Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-01-27

family newspaper says:
The four silver republicans switched to
Clark singly, at intervals of several days
yet there hes never appeared IN the inter
Mountain a single line of protest against
silver republicans deserving their party
| and voting for Clark. There has never
appeared in the Inter Mountain a single
line exhorting the silver republicans TO
stand by their party. or a single line IN
criticism of them for not DONG so. one al
ter the other they have gone to Clark ana
the professed silver republican organ IN
Butte has made no commen OF an ad-
verse character.
True enough. The Inter Mountain has
made no attempt to control the fou sill
yer republican votes in the Legislative as
| sembly. One of the principles of the sill
Yer republican party is opposition to boss
rule in politics, and under NO circum-
stances would this paper assume to die
| tate the course which members of tha
organization should pursue in voting for
a senator. This position is Of course
wholly unintelligible to the Standard, to
whom dictatorship is a virtue and boss
ism the rule.
With only four votes at their command
the most tina the silver republican
strength can hope for is the election Of
some man who will be loyal to the silver
=. -. H. -o- 80 49, v.,+a
States. No one will accuse any of these
gentlemen of having voted for a single
standard candidate for senator, and be-
ing numerically unable to elect a silver
republican they voted for such democratic
candidates as in their judgment would be
true to the cause Of free coinage if elect
ed.
To determine their course they did not
hold a party caucus, it is true, for after
a door-keeper and sergeant-at-arms, they
would have been compelled to borrow a
couple Of tellers from some other party
and thus give their secrets away! Being a
small body of large men, instead Of a
large body Of small men, they followed
the example Of the other fellows and vot-
ed as they pleased, keeping in mind, how
ever, the interests of bimetallism.
At the outset three-fourths Of them
voted for that sterling Anaconda COM
pany democrat, the Hon. Charles S
Hartman. Did the Standard kick? Die
it upbraid the Inter Mountain for not
} "exhorting the silver republicans to stand
{ by their party?' Not a bit of it. 1t die
l not ever attempt to beat Clark by cast
. ing its vest-pocket edition of democrac!
for Hartman when that gentleman Wa!
at the very pinnacle of his strength, poll
IS ing three votes, The Hartman men di
d all that could nave been expected of them
it without resorting to bribery, to Undue
&c the OldIludlQ , Wig VI 1T dclIlOSL dCS l
recall to mind VIA Charlie did for ther
ID last fall, but it would not work. 1t wa
i after election, alas, and a flaw was foun
of in the treaty of reciprocity.
When the Standards people refused
he come to Hartman, there was nothing lie
ep for those silver republicans who he
If voted for him to do but to go to son
he other democrat who was pledged to fir
ire lay between Mr.. Conrad of West Virgin
to and Mr.. Clark of Paris. Mr.. Conrad w
IT. the Standards candidate, and the Stan
Tn ard had declared itself in favor Of n
ell making the ratio Of is to 1 an issue
AS the fight for bimetallism. Every silv
ia republican in the United States kno'
that if that ratio is dropped from t
contest the whole fabric of the sily
fight falls to pieces, and the issue will
we permanently retired.
If Presumably it was this thought that
,+a the silver republicans in the legislatl
,ro assembly to finally go to Clark, as tt
-. candidate is avoWedly in favor of
scientific ratio of 16 to 1. So far, \
zen oohrau - ho' On eooiu VII MS d"''i
and his connection with the Stands
..o, leaves him open to the suspicion Of