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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1889
Page
6
Postmaster Wannamaker noted as Sunday school teacher. Montana election clues show White as presumptive governor candidate amid constitutional convention moves. Proclamation for delegate election expected April 5th. misdated Arbor Day corrected to April 16th. Copper, coal, iron industries threaten finances as copper syndicate teeters.
The passage lists members of a government commission: Kasson, Hates, and Phelps, with Governor Les He stepping down disliked for pardoning. It notes the new German penal code punishes inciting class hatred or attacks on social order by up to three years.
The Montana press largely supports Governor B. F. White with circulation in The Miner claiming Hershfield was defeated for not being Jewish. The piece argues Jew status did not influence the race and attributes Hershfield’s loss to other factors. It also quotes Gov Grey of New Zealand on Anglo-Saxon influence and American power amid Samoa questions.
The Montana Republican Party chooses Hon. R. Fr. White as governor, with rivals like General Warren and Edison Mills discussed. The article defends White as conservative, capable, and qualified, while criticizing Governor Leslie's pardoning record and urging minority representation in the constitutional convention.
Leslie Preston of Kentucky will soon step down from the Montana governorship. The article cites Cleveland era errors and carpetbag officials sent from the states as part of a broader denunciation of postwar territorial governance.
May election to select three delegates for the Constitutional Convention. A clause in the omnibus bill on Montana admission limits each elector to two choices, preserving minority representation. explained by Congressman Springer as restricting voter selections to two persons even though three may be chosen.
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