{ title: 'The River Press (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, September 11, 1889, Page 2, Image 2', download_links: [ { link: 'http://www.loc.gov/rss/ndnp/ndnp.xml', label: 'application/rss+xml', meta: 'News about Chronicling America - RSS Feed', }, { link: '/lccn/sn85053157/1889-09-11/ed-1/seq-2.png', label: 'image/png', meta: '', }, { link: '/lccn/sn85053157/1889-09-11/ed-1/seq-2.pdf', label: 'application/pdf', meta: '', }, { link: '/lccn/sn85053157/1889-09-11/ed-1/seq-2/ocr.xml', label: 'application/xml', meta: '', }, { link: '/lccn/sn85053157/1889-09-11/ed-1/seq-2/ocr.txt', label: 'text/plain', meta: '', }, ] }
About The River Press (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current | View This Issue
The River Press (Fort Benton, Mont.), 11 Sept. 1889, located at <http://montananewspapers.org/lccn/sn85053157/1889-09-11/ed-1/seq-2/>, image provided by MONTANA NEWSPAPERS, Montana Historical Society, Helena, Montana.
THE RIVER PRESS. THE RIVER PRESS Published Every Wednesday Morning by the River Press Publish- ing Company. IN speaking of the senate tariff bill the republican papers of the territory say: 97 THE Anaconda Review is now issued daily. In the first number, now before us, it lays down its platform as follows: We shall work for the advancement of home interests, for the protection of home enterprise and for the election of the re- publican ticket.\ The Review knows its own business, but if it proposes to work for the interests of the people it will not work for the republican ticket. The proposition is absurd. THE daily quotations of bar silver at 92; 92; 92N, etc; give the lie direct to the platform of the republican party and the declarations of republican orators and or- gans that under a republican administra- tion the interests of silver miners would be fostered and the price of the metal would be greatly appreciated. Thew dec- larations made and promises so freely given last fall have not yet materialized, nor never will so long as the republican party retain power. It is the only organ- ized enemy to silver in America. THE Inter Mountain, with that vigor and truthfulness which characterizes it, is conducting the democratic side of this campaign with entire satisfaction to Messrs. Daly, Clark, Broadwater and Hau- ser. It is understood the former, as chairman of the state democratic central committee, will raise the salary of the Inter Mountain editor to $3.75 per week. Mr. Daly is as distinguished for his kind, benevolent disposition and desire to re- ward faithful services as is the accom- plished Inter Mountain writer for making votes for the democratic party. DEMOCRATS register and register at once. After the 15th inst. no one can reg- ister and the party that has the most names upon the registration books will carry the election. There is no mistake about this. The republican minority will resister to a man, and unless democrats are equally vigilant and earnest they will witness the spectacle of the few triumph over the many. The republican organs concede that the only hope of their party to carry the ensuing election lies in the failure of democrats to register. Demo- crats destroy that hope by registering. THE people of Montana do not owe the republican party anything. This great territory has been brought to a degree of prosperity which has excited the as- tonishment of the world, solely under democratic supremacy, and was when the republican legislative assembly met last winter, out of debt and had $140,000 in its treasury. This is in striking contrast with its sister territories which, under republican rule, are heavily in debt and groaning under an onerous taxation. The republican par- ty may put this fact in its pipe and smoke it. THE mail facilities of the country are in a worse condition than ever before. Not- withstanding republican promises of im- provement in the service Wanamaker has done nothing to make it more effective. On the contrary he has discontinued mail routes and post offices and put the people to greater inconvenience in the matter of getting their mails. He discontinued the offices at Walkerville and South Butte and it was only through the comoined ef- forts of the democrats and republicans of those places and at Butte that they were re-established. The people of Montana have no cause to be thankful for what the post office department has done for them. As the people of the territory become better acquainted with the registration law the more disgusted do they become with it. Owing to its many arbitrary and annoying provisions thousands of natur- alized citizens will be deterred from vot- ing unless pains be taken to explain to them the requirements of the law and the manner of conforming to them. And then again so many American citizens who have always enjoyed a free ballot cannot afford the time and expense to travel from twenty to fifty miles to regis- ter and will therefore remain at home on election day. The law as it stands is sim- ply an engine of destruction to the liber- ties of the people of Montana. T. J. TODD. One of the most popular and capable men upon the democratic county ticket le Thomas J. Todd, the candidate for clerk of the district court. Mr. Todd is a prom- inent business man of Fort Benton and has acceptably served it successively as alderman and as mayor. He is an old- time resident of the city, and his energy, enterprise and public spirit have always been directed in promoting its interests and that of the surrounding country. Hence his candidacy appeals directly to the vote of every man in Choteau county who admires a thoroughly wide-awake and disinterestedly public spirited citi- zen. The gentlemanly bearing, suave manners, courtesy and accommodating spirit of Mr. Todd are too well known to be referred to here, but they will make him one of the most popular officers of the county, as the possession of those at- tributes have already made him one of its most popular citizens. REMEMBERED. The people of Choteau county have not forgotten that through the misrepresen- tations and pleadings of a republican del- egate to congress nearly all of northern Montana was set off as a great Indian reservation for the benefit of a few trad- ers and whiskey sellers. This was done sixteen years ago, but through the unre- mitting labors of the Hons. Martin Ma- ginnis and J. K. Toole, the democratic candidates for members of congress and governor, 18,000,000 acres of the great re- serve were restored to the public domain and is now being rapidly settled by a thrifty, contented people. But for fifteen long years the residents of Choteau county were compelled to guard their lives and property against the murderous, thieving savages which a republican delegate had caused to be quartered in their immediate neighbor- hood in order that a few unscrupulous contractors, traders and dealers in illicit whiskey might prosper and wax fat. The people have not forgotten these things nor has the sight of the tears of frighten - ed, trembling women and children as they turned their blanched faces to their pro- tectors at the yells and demoniac cries of drunken savages, entirely faded from their view. They remember the raids made upon their homes by these Indians and the annoyances, vexations and losses they endured, and the dangers to which they were exposed by them, and long since registered a vow that a party which had proved so unmindful of their welfare -- so indifferent to their fate and so cruelly unjust to them should not receive their support. And Choteau county has been from that day to this almost solidly democratic. Its people still remember the injuries in - fficted upon them by republican misrule and desire no more of it. Their county has been Bet back a decade and a half in its advancement by the election of a re- publican to congress. If Claggett had been defeated in 1872 Choteau county to -day would be one of the most p ipulous, most prosperous and wealthy counties in the territory. It will take years for it to re- cover from the effects of republican injus- tice. In the meantime no republican can- didate for congress should ask for the suffrages of its people. He will not get them. The people of Choteau county know their friends and recognize in Mar- tin Maginnis and J. K. Toole tried acd true ones. These men recovered what had been bargained away by a republican delertste to congress. MARCUS DALY. The democratic party was extremely . fortunate in selecting Mr. Marcus Daly as chairman of the state democratic central committee. As general manager of the Anaconda group of mines he has develop- ed a property which eight years ago was condemned as worthless, into the greatest copper mine on the globe and projected and carried to completion enterprises in connection therewith which are the won- der and admiration of the world. In ac complishing this he has displayed re- markable perseverance, industry, fore- sight, intelligence and great executive ability, qualities which eminently fit him for the responsible position he occupies and which he will bring to bear in the discharge cf its duties. He will, we understand, devote his whole time and undivided attention to conducting the campaign. That he will carry it to a successful issue those who know his determination to triumph in everything he undertakes entertain no doubt. One so capable of leading a for- lorn hope will certainly marshal the con- fident, exultant democratic hosts to vic- tory. THAT OBSOLETE LAW. Says the republican platform: It (the democratic party) visited upon our citizens an odious system of espion- age, and revived a perverted construction of an obsolete law to harass them. The above precious excerpt refers to what is known as the old law, governing the cutting of timber upon the public do- main. The law was passed many years ago to prevent the cutting of timber by private parties upon lands set apart by the government for its own especial bene- fit upon the gulf coast, the timber grow- ing upon it being wanted by the govern- ment for the building of ships, etc. But it was left to a republican secretary of the interior under a republican administra- tion to \revive a perverted construction', of this ancient act of congress to harass the citizens of Montana. Those who were in the territory dur- i :g the seventies know just how Carl Schurz harassed and persecuted the miners and farmers and mechanics of Montana. He had his agents and spies all over the mountains Eeizing wood and tim- bers used for domestic and mining pur- poses and exacting stumpage from miner and ranch man and woodman and saw mill proprietor who cut down a pole or tree. The United States marshal—Col. W. F. Wheeler—in obedience to his instructions, seized and confiscated wood in the yards of private citizens of Helena and made them and others pay roundly for having wood known to be cut upon the public domain in their possession. The country was threatened with a wood famine and lumber advanced fifty per cent. in price. Ranch improvements and mining enter- prises came to:a standstill and the territo- ry was threatened with ruin for want of timber to prosecute its industries. At this juncture, Majot Maginnis, then a del- egate to congress from the territory, came to its rescue. He pleaded with the au- thorities at Washington for the revoca- tion of Schurz's infamous order and final- ly succeeded in having it withdrawn for the time. But the law was kept upon the statute book of the nation, the re- publicans refusing to repeal it. These are the facts in the case as far as Montana has been effected by the meas- ure. Sparks attempted to enforce it but he was met with such a storm of indigna- tion from every quarter that he desisted and no one was annoyed or harassed by the order. The republican convention was; unfortunate in its reference to this law, or to its operation in the territory. It was a republican under a republican administration that enforced the abomni- able law in Montana and there are still hundreds of witnesses living in it who can testify to the facts above stated. THE TWO PARTIES. The platform adopted by the democrat- ic convention at Anaconda is a clear cut, straight iss „ rioneet declaration of the principles which govern the party. It plants itself upon that platform and is prepared to maintain the expediency and justice of every proposition presented in it. The party -is making its fight upon that platform and no other and will not be drawn off to attack or defend ded 1 is- sues or to discuss ancient political litera- ture The democratic party is a live, pro- gressive party and moves abreast of the procession of advanced ideas, clearing the way for a higher state of civilization- and a better government. It is the party of the people; it sprang from the people and lives for them. It'sucessively fought and conquered the old federal party, the whig party and the know-nothing party—the great grand sire, the grand sire and the sire of the republican party of to day. It is now lighting this latest born of the peo- ple's enemy—this breeder of oppressive monopolies and soulless corporations, and will also defeat and grind it to dust. The republicah party, sired by the know-nothing party, was born at Cincin- nati in 1856. By a fortunate (to it) com- bination of circumstances it succeeded in electing a president in 1860. By a still more fortunate combination of circum- stances it succeeded in a war which that election precipitated. It has since been camping by the ashes of the fires lighted during the internecine strife. A new generation of men has come to the front, but the party still chatters about its deeds upon the battle fields and in lieu of the starry emblem, waves a bloody shirt. It is a long way in the rear of marching events and sight will soon be lost of the once powerful organization by the ad- vancing democracy of the country. It has served its day and generation and must pass into that oblivion in which rest its forgotten sires. Requieseat in pace. THE JOURNALS \LIES.„ The Helena Journal has gone beyond its depths in its attempts to prove that the democratic platform is a series of lies. In one of its interminable screeds it charges that the democratic legislative assembly of 1871 refused to reduce the per deim pay of members of the legisla- ture. Now in all cacdor we would ask. Is the Journal an ignoramus or a liar? It is one or the other. The facts are these. Previous to and including the session of 1871-72 members of the legislative aSse m- bly were paid $12 per day by the territory and $4 per day by the general govern- ment. The Basnack legislature of 1864, which was republican, provided that members of the legislature shall receive $12 per day from the territory, During the legisla- tive session of '71 and '72, Robert Fisher, then a member of the council from Jeffer- son county, introduced a bill that mem- bers shall receive no pay from the territo- ry. The bill was introduced for bun- combe. It is questionable whether Fish- er, Seth Bullock or Judge Lawrence, then republican members of the council would have voted for the measure if they thought there was any probability of its becoming a law. Living was high. Board was $21 a week and a tramp couldn't live on a salary of $4 per day. Tile bill was killed. But another one was introduced by a democrat and became a law which pro- vided that members of the legislative as sembly shall receive only $6 per day from the territory. The Journal says nothing about this bill. It either did not know what it was talking about or it purposely lied when it charged that the legislative assembly of 1871 refused to reduce salaries of members of the legislature. The wet- ter cuts no figure in the present campaign but it is well enough now and then to vindicate the truth of history when it is attacked by ignoramuses or liars. THE statement of the republican gover- nor of Massachusetts that \when the sys- tem of protection has been carried so far that many industries have been ruined, it is time for a change,\ is a significaht one. It will aid in the right solution of the question.—St. Paul Globe. Mat McCabe, of New Bronswick, Ill. offers to pay five dollars to any person troubled with bloody flux, who will take Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diar- rhcea Remedy according to directions and does not get well in the shortest possible time. One half of a twenty-five cent bot- tle of this remedy cured him of bloody flux, after he had tried other medicines and the perscriptions of physicians with - (tut benefit. Mr. McCabe is perfectly safe in making this offer, as more than a thou- sand bottles of this remedy are sold each day and it has never been known to fail in any case of colic, cholera ruorbus, dys- entery, diarrhoea or bloody flux, when the plain printed directions were followed. For sale by M. A. Flanagan. REASONS Why Ayer's Sarsaparilla is preferable to any othec for the cure of Blood Diseases. Because no poisonous or deleterious ingredients enter into the composition of Ayer's Sarsaparilla. — Ayer's Sarsaparilla contains only the purest and most effective remedial properties. — Ayer's Sarsaparilla is prepared with extreme care, skill, and cleanliness. — Ayer's Sarsaparilla is prescribed by leading physicians. —Ayer's Sarsaparilla is for sale everywhere, and recommended by all first-class druggists. — Ayer's Sarsaparilla is a • medicine, and not a beverage in disguise. —Ayer's Sarsaparilla never fails to effect a cure, w hen persistently used, according to directions. — Ayer's Sarsapar'lla .s a highly con- centrated e: iii' find therefore the most 4. -tion441i I cod Nitalicine i !!-, [Burke:. -- A: er's r'•••s.:4; :Irina has had a str ceitsful career 4,. ticarly half a centur. and wris •.,, Tillar as at preset — Thousands of tostimonials are tile from 1:1t).•• twtt,•tited by the use of Ayer's Sarsapari!!‘ PREPARED HI' Dr. S. C. Ayer & Co., Lowell, M. Price $1 ; six bottles, $5. Worth $5 a bottle BUY a Useless Watch .1 -. , in an ;rtTsi., l, , ' ,.•• If . styled — Wa.cta Company.' t 'ion, . TEE ond yet sell as low as Send to a weli•kgown reli - able firm. We here give our friends a Watch to GLUE AN. extravagantly uescribed I • on. scrupulous adverttsers This Watch 3) VA . ..11y sold by !tett jewe'ers it $7.5o. We cot pin r knowing our custotrei, \ speak a g.ot vac d 5. Watches. Jewelrt - scare. etc.. s. ii ci tluiusatol of tlicse . tising Watches. ailterti nag in eacii howet tr, is a paper label placed insitle back cover, which purchasers art .ask- ell to show their friends. It calls attention to all cur goods. THE WCIZI:S ate genuine. ex• pansion buincc. quick. train. adjusted to 4 posi- tion,, elettanCy n.(1.( and jewelcilAbit tire cheap SWISS kind. CLEE is the genuine water and proof Silverine, war.: I and stamped. by the - Dueber Co. for 20 year:. v. eled crystal. If 50 cents in money or stamps are , eri L.: :s a guarantee of good fc;l\.. , will send this Watch by E.• .s subject to full enciiiinati , n. IZcti- tirely satisfactory, end vsLIIL\:\e of $2 . 10 . otherwis r e you don't pay a penny. A .T. EVANC.t. Chicago. References: Colitinental Nat'l Rook. (hr. a7ct asency,or any Lank in U.S. $calesu - ber,Wati:li warranted 3 ye rc - Ii FOUR NEW STATES. South Dakota, North Dakota, Montana. Washington. On February 22 ' 1889, the President signed the hill cr ating •outh Dakota, North Dakota, Montana, and Washington states 4 the Union. SOUTH DAKOTA.—The great Prairie State, to which the St vaul Minneapolis & Manitoba Railway has three malt lines, reaching Ellend ale, Aberdeen, ilni•04 , , Watertown, and Sioux Falls. Go to South Dakota via the St, Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba Railway and pass through st. Paul and Minneapo is en route. Nouria DAKOTA.—Where is grown the No. 1 Hard Scotch V•fe Wheat; whore healthful climate nur- tures the mo-t rigorous and brainy civilization on ea , 11; where single counties raise more wheat, oats and barley than entiros ates; the soil of whose fer- tile prair es is richer than the valley of the Nile; where the Pardo Mountain, Minot and D-vil's Lake and districts invite the home seeker to secure a free home. Magnificent dai y train service to Fargo. G•and Pork , Grafton, Devil's Lake, Bottineau, and all other import .nt points. ONTANIA, THE GOLDPN.—Treasuree in her mines of precious metals; wealth in her 4,000,000 head of live sto4 k; profit in her fertile fields, producing a larger yield it crops than any other state or te ritory ; the richest coun ry ner inhabitant on earth; where prospe.•ty is universal • which has the b. st paid la- bor in the world; a balmy winter climate, caused by warm w'rids from the Pacific. The St. Paul, Minne- a •ci is & Manitoba Railway is the only railroad passing through a contin , ,ous agricultural country from St Pau • and M nneapolis to the Rocky Moun- tains. It runs through the Great Reservation of 18.- 000,000 acr.s of land, free to seitlers, in the Milk River Valley. Wood. water, and coal n abundance; no irrigation required; the only line passing through Great Falls, with HIS 1.000,000 horse -power cataract.; immen , •e coa veins and surrounding farming coun- try or free land; through Helena the capital city and c •mmercial center of Montana, and Butte, the rich- est mining camp on earth, to tan Francisco by the Columbia River Valley, Portland and Sbasta Route, or Ogden, Utah, to California points. Remember t is is th • only Hue running dining cars, sleeping cars aid free colonist 8 eepers of its own from St. Pa I and Minneapolis to Fort Benton, Great Falls, Helena and Butte It is also the shortest line to Butte WASHINOTON.—rhe country of tall timber, in- dented by Puget Sound. the Mediterranean of the Pacific. D.) not forget thlt the St. Paul, Minneap- o is & Manitoba Railway Is the only line which offers a choice of three routes to the Pacific Coast. The Manitoba -Pacific route is the only line by which paetser.gers en route for Tac Portland and San Francisco can pass through Port Townsend and Se ttle. Free c.aonist sleepers run through without chauge or delay. 1)18 auce to the Pacific Coast is same as by other lines, but puce- of tickets are five ad ten dollars less Cake the Seattle route. For further int ormat on. maps, rates and publica- tions in regard t • the resour•es of the four new states write or apply to F I. WHITNEY, Gen'! Pass. and Tkt Agt., St. P., M. & Fly , S . Paul, Minn. T. F. MORGAN, DEALER IN General Merchandise, DUBUQUE. Fergus County, Montana. Speehil I educements Offered to Ranch and Stockmen. GOOD HOTEL, STABLE AND BLACK- SMITH SHOP IN CONNECTION. rgre.an and examine goods and prices. I '1'1'Y r HoTot4RA PH GALLERY, MAID St., Near 3sker, iPtIrt Benton, M.ontana. OPRN DAILY Flo rd 9 A M. To 4 P. M. D. DUTRO, Prop'r. ood and Coal FOR SALE, GEO. W. SHERIDAN. T. C. POWE latt —DEALERS IN— nnilr Goons, Staple and Fancy Groceries, HATS, CAPS, BOOTS, SHOES and NOTIONS. Our stock in the above lines is now full and complete, and we are offering special inducements to Stockmen and Ranchmen in the shape o f reliable goods at bottom figures. We are enabled to do this by buying largely from first hands, at inside prices. AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS W 4 are sole agents for the celebrated Wood's Mowers arid Binders, and for these machines hays always on hand a full line of extras. The Best Hay Rake in use. Walking and Sulky Plows, Etc., E. COOPER WAGONS: Wool Sacks, Twine, and Cooper's Sheep Dip. —We keep a full and complete stock of— WINES, LIQUORS, BEER AND CIGARS, Both imported and Domestic brands. :o: HARNESS and SADDLERY' Special attention is called to our stock of Harness, Saddles, etc., which are of the best California and other celebrated makes. We keep a' full stock of every thing in this line required by the Cowboy trade. Our Dry Goods Department! Is the largest and most complete in Northern Montana. We have recently secured the services of an experienced Dress Maker from the east, and are now prepared to take orders for Dresses and Ladies' Garments of all kinds. Satisfaction guaranteed. : Inspection invited, in all Departments : -- T. C. POWER & BRO. - - Fort Benton, X. T. WM. G. BAILEY JEWELRY COMPANY, —DEALERS IN— WATCHE S, DIAMONDS, SOLID SILVER AND PLATED WARE Elir SEND YOUR WATCHES to us for repairs; the work will be thorough and the charges moderate. We make a specialty of replacing the broken parts of Swiss and American Watches. IL - 13E3LB'E1•1 - 13. IhiECINTeP. R. S. HALE & CO., Einuiras, Patent Medicines, Paints, Oils, Glass, Etc. Sir Orders by Mail promptly attended to. 27 MAIN STREET, HELENA, MONT LINDSAY Sz CO., 1 - 1MDM/V.A., MONT.. Jobbers of Meats, Fish, Fruit, Produce, Poultry, Oysters and Game. tor id' OP 4-4 • ffs H o RT WRITE Address: The American Writing Machine Co., Hertford, Conn.; New York Office, 237 Broedwej. Montana Agency— CHAS. K. WELLS. Bookseller and Stationer HELENA - MONT. v. DEALER IN OFFICE SUPPLIES OF EVERY DESCRIPTION. JOS. SULLIVAN, F 1:0.1^'T TREE T. MANUFACTURER OF -:Harness and Saddlery:- ra- STOCK SADDLES A SPECIALTV. Buggy and Team Harness o every description. CHAPS, BITS AND SPURS OF EVERVKIND. BEST LINE Or GOODS IN MONTANA Give me a ea!l before parchasin! elsewhere, FORT ExTo.v. • 11 .
