The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-10-31
Clark Against Campbell.


To- campaign the Butte Miner may
be relied on to do its utmost in
the effort to divert the voters In Sill
yer Bow county from the only issue
that IL OF account in Montana and In
Butte.
II is clear now that the clark move
ment will do everything II can to hurt
Campbelrs vote in Butte. At first the
Miner professed to limit its energies
To the election OF Carter republicans to
the legislature. That is uphill business
in silver Bow county. The Clark local
ticket on the official ballot. Is not I'M
der the Campbell silver ticket. because
free coinage and gold ann be made
TO mix on official ballots. Campbell
and the Clark-republican legislative
ticket represent antagonlsms-what Is
Campbelrs gain is the Clark tickets
less. The Clark policy now is to COM
mend Hogan to the voter whom IT Is
impossible to get for the s~traight-re-
publican Marshall ticket.
1t remains to be seen how his trick
will work. A vote for Hogan Is a vote
t. weaker the showing silver will make
In the Montana election. Hogan's cleo
ton Is an absolute impossibility; votes
for him will reduce by so much the
f~ree-coinage,> Campbell plurality over
the goldbug Marshall. Mr.. Hogan Is
not entitled TO the support Of any sim
cere friend of free coinage. for the
reason that he permitted his name to
be nut. I'm silver Bow county. on a
ticket that carries the names OF men,
for membership In the state senate and
the lower house of the legislature. who
are the nominees Of the regular ADMIN
istration republican convention and
who do not hesitate to declare their
allegiance to the goid-standard party.
No man. we assert. who Is a trust
worthy friend OF silver will permit his
ma me 10 be put to this goldbug use.
That is what Mr.. Hogan has done, and
Il Is an admitted proposition that the
better Mr.. Hogan runs. on election day.
so much the worse II is for the show
ing the head OF the silver ticket will
make in this state. Covertly aiming
TO hurt Campbell. the Clark movement
is using both Marshall and Hogan. in
Silver Bow county. 10 accomplish Its
purpose. one OF the confessed truths
OF the campaign Is that the Clark
movement Is supporting administration
~goldbugs for the legislature. n with
these the name OF Hogan is associated
on the Official ballot. IL remains for
men who are honest in the assertion OF
their loyalty to silver to say whether
this arrangement entities Hogan to
their support.
Since what is said above was put into
type word has reached this office of the
action Of the meeting held in Butte
last night. While. for present purposes
that action may be considered apart
from the Clark agitation in Butte. the
essential fact respecting the Hogan
candidacy remains the same.
Mr.. Hogan Is not in the field as the
representative OF the silver issue; he
is not in the field on a platform repre-
sentative OF the views that were repre-
sented at last nights meeting. MIR.
Hogan certainly viii not be elected; he
cannot be. even IL II were to be as
sumed that the organizations represent
ed last night were to be solid In sup
port Of him.
The question II the selection of a man
to represent the state. not In the legis-
lature OF Montana where local aues-
tions will arise. but In the federal con-
gress. where silver IL the living issue
between the national parties. Mr..
Campbell will be elected. M the re-
duction OF his vote in Butte. II II were
to follow last nights action. will
simply lower the plurality by which
his state viii express itself in favor Of
silver.
Mr.. Hogan II on two tickets In Silver
Bow county. The m of these that has
had the most active campaigning Is
confessedly a gold standard republican
ticket in respect to many OF its candi-
dates for the legislature. The STAN
dard is campaigning for the nrm up
holding Of the cause of free coinage;
II win not accept as an homes friend
Of silver. any mar who. while pro-
Tossing to be for silver for the sake of
votes for himself. lets his name be used
on a ticket carrying the regular candi-
dates Of an administrati ton republican
convention. That Is what Mr.. Hogan