The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-03-30
The Mission of Campaign Words.

lNtE Tie hISai lily 'iNhSs N>~N
~ placed in nomination. there must
~ have been not less than eighty
columns of spring politics written in
Butte editorial rooms and printed in
the pages of the two daily newspapers
in Butte that are opposing the election
of the Mccarthy ticket.
Those who WELD the editorial pen for
the Standards two Butte contemporar-
les are ready writer's. Their combined
editorial preface to next Mondays cleo
ton is at least ninety-five thousand
words long. 1t would be graceless
thing for the Standard to say that this
grand aggregate of words ia without
effect on the voters in Butte-we can
all tell more about that when the count
is footed up next Saturday night.
At the same time, it is just and time
ly to call attention to the fact that the
percentage of this nti-McCarthy ticket
editorial talk that has touched the men
or the themes directly involved in the
election, is uncommonly small. 1t has
not been shown by these critics of the
ocratic administration in Butte de-
serves a verdict of censure at the polls
To be sure, the two Butte dailies in
question have taken their fling at May
or Harrington's record. but it has
been an effort to spread a big, unde-
fined spatter of campaign lnud--there
has been no bill of particulars, no we'll
| defined accusation. 1t will not occur
| to the voters in Butte to be Influenced
| by the ilI-assorted generalities. with
which the Miner and the Inter Noun
tain have weighted their columns dur
ing a fortnight. In the same way, the
| ninety-five thousand total of campaign
words in these two newspapers does not
include, all told. the equivalent of one
little paragraph the substance of which
would prompt any thoughtful citizen in
Butte to question the fitness of the can
didates on the Mccarthy ticket.
AS for Mr.. Kirk, apparently he is lost
| in the shuttle: his newspaper organs
| find it easier to write about 1.-The COM
| bination," or the hill, or the Boston
| anu -hoHtdilei pSoPlC, vi lHe llle maj y
| Anaconda sale than to undertake the
impossible task of making it appear
that Mr.. Kirk really is a good man
for mayor.
Take in illustration yesterdays Butte
Miner. Its 312 lines of editorial make
mention of Mccarthy, of the Boston
and Montana, of Rudyard Kipling, OF
Marcus DAILY, of Mr.. Normoyle, of the
Standard Oil company, Of 1.-THE combih.
ation." of the Anaconda Standard OF
the Dingley tariff, of Tammany. of the
wages Of sin and of the Amelakites'
(probably the Miner means the Amale
kites) and of scores of estimable peopl,
and things that are not running il
Butte; yet the name of Kirk or pleas
ant word commencing him to the Butt,
voters has no place on the Miner
page of yesterday.
These newspaper assaults serve th
single purpose of making certain nerv
Gus people bit uneasy in reference II
property interests and values in Butte
To the outside world they convey tn,
iilipitsS tlldl loullC pIoPtIlS
stable stuff, that the mining compane
do the city more harm than good tina
Butte is not the right kind of tow
for those who want to become perma
nently prosperous in business ventures
In a word, the whole force and effec
of this newspaper nagging at Butte
industries is to put in peril the credi
of the Butte merchant, in his dealing
with eastern jobbing houses, and t
spread abroad the criminally- wron
impression that decent people and sell
respecting business men would bette
give Butte the go-by.
That is the net result of the newspa
per campaigning which, as We hav
said already. measures up to a total {
!, almost a hundred thousand words i
the columns of Mr.. Kinks organs. TIL
whole big lump of it will not seriousl
reduce the size of the majority for til
Mccarthy ticket, but it contributes jus
SO much toward giving Butte's bushes
!, | interests a black eye.