The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-08
SATURDAY, APRIL s, 1899
TWELVE PAGES.
1t Won't Worry Him.


ministration for it's topic, the
Friday morning Miner remarks
mat 1t opposed him at the polls and
mat, therefore. it "is not in position to
dlctate to the successful candidate for
mayor what he shall do with the pa
tronage at his disposal"
That's kind and generous and
thoushtful. Mayor ELECT Mccarthy
ought to be very much obliged to the
Miner; he may now feel at liberty to 90
ahead in the selection of men on their
merits for the offices under his control.
The strange feature in the Miners COM
ment is the plain inference it CONVEYS
that if it had supported Mccarthy 1t
would believe itself to be sin position
to dictate his appointments -'
When dld that newspaper rule go into
erect? 1t is startling novelty. The
standard was Mr.. McCarthy's sole
newspaper support in the recent cleo
'ion' is 1t to be presumed that there
fore the Standard is 'in position to die
tate the Mccarthy appointments?
Clearly, that is the Miners idea Rut
the standard does not so interpret the
recent election-not at all. The Stand
ard certainly will have no trouble in
keeping absolutely aloof from the Butte
appointments. They are not a newspa
pers business. How weak and how
foolish this newspaper would be were it
10 tangle itself in the selection of Mr..
McCarthy's subOrdinates. We do not
at all agree with the Miners interpre
tatloh OF newspapers relations to
victory at a local election. But. of
course that is not a matter of serious
account, since the defeat of the Miner
and of its republican ticket leaves that
newspaper out of the reckoning. The
democrats won in Butte last Monday
ohe MINER ceased supporting demo-
cratic tickets in Butte long, long time
ago
Evidently the Miner takes its medi-
cine hard-it fingers regretfully over
what it styles the slender ma iority',
for the head of the regular democratic
ticket. Yet it was majority we'll up
to Butte's average. City government in
Butte is twenty years old. Prior to the
handsome majority for Mayor Har-
rington, the present incumbent, the fig
ures marking majorities for Butte's
mayors, except in the case of Mr.. Man.
tie, were close. Mr.. Muellers majority,
in 1891. was 142; Mr. Dugan's plurality
in 1893, was 296. In 1890, Mr.. Walton
had it out with Dr. Leavitt and the
Walton majority was PSI And that
proportion has been we'll sustained
through the series of Butte's elections.
AS long ago as 1882, William Owsleys
democratic majority was 205; in 1888 the
republicans elected DR. Whitford mayor
and his majority was 217. The notable
Mantle election was held in 1892 Man
ties majority was $50; that was the
year when the Standard repudiated the
Miners Watering ticket that mas
queraded under democracy's name
The Standard made the fight for Man
tie; and his election was a famous vic
tory. So, too, under the circumstances
was Mr.. McCarthy's election, with more
than two hundred majority, as every
ditions is free to admit.
Yesterday morning the Miner prom
Used that it will be Mayor Mccarthy
supporter" if he shows that he de
serves it, but that otherwise it will be
his fearless critic" Mr.. Mccarthy
stand up and consider yourself duly
served with notice to be the Miners
kind of a good mayor! For our part
we do not believe that Mayor McCar-
thy will permit the Butte council, SO
far as in his power lies, to declare that
Butte's water supply is pure or whole
some or otherwise satisfactory. For
our part, too, we do not believe that
Mayor Mccarthy will permit the coun-
Gil, so far as in his power lies. to turn
Butte's highways over to the street
railroad corporation. to be used as