Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-03-24
WE'VE HEARDIT SAID.

I t5Nu L III ~ SbiA "a AHS
daughter" the Anaconda Standard seeks
to defect public attention from the car
nival of crime under the present demo-
cratic city administration Of Butte, by
holding aloft the bloody dagger with
which it's political jugular was severed
in Helena some weeks ago.
With mental mental the po-
litical mechanics of the hill democracy
repeat and re-repeat, and re-repeat again,
the thrice told tale of torture with Which
their gifted souls were scared. Bewil-
dered by the staggering defeat adminis-
tered to them in the house of their friends
suffering from the political p~rolapsus
of a democratic legislature-they chant
their death songs dismal chime:
Hark! Hark. Hark! Who raised hell
but Clark? "
Our lives are pure, our souls secure;
So we rise with the lark and stay tip till
dark, .
RAISING Tic uGNll Will Slolh, Clot a,
Clark!
And so it goes. The Standard sees nc
virtue in condemning crime in Butte SO
long as some other and perhaps greater
crimes committed elsewhere go un-
avenged. It cannot wait for the United
States senate to meet in order to make
out it's case against Senator-elect Clark,
though that is the only tribunal under
heaven in which 1t can hope to wipe out
what it is pleased to term "the greatest
crime ever committed in Montana"
The Standard upbraids the Inter Noun
tain because this paper does not fall into
line with it's efforts to obscure local ques-
tons, and assist it in the work of manu-
featuring a job lot of e]xtraneous issues
with which to befog the public mind.
our Warm Springs contemporary, and,
not wishing to appear to be lacking in
journalistic courtesy, we are willing to
give it the benefit of rumors that AVE
reached our ears, all of which it may
copyright and use for political issues in
the city campaign if it so desires. We
cannot vouch for their t~ruthfulness, but
we have heard it said
That it was a senatorial bee in the
night-cap of the accomplished editor of
the Anaconda Standard that stung the
fusion plans of the silver leaders to death
last fall. !,
That the moon is likewise made of
green cheese.
That while there was some poor timber
in the legislature captured by the Clark
democracy, there was some pretty good
timber on the public domain captured by
his enemies.
That it required a pull to land the slabs
in Doth cases.
That the democratic party stands for
integrity and reform.
That it does not.
: That it cost w. A. Clark a million tc
be elected.
Tha it cost his enemies $780, 900 to heir
the job along.
y That the Anaconda standard has nevel
had the nerve to put in a bill for helpins
Il to elect Clark, though it rendered hin
y efficient services.
u That Helena grand juries can give
d Butte grand juries cards and spades ant
them beat them in the game of twisting
the wrist.
4 That if the society people Of Helena
3 wear collars, they are putting on no morN
u style than about 5000 men in the emplo.
y Of the Anaconda Copper company.
That the Butte Miner is bribed ever.
Saturday night by w. A. Clark to keel
up the fight against permitting the Ana
conda Standard to get a sole franchis
on the right to think in the city o
II Butte. d
That the Anaconda Standard .recog
10 nizes it's own peculiar fitness to run tn,
affairs of Butte and no questions asked.
That there are enough reputable, de.
cent, God-fearing people in the city o
lie p,+ -. bo .o +h