Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-11-03
HOP/NC ron DISASTERS.

to seriously admit that any democrat
would be willing to see hard times fall
upon the country again, in order to
achieve a political victory in the national
campaign of 1900.
Logically. however, there is really no
reason why any sincere democrat should
not hope for a financial collapse h
would destroy the prestige of the repub-
lican party and retire it from power.
If the arguments of the democratic
press be correct, that the ascendancy of
the republican party will speedily lead
to national ruin-if the reelection of Me-
kinley. or instance, is to bring upon the
country a long. tedious period of de-
preston and hard times, as is so freely
the democratic ~party-why not welcome
the lesser of two evils? Why not have a
| little whirl of disaster during the pres
ent administration that will hurl it from
power, and give the democracy a nance
J to protect the country from the greater
| evils which are so clearly foreseen by our
bourbon brothers.
1t would seem that loyalty. from a dem
ocratic standpoint. would imply a most
cordial welcome to any sort of a disagree
able condition of public affairs that
would destroy the hold which he re-
publican party has upon the affections OF
the American people, that the grand old
party of Grover Cleveland may save the
country from impending disasters of far
greater magnitude.
! Many a man carefully braces himself
up against a temporary Inconvenience of
a lesser type. in order to protect himself
from an afhiction of far-reaching import
ance that otherwise would be visited upon
him.
The same spirit pervades a political
organization.
Any man who honestly and truly be-
lieves that to retain the republican party
in power means disaster to the country,
II NAtoiiiS ohS mp olS bi'tt ia
in financial circles, that the party may be
retired from the control of affairs in time
to avert the evils that would otherwise
fall upon the people.
That this spirit is more or less prevalent
in democratic circles at the present time,
is evidenced by the illy-disguised salts
factinn fhnt 6rnnc n,It IN thu ct,pFo1a
whenever anything that can be construed
as a setback to the government is report
ed from the Philippines.
should any embarrassment experienced
by Great Britain in the Transvaal trou-
bles lead to a withdrawal of English
money from American securities, the ad-
ministration of President Mckinley
would be held to a strict responsibility
for any stringency in the money market
resulting Observation-Disclosures of the
cycls of depression that might be cavort-
ing around at that time.
The malevolent spirit that would at
tribute unavoidable events in war oil
liiidIlce TO the Administration. ana re-
joice over it's inability to control cir
cumstances beyond the jurisdiction of its
power. would not hesitate to welcome any
additional disaster that might come tc
the country from any source, provided i
led up to a democratic victory. -
Especially is this true, when the demo
crat co~nscientiously believes What HI
reads in the columns of the Butte Mine
the Anaconda Standard and the Helene
Independent, and realizes that onl,
through the ~ascendancy of the demo
cratic party can a general smash-up o
things be averted!
1t may be urged, as a counter-irritant
that when the republicans are out O
power they wish the same thing concern
ing IA democratic administration, huma
;, nature being alike the world over.
But the certainty of experience teache
the republican that he does not have t
maliciously hope for national disasters t
occur during a democratic administra
ton, in order to weaken it's hold upon tn
people.
The disasters come right along thic
9 and fast in the natural order of things.
The election of a democrat in Missouri