The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-03-29

past elsht years the Suite winner mas
duced the wages of miners in this
camp. Ii makes great cutlery on TINS
suooecs' out after election things al
ways go on Just as pefore. Inc Ana
eohoa properties are continued under
'he same management, ana wages are
kept up to the same figure.
4 80 IN THIS campaign, too, the winner
piihss up those oao chesthhts. ms
tiiile IL sehs the properties OF tine Ana
COMA company to the STANDARD OIL
4 company and 1t declares that wages
VIII De reduced Immediately after
is! Probably not soul in all Butte be-
| lieves this of the repeated story. for the
| falsity of it has been demonstrated at
ter every election heretofore, and ey-
| erybody is satisfied that there is not
| the slightest foundation for the present
story any more than there has been for
the others.
But what mas that to do with this
| spring campaign, anyway? If the An
|
.he 9tahoaru vi company OF 10 any
'hihs eise' II VIII sell out, Whatever
should oe the result OF TINS election.
ana II II Goes NOT want to sell out its
eourse VIII MOT De lhiuenced IN the
s"shtest oesree py Whe9her 1t goes one
way Or Rhe other. Ii wages are to be
reuuceo the result OF the election Will
hot influence any determination on that
SUBJECT bu. the TAX OF the Winner is
not worthy OF comment for no one be-
iie'es II. Inc Anaconda company Will
MOI sen out' ana wages VIII not be re-
uuceo. lie winner ought TO invent a
more reasohaoie lie.
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he gave an ovation to himself, Mr..
Clark declared that he would now see
that Deer Lodge county is divided and
Powell county created. He would see
that gambling was stopped. He would
see that the cross in the circle is abol-
I ished3THe would see that there are no
more stuffed primaries and conventions
and no more coercion at the polls.
But when Mr.. Clark figured up what
| the senatorshp had cost him he con-
cluded that he had paid for it all that
it was worth and that he couldn't do
any more for Montana. After giving a
banquet to a few friends in Helena, he
went to Arizona to see how his copper
properties are getting on, then went to
| Washington to pick out a house and
now he is in Paris once more Mean
while the advocates of Powell county
were left in the lurch, the cross in the
circle remains and the republicans of
Butte who counted on Mr.. Clark's fin
ancial as we'll as moral support are be-
wailing the fact that they ever had
anything to do with him.
Inc Butte Miner announces that w.
"A. clark Is free coinage man and de-
nounces the democratic city convention
Tor demanding the unseating of free
coinage man. What assurance have the
| people or Butte that Mr.. Clark is in
favor of the free coinage of silver? He
supported the republican ticket last fall
and is supporting 1T again this spring.
He was elected by the votes of gold re-
publlcans and could never have been
| elected without those votes. After his
election IN public meeting at Helena.
he declared himself in favor of several