The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-10-11

ambition: a man who has tried and
tried and always failed to get some
thing-almost an~ything-out Of Mon
tsna politics; a man who has been
without voice or vote or following in
all the democratic state conventions
held i'm Montana in recent years
f~riendless at Missoula In 1896. abso-
lutely ignored and unheard OF in the
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS democratic state
convention OF 1898: a man whose re-
l~entless craving for that which the
people OF Montana won't give him and
won't sell to him has become the Jest
OF the state; a man whose inability to
carry a corporars guard at primaries
in his own city has become a p~roverb
in local politics: a man whose closest
political intimates have sneeringly as
serted that he would have succeeded in
buying a Montana senatorship in 1898
II they could have induced him to cough
up-so they put it-earlier in that rot
ten deal the money which he unwill-
ingly consented TO dole out as the pur-
chase price of republican legislators.
when II was too late 10 do him any
good: n man whose latest crazy illusion
is that. thimble- rigging the words
Anaconda company" he can conceal
the real target of his i~ll-judged aim
and make IL appear that the working
men in Butte ought to rally around
W. A. Clark as their real benefaotor all
these years and grind Marcus DAILY un-
der their heels as their arch enemy.
That is the long and the short Of II;
that's the whole case-honor bright.
the Miners own columns. left to be
edited in editorial rooms and not from
a banks mahogany. know full well that
this Is true. and they know. too. what
an asinine use their hybrid ticket is
putting them to.
Yet. seeking to thrust upon public at
tention the mongrel stun it calls a
ticket, the Butte Miner processes
to be for Campbell. That is
rough on Campbell. He is 80 strong
before the people of this state that the
Miners hypocrisy canno harm him,
yet In fairness he ought not to be COM
PEELED to pack the load-he well might
court the Miners opposition; he would
be better of that way.
Still. the Miner has a right to wan
tack" the Anaconda company under
the delusion that II thus helps Clark.
and 50 IL can make a fool of itself In as
many different styles of type as may
suit Its taste. Only. II is outside the
democratic lines. and IL must stay out
as long as II wants to indulge In Its
present antics. The lark DAILY feud
has been peremptorily dismissed by the
democratic party in Montana: the dem
ocracy Of this state will frown down the
man or the newspaper that has the
temerity to attempt to revive IL.
The citizens OF Butte will do the rest.
II there's any one thing they are for or
any one cause hat enlists their 10y
atty, with a feeling akin TO affection.
Il is the crusade for the restoration Of
silver to It's place in the currency of
this nation r. the peer and par Of gold.
They will take good care that Butte is
not suffered to ear false witness; and
there'l be a hot time I n the old town
four weeks from tonight. They are
not permitting themselves TO be both
cred with the grievances of any man
who is eternally exposing his political
sores TO public gaze. They want the
free-coinage record kept right in Butte
they'll see to that. At the polling
precincts in Silver Bow county one
cross does II all. marked at the place
on the Official ballot where the name Of
Andrew J.. Campbell stands at the top
OF the ticket.