Show MONTANA GIRL POLITICIANS Representatives of the Sex Who Hlakc Races for Office When the girls of Montana turn their attention to politics not as voters but as candidates look out for hair and a red hot time says the Pittsburjr Commercial Gazette At the last local election in Montana there were four Richrnonds in the field These four ladies were running for County Superintendent of Public Instruction In-struction and like the other sex either as Republicans Democrats I Republcans Democrat or Independents Indepen-dents That canvass when the girls took the stump against their male competitors was one of the most amusing things that ever happened in this or any other I country Miss Clark in Lewis and Clarke county is not only talented young lady but also an expert politician By the votes of the boys she got there all right and left her antagonist defeated candidate far in the rear a dazed and I In Meagher county two girls were pitted against each other and the pited othor fight I for tho position was quite lively Miss Darcy was the candidate of the unwashed Democrats while Miss Nichols mustered I with the Republican boys In the fight broomsticks hairpins bustles etc were used andfor awilo it was beyond the prophecy of man to foretell which destructive destruc-tive weapons would be the most formidable formid-able and deathdealing I was hard to tell which one of the young ladies was the handsomest butt a distance every body presumed that both were lovely Well everybody voted as everybody should and Miss Darcy won the day but her defeated rival claimed and justly too that her defeat reflected in no way personally upon herself as Meagher county was and always had been Democratic I Dem-ocratic I In Gallatin county Miss Hamilton an i npimced herself as an Independent can I didate Une of the Gallatin county papers the organ and hacker of Miss lIss Hamilton came out a day or two before the election as follows Hamilton enters the field against the odds of regular party nomination I Hamilton has got sand and she will stand until the polls close Hamilton should unt pols cose Hamion slluld be elected She says she isnt afraid of I road agents and that education is her forte also that it would afford her pleasure plea-sure to hop around from one country schoolhouse to another in the performance perform-ance of her duty The men of Gallatin are confounded mean i they dont run I Hamilton in etc Nevertheless Hamilton was defeated I I and Gallatin county has a male Superintendent I Superin-tendent of Public Instruction I |