Daily inter mountain., 1900-01-04
AN INJUSTICE TO Mr.. DAILY.

some length yesterday, the Anaconda
Standard referred to Mr.. Daly's connec-
| tion with the affair as follows:
Comparatively speaking. Daily had no
interest in the contest. His position was
merely negative one''
In the words of the cock -pit-wouldn't
that cork We?
The idea that Mr.. DAILY had compara-
! lively no interest in the contest!
That his position was merely mega
tive one.
Mark you, Mr.. Daily does not say this
it is the Anaconda Standard which i'm
parts this tremendous secret to the
world
If Mr. DAILY wished to deny his con-
nection with the Clark fight he would do
so like man, taking his position firmly,
just as he did in 1898, when he declared
that the silver forces in Montana should
work together.
Realizing how the Standard reversed
him that year. after the democracy
under the brilliant leadership of that
newspaper-had cast more votes in some
Of the wards in Butte than there We're
inhabitants. he will scarcely authorize
that sheet to reduce him to negative
proposition in the Clark fight!
Why should Mr. Daily be robbed by the
Standard of the glories already achieved
in the line Of purifying the politics of
this state?
How can the Standard be cruel enough
to say that Mr.. Daily had comparatively
no interest in this great reform move
ment, when he stood ready to accept the
senatorship himself, provided that great
sacrifice was required of him, in order
to prevent the election of Mr.. Clark? =
Did he not await telegram from John
r. Toole to the effect that it had at last
become necessary, in the interest of pure
politics, for him to lay aside his we'll
known scruples against having nothing
to do with political affairs, and accept
the senatorial toga himself?
Was he not willing to make any sacri-
flee, consistent with pure politics and the
price of copper, to vindicate the state
ments of the Standard that Clark never
could be elected to the senate?
Did not his sympathy for the Standard.
when it slipped cog and collided with
the pavement. become so strong when
Clark was sworn in as to seriously i'm
pair his health for some days?
Then. why should the Standard be so
cruel as to deny to Mr.. Daily the interest
which he felt in the work of purifying
Montana politics?
Why should it reduce him to a mega
tive quantity in the chemistry of state
craft in this glorious commonwealth of
bons?
1t may seem strange for the Inter
Mountain to come to the defense of Mr..
DAILY in this crisis, but we remember
with gratitude how he tried to unity the
silver forces-over his own signature
in 1898, only to be thwarted by the SUI
perior influence of the Anaconda Stand
ard.
Under the circumstances, we cannot
sit idly on the fence and see the process.
sion of reform filing by, the Standard at
the head of the line of march and Mr..
DAILY in the ambulance in the rear.
1t isn't fair to Mr.. DAILY to place him
in the rear guard in the great fight for
pure politics. when he has been ever
willing to make any sacrifice required.
from going to the senate himself to ad-
vising his friends to stand firmly by the
right, and keep out of Jail, whenever
they wanted to enjoy few political fes-
tivities themselves.
The Standard is doing Mr.. DAILY a.
great injustice in belittling the part that
gentleman has played in the great work
of reform.
Old settlers can remember when Mr.
Daily had more influence in public affairs
than the Standard itself.
But since that newspaper got an artist
it's drawing powers are greater than
those of Mr.. DAILY.
: Hence, it is ungrateful enough to try
to shove itself to the front and Mr.. Da,v
to the rear, in the work of reform. in
which it confessedly takes great pride.
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