Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-03-21
RED INK POLITICS.

ouI ISsouINSIul tAiioSciioo
rary has the happy faculty of springing
new issues in the city campaign. when
| ever it's old ones are unavoidably dis
i placed by an intelligent public. Some
what disappointed to find the senator
elect issue so wobbly in the knees on the
! threshold of the campaign, the Standard
| tried to score an instantaneous hit by
! coming out for silver. Unfortunately it
butted it's head against its recent re-
| pudiation of the free coinage ratio and
| again had to stop and catch it's breath.
This morning, however. it returns to the
| municipal field of combat with a bran
| new Weapon and is apparently trying to
| do in public what it has repeatedly done
in private-nake red ink a political issue
in this city. The first red ink symptoms
were exhibited in the silver republican
convention, when an employe of the Ana
conda Standards wing of the democracy
carried out his instructions as an accred-
tied political agent. Loyal to his en-
ployers, even at the expense of good taste,
the gentleman took the floor and without
the courage to make direct charges of
any kind against any body, repeated a
few of the Standards editorials from
memory, intimated that the members of
the convention who didn't come his way
around ~scoundrels of the first water, and
that men a the audacity to stand up
for good local government in this city
when their accounts are il red ink!
AS most of the delegates in the owen
ton were gentlemen to the manor born,
| the only rejoinder made to such silly hog
| wash was to quietly but effectively sit
upon the schemes which the Standards
| walking delegate saw fit to champion.
We use the term walking delegate" ad-
visedly, as the gentleman referred to
walked out of the silver republican con-
yention last fall, when it failed to his bid
ding, and then walke in again this
spring when he had another mission up
knowledge that the scriptures say that a
man is known by his walk.
But the speech made by the aforesaid
gentleman struck the Anaconda Standard
as ranking with the one made by Web
ster in his reply to Hayne. 1t was pat
termed so closely after the classical edi-
torial page of the Warm Springs paper
that the Standard Immediately detected
within it the germs of true greatness.
Hence, new campaign issues will be
drawn from the speech as often as
needed.
Just now, red ink has the floor. The
Standard is also of the opinion that any
body who happens to be in red ink for
the time being ought to permit somebody
else to regulate his politics for him and
control his conscience. 1t is SO tickled
over this new issue thai it throws it's red
ink right and left, without reference to
the facts, and uses it as a term of op-
probrium. To incur the Standards dis
pleasure hereafter is to be called "a red
ink accessory by that great family
newspaper, regardless of the truth or
falsity of the innuendo implied.
1t is possible, however, that the Stand
ard may discover that such snobbery is
unpalatable to the citizens of Butte.
Every business enterprise does not have
behind it the wealth of the Rothschilds.
Unlike the Standard, most business UNI
~dertakings rise or fall on their merits and
depend upon brains and energy and en-
terprise and honesty for success. There
are perhaps a number Of good business