Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-04-07
WHO ELECTED MCCARTHY?

A good many years ago a very impor-
tant discussion arose as to who killed
Cock Robin? Most of the readers of the
Inter Mountain will remember having
had their attention called to that contro-
versy in their childhood. If our memory
is not at fault the question was never
settled to the entire satisfaction of all
concerned.
A similar question has arisen in Butte,
and the discussion bids fair to be just
as barren of results. The present prob
lem takes the form of trying to find out
who elected Mccarthy. The Anaconda
Standard filed the original claim, insist
ing that he pulled through because he
stood on the anti-Clark platform of prin-
ciples, and had a cinch on all the purity
in the democratic party.
But the Miner contests this claim.
Having delicately intimated heretofore
that Mccarthy received votes that he
didn't expect, this morning it comes out
boldly and in effect says that his cleo
ton was due to the Clark men. This is
it's language:
Had he been less popular as a man
had he been suspected of being in thor
ough sympathy with the people who ruled
that cOnVentiOn-the two hundred or
, more majority he got would have been
changed into a minority much greater.
If the foregoing be true Mr.. Mccarthy
received enough votes to elect him from
Clark democrats, who voted for him in
the belief that he was not in sympathy
with the anti-Clark resolutions in the
platform upon which he stood. In other
words. the two wings of the democracy
co-Operated in the election of that gen
tlcman-one because he was in sympathy
with the anti-Clark resolutions and the
other because he was not, That seems tc
be the only interpretation that can be
placed on the statements made by the
Miner.
If the Clark democrats who supported
Mccarthy had only "suspected' that ne
was in sympathy with the platform upor
which he stood, and which he refused tc
~repudiate either during the campaign OF
since in a public way, the Miner says
1.-THE two hundred or more majority he
got would have been changed into a mi
nority much greater" Evidently thei,
suspectors were not in good working
order.
If the Miner is correct in it's deduc
tons, the Anaconda Standard might a
well get off the perch, for it was tn
Clark democrats, after all, who electe,
Mccarthy. What would the support o
the Standard have amounted to if McCar
thy had failed to get the votes of tn
4 gentlemen WHO Qldn steam up lnell po
), litical suspectory until after the electio,
was over? The confession of the Mine
that the Clark men "threw off, on MI
Kirk and elected Mccarthy because the
> didn't believe that he was in sympath
with the platform upon which he stoo
as a candidate, does away with the state
ments repeatedly made by the Standar
to the effect that the Clark wing was ur
true to the democracy and was cooper
ating with the republicans.
If the republicans hoed their own ROY
with both wings of the democracy again!
them, they have little to fear in futul
, campaigns in this city. They will swee
tbe field. The Standard, however, w
doubtless dispute the claim of the Mine
and it may still remain a mystery as
who elected Mccarthy.
: From the democratic World-Herald,
Omaha, we infer that the national dem
d cracy is in a hard row of stumps. 1t say