Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-11-25

courts and juries. corrupting legislators.
paying for trust legislation, organizing
trusts, betraying silver, lying to their
friends, driving. such men as John r.
Toole out of the state, deceiving the pub
lie and doing a general gold brick bust
ness? Not much! Then why should the
editors do for the millionaires what the
millionaires would not do for them? Now
of course, while the editor of the Miner
was in San Francisco last week+but why
should these matters be heralded to the
public simply because there isn't room
in Montana for two copper kings? Be
sides. it should be remembered that San
Francisco is full of temptations. Tt is
the same way in Helena and Anaconda.
The Anaconda Standard has neither
affirmed nor denied the report of Mr..
John r. Toole's intended departure for
Seattle. For that reason the Inter Noun
tain printed the rumor, believing that
the people should hav an opportunity
of testifying to their appreciation of that
gentleman's excellent qualities r he were
going and of expressing their &ratifica-
ton if he were not going. AS before
stated in these columns, Mr.. Toole has
been the lea and front of what is known
all over the state as the political depart
ment of that faction of the democratic
party directed by Mr.. Daily in what was
doubtless conceived to be the best inter-
ests Of the party and the state. He did
his appointed work like a gentleman. He
left to others as far as possible the super
vision Of the gold brick yard and confined
himself to matters requiring a higher
order of political diplomacy and fhesse.
He was instrumental in inviting the
three party conventions to meet in Ana
conda in 1898 for the triple purpo Of
accomplishing something for silver, en-
joying the generous hospitality of ms
conda n it's leading citizens, and to
economize the use Of political copper
wires. But only after his earnest and
honest protest did he consent to the
clumsy and transparent chicanery by
which two of the three conventions
We're subsequently buncoed. The
Anaconda Standard was doubtless
responsible for that exhibition or it nay
have been undertaken in reYponse to
orders from the east to smash silver in
republicans and populists. OF course, it
didn't work, except as to the democratic
convention, which certainly dealt a tell
ing blow to the white metal. Even that
part Of the plot which contemplated the
boiling of Hartman was a fizzle, for tina
eminent and far-seeing statesman didn't
get a chance to bolt and came in for
a scorching within the e few days at
the hands Of the Standard, which editor
tally declared that he had made a. solemn
agreement with the democrats to bolt
but remained glued to his seat. The
charge was never investigated or denied.
John r. Toole, however, should not be
held responsible for the fluke. The mis-
takes of the Anaconda end of the party
were not his. His advice was generally
good, and disaster, immediate nj dire,
often followed when it was ignored.
Then the blame was laid on John, who
smiled and said nothing, for he was not
getting $3.50 a month for working only
t~wenty-four hours a day? No wonder his
enemies say he has retired from politics
a rich a or that in his o%pulence he
fails to remember any of the political
deals by which he directed democratic
politics, sought to wreck the silver re-
publican and populist parties because
they favored silver, and made it Easy
for the Anaconda end of the party to
grab all the offices and eat all the pie.
Mr.. Toole, however, will be remem-
bered by his successes-not his failures.
He will figure in party history as a
pearl among democrats, as a gentleman
destitute of guile, without fear and with
out %reproach, as a democrat who favored
the Australian ballot, when the party
was living by ballot-box manipulation,
and as a man who in all circumstance
tried TO do right himself, and who some
times successfully insisted that his po-
litical associates should do right.
When congress shall meet in Washing
ton in early December it is quite likely
thai proceedings will be commenced
looking to the exclusion of Senator w.
| A. Clark from his seat in the senate in
consequence of the total depravity mani
tested by himself and the democratic
legislature last winter and the resulting
horror with which the immaculate fac
ton of the democracy, represented by
the Anaconda Standard, viewed the
party wreckage. Both the Miner and
the Standard will have correspondents
| in the national capital to write up the
investigation from opposite standpoints,
and neither of them will tell the truth.
1t will be claimed on behalf of Mr.. Clark
that he could not have spent any money
in Helena because he idn't have any,
while al behalf of the DAILY faction it
will be asserted that Mr.. Clark was a