Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-07-13
MOTA WORD or COMFORT.

The Anaconda Standard of this morn
ing does not contain one word Of COM
fort anent the charges put forth by its
esteemed democratic newspaper coadju-
tor-the Helena Independent. An expec-
tant public is left in the dark as to
whether the Standard is to remain the
leading democratic organ of Montana,
with all the rights, privileges and per-
qu.sites thereunto appertaining, includ-
ing the right to knock the 16-to-1 ratio
galley-west with no questions asked, or
whether it is about to vault gaily over the
chasm into the republican party and a
back all the hard things it has been say
administration.
To say the public is interested does not
half express the feeling of intense anxiety
that IS manifested in some quarters-to
say it was disappointed at the Standards
silence this morning but feebly indicates
the nervous prostration which some Of
the politicians are undergoing. The
democrats who fought under the leader
ship of that newspaper last winter, in
the. offensive and defensive campaign
against the Clark forces ae beginning
Standard really contemplates a switch.
To which, to whom and to whence will
they scatter? Will the feathers be pulled
from their wing of the democracy? VIII
they be left upon the field of combat
like Richard III without a horse, and no
Kingdom to swap for one? After having
followed the Standard through the dark
days of the democratic civil war in Hell
ena, must they be left upon the thresh-
hold of a presidential campaign with no
leader but Jim Brown of the Butte
Times? Such reflections as these must
make the truly faithful sad indeed.
On the other hand, the Clark democrats
wax hopeful with an exceeding great joy,
If the Helena Independent tells the truth,
it is only a question of a short tim when
they can carry the democratic primaries
in Butte with one hand tied behind them
and both legs in a sling. When the Stand
ard is lost to the democracy, the Clarh
men won't do a thing to the late lamented
other wing of that party.
There will be a hot time in the old
The Butte Miner will Their con-
test for first place as the leading demo-
cratic organ of the state with the Butte
Times.
The Clark wing will control the demo-
cracy Of the state, and live happy ever
after. Twenty years from now that party
can look back to the present time and
point with pride to the fact that the Hon. |
w. A. Clark was the last democrat ever
to an office in the state of Mon
tana. There will be something consoling
about that, which will to a large de-
gree atone for the loss of the Standard
to the democracy. g.,
However, the fate of our Warm Springs
contemporary is not as yet known to the
public. 1t neither affirms nor denies the
allegations made by the Helena Inde-
pendent. Some may construe it's silence
as a modest way of acknowledging the
corn, but others will look upon it as a
mark of dignity. True, the Independent
is the organ Of the east side democracy,
and it has behind it that powerful organ
%izat;on known as the Jefferson club, COM
posed of Major Maginnis, Tim Collins
and Bob Smith, and is therefore entitled
to respectful attention when it makes a
political declaration. Blu the Standard
has a way of posing with it's nose in the
air, disdainfully overlooking the demo-
cratic organs with fewer ~octaves, and it
may be that it has not as yet heard of the
accusations made by it's co-laborer in
the democratic vineyard at the perma-
nent capital. 1t is not too late too hear
from the Standard.
The old saying-"God moves in a mvs-