The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-09-15

primaries held last night in Silver
Bow county. The subject deal with
at the polling precincts was, in fact,
that old, familiar article known TO the
Rocky-mountain world as the w. A.
Clark senatorial boom. That side Is
sue. which ought TO have persisted di-
rectly after the exposure of the Graves
Coder-Bonner outrages Of 1894. recently
experienced a noisy revival; il has been
exploited and made aggressively per-
sonal by its promoter-Mr. Clark. Last
night. in Silver Bow county. the people
buried this senatorial boom by a vote
clearly intended to be a rebuke. Four
years since. Mr.. Clark went before the
Montana legislature with the backing
OF the entire Silver Row delegation. and
he was defeated. His political venture
of this year finds him. at the outset.
without hope Of support from his own
county.
Months ago. In anticipation Of the
years politics and in an effort 70 serve
Loyalty the cause of silver, the Standard
laid before its readers the programme
and the preferences respecting cam
paign methods that had been announced
by the men who are recognized as the
leadership in national campaigning for
free coinage. The Standard did more
than merely TO present the recommended
tons of these champions: II commended
the same 10 the favorable consideration
- .An v.Zrr. - Ngl,4,,, 1rH,,- H..
field was opened for The candid discus
sion Of the question Of the policy that
ought or ought not to be adopted re-
speeding this years campaigning. But.
a little later, there was sprung in Butte
the senatorial campaign we have men
toned. Instantly the Standard decided
TO postpone all discussion Of the silver
programme until the personal element
thu thrust into the seasons politics
had beer given unimpeded opportunity
20 have its run; the files OF this page
are in evidence that II did not permit
itself. up to the hour Of the holding 81
the Butte primaries. to utter a single
word, one way or the other. I'm comment
on what has been rather irreverently
mentioned in Butte's street talk of the
past week as the latest outbreak Of Mr..
Ciark's senatorial insanity.
As II appears TO the Standard. Mr..
Clark. foolishly and wholly without
warrant. saw in the plans Of silver's
national leaders a Mantle senatorship
or a Hartman possibility or a what-not
in next ~January's legislative doings
that would so operate as to shut him
out anyhow. So he ordered his news
paper organs in Butte and Helena TO
tune up vigorously: and that they did.
Assuredly Mr.. Clark has ~indisputable
right to be q candidate for the senate
no man win presume TO call him In
question for IL. But he was not war
ranted in seeking 70 link his fortunes
with the success or failure of any
policy respecting silver campaigning,
These two things have nothing I'm
common.
Witness the result Of yesterdays
work in proof Of this assertion. The
Clark candidacy certainly met "a crush
ing defeat, but auti-fusiou did not: mo-
more did fusion. Thesr are ISSUES
WHICH ldHG IiffiN"Ae aT al INV fh#". Be
Fusion has not been PASSED upon Deg
Montana democracy: it cannot be taxi
en- up before IL reaches It's proper tri-
bunal-that IS the state convention, It
does not occur to the Standard to as
sumo for an instant hat the fusion or
the antl-fusion plan was put to the test
yesterday. The Silver Bow primaries
dealt exclusively with a personal, sena-
torial a-mbltion-that and nothing more.
SO that It seems TO US. in the presence
of his mornings returns that too
much was made out Of the senatorial
racket recently raised in Butte-quite
too much. The Standard chose TO have
nothing whatever TO DO with the dis
cussion Of II; in II a side issue not per-
tinent to the silver question was pre-
sented- The passing agitation in