The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-10-30

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Northern Pacific once for Rossland. b.
c.. and said that he would leave at
$40 his morning for that place. At
the Butte last night. Mr.. Lee boosted
that Mr.. Clark had just paid him $3.50
for the I'VE speeches he made. n had
thanked him warmly for the service he
had rendered the glorious cause of
purifying politics" Mr.. Lee talked
very freely last night and said that
some of the other republican speakers,
who had been on the platform with
him. had complained to Mr.. Clark
about him and insisted that he was
hurting the cause. So Mr.. Lee was
as soon as possible. MI. Lee. in talk
ing about IT last night. said that be-
fore he started campaigning he had
been instructed to say the meanest and
worst things he could think of about
the Anaconda company and he believed
he had lone his duty and earned his
money. He said. however. that he had
no kick coming, as he had been paid
for his Nv Re speeches the amount agreed
on for the entire campaign. He had
no interest whatever in the election
one way or another. and would have
talked Just as quick for the democratic
ticket as for Clark.
This is the character OF campaign or
ators Mr.. Clark is employing for his
''purifcation' campaign. Lee Is the
man who said on the platform that he
was glad that the Hale house was
burned. and that 1t would have been
better IL the torch had been applied
sooner than II was. Lee really said
that, although the Miner denies 1t. and
he further said that the Hale house
was a lousy. filthy place where the life
the miners led was a curse. He is also
the man who said that Marcus DAILY is
the man with the head of a spider and
the body of a hog. and who told In ev-
cry speech the fable about the hunger Of
the "workmen in the mines at Anacon-
da." But really Lee is not to be blamed
so much. He was the hireling only. He
was engaged by Mr.. Clark to max
| these talks, and he would have kept on
to the end Of the campaign but for the
fact that the republicans. who have
some decency, notified Mr.. Clark that
they would not go or the platform with
Lee again. They said he was altogether
too raw: that nobody believed him and
he was doing all harm and no good.
So Clark was compelled to draw of
his star orator.
1t is all right to roast Lee, but What
shall be said Of the man who corrupted
him, who induced him by the flash of
gold to go about the city telling the
most infamous lies and making the
most incendiary speeches that ever were
made from a platform in Butte? Lee
Is wholly irresponsible-as ~irresponsi-
BILE as any tramp that might come TO
Butte to-day and be gone tomorrow.
He owns nothing here; he has no bust
ness interests here; he can say what
ne pleases; make all the trouble he
pleases and move on to some other
town. He came to Butte as the head
of the Volunteers of America and
preached in Butte's streets night after
night. The glitter OF Clark's gold
tempted him and he went to campaign
ing, and while a few weeks 6 he was
declaring the saloon to be the curse OF
the town. lately he has been throwing
money on the bar in the most ap-
proved fashion and calling all 'thc
boys" up to nave something. Mr.. Lee
used to say in Butte's streets that his
SOULS salvation was worth more than
all the wealth in the world, but Mr..
Clark hadn't seen him then.
By the way. Pete G1lligan Is not get
ting paid as much as Lee received.
Gilligan only gets $40 per speech. while
Lee received $50 for every speech he
ever made. Furthermore. Gilligan is
a resident of Butte. while Lee is not.
and IL any preference Is to be shown II
should be to home industry. But OF
course Mr.. Clark does not care any
thing for that. Pete can lie nearly as
well as Lee. and he is going to chal-
Ienge Lee to a joint debate on lying to
see whether he Is not entitled to Just
as much as Lee received. He learned
a few things about lying when he cam
paigned for the populist ticket back
IN Indiana in the fall OF '93. just after
he finished his engagement as. official
orator of the Irish village on the
Midway Plaisance. Pete's friends in
Butte say that he has not begun to
show what he can do yet. and that he
can give Lee cards and spades n out
lie him Lee may be a more artistic
liar than Gilligan. but h latters
friends insist that Gilligan can talk
louder and tell campaign lies faster
han Lee. Now that is certainly a
good recommendation. and Pete's
friends will insist that Clark pay him
as much as he paid Lee, or they vii
get out and work for the democratic