Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-01-30

be played IN the chamber or our natlOnai
law makers with the world for an audi
ence.
In looking forward to the new chapters
that are promised in the reign of shatter-
ed harmony that has been bequeathed to
this state by the democratic party, the
| political student of contemporary events
finds much to entertain and instruct in
looking backward upon the causes and
conditions that brought about the cleo
| ton of the Hon. w. A. Clark to the SEN
ate of the United States. In default of
! any information as to the character and
scope of the contest which is to be inau-
gurated. in Washington and pushed to the
limit, the public will assume that the
political mistakes of his enemies and
various other influences of a political
nature, had something to do with the vic
tory lie dCIlSNeu. "A review VI SOlllc vi
these factors in the determination of the
fight in the joint assembly may not be
improbable at this time. In the consid
Grafton of political matters it is hardly
worth while to emulate the example of
| Bob Ingersoll in his "Mistakes of Moses
| and wait until the passing centuries have
dimmed public interest in the events re-
viewed.
One Of the earliest errors of political
management on the part of the gentle
men who undertook the defeat of Mr..
| Clark was their treachery to the aus
of fusion. After having given the plans
of cooperation as outlined by the nation
al silver leaders their most cordial en-
dorsement and support, and inviting tc
the banquet of bimetallic success the sill
yer organization of this state, they sud.
denly became bewildered with party
zeal and administered to the silver re-
publicans and populists the most vigor-
Gus kicks they could impart.
men that fusion would defeat the sena
torial aspirations of their leader and they
fought the proposition with unrelcntine
vigor. It was good politics on their part
measured from the object they la in
view. But when the anti-Clark demo-
Gratis captured the Butte primaries they
became intoxicated with a sense of pc
litical power. Political e~lephantasis be.
came epidemic in their ranks. From al
original ambition to defeat Mr.. Clarl
they acquired the belief that they could
| also name one of their own men for sen
ator. as they had placed themselves in
position to control the machinery of TIL
democratic party and reap the fruits o
victory.
Under such conditions they repudiate'
the idea of sharing the contest with tn
other silver parties, and took a stand 70
;, independent political action, thus de
stroying their trump card in the sena
torial game they were trying to play
From advocates of cooperation they out
rivalled the Clark forces in their effort
= to turn down the plans of the nationf
silver leaders, n in their state nve
ton used the leadership placed in the
hands to not My crush out the fusio
i, sentiment in the democratic party but
. d~isintegrate n destroy, if possible, tt
silver republican and populist organize
. fusion cause, instead of unwittingly play
ing into the hands of their enemy, NJ
. Clark would not have been elected to tt
United States senate.
-
On the theory that misfortunes new
a come singly the anti-Clark men made al
j. other error of considerable magnitude
the combination effected with Mr.. Coz
C rad. The positive strength of that gent
C man, outside the votes thrown him by Il
s Anaconda people, amounted to little-fi