The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-11-01

ing that there In "a feud Clark
and the Anaconda Copper company"
All the feud that there Ia in the cam
paign Is between Clark and the demoi
cratic party Of Silver Bow county. with
without any tears being shed by the
democrats. For years Mr.. Clark has
secretly Oh openly fought every ticket
put up by the democrats Of this county
or state which ne did not think he
could control for any purposes which
therefore. that the democrats have be-
come tired Of his company. 1t q been
long suspected hat ne was not loyal
on the question of silver. and his has
become a certainty. He Ia out fighting
the democratic party. The Anaconda
company is not a candidate for Office.
nor are any of its officers or stockhold-
ers. There are many Of the employees
of the Anaconda company who are
democrats, and like the other demo-
Gratis Of this county. they are forced
to defend the cause of silver. and the
VI oAho ~ AONef
whether they be straight foes. or
whether they be traitors from demo-
crazy.
Contrast the meetings which have
been held in this community by the
democrats. and those which have been
held by the Clark f~usionists. At every
meeting the democrats have advo-
Gated the cause Of silver in unmistaka-
BILE terms. The burden OF each meet
ing has been the cause of silver. for the
meetings are democratic meetings, and
silver is democratic gospel. But at the
meetings held by Clark there has been
no mention Of silver up to date. Not a
syllable has been uttered in behalf Of
the white metal at any Clark f%usionist
meeting yet held. How could there be
under the circumstances? The repub-
lican part Of the fusion is the only por-
ton which has adopted a platform. and
that Is for gold. There is no mention
in the populist platform of silver, or Of
any other national issue. Its platform
is a TRADE against six story buildings.
The Clark portion of the fusion has no
platform whatever. except Clark for
the senate. What room is there for sill
yer in such a dastardly combination?
Note the speakers who are making
the TRADES in the meetings held by the
Clark f~usionists. They come to-day,
and they are n tomorrow. They
have no interest in Butte or its future.
Most of them are brought here from
some other city. for the Clark people
seem to have a very hard time in get
ting speakers Of any standing in the
! community to advocate their disrepu-
table cause, their barrel campaign. To
take Lees place. a new man has just
been imported from Great Falls. He
needs some coaching. but in time should
do as well as Lee.
II seems that the kick OF the republic
cans against campaign orators like w.
J. Lee being put on the stump went
farther than was generally known on
Saturday. Eight members of the re-
publican part of the fusion county CEN
trail committee declared that their res
ig%nations would be rendered at once.
unless Lee was taken of the stump
and got out of town. ~Incendiary and
anarchistic speeches might suit the
Clark people and the Kinds party. but
il was not approved by them. They
were not in favor of applying the torch
to buildings or blowing up six-story
buildings with dynamite. 1t was too
late to break the fusion. but they de-
| clared that they would get on the COM
mittee and sever all participation in
the campaign unless Lee should be re-
moved. There were protests from the
Clark people and from the populists,
who are in on the barrel. but the re-
publicans carried their point. They
insisted that Lee and some of the 9TH
er speakers must be taken of. So that
was how Lee came to be paid on In the
midst of the campaign and put on the
train bound for Rossland, b. C.
II that which w. A. Clark is out to
accomplish is really the purifying pol
itics." why has he been engaged so
zealously the past two weeks trying to
buy OF and influence on frfgnte
of silver republican candidates? Ger
tainly it has not been claimed that the
silver republican primaries were fraud
ulent or irregular or illegal. Mr.. Clark
at least has not charged that. and for
that reason could have no motive
whatever for purifying the politics OF
the silver republicans. Yet efforts have
been repeatedly made, and in some
cases they have been successful. to get
silver republicans in some way or 9th
er to resign from the ticket. Their ef-
forts have been persistent. The silver
republican committee kept putting or
new men and then the Clark people
would get after them. Some were
frightened on. They were told that they
would be ruined in business IL they al