Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-01-02
Standard refers to the Inter Mountain as

Standard refers to the Inter Mountain as
a Clark organ.
This sort of ar accusation is consistent
with the b%ulldozing methods of our Warm
Springs contemporary.
Utterly unfair in everything and indie
pendent in nothing, it lacks the brains to
understand how any other newspaper can
take a neutral or impartial position on
any proposition in which it may. be con-
cerned.
The fact that the Inter Mountain has
taken sides with neither wing OF the
democratic party in the Clark contro-
italy, leads the standard to class this pa
per with the Clark organs.
Assuming to be an immaculate Jour-
nalistic Christ. the Standard is of the
opinion that any one who is not on its
side of a controversy is necessarily on the
other side. .
1t cannotg grasp the fact that Montana Is
full of persons who do not care a snap for
their finger for the pretensions of either
wing OF the democracy, and who are as
far above the influence of the Standard
on the one hand, and of the Butte Miner
on the other hand, as are the slittering
stars of heaven above the tide lands of
Silver Bow creek.
The average citizen of this state knows
that both factions of the democratic
party are as corrupt politically as the
stink pots of tophet; and that in the
fierce contest that has been going on be-
tween them for years. neither side has
heshtated at anything that seemed to
promise it success.
TIL illegal expenditure of money, the
coercion Of voters, the manipulation Of
ballots, the training Of hob0es to vote the
straight ticket. the steering of judges Of
election, the colonization of wards, the
burlesquing of the Australian ballot, and
a thousan MD and one other devices calcu-
lated to rob the public of an honest ver-
dict at the polls, have been pfacticed with
more or less success by both wings of the
democratic party in this state. at inter-
walls for years past.
Everybody knows this: and when the
Sta ndard puts on an expression of purity.
and seeks to pose as the urvey of po-
lftical morals, it lis enough to make a
plaster of Paris cast of the devil cough
UP his intestines.
1t reckons beyond it's power, however,
when it imag.nes that it can bring the
Montana public into an alignment either
for or against the various propositions
which it may. see fit to spring from time
to time.
AS to the Clark contest, the Inter Noun
ain represents the great, fair-minded
public of Montana, that is tied up
with neither wing of the democracy, and
of the c~onsbatants on o. sides for just
what they may happen to be worth--no
more, no less.
The contest is recognized as a dirty.
scrubby fight, injurious to the state and
discreditable to those who have MAIN
tanned the vendetta at the expense Of the
good name of the commonwealth.
That there is plenty of first-class poll
tical corruption on both sides, made
manifest in various ways the people Of
Montana stand ready to believe.
They are prepared-not to take sides
when democratic politicians fall OUTPUT
to see that the good name OF the state is
protected as far as possible from accu-
sations that reflect upon the
wealth. n injure its standing abroad.
The good people of Montana, generous
in their judgment to a high degree, are
willing to look upon a democratic go-as-
you-please with charity, and give to both
sides the benefit of as many doubts as the
circumstances will permit.
They draw their inal conclusions-not
from the panicky %pig-headed posturing Of
a putrid political press, but from the
facts which investigation may make ap-
parent to unbiased minds. 80
The Inter Mountain is a newspaper
represen taltive of an element in this state
THAT is unwilling to champion either side
Of a democratic fractional fight, and
which refuses to recognize the right of
any one to line up the public as a party to
such disgusting controversies.
Insofar as these controversies may
from time to time fasten the badge OF
crime upon the foreheads of men con-
nected with either wing OF the democracy,