The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-04-23
RIGHT IN PART.

lie STA ChiItiot 0kiSS "iest "Ai
that the Salt Lake Tribune says about
Butte and the recent election. Our
Utah contemporary Is wrong in spots.
IL is right when IL expresses its belief
| that Montana has been disposed to be
| democratic and when it recites some
of the reasons that gave the state to
| the republicans last year. II is wrong
when it gives its opinion that IF the
republican congress hurries up and
passes the silver bill and the lead-ore
bill, II would be possible to same Mon
tana to the republican party on a gene
raj election"
Butte" observes the Tribune. lis by
nature and instinct a democratic city,
The fact is that Butte is by nature the
richest mining camp on earth while, by
instinct, il was showing republic
can tendencies that have been sub
jected to n remarkable check. There
are three good reasons for this.
The first is personal and re-
lates to the WEAKNESS that has
come over the republican managers of
Butte politics. They are very tired.
They have done plenty of party work,
but they have no party rewards to show
for IL. Their mission has been to win
victories which Helena has celebrated,
to capture offices for Helena to fill.
They fixed up the tunnel precinct vote
in accordance with orders from Helena
and took all the cursing for it without
special complaint. But Power was
elected, and that settled 1t.
For a second reason to account for
the sudden check to the development
of republican sentiment in Butte, we
refer our gifted contemporary in salt
Lake City to the untoward operation
of republican conduct in Washington
on the republican temper in Butte.
The proposed lead-ore duty and the
silver bill are matters of serious ac-
count to Butte. Republicans in that
city believe that, on these two counts,
they have been held i'm u~nwarrantable
suspense by the party's representatives
i'm Washington. AS to lead, they af-
firm that a just policy might have been
decreed i'm ten minutes. In point of
dollars and cents the question does not
involve the city as largely rs a good
many people suppose; still. the duty is
demanded and the supposition was
that IL would be secured without much
of a fight. AS to silver, these republi-
cans in Butte hate Window with a per-
feet hatred, counting him an enemy
and they await developments. Then, too,
Butte felt that il is entitled to a federal
building. II ought to have it, il isn't
going to get it soon; and this fact de
presses the republican spirit in the sill
yer city.
Third, and by far the most potent of
the causes that account for the remark
able check we have mentioned, is the
conviction that a great wrong was
done when the vote ut the lIomestake
tunnel precinct was annulled by pro-
cesses that rest under abiding suspi-
cion. That conviction grows in Butte.
The Tribune does not admit il, but
that is because il is disinclined to take
the vital features of the situation into
candid review. That conviction IL Is
which made Butte democrats the vic
tors in a local controversy where there
were involved no elements of personal
worth or fitness rs to rival candidates,
and that conviction warrants predic-
ton of the larger democratic majority
which, in next autumn's contest, Butte
is sure To give.