Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-05-18

policy deemed essential to the redemp-
ton of Montana from democratic rule,
in the following plank:

state government, both in executive and
legislative departments as incompetent
and unworthy of the confidence of the
people. They have by their administra-
ton of the affairs of state. brought dis
grace to Montana. ruined the good repu-
ton of some of its citizens, defied our
laws and made bribery and corruption
synonymous with democracy.
Impartial treatment is accorded both
wings 81, the democratic party in this
plank, The conditions recited applying
with equal force to the Anaconda democ-
racy and the faction under the leader
ship of Mr.. Clark. Analytically consid-
cred. the DAILY men get the worst of it,
in the denunciation of the executive
branch of the government. which las
been advertised as having been wholly
devoted to the policy of political purity
as exemplified and explained by the m
aconda Standard. "Honors are easy in
the reflections cast upon the leg
islature, for both wings of the democracy
shared in the questionable proceedings Of
that delectable body of political gutter
snipes-one wing carrying off a senatorial
election, While the other wing secured
legislation of a most r~eprehensible and
damaging type.
In the resolution c~ondemning those re-
publicans in the legislature who voted for
Mr.. Clark no charges of corruption are
mac against them, the de%nunciation of
their conduct being based on their "be-
trayal of republican principles alone AS
the Inter Mountain has heretofore ex-
planned, in relation to the action of our
ty republican conventions along this
line, party discipline-to ensure cohesion
in future partisan contests in the legisla-
ture-demanded public disapproval of the
purse pursued by the eleven republicans
who voted for a democrat for the senate.
Whatever influences may nave led those
cratic candidate - however honorable
may ave been their intentions in seeking
to break a legislative deadlock. by voting
for a democrat in default of m posi-
bility of republican success, and in the
possible belief hat the man they support
ed would stand by Montana interests on
the floor Of the senate-they must now
realize that party strength can be MAIN
tanned and political victory ultimately
brought about only by standing by party
principles when in issue.
y The resolution will undoubtedly have a
wholesome effect in holding republican
legislators in line in the future, and to
that end will meet the cordial endorse
ment of the party as a measure Of dis
cipline. Inasmuch as it applies only to
the question Of political principles, M
does not inveigh against the personal in
tegrity of the eleven recaacitrant republic
cans, none of their friends can seriously
object to it's adoption. It reads as fol-
lows:
We also denounce in unmeasured
terms the betrayal of republican princi-
Piles by the II republicans who voted for
and assisted in the election at the last leg
islative assembly of a democrat in the
person of w. A. Clark to the United
States senate.
One of the strong planks in the plat
form relates to trusts, and commits the
republican party of Montana to warfare
on such organizations. Acting in the
! spirit of this resolution it lies within the
power Of the party to redeem this state
from the political control of the most
| gigantic trust even organized on the
American continent. The expression of
the party yesterday was as follows:
We favor stringent legislation such as
/ will destroy all unlawful combinations of
! capital formed for the purpose of limit
ing the production or increasing the
| price of products. Combinations of cap
ital formed for this purpose are danger
Gus to the interests of trade and hostile
to the laboring people.
The A~malgamated copper trust, in
point of capitalization and in the matter
of political aggressiveness and influence,
has no peer among the combinations of
capital throughout the nation. In this
state it has secured absolute control of
the democratic party, and through paid
attorneys, and other political agencies,
is seeking to absorb the republican or
ganization as we'll. Insofar as matters
of principle go, if one combination of
capital in the form of a monopoly be
wrong, other combinations of like char
, acter are also wrong. If an exemption
can be made of one, on account of local
reasons, then exemptions can be made
of all others for similar reasons. They