Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-06-08
DISGRACE Of
DEMOCRACY
FRAUD AND FIGHTING WERE
THE FEATURES OF THE PRI-
MARES LAST NIGHT.
lKODAkS WERE MORE
POWERFUL THAN GUNS
Used to Brighten Suspects-The Hill
Came to Town-C. W. and ]. X.
Clark Were Challenged.

Thu democratic primaries We're held in
all the precincts Of the county last night
for the purpose of selecting delegates
to the democratic county convention
which will be held in Butte next Mon
day. Both wings Of the democracy were
largely in evidenc during the evening
and at the close of the polls both sides
iwere claiming to ave captured the
county delegation. lust how the dele
CATION stands will not be ascertained
until the county convention meets hen
one of the usual democratic rows will
take place. In fact the convention
promises to develop one of the l~iveliest
political battles ever fought in Silver
Bow county.
For the first time in the history Of
political warfare in Butte. kodaks were
used for the purpose of photographing
the suspects who were sent down from
the hill for the avowed purpose Of over
whelming the Clark forces. The ko-
daks proved more effective than shot
guns and many men who attempted to
repeat were deferred when they gazed
| into the muzzle of a kodak held in the
! hands of a Clark supporter. In some
instances the kodak fiends had narrow
escapes from humiliation and their
presence at the polls was objected to in
! a very fOrcible manner. Strange to re-
! late. however, there were no murderers
although the excitement at lime was
at fever heat.
When the husky miners Of the Ana
; conda came down from h hill yester-
day afternoon and swarmed about the
streets. the Clark men realized that
they We're up against the real thing.
from a democratic standpoint, and they
felt like letting the Daily men take pos
session of the works. Later in the
evening. however, they rallied from the
lethargy and decided to put up a fight.
The careful preparations made by the
Clark supporters was first made evident
at precinct Is lear the Butler house on
West Broadway. when Charles w. Clark
son of Senator Clark and Joseph X.
Clark appeared. The polls were in
charge of Clint c. Clark, NJ. Keegan.
James Higgins and other leaders Of
Clarks handed in their ballots their
right to vote was challenged by
the Anaconda men on the score
that they We're not members of the DEM
ocratic party. A personal alteration
between Joseph K. Clark and Clint e.
was the former contented himself with
making some warm remarks about the
latter and his gang. Their votes were
sworn in. The same tactics were adopt
ed with others whose sympathies were
known to be with Senator Clark.
But l WdS Ill pTcClISk IL lhdl ~ a
neophe eutgeneralled the Clark support
ers by stealing about $50 votes alleged to
to have been cast for the delegates freind-
" to- senator Clark. The tally sheet Of
the precinct showed that 1898 votes had
been cast. During a lull in the voting, how
ever.and while the Clark men were cele-
brating their victory in advance, a DAILY
man. it is alleged. picked out about $50
votes and put them in his pocket. When
time was called and the votes We're count
ed the result showed that the DAILY ticket
had received 172 votes and the Clark
ticket II. The Clark men figure that
with the $50 votes stolen they would have
had a majority of about fifty for their
ticket.
Jack Mclaughlin covered himself with
| glory in his precinct by standing off the
opposing forces in precinct 81 at the cor
! ner of Montana and Porphyry streets.
At the caucus held Tuesday evening the
| Daily men bolted and put up a ticket of
| their own. Last evening the Dalyites
attempted to take possession OF the po-
| litical machinery and INDUCED in strong
talk about throwing the Clark judges
! out. Mclaughlin. however, stood pat
| and defied them to make a break of that
nature. Fooled in this the DAILY men then
organized another primary adjoining the
building and succeeded in elect!ng their
| own ticket.
Trouble was also averted at precinct rs
by the Clark men vacating the field in IA
vor Of the DAILY forces. Early in the
evening the Daily men crowded into the
voting place and declined to allow the
regularly elected judges to enter. In or
der to avoid precipitating a fight the
| Clark men opened primaries on the side
| walk in front of the building, where
| about IS votes were cast.
In precinct Is at the ArmOry, the
| scenes of last Tuesday evening were re-
| enacted. The DAILY people held the pri-
| mary in one end of the building and the
| Clark people in the other. In this way
matters went along very smoothly. the
| Daily people voting early and often UNI
challenged at their own voting booth
and the Clark people doing likewise. It
was the most harmonious primary held in
the county.
There were a few fist fights and one gun
play during the democratic circus. The
gun play was made by a man who claim
ed he had a right to vote, but who was
challenged by a Clark man.
The Clark people claim to a w Won put
in precincts 1, 8, II, 13, IA, Is, 20, q, %, 26.
| 80. 80 and Sc.
1t. was understood that several arrests
were to be made today Of persons who IL
legally voted last night.
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