Show COPPER KINGS AT WAR Desperate Fight Among Democrats Dem-ocrats to Control State MONTANA IS THE PRIZE Purely Business Politics Between tlio Waning Factious It Is Copper vs CopperThe Last Convert to Dom ocrnoy P Augustus Hcinze Is Making Is Not Only Warm but HedHot for tho Democratic Lender Senator ClnrkFlght to a Finish Both Playing for Strangle Hold TRIBUNE SPECIAL Bulle Mont Sept OThe State of Montana Is in a seething caldron of Politics and it is business politics Governments may rise and fall na tional Issues may wax hot and command com-mand the Intense thought of the Na tion at large and grow cold in the development de-velopment of yet more Important Issues but here In the Treasure State tho vide wide Montana the everlasting one great stake is local a business one and for her people all other Issues and policies sink into oblivion I PARTIES EMPTY NAMES The last time national affairs were an issue here was during the llrst Bryan campaign when oldtime l Repub ifean I maJorHlcs w overturned and Republican i rule ended Then copper became king and parties become all but empty names Carter went out ot the Senate and Mantle his Republican colleague had but two years more to serve Clarke succeeded Carter and Gibson succeeded Mantle COPPER VS COPPER Out of courtesy the new men are called Democrats But whats In a name The Issue over Mince has been copper vs copper Party lines have almost been obliterated Almost but not quite Here is the lineup i DESPERATE FIGHT FOR CONTROL I The copper Interests in 1S50 Montana 1 produced 15245908 pounds of copper are In absolute control of the Demo cratic party but they have mercilessly split her up the back The party Is divided di-vided Into two factions and there is a desperate fight on between them for control HEINZE RECENT CONVERT On the one hand Is the United Cop per company and the Montana Ore Purchasing company both owned and represented in the fight by F Augustus Heinjce a Democrat of six weeks standing who until his recent dcclara I tlon was an avowed Republican but left that party because he was unable < to dictate Its policy In 1000 WHAT HE SEEKS His purpose In becoming a Democrat vaa manifestly an attempt to gather a sufficient following to secure the leadership l lead-ership of the reigning party in Montana Mon-tana and In that way secure control of the Legislature and the State courts WAS MINING ENGINEER j Helnze came here about eight years ago He was then a mining engineer employed by the Anaconda Copper j company It Is said at 11 salary of but SI800 per year In a period of two years ho acquired a complete knowledge of the Intricate underground workings of oiitlrc fiutte MINING INTERESTS ENTANGLED By possessing these details he was enabled to go into the courts and entangle en-tangle all of the mining Interests centered I cen-tered here In extensive litigation that has been pending ever since Before his advent the Amalgamated and Clark had been working peacefully Ide by side but owing to this knowledge possessed pos-sessed by Hcinze they were forced Into the courts to defend their holdings against the allknowing engineer CLARK INTERESTS On the other hand are the interests rrpreHentid by Senator V A Clark and the Amalgamated Copper company successor to the interests of the late Marcus Daly and better known l to the country as the copper trust Note the I ppcullar situation Duly was Clarks 1 I lifetime enemy Their interests are now I strangely combined for selfpreserva llou against the Invading Heinze 1C the Helnze faction wins their Interests arc all jeopardized through the Lcgls lature whose laws Helnze will dictate IS FIGHT TO THE FINISH Summed up in brief the factional fight that threatens the Democratic party 11 J purely a business calnpalgn in which Helnze and Clark arc the opposing op-posing principals struggling for control con-trol It is a light to tho finish where each man is playing for a strangle hold and the victor will surely destroy his unsuccessful opponent WHAT OF THE REPUBLICANS And what of the Republican party wneTTthlevcs fall out etc There la I a man by the name of Thomas H Carter Car-ter for all time the Achilles of the grand old party in Montana the party that made the Slate the party that ad nilnlbicrcd its affairs for no faction for no selfllsh Interest for no trust and no corporation but for the people unitedly PEOPLE ARE INTERESTED The ncfiple I themselves have a great interest In national affairs antI they I liavc Immense interests In local affairs outside of the copper interests Montana Mon-tana Is the greatest woolgrowing State one of the greatest cattlegrow ing States and ac well ouu oC the greatest great-est Suites In the Union from an agricultural agri-cultural point of view The copperlles utterly ignore these important issues DEMOCRATIC DEATH STRUGGLE What could be more fair or more do sirablc In this crisis of divided corporate corpor-ate or capitalistic Interest than that the I making of just laws and their honeat I nforcoment should be delegated to the true party of the people Your Uncle Thomas sits there on the fence with the Republican hosts at his buck enjoying en-joying the Democratic death struggle DAWN OF BETTER DAY President Roosevelt and the national committee stand ready to lend every assistance and the dawn of a better day for Montana Is at hand With Republican Re-publican triumph will come an udmln inrutlon of principles relegating to the past courts and governmental machinery ma-chinery manipulated In the Interest of Individual and private corporations I SITUATION IN BUTTE 1 I The political situation in Butte the copper center is unequaled in any part of the country Many of the larger mines an shut don on account of their being Involved In litigation UH noted above but for that hundreds and hundreds of men are Idle Butte < appear more prosperous than ever The Hticcls arc crowded dally with throngs of substantial wel drc > ssotl looking men and they nre all talking these copper politics EASIER WORK ABOVE It Is a goodnatured crowd and there of opinion It ia a difference IH no real fight among tho rich bossoii who provide pro-vide the humble citizens with enter tainment Whats the use of working down in the mines There Is more money and easier work In taking sides in Montanas Democratic squabble It is all business politics dirty business politics It would bo more sad to look upon from a moral standpoint but for the assurance that neither side can possibly pos-sibly win I |