The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-10-21

nOiliuatG0 0n Lit mlllCI tiCktts as
regularly as any Of them have been
nominated Yesterday morning the Mi
ner again appeared with the name
Of Charles f. Alsop at the head Of its
legislative ticket. instead OF the name
of Frank z. Corbett. II again utterly
ignored Mr.. Corbett's candidacy. not
mentioning 1t either editorially or To-
cally. In spite of the fact that Mr.. Cor
bett is the personal attorney OF w A
Clark, the Miner stil dehantly HOSTS
the name of Charles f. Aisop at the
head OF the legislative ticket M refus-
es to be comforted. Now, does
the Miner want; and IL so. how much?
Is it also trying to hold w. A. up like
all the rest of them? Does IL want a
barrel. too? 1t certainly does not seem
that IN Miner can have any just OBJ
lection to Mr., Corbett as a Clark man.
1t may be possible that Mr.. Corbett is
not as strong a gold man as the Miner
wants; but II 30. why does not the Min
err come out n state what its objec-
tion are? II is an unpleasant feature
to nave the Miner boiling the ticket hat
was nominated for 1t. and II is to be
hoped hat Mr.. Clark will buy of the
Miner at once and end this nnseemly
bolt.
1t scarcely seems possible that the Mi
ner Is refusing to support Mr.. Corbett
through ignorance Of the fact that he
has been placed on the ticket. 1t Is true
that the out-for-the-stuff ticket was
nominated more secretly than any other
ticket that was ever placed before the
voters of Butte for their approval But
it was not to be supposed that the NOM
nations would be SO secret that the
official Of the ticket itself would
not. in three days. get oil to the TACT
that a change had been made. The
incident serve to illustrate the way in
which the mongrel ticket has been plac-
ed before the people OF Butte. Intead
of being placed before the people In
open convention. 1t was fixed up in a
lawyers office at night, behind locked
doors and with curtains down. Changes
made on the ticket were made so Sc
cretly that a newspaper so alert as the
Butte Miner did not get on to the
change. 1t is a ticket that Is neither re-
publican nor democratic nor citizen nor
anything else. Part Of 1t is for gold
and another part pretends to be for sill
yer. 1t is declared by the Miner to be
for good local government, yet the dem
ocratic candidates. man for man, are
better men and would confessedly
make better officials than the men on
the mongrel ticket. The democratic
candidates were nominated in the light
OF day and were not called. like the
candidates on the secret ticket, into a
dark closet to enter into some secret
compact before they were given a nom
ination.
There is. however, just as much sense
in the Miners bolt of Frank E. Corbett
as there has been in all the other many
bolts Of its history. There is just as
much reason for its boiling Mr.. Corbett
as there was for its boiling Mr.. Court
ney and Mr.. Watson and Mr.. Stapleton
inc Mr.. Lamb and Mr.. Regain. The
Miner has, in fact. much greater reason
for boiling Mr.. Corbett han it had for
boiling the gentlemen on the demo-
cratic ticket. 1t may well ask who
placed Mr.. Corbett in the field? Were
the primaries regularly held? Wa
there a convention, and. IL so, why was
1t not open to the Miner reporter? II
Mr.. Corbett was not placed In nomi-
nation by a convention. who did place
him in nomination and what authorize
ton did they have for Il? These are
some of the questions which the Miner
is asking itself. although IL il not put
ting them in print as yet. The Stand
ard predicts that eventually the Miner
will be forced to swallow the bitter pill
and place Mr.. Corbett's name in its
columns. 1t may kick for some time.
but eventually II must submit Mr..
Clark's iron hand will come down
on the Miner like a thousand Of brick.
He will start a reign Of terror'in the
Miner office in short order and he will
have Mr.. Corbett indorsed or know the
reason why. The Miner may succeed
in its design OF holding up Mr.. Clark,
but IL is playing a dangerous game. 1t
was natural that the Miner might con-
slider hat II the popurist and gold re-
publican committees got stun for put
ting up the Clark end Of the ticket II
ought also to get something for making
the change.
This il the first time in all It's boiling
history that the Miner had the audacity
TO bolt a Clark man. Tha is the only
surprising thing about this bolt. 1t
has been the history OF the Miner and
the history Of Mr.. Clark TO bolt demo-
Gratis that he did not own, or think he
owned: and IL you want to know the
real truth. that is the secret and the
whole secret 81 Mr.. Clark's refusal to