Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-02
SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER .. 1899.
PROFESSION VERSUS PRACTICE.


cause weakened at the polls. by prevent
ing the cooperation of the silver parties.
and who have supplemented this blow at
the practical side of the question by pub
licly declaring that the ratio of values
between the two metals should be regu-
lated by the worlds exchanges, thus
e~masculating the free coinage issue to
the extent of their influence. now find
great comfort and satisfaction in the
nomination of John r. Mclean for gov
ernor of Ohio, on a silver platform. 1nas-
much as the democracy of Montana is
under the absolute domination of Doodle
and bossism. and its machinery is in the
hands of multi-millionaires who control
its policies and dictate it's plans, it is in
the natural order of things that their
subservient creatures should bow down
to Haman, like the slaves of old. and
sing hosannahs whenever an aristocrat
of the Mclean type is elevated to a posi-
ton of honor before the people.
The fact that Mclean was turned down
III thC aCIiipCi itit toIN tlitIoll
three years ago, as a candidate for the
vice-presidency, because he was not in
sympathy with the free coinage issue,
and was the personal embodiment Of all
that was implied by the aggressive policy
Of monopolies. trusts and combines,
weighs nothing with the democracy Of
Montana. Every man who IS familiar
with the history Of the Chicago conven-
tion in 1886 knows the desperate means
r~esorted to in the campaign against Nc
Leans Doodle, when that worthy made
the play of his life for a great political
honor. He was beaten Their because
his nomination would have made the
free coinage campaign of MI. Bryan a
roaring farce. and driven from his stand
ard every silver man in the land who was
not a h~ide-bound partisan. He is nomi-
mated now, by the democracy of his own
state, because the plethoric pocketbook
of the multi-millionaire will minister
literally to the democratic appetite fol
spoils.
Mclean belongs to that type of enor.
mously wealthy men who are willing te
pay for what they get in a political way
even if it comes high. But to Montana
democrats, who have lone business in ar
atmosphere of this kind for years, the
nomination of Mclean comes as a quasi
endorsement of their own methods. and is
therefore hailed with JOY.
In addition to the fact that Mclean is
a representative Of the ~monopolies, trusts
and unholy combinations of capital,
whose iron heel rests upon the neck of the
deserving poor, let it be said that the de-
mocracy which honored him with the
nomination for governor has never in its
history given to the state Of Ohio one
line of legislation against the aggressive
policy of the trusts. But the republican
party, which is SO vigorously lampooned
In its platform, placed an antitrust law
on the statue books of that state and it is
in operation today as a vehicle through
which redress may be sought in the
courts.
Just across the placid waters of the
Ohio river, in thai good old democratic
state of moonshine whiskey and muzzle-
loading NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Kentucky
the party of reform has had undisputed
sway, though losing the electoral vote on
"A tluke in 1896, and yet it has never
placed an antitrust law upon the statue
books of that rre-eminently bourbon
commonwealth. In Louisville, only a few
days ago, action was brought to prevent
the wholesale grocers OF that city from
combining to fix prices on the necessaries
of life, but upon a hearing before Judge
T. n. MORROW il VAS found that Kentucky
was destitute of any law that would in
teffere with the organization of a high
handed trust in the interests of starva-
tton for the poor. Nevertheless, Goebel,
like Mclean, is running for Office as a re-
forner. and their respective platforms
are loud in their condemnation of trusts.
The American public has reached a
point In political development where
practice is deemed more essential than
profession. 1t is easy for wealthy