The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-03-30

the Butte Miner to the real estate and
business interest of Butte in every po-
litical campaign by its repeated sales
of the properties of the Anaconda COM
pany and its constant reductions of
wages paid to miners and other work
| ingmen in this community. 1t is true
that the people OF Butte are pretty well
onto these campaign lies, which have
| always proven false heretofore, and
place little credence in them. But the
statements of the Miner do have most
harmful effect with investors who con-
template placing money in Butte. The
Miner is now engaged in its old game
of trying to depreciate real estate values
in this city. 1t declares that the Ana
conda company is to sell out. the Stand
ard Oil company being the purchaser
this time. 1t also declares that wages
1 are to be reduced, that DAILY is to sell
out and leave Butte and all this and
that.
Now this talk can have no possible
effect on the election one way or the
other. Its only effect can be to lower
real estate values in the town and to
keep business men in a state of uncer-
tainty A well known business man Of
Butte said yesterday:
| II went up to the Miner office to-day
and told them for Gods sake, If they
have any regard at all for the welfare
of Butte and its people, to stop that
| kind of talk. 1t is asinine talk so far
as the election is concerned, but it does
harm to business. and that counts with
us. I don't care the snap of my finger
how the election goes. am in business
here to make a living, and I think a
| newspaper which, in every election,
merely tries to hurt the credit of Butte,
ought to be suppressed, and suppressed
hard. There are people who believe
this talk about selling and about the
reduction of wages. 1t keeps them in
uncertainty. The general run of peo-
pie place no confidence in the Miners
campaign lies any more. but great harm
is done on the outside
1t is marvellous that the Miner can't
fake up some new lie. The sale story
and the reduction of wages yarn have
been tried in every campaign and have
lost every time. If the Miner would
try new lie it might gain credence in
some quarter.
The Miners policy is not only de-
structive of real estate values in Butte,
but it has proven destructive of the
republican party of this city. The re-
publican leaders of Butte are now dis
covering that they have been pursuing
I an ignis fatuus. They thought that if
the Clark faction and the Clark Doodle
could be attracted to their ranks
they would have cinch They have
now discovered that there is nothing to
the Clark faction, that it's support
means sure defeat. 1t has learned for
| every voter the Clark faction brings
the republicans. two disguised republic
cans are driven from the party. The
| Clark Doodle also is missing in this
campaign and the republican central
committee is now realizing that it has
taken up the Doodle mans burden
without getting any Doodle for so do
ing. 1t will take years for the repub-
licans of Montana to recover from the
effects of taking Clarks crime on their
shoulders.
What a nerve that Butte Miner has
to utter the word fraud 1t Is access
sorry ito the greatest political crime ever
| committed since Hayes was seated as
president in place of Tilden. 1t would
| ho ,iro tl,y fpv 70 of
into some dark corner, all by itself,
cover itself with sackcloth and ashes.
and humble fraud, fraud, fraud" But
its brazen effrontery in bowling fraud
in Its own columns. where the public
can see it, is more audacious than any
thing ever seen in criminology. What
the Miner doesn't know about fraud is
not worth knowing. IT must blush with
shame every time the word fraud is
mentioned.
It is charged by the Miner that an
effort is being made to drive W. A.
Clark out of business in Butte. oh, no.
The only attempt that is being made
is to drive Mr.. Clark out of the bribery
business. He is at liberty to start that
| seven story gold brick as soon as he
pleases-the sooner the better
| In the Butte Miner appears a COM
munication signed by A. P. Jones, John
W. Masterson and r. NJ. Boyer. These
gentlemen deny that the Junior Order
of American Mechanics was instrument
tai in the defeat of A. F. Bray for the
republican nomination for mayor, and
say: 1.-THE Junior Order is fraternal,
beneficial and social organization. 1t
has never taken any part in partisan
| politics, and there is nothing in the