Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-03-29
RESOLUTIONS
SUPPRESSED
DAILY Wing Whipped in the
Convention.
THE SECRET IS NOW OUT
Dalyites Were Frightened Into Silence
by Clark Acknowledgement.
sorry Harmony.
THE SECRET IS NOW OUT

There is a quiet laugh going around
In the Clark wing of the local democ-
racy. and the Dalycrats are seeking Sc
cluded hooks I'm which to gnash their
teeth. Neither the laugh of the one nor
the weeping and wailing Of the other is
heard in the open-it would disturb the
superficial pretense Of harmony which
the Miner and Standard spread over the
deliberations Of the recent democratic
municial convention.
These two, the Miner and Standard,
have proclaimed that the storm center
dominant cause Of their enmity is too
far removed from Butte to cut any ice
in a municipal election (Which is a little
thing anyway, and in the interests of
a united democracy they AVE buried the
tomahawk and other weapons of offense
temporarily.
They have given it out thai the white
doye of peace fluttered benignly over the
heads of the delegates assembled n
that the bird was only slightly crippled
by the defeat of the early closing reso-
luton. And they a affected to be SUI
premely satisfied with the councilmanic
nominations, equally divided, pro-Clark
and pro-Daly, four and four.
To the outside observer 1t appeared
that the Daily wing of the convention
was bursting with magnanimity-it Sc
cured the temporary ana permanent orr
g~anizatiOn, refrained from mentioning
the name of w. A. Clark by resolution
or otherwise, II consented to an equal
division of nominations. Is it any WON
der hat Mr.. Clark's personal organ
found the grace to support the ticket, to
fQ ffv fhQ nnnyynn III m md IN Cyna 11nyy tho
endorsement of the present city admin
tstration?
But this suggestions state of affairs
Is as far from the truth as Butte is from
Washington.
The story dates back to a few days be-
fore the convention, when a young man
arrived from Washington. He is pretty
we'll known in democratic politics, and
some of his campaign methods were re-
cited by himself before the senatorial
Investigation committee. This young
man, it is said, was earnestly DESTROYS
that the Butte city convention should
not do anything calculated to influence
the deliberations Of the committee in
Washington. So the young man started
to work.. 1t may have been his efforts
In this direction that sent a majority Of
Clark delegates into the convention, but
fact it is, shat the DAILY wing was an
even dozen to the bad hen noses were
counted.
Now the rhetoricians of the Daily wing
had been busy drafting resolutions in
which w. A. Clark and many of his
friends We're drawn, quartered and hung
up to dry in the hot blast Of democratic
disapproval. The senator was made the
target of many mean and meaningless
phrases, and aspersions were cast upon
some of his most ardent supporters. The
DAILY wing, be it known, expected to be
in full control of the convention, and in
tended to pass the anti-Clark resolutions
with a whoOp n a howl, which would
be heard even i'm far-away Washington.
But the young man heard of it. Reports
differ as to what he said. Some say thai
he threatened to spend 500, 900 to en-
ompass the defeat of the ticket, if the
Daily crowd sprung it's odious resolu-
tions. Others say that he pointed to his
majority in the convention and simply
dared the opposition to even whisper the
name OF Clark in derogation.
Whether by threat or bluff, the Daily
contingent was cowed and entered upon
the days proceedings like a whipped
child. They accepted compromise, agreed
to shout harmony from the housetops,
and begged the concession Of naming the
organization. The concession was grant,
ed, n that was why Ben Harris did not
preside and Macarthur did. 1t was the
only way of avoiding publicity of utter
rout and defeat.
McdIIWIIIlc lIS suppressed resolutions
reposed In the inner pocket of the man
| who drafted them.
Had the Daily resolutions been pre-
scented the breach in the party would
have been as deep and as wide as the
Yellowstone gorge. They recited in eff
feet, that the testimony adduced before
the senatorial investigation committee
had proven the charges of fragrant
bribery and criminal corruption against
w. A. Clark. The blot upon the fair
name of the state was deplored and the
methods Of Clark and his friends were
condemned as INSCRIPTIONS and crimi-
nal. The resolutions went further. They
were vengeful and pointed a warning
finger at prospects of future corruption.
They attacked the very men afterwards
unanimously nominated as Clark candi-
dates, by averring that their nomination
and election as cOuncilmen would mean
that Tom Kinds, who had the paving
contract last year.. Wou be given it
again. This was intended as a body
blow at a Clark supporter and one of the
chief actors in the amOus Raleigh hotel
incident. :
So the DAILY wing was cooked and
primed to repeat its work of a yea ago,
but it had failed in one important point
1T had not packed the primaries. There
and vas prepared to make it's bluff good.
Had the agents of the Anaconda division
persisted in introducing its anti Clark
resolution. even in the face of its failure
of adoption. the Clark men would have
come back at them with a few neatly
turned sentences on the awfulness of
conspiracy. with a clause or two of par
ticular reference to Congressman Camp
bell, leader of the Daily wing, In the al
legged roles of subornar of perjury and
p%urlOiner of other mems letters.
Mr.. Campbell was not alone as an OBJ