Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-03-20

mind the conservation Of party and poll
teal ends, rather than the welfare of the
city of Butte and it's citizens. 1t was
clearly their intention to convert the pub
lie machinery, provided by law for the
well being Of a community. into a vehi-
e1e for the promotion of personal inter-
ests IN 4 democratic vendetta.
But not content with the action taken
by their w convention, in trying to
overshadow the issues involved in local
government with pyrotechnic displays of
democratic venom. they sought by the
exhibition of immaculate gall to force the
other political organizations of this city
into the same course of action. Among
the administration republicans. the sill
yer republicans and the populists influ-
ences were at work to prevent if possible
a union of forces against the ticket which
the democrats had placed in the field.
However, there were no appreciable re-
suits from these efforts. and they pass
into the political history of the city as
very raw and very bungling attempts to
hoodwink and bamboozle intelligent men.
the gentlemen who stole the livery of re-
publicanism in which to serve the politi-
cal interests of the democracy, and the
democratic nominees for office who were |
behind these clownish efforts to win vic
tory through the dishonorable medium of
a political masquerade. However much
men may honestly differ in their political
views, whatever may be the issues that
divide them, OPEN, fa~ir-handed politics
are commentaries; and let us hope that
the wholesale execution of political spies
last Saturday may have a good effect on
the future of Butte.
The strongest and boldest effort to pre-
vent the opponents of the democratic city
mon ground of retrenchment and reform
in municipal affairs, was made in the sill
yer republican convention. Plans had
been carefully laid to convert that body
into a tail to the democratic kite by maxi
ing it a party to the democratic feud,
through a resolution so worded as to
practically commit silver republicans to
the support of the democratic ticket, in
case they put up no ticket of their own.
By an overwhelming majority the con-
vention decided to take no part in a
democratic row, which has been brought
to the front at this time merely to OBJ
scure other issues, and to censure neither
of that party, as such, but to con-
local government for the city of Butte,
and it's own party affairs. The delegates
who cOnSplfed in behalf or the demo-
cratic city ticket We're quietly sat upon,
and while some of them squirmed and
used unbecoming and insulting language
of a personal character, they We're not re-
sponded to in kind, for no gentleman in
the silver republican party would get
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v%ention.
The overwhelming sentiment in favor
of cooperating with the administration
republicans in the city campaign, mas
much as no national issues are involved,
found expression in the appointing of a
committee to notify that body that the
silver republicans would place no ticket
in the field. The action of the populists
in the evening in deciding to make no
nominations leaves the contest with the
lines squarely drawn on the issue of good
government, between the democrats on
the one hand and the rest of the people
of Butte on the other.
WHEPE IT REI 0NCS