Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-11-25


The copper market or the location Of the
apex between the Colusa- Parrot and
Never Sweat. 1t will be strictly a demo-
cratic row and the Inter Mountain will
alone ave all the particulars. Y.
News comes from an authentic source
that Mr.. DAILY is rapidly recovering his
health, and the Inter Mountain is glad
TO hear it. He can not be too we'll to
suit this newspaper or the people of
Montana. What was printed about his
condition a few days ago in a special
dispatch in these columns was exactly
true, or it would not have been printed.
1t would be strange indeed if a man as
prominent and widely respected as Mr..
Daily could be taken seriously i'll in New
York without the fact being made known
to his friends and enemies alike through
the medium of the press. Pate de foie
gras as just as likely to disagree with the
millionaire stomach as corn beef and
cabbage, and it is folly to assume that
the publication of Mr.. Days condition
was intended to affect a supreme court
hearing while his best friends, under SOL
emn oath, were testifying that he had
W w WILL luC pAoO
ceedings. Yet that is the very charge
the standard made in it's Helena corre-
spondence about a dispatch whose au-
thor did not even know that the supreme !
court was in session. For fifteen years
the Inter Mountain has been a sup
porter and admirer of Mr.. Daily in his
great business enterprises, believing
they were good for the tate. It has
defended him on occasions when even !
his own paper neglected to do so. The
Inter Mountain advocated his beautiful
city for the capital and would have won
the fight had it not been for the mis-
taken policy of the Anaconda sheet.
We have always hailed with joy the in
auguration of his mining and railroad
enterprises, his chemcs to improve the
public water supply, his success in re-
ducing the price of lumber for nearly ten
years, until quite recently, his develop
ment of Montana coal measures, his sue
cess in helping to sustain wages, and his
many acts of private charity. For years
the enemies of this newspaper, few in
number it is true and all on the road to
the penitentiary Or the insane asylum,
have accused the Inter Mountain of
OCHi6 MI. LAZY . ptISOHdi OFSdH, SO
jealous was it in praising his industrial
achievements and public spirit; so that
when the Standard the other day meanly
%insinuated that this journal, in referring
to Mr.. Days health, was making some
sort of a roundabout attack on that
gentleman in connection with some case
with which his chief lieutenant and po-
litical manager swore he (Mr. Daly) had
nothing to do, the question naturally
arose as to the sense or sanity Of the
Anaconda organ and the public verdict
seems to be that the sheet in it's mis-
taken zeal has made a very bad break.
1t is true that the silver republicans and
pOpulists of Montana are not very fond
of Mr.. Days political system, but we
assert that their opposition was never of
a personal character, and that their de-
sire for his continued health and happi-
ness Is far more sincere and unselfish
than that of those who live by pulling his
leg or trying to work him for a lease.
For some months the Anaconda Stand
ard >illogically, idiotically and unpatriot-
ically has inveighed against the attempt
of the commander-in-chief of the army
dIu navy u Tie Cllleu States 10 put
down insurrection in an island ceded to
this government in a treaty approved by
the national senate
The Standards arguments are rhetori-
cal bosh, verbal stomach ache and politi-
cal fub-dub put forth to satisfy the pref
udices of men who, if handed a Mercator's
map and asked to point out the Philip
pine stands would be quite as Likely to
indicate the Hebriles or the Canaries
as those coded to the United States by
the recent treaty of Paris. But, admit
tinb for a moment that the Standard
| knows what it is talking about, what is
, the way it would suggest to "let go" the
Philippines? By what right could the
president %relinquish the stands after the
action of the senate in approving the
terms of the Paris treaty? Since when
did the president of the United States
cease to be a purely executive officer:
What would speedily be the civil condi-
ton of the islands should he United
States troops be removed? How would
foreign nations regard such an act by
the government at Washington? What
would be the effect upon American trade
and prestige? Who would protect the
friendly natives from the Tagals, who
are such worthy people in the esti-
nation of the democratic press, and
who have been taught by such papers
as the Standard that they are victims of
heartless tyranny at the hands of the
b~lood-thirsty American people?
Come; let the Standard, which is so
Mortified over the efforts of the Ameri-
can government to suppress disorder
within it's territory, explain how the
effort can be abandoned without brand