Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-03-27
THE TEST IN BUTTE.

Standard of the 18th discusses at some
length a series of questions that are not
in issue in the present city campaign,
showing marked ability in its efforts to
keep clear of those topics that directly
concern the problems of good local gov
eminent. To justify this course of pro-
cedure it says:
AS for it's issues. they are municipal to
a. degree, but not chiefly so-by the &C
ton of both of the city conventions that
presented tickets, questions of wider sig
n%ificance are brought in.
The degree" to which the issues of the
present city campaign are "municipal'
is then restricted to the Standards per-
sonal opinion that Mr.. Mccarthy is a
better man for mayor than Mr.. Kirk-an
opinion quite natural to the Standard, as
Me,. Mccarthy stands as the official rep
resentatiye of a feud that is trying to
cripple the business future of Butte by
arraying large financial interests against
each other, While Mr.. Kirk stands as the
representative of the conservative ele-
ments of the community that believe in
peace and harmony and good-fellowship
in business circles and the honest en-
forcement Of the law.
With Mr.. Mccarthy at the head of the
city government, it's machinery will be
used to crush out ard destroy the inan-
cial and business enterprises of one ele-
ment in this community, in line with the
spirit of the platform upon which he
stands, and in Difference to the avowed
purposes of the influences that are be-
hind him. The business interests of this
city would suffer beyond computation
were either wing of the democratic party
permitted to use the machinery of the
municipal government against it's hated
rival.
The existing feud should be confined to
democratic politics, if it must continue
to disgrace this city and state, and not
be allowed to convert the official ener-
gies of local government into a weapon
of death. Yet this is precisely what Mr..
McCarthy's election would mean. 1t was
why he was nominated on a platform
that forecasts a policy of official in
trigue and persecution against business
| the enterprise and life of this commu-
nifty.
-
With Mr.. Kirk in the mayors chair, the
machinery Of the city government viii
not be used for the special upbuilding OF
| one interest and the ruthless down-pull-
ing of another. No recognition will be
! accorded the democratic feud, but every
| citizen will receive impartial treatment
be given equal advantages under the law
to the end that peace and harmony ant
good order may be maintained, and
harvest of prosperity reaped by u en-
terprising city.
Little wonder that the Standard prefer
the election of Mr.. Mccarthy, and tina
it looks upon local issues. in this cam
paign as of lesser Importance to the citi
zens of Butte than the military quarre
at Washington over the question of eun
balmed beef. Indirectly the Standar
apologies for the administration c
Mayor Harrington, and that of all hi
| predecessors, on the grounds that law
calculated to advance our local interest
| have not been placed on the statut
books of this state.
{ From the standpoint of our esteeme
: contemporary this is undoubtedly tru'
!, While a democratic legislature passed
t law to keep the gamblers out of the pen
tertiary, Governor Smith decorated tn
bill with his veto and thus robbed til
democracy of Butte of one of it's chit
accessories of good CO government. TIL
chief executive also vetoed the bill lega
l izing prize fights and administered al
, other blow to the democracy Of this cit,
, How can a democratic mayor be eXpecte
g to fill the measure of public eXpectatio
|. under such circumstances?