Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-03-30
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Alright. The results of the forthcoming
election will prove beneficial to Butte,
or otherwise, and it is the duty of the
honest, well meaning voter to correctly
determine the course he ought to pur-
sue.
pality is involved nothing is to be gain
ed through the avenues of prejudice and
hate and passion. Such things serve
to advance the purposes of those
who would defect public attention from
the real issues Of the campaign. Every
effort has been made by the managers
of the democratic party in this city to
tempt the republicans into the perform
ance of some act that would place the
two organizations on a moral level.
Through the registration of men not
entitled to vote in Butte, the democrats
have hoped that their political adver-
saries would indicate a similar purpose
and be thus barred from instituting
prosecutions for the crime. But the re-
publicans did not register a man whose
right to vote can be questioned. When
democratic employers of labor instruct
ed their men to vote the democratic
ticket, on the implied pain of discharge
if they exercised the prerogatives be-
longing to the citizens of a free country,
they looked in vain for a similar action
on the part of republican managers of
business concerns.
When the democratic city convention
calculated to array large financial in
~terests against each other, to the detri-
ment Of the commonwealth as a whole,
the republican convention quietly
ignored all reference to a fractional party
row tina was not german to the pend
ing contest for good city government.
Standing for the honest and adequate
protection of invested capital, whether
it bore the label of one faction of the
democracy or the other, the republican
party refused to recognize the relevancy
of such an e~xtraneous issue as a demo-
cratic row.
Believing that the differences of the
democratic party, magnifed by circum-
stances growing out of the senatorial
contest, should be settled in the proper
forum, regardless of their final outcome
and the character of their triumphs and
defeats, the republicans confined their
energies to the discussion of the peril
nent questions of the hour. Even the
great issue Of embalmed beef was be-
lieved to have no relevancy to the ques-
ton Of good government for the city Of
Butte.
To the republican party the present
contest presents itself as a struggle for a
better condition of local affairs. Upon
the one side are the Independent citizens
Of the community, prepared to register
| their personal views of good government
in the voting booth; upon the other side
is one faction Of the democratic party
whose votes are chiefly controlled by cor,
porate influences that have business ends
to serve in the triumph of the democratic
| nominees.
While the republicans are making theil
campaign IN the merits of the situatio
the democrats are backed by all the
money which political conditions in thi:
CITY can absorb when Doodle is chiefly re-
lied upon as a factor of success at thu
polls. This in brief is the situation il
to naturally develop a great deal of feel
ing in this community, and the fact tina
intelligent, we'll informed men, who arr
diligent and faithful employees, are fore.
ed to vote the democratic ticket or be de,
prived OF an opportunity to earn an hon.
est livelihood in the positions they hold
causes the hot blood to flow swiftly
through the veins and the blush of shame