500 per day, and it was
not an eight-hour day either, for thai
was long before the passage of the
eight-hour law.
Then Hogan, who afterwards be
came secretary of state, a candidate
for governor, and subsequently 6
state senator, was just n of the
boys among the big gang which la
bored in the smelter at Anaconda
but he was one of the fellows who
stood in with the boys and enjoyed
the confidence and respect of all, re-
CARELESS of the fact that he was draw
ing down only $500 a day and was
supporting a wife.
Hogan came to Montana in 1890
from his native state of Wisconsin
and for a year did general work
around the mines in Butte and for the
following three years was employed in
Anaconda at the furnaces where the
silver and gold were refined. 1t was
bod To 10-,l11 -r4,1x hY,f 6o xuo
young, was popular with his associ-
ates and obtained their friendship to
the extent that when he finally got
into politics he had backing which
counted we'll.
When he married in 1898 and
brought his bride to Anaconda he
bought a little house on Elm street
from which he used to start out ev-
cry morning to the smelter, dinner
pail in hand.
Tending a furnace in a silver mill
is not a pleasant job at all. When
the bars of metal-gold, silver and
copper-came from the converter to
the refinery they had to go through
many processes in order that the
metals might be separated. 1t was
In the furnaces of the silver mill
that the silver had to be extracted by
a fierce heat. Each furnace had a
tender, whose duty it was to see that
the heat was maintained, to skim the
metal at the proper time and
to run it off.
It was at this work that Hogan
spent nearly four years and when he
went to Helena to fill an office in the
he left behind him a record
is a careful, Industrious and pains
workman.
He early became a student of So
,ial conditions and politics and his
inhibition seems to have been that of
lettering the condition of his fellow
He was active in the cause
# labor, and, by reason of his recog-
lized abilities, became district master
workman of the Knights of Labor, of
dontana, which office he held for
everal years.
when he was running for secre-
airy of state" said one of his smelter |
riends at that time, "he didn't do
much campaigning. He kept pretty
teadily at work all the time, only
aging off now and then. After he
vas elected he came back to work
gain, poking at his old furnace as
lsual. We joshed him a great deal
bout a man holding a high office
nd working at a furnace. I guess
q got a little hot about it, for he
uit and went up to Helena to meet
he applicants for appointments. He
TODD by his friends, though, taking
immy ,Toughill and Hamilton up
here with him as employees in his
1t was the year of the state capital
light, 1894, that Hogan first went
ito politics. From that time on, un-
i he became immersed in oil, he
entirely dropped out of the
anne. The same year he was nomin-
ted for the legislature by the popu-
SITS but lost by a bare Is votes.
Then, in 1896, the year of the flu
on of the populists and democrats,
2 was selected by the populists as the
lsion candidate for secretary of
ate and was elected. AS his assist
.ts in the office of secretary of
ate he selected two of his former
ssociates in the smelter. He filled
lie office for the full term of four
ears, although in 1898 he sought
lie office of congressman as the can
date of the populists, but he was
efeated by the democratic candi-
ate.
During the time he had been in the
,rvice of the state he had kept up
Is studies of law and when his term
zpired he went to Butte where he
lgaged in the practice of law for a
sriod of four years.
However, before he had finally
included his term as secretary of
ate, Hogan became a candidate for
office of governor of Montana,
aving been nominated for that office
the Independent democrats in the
ii of 1900, but went down to de-
before Joseph K. Toole.
Upon his retirement from office and
fer sDending about four wears in