The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-10-14
WAS N HIS EYE
Swede Murphy Makes . Roar to
Charley Clark.
CRACKED THE PLATFORM
Clark's Announcements OF His PROPOSED
Monster Building KNOCKS the Popu-
list Platform Into smithereens
and Murphy Kicked. =

There was a war yesterday from the
ear and he went to his friend Charley
Clark with blood in both his eyes. Mr..
Murphy has not as yet become init
mately acquainted with w. A. Clark
not as intimate az he hopes to be
but he is on exceedingly intimate terms
with Charles.
"See here!" said Murphy, laying
the Clark man.
"what is it?'' asked Charley.
Read that"
Mr.. Clark read the following extract
from yesterdays Butte Miner:
MAMMOTH NEW BLOCK
"will Be Built by w. A. Clark on Park
Extending to Galena.
"Plans are now in course of prepara-
ton for what will be the largest store
and Office building in the state Of Mon
tana. 1t is to be erected on Park and
Galena streets by w. A. Clark and the
work Is to begin mex spring. so tina
il may be completed and ready for oc-
cupancy during the year. Mr.. Clark's
property on which the building is to
stand embraces 104 feet on Park street
and 12s feet on Galena street, and the
depth through will be 200 feet. The
building will be six stories in height,
of steel. stone and brick and when
completed will be a structure that all
the city may feel proud Of"
well. what's the matter with that?"
asked Charley. after reading it over.
Matter enough" a Murphy 1T
knocks populist platform endwise.
We haven't a plank to stand on except
hat. The main and practically the only
plank In our county platform is declar-
ing against the erection of six-story
buildings In Butte. We have declared in
the strongest language that the cree
ton Of such buildings is capitalistic,
and nobody but the Anaconda company
would be guilty of such a thing. Now
here o come out and make q BLUM
that Clark is going to do the same
thing. II nocks all the stufing out of
our platform. You've got to rstract
must repudiate II or the pop
ulists will a the combine"
Charley Clark assured MI. Murphy
That 1t didn't necessarily follow hat
the building would be erected, but Mr..
Murphy would not be satisfied. He de-
manded that the Miner should retract
its statements. so hat the integrity
and purity Of the populist platform
might be preserved. He went to other
Clark representatives and they tried
to convince him that the mammoth
building story really amounted to moth
ing. They pointed to Mr.. Clark's rec
ord as sufficient proof that there was
nothing in IT. During all his residence
In Butte he had never erected more
a two-story building, and that
record ought to satisfy any
md every populist that there is moth
really in this six-story building
story.
Still, Mr.. Murphy was not satisfied
and he insists on a retraction. The
platform ~denounces six-story
buildings, and IL Mr.. Clark is going
TO run on that platform. he must re-
pudiate that mammoth building" sto-
~. and do SO at once.
There hav been rumors for 80 years
Mr.. Clark some time intended to
a creditable building in this city in
which he has made his fortune, but
no such definite promise was ever made
before. There was something of a
broad smile on Butte's face yesterday
morning. when the announcement was
in the Miner that Mr.. Clark pro-
posed to erect mex year a building that
would beat the Hennessy building. Ev-
body hopes 1t is true and they would
the promise IL it wasn't SO close
election time.
The announcement that Mr.. Clark Is
erect this building merely empha-
the fact hat the erec-
ion of the big Hennessy
building has given everybody in Butte
in the future Of the city.
even Mr.. Clark seems now to have ac-
luired confidence i'm the future of Butte,
through h enterprise displayed by the
people who have erected the Hennessy
building. Up to the time ground was
broken for hat great building there
we're few in Butte who really had great
in the permanence of Butte.
There seems always to be a reluctance
bout investing in real estate and in
ransf1. hV.tlls~-. d..