Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-03-27

and nail for the election of the demo-
cratic candidates for mayor and police
magistrate, to whom they hope to look
for the protection heretofore accorded
them. Every man in Butte also knows
hat it is to these elements, and to the
periured votes of those who have been
fraudulently registered, that the hill
democracy looks for success in the forth
coming, election.
The Standard shows excellent Judgment
live, burning issues of this type to the
question as to whether the embalmed
beef in controversy at Washington rotted
in the cans or was treated with some sort
of an acid to prevent decomposition from
setting in. Equal in Importance to- the
embalmed beef ISSUE in settling" the
question Of honest government in the
city Of Butte, the Standard places the
personal character of Mr.. w. A. Clark.
~
While able perhaps to promote the
cause of the vegetarians, by c%ultivating
a distrust of meat. through it's eloquent
dissertations on beef, the Standard has
on the Clark issue. Outside those who
wear the official trade mark of the hill
democracy, neither Mr.. Clark's friends
nor his enemies, have permitted them
selves to get excited over the efforts Of
the Standard to show that the reputa-
ton of the senator-elect has a direct
bearing on local issues.
This has vexed our dignified contem-
porary to such an extent that it accuses
of indorsing Mr.. Clark all those who have
not the intellectual acumen to see any
relevancy between the personal character
of the senator-elect and the question of
good municipal government in Butte. The
Standard expected to lash the public into
a Juror of excitement when it's anti Clark
resolutions were first sprung, and make
the platform of the hill democracy a
slogan whose roar would p%aralyze, the
town. To it's dismay, even a large ma
jority of those who do not deny that Mr..
Clark may have used improper means to
secure his election as senator, will not
permit that proposition to crowd out the
important local issues pertinent to a city
election. "
The fact is, the hill democracy has
overplayed it's hand. In dragging into the
city campaign a matter that now belongs
wholly in the senate chamber in, the
national capital, the hill democracy has
conclusively shown to the public that i
is seeking to secure the control of thu
machinery of the local government in or
der to use it to crafty in a business ant
political way it's super-heated passion
against Mr.. Clark and his local enter
prises. In short, it is trying to rob tn,
people of this city of the functions o
local government that belong to our citi
zens to use them as weapons with which
to administer their personal spites, an
revenge the political defeats which the,
suffered in the contest before the legis
lative assembly in Helena. 1t is impos
sible, however, to believe that the intel
ligent citizens Of Butte will permit tn
hill democracy to consummate their de
signs.
Had the Clark democracy held a con
d vention and placed a ticket in the fiel
~denouncing the personal character @
a men whom they disliked, and brandin
: them as criminals who ought to be drive
e out of the community. the good peopl
e of Butte would have arisen as one ma
and condemned them for trying to rui
e invested capital through the possibl
tyranny Of a one-sided municipal gov
eminent.
That which is sauce for the goose /
sauce for the gander, as the old sayin
n runs. Those who would have unhesi
tatingly condemned the Clark wing, ha,