The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-04-03
ITS THE SAME OLD GANG
The Republican Outfit Starting
Up tn Campaign.
UNSAvORY RECORD
Main Street L. q Pretty roc Platform
b Issslf for h Democratic Party.
Ths People Have Something to
Show for Their Taxes.

The first outward sign that there Is to
be a municipal election tomorrow was
yesterday when n wagon carrying floats
passed about the streets. The floats
called upon the people of Butte 10 vote
for the regular nominees for aldermen.
and thus be assured OF a good and honest
government. This is the same outfit which
ran things in Butte for a few years pre-
vious TO a year ago. and they received
such a walloping at the hands OF the
people a year ago that it was scarcely
thought possible they would get into
fighting shape so soon again. But out
they are-the same old gang They are
the people who bave Butte the very worst
administration IL ever had. and il has
had some pretty bad ones. They ran
Butte for two years for the benefit of the
lumber companies. the street railway
company, the water company and the
chief of police. 1t was under their adj
ministration that the wretched scheme of
inning the women of the town and giving
the chief of police "a rake-of for collect
ing the ill-smelling fines. Nixey. The
people of Butte don't want any more of
that outfit. A year ago. at the close Of
their administration II would not have
been possible for their campaign wagon
with the floats TO get around through
Butte's streets as IL did Yesterday. There
was too much mud, for the last republic
a administration spent nothing on the
streets. and II Is only since the democrats
have had a year of rule that the streets
ave become passab.e at this time of the
year.
Main street Is. I'm fact. n pretty good
platform all alone for the democratic
party I'm this municipal campaign. 1t Is
acknowledged that the expenses under
the Harrington administration the past
year have been greater than they were
under the last gear of the Thompson
regime. But for the first time the tax
payers can look around and say they
have something to show for the taxes
they have paid. Main street speaks for
itself. 1t Is dry. and this Is the first
time IL has ever been dry or more than
barely passable at this season of the
year.
The people are well satisfied with the
democratic rule of the past year. and
want more of IL. They would rather be
taxed a little more and have some good
streets. nave some grading and paving
done. than to be taxed a little less and
nobody be able to show anything for 1t
except the lumber companies and the
chief of police.
The silver republicans are making about
as many promises as the Mckinley re-
publicans. and they have the advantage
over the other wing of the party I'm the
fact that they have not any record be-
hind them. They have had no chance as
yet to show how rotten they would be IL
they could. and they are not likely TO
have a chance. There Is no reason to
believe that they would be just as rotten
as the Mckinley republicans IL they
could only have the opportunity. The
Inter Mountain is making the campaign
of the silver republican party on the is
sue Of n more gifts to the street rail-
way company: no more champagne sup
pers." There are three silver republicans
in the present city council Can the In
ter Mountain point TO a single instance
when all three of these silver republicans
have not voted for anything the street
railway company has wanted? Have
they not all attended every champagne
supper that has been given? Have they
not all hankered for more?
As for the populists, they are not worth
speaking about.
In truth. there is nothing at stake in
this campaign to warrant anybody I'm
getting very excited. Ii is a nice. plain.
easy-going sort of a campaign, in which
merit will surely win. The democrats
will be triumphant once more. for they
have nominated good men. and the peo-
pie. satisfied with the record OF the past
year. will trust the city i'm their hands
rather than take chances on the silver re-
pub.icans or encounter the certain evil
of a return to power of the Mckinley re-
publicans.
Go to the polls early and vote for the
democratic candidates. and for a dollar
OF value for every dollar of tax.