The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-10-26
Pat Points in
Passing Politics

Why In hat righteous In Arizona
which Is a crime In Butte? why is IL
wicked to run a company tore" In
Butte and right to do II In Jerome7
Why doesn't the Miner move down to
Jerome. Ariz.. and try to convince w.
A. Clark that II 10 a sin and an put
rage to have a company store and a
company boarding house. and a
company butcher shop and a com
pany bakery" n a company sa-
loon?" These are some of the ques-
tons which have been asked in Butte
the past two or three days since the
Miner tried to make the company
store" an issue in this campaign. The
Miner seems to have no knowledge OF
the beam that Is in It's own eye. or at
any rate, II labored under the delusion
that the people of Butte would not
get onto its hypocritical twaddle about
company boarding houses and company
stores and have Mr.. Clark practice in
Arizona what he is preaching in Mon
tana. Rats on such ~hypocricy.
The Butte Miner still persists in rum
ming the citizens ticket In Its coll
umns. utterly oblivious of tina fact
the democrat-citixens-labor party has
r~epudiated 1t and It's campaign. Now
why doesn't the Miner be honest for a
minute at least with itself IL IL can't
be honest with anybody else? Does IL
think 1t can keep Of deceiving itself all
its life? There is no citizens ticket.
The citizens party has Endorsed the
democratic ticket in this county and
characteristics the ticket supported by
the Miner as made up of professional
office-seekers and spoils politicians, en-
listed In al unwarranted effort to ad-
vance the interests and political aspira-
tions OF an individual. careless and
reckless of the best interests of this
county"
The ticket which the Miner is sup
porting is filed with the county clerk
under the head republican and I'M
der the les "%populist." Now is the
Miner supporting the republican or the
populist ticket? Which is 1t support |
ing?
There is a way for the Miner to get
out of the dilemma. II might support
the silver republican ticket, and IL II is
really out to purify the politics. of
this county that would be the proper
thing for 1t to do. When the Miner
bolted the democratic ticket IL de-
clared that 1t would not support either |
the republican or the populist tickets
in the campaign. 1t supported the citi- |
zens' ticket. but the citizens party has
now r~epudiated that ticket. 1t has
-bolted the Miner That leaves the
Miner without ever a piece of a party
at its back. Although 1t declared that
It would not support either the repub-
lican or populist party, 1t is really sup
porting both. Now after the declara-
ton IL made. IL n consistently do
both. But 1t can support the silver re-
publican ticket. II it really is work.
ing for good local government" it
ought to support the silver republi-
can ticket. The personnel of the ticket
is much better than that of the repub-
can-Clark-populist fusion. and there
might be some show of electing the
ticket and thus downing the democratic
ticket. which is the height of the Min
er's ambition this year as always.
The funniest thing that has yet APP !
peared in the Miner is its attempted ex-
PLANTATION of the lie which has disgraced
its columns all through the campaign
the lie to the effect that the democratic
ticket is made UP of employees of the
Anaconda company. This lie was ex-
posed in the Standard Sunday morning
and yesterday morning the Miner. with
more grace than its own won't. admitted
that it had lied. and that instead of
employees of the Anaconda company.
that only three Of the entire list are
employees of the company. But the Mi
ner says that most Of the others on the
ticket are friendly towards the COM
pany. Well. why shouldn't they be?
Shouldn't everybody in Butte be friend
ly toward the Anaconda company? II
gives employment to $500 men in its
mines alone. besides the number who
are employed each summer in erecting
big buildings projected by the company.
BY its enterprise in erecting these
buildings confidence las been given to
the people Of this city such as they new
er a before. 1t has resulted in in
Vulnerable other buildings being erect
ed in this town and has advanced the
value of every house and every lot in
the town. OF curse people are friendly
the Anaconda company. Ev-
cry merchant. every man in busi-
ness in Butte knows hat much of his
prosperity is due to the presence here
Of the Anaconda company and its en-
and activity. Every business
man knows. every mining man knows
that IL w. A. Clark were running the
Anaconda mines Butte would still be a
camp OF frame shacks. and ev-