CANDIDACY OF MANTLE Former Senator Leo Mantle Mantlo antle of Mon Montana Montana Montana tana after visiting Colonel Roosevelt has announced that he Is a progress progressive progressIve ive and the tip is quietly handed out t that Mr Mantle Mantlo will be bo a candidate e for tor the seat scat In the tho Senate now hold held holdby holdby d by Thomas H Carter Mantle was one of or the tho Republican Republica senators who followed Teller Toller of at Colo Colorado Colorado Colorado rado out of or tho the St Louis convention in 1896 1596 but unlike Teller Tener Dubois an and d Cannon ho he stopped short of ot joining if the Democratic party For a time Ume he h I labored under the tho impression that ho he h e would bo be returned to the tho Senate as a afree atreo free treo sliver silver Republican but the Clark Daly fight eliminated him from al all aU 1 consideration Tom rom Carter Is the shrewdest pot poli politician in Montana Like Mantle ho h suffered by reason of or tho the imbroglio and lost his seat Ho He came cam cameto to the tho surface four tour years later how however however ever evOr and regained his hie toga being the tho th only Montanan so BO far tar to servo serve moro mor than one ono term in tho the upper House The people of ot Utah have hao always alwaY taken moro more or less interest in the th career of or Leo Loo Mantle In company compan y with widowed mother and other r children of ot tho the family he came from fro m England to this state then a sparsely sparely Y settled territory some somo fifty years ago Ho was compelled to go to work at atan atan a aan an early carly age and for tor years made a manful struggle under adverse circum circumstances circumstances stances Finally ho he went on tho the Utah Uta h Northern railroad being stationed in a small emall Montana town as ns telegraph op operator operator orator and express agent He Ha eventually ally located in Butte wont ont into the tho th e real resl estate business and made mado money Finally tho poor Utah immigrant be bo became came camo United States senator and his hi s mother motho lived to see him thus honored But Mantle in the same class cl ass with Carter Cartor either olther as a politician or o C statesman Just rust how he t tn n r Induce the Republicans of or Montana to tomake tom t make m ke the change is a n mystery H Ho faltered when Carter proved true an and d has ha never regained his lost prestige It is 13 a good guess guon that Mantlo Mantle wont won t travel either fast tut or tar fir in the tho sen senatorial race raco In the Treasure state