The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1924-06-26

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Hogan got into politics or eve
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 tn
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 wa.
not an eight-hour day either, for tina
was long before the passage of the
eight-hour law.
Then Hogan, who afterwards be-
for governor, and subsequently g
state senator, was just one of the
boys among the big gang which Ia
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 we're refined. 1t was
hard, laborious work, but he was
unI1no Moo n1-,Jo- -yitL L;o ooa1a;
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 1893 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. 4
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
refinery they had to go through
many processes in order that the
metals might be separated. It was
the furnaces of the silver mill
the silver had to be extracted by
fierce heat. Each furnace had a
:ender, whose duty it was to see that
he heat was maintained, to skim the
metal at the proper time and
hen to run it off.
1t was at this work that Hogan
pent nearly four years and when he
vent to Helena to fill an office in the
apitol he left behind him a record
S a careful, industrious and pains
aking workman.
He early became a student of So
conditions and politics and his
mbition seems to have been that of
ettering the condition of his fellow
1orkmen. He was active in the cause
f labor, and, by reason of his recog-
lied abilities, became district master
rorkman Of the Knights of Labor, of
[ontana, which office he held for
svera1 years. (,
when he was running for secre-
airy of state" said n of his smelter
lends at that time, che didn't do
campaigning. He kept pretty :
at work all the time, only 5
.ying off now and then. After he :
elected he came back to work
gain, poking at his old furnace as .
sual. We joshed him a great deal ) /.
bout a man holding a high office
nd working at a furnace. I guess
got a little hot about it, for he !
lit and went up to Helena to meet G
le applicants for appointments. He 9
God by his friends, though, taking !
mmy Toughill and Hamilton up |
ere with him as employees in his I
b
1t was the year of the state capital
ght, 1894, that Hogan first went t
to politics. From that time on, I'M Il
he became immersed in oil, he t
'ver entirely dropped out of the
The same year he was nomin- :
ed for the legislature by the popu-
is but lost by a bare 16 votes.
Then, in 1896, the year of the flu
IN of the populists and democrats,
was selected by the populists as the
sion candidate for secretary of
ate and was elected. AS his assist
is in the office of secretary of
tie he selected two of his former
5ociates in the smelter. He filled
> office for the full term of four
ars, although in 1898 he sought
office of congressman as the can
late of the populists, but he was
feated by the democratic candi-
to-.
During the time he had been in the
vice of the state he had kept up
studies of law and when his term
)ired he went to Butte where he
gagged in the practice of law for a
'iod of four years.
However, before he had finally
lcluded his term as secretary of
tie, Hogan became a candidate for
office of governor of Montana,
wing been nominated for that office
the Independent democrats in the
| of 1900, but went down to de-
It before Joseph K. Toole.
Upon his retirement from office and
er spending about four years in
practice of law in Butte, Mr.. Ho-
l removed to Billings where he re-
ned his work in law and where he
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