Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-03-23
MR.. M'CARTHY'S CARR.

Several days have passed since Mr.. Nc
Carthy was nominated for mayor by the
Anaconda Standards wing Of the demo-
cracy, and yet he is still overlooking one
of the most important, duties of the cam
kpaign. So far he has not seen fit to sign
and publish the following card of expla-
nation:
Whereas, it is known of all men, includ-
ing the boys, that 1, Jerry Mccarthy, the
undersigned, was nominated for mayor
of Butte by the anti-Clark wing of the
democratic party, which has a sinch on
THE Butte primaries when the trains on
the B., A. & p. are not showed in; and,
whereas, the anti-Clark men have an Of
fetal newspaper gan, known as the
Anaconda Standard, whose opinions pass
under the official censorship of the head
push before publication, and which must
be accepted as of divine origin by every
one of us fellows who does not want to
lose his job: and, whereas, the Standard
did, on the 9th day of January, A. d. 1899,
%repudiate the free coinage ratio of 16 to l,
and declare that the ratio must be fixed
by the worlds exchanges, thereby in
d5rsing the financial views of Mark Ham
ma, John Sherman and Colonel Wilbur +.
Sanders; and, whereas, the aforesaid Of
fetal Organ of the democrats
has not in any way withdrawn its state
nients as to the ratio, and made no at
tempt whatsoever to show that it had in
advertently slipped a cog, or that its mu-
steal editor had been carried away by the
symphonies of Beethoven, Mendelssohn
or Anheisuer-Busch, and worked into his
editorial columns a misft financial idea:
therefore, it appears that the statements
of the Standard, in repudiating the basic
principle of free coinage, are, and by right
| ought to be, sound uphill democratic
principles; and, whereas, they are intend
ed to put us fellows in shape to run
| things out here when the gold and silver
democrats get together one compromise
basis in 1900, with the ratio left out;
! therefore, 1 would respectfully ask all my
friends to yell for silver at the top OF
their voices, and work in all the chestnuts
about gOld-bugs that were left over from
1896, but to keep quiet about the ratio of
is to /. Remember hat the only way to
secure good local government in Butte IS
to impeach the personal character of w.
! A. Clark. In that way we make the pub
lie believe that we are just as honest as
they make 'em. Yours for an honest, eco
nomical, wide-open city government.
Amen. ,
The foregoing card, or something sifni-
lar to it, will doubtless be issued in a few
lays by Mr.. Mccarthy, for the situation
is getting desperate. The city convention
of the hill democracy jumped upon SEN
ator-elect Clark with spikes in its shoes,
a.
and branded him as a criminal of the
most dangerous type, though he is known
to be a firm advocate of the free coinage
ratio of Is to /, and if refused his seat in
the senate will deprive the democracy in
that body of an ardent free silver cham
pion. But the aforesaid convention was
.larganized, manipulated and controlled by
the Anaconda Standard democrats, who
have been committed against the free
! coinage ratio by that paper. In the face
bf these facts, it is impossible to see how
Mr.. McCarthy's friends can hope to
spring the free coinage issue in the pres
emit campaign, unless that gentleman
smooths the way to such a course by
publishing a card like the foregoing.