The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-10-27

men?
Well. II that is all Mr.. Clark can do
for Butte. he ought to do that one thing
well. II all he can do for Butte is to
pay for q senatorship. let him a well
for II. He can afford to pay well for
the honor. and no man should consent
to be his tool and vote to boost him to
the highest honor Montana has to give
unless he puts MP In royal style. MI.
Clark did not come to Butte from Paris
and New York for his health. nor did
he come here In order to purify politics.
He came here to buy a s~enatorship.
and II that is all Butte can expect to
get out Of him, II should put the price
high enough. Butte a the naming of
the price.
II Is too bad that the Miner has not
leave non-combatants u Of its polit-
ical roasts. 1t was certainly not good
taste for hat wild-eyed organ to turn
Its sarcasm against the Copper Hill
band, which played 30 well at the dem
ocratic meeting Tuesday evening. The
band IL composed of some of Butte's
most honored and highly esteemed
Austro-American citizens residing In
East Butte. 1t was their first public
appearance since their organisation last
spring, but they showed themselves to
be thorough musicians Inc In time will
doubtless be as creditable to Montana
as any band in the state. The band
was hired as any other band might be
to furnish music for the occasion.
Like all bands II is open to engage
ments from all political parties. But
the Miner evidently did not like the
looks of the members OF the band and
went out of its way to insult them.
But, then. that Is on a par with the
arguments the Miner has been making
right along.
Since 1t went to advocating the cleo
ton Of gold candidates. the Miner
somehow doesn't like the word copper
I'M more. 1t has adopted the Wall
street fashions and nothing but gold
will do now. II the band were called
the Gold Hill band the Miner might
be satisfied.
The men who were on the platform
at Tuesday nights meeting. the men
who acted as vice presidents and the
men who were in the audience were
such men as to dispel forever the idea
that there is any bolt In the democratic
party here. The Miner has bolted and
Mr.. Clark has bolted. but the men who
nave fought the battles of democracy
in this county year after yea are in
line and ready for battle. Why
shouldn't they be? This is a year
when a democrat doesn't have to apol-
ogize for his ticket. There is no fusion
with any other party and there are no
traitors on the ticket. II Is a ticket of
democrats, placed i'm nomination by a
democratic county convention in IN
open convention. not in a lawyers Of
flee. The delegates to the convention
were elected at regular democratic pri-
maries. No democrat takes any stock
in the Miners talk abou Irregular
primaries and an "undemocratic" con-
vention. There was no bolt from that
convention. The delegations from two
or three precincts were composed en-
tirely of Clark men. They ran on
Clark's anti-fusion ticket and were
elected. They did not refuse TO take
their seats. they I'D not bolt and they
made no complaint OF irregularity.
They sat through the convention and
participated In all Its proceedings.
When candidates were to be bslloted
for. they balloted with the rest. One
of them. a recognized Clark man. elect
ed a delegate on one Of the Clark pri-
mary tickets, accepted a nomination at
the hands of the convention. And none
OF these Clark delegates bolted: none
OF them had a word TO say or a COM
plant TO make about the conventions
'irregularity." Even the Miner did not
bolt the ticket until after the legisla-
tive candidates had been named. II
did not bolt after the primaries. 1t
waited for weeks and weeks, evidently
In the ain hope that by some means
the convention might be Induced to
place in the field a legislative ticket
that could be handled for Clark. Had
the convention lone so, Mr.. Clark and
the Miner would have forgotten all
about the irregularity Of the primaries,
would have forgotten all about their
mission of purifying politics. and
would have supported the tick
ct. But on the very morning
after legislative ticket was
named unpledged to Clark, and
which Mr.. Clark thought he could not
handle. the Miner bolted the democratic
party. 1t bolted II not because of any
irregularity In the primaries or conven-
ton, not in order to purify politics.
but merely because the Legislative nom
inees were democratic instead Of being
Clark men. Simply that n nothing