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Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-05-21
o LADIES ONLY.

Ladies' matinee at the Wax Works to-
morrow from , until 8.
Ladies should not forget the matinee
at the Wax Works tomorrow. Over three
hundred ladies attended last Friday and
all We're highly pleased. A great deal 81
valuabl information "a be obtained
from the hundreds of beautiful aNatom-
zeal models on exhibition. On ladies'
days models of special interest to ladies
are on exhibition. A lady attendan. Will
be in charge during the afternoon.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-05-21
SFLF-EYiDEHT MIS- FAKE.

While the2late convention in TINS city
was a splendid gathering OF able ana
enthusiastic republicans. and the work
performed was in the main very credit
able to all concerned and helpful to the
interests of the party and the state, there
can be no question as to the mlstai-e
made by hat body in the expulsion OF a
dulv accredited delegate from the coun-
ty Of Choteau. Without any discus
sion as to the legal side of the case, and
the equities involved. personal feelings
were allowed for the time to dominate
the convention.
1t unquestionably lay within the pur-
view of the convention to adopt any reso-
luton it saw fit censuring members of
the party who failed to do their duty in
the official stations assigned them, and
it is only fair to say that the incorporation
of such a resolution in the platform may
have a most wholesome effect in pre-
venting future breaches of party faith
when the principles of republicanism are
in issue. But with u action the legiti-
mate powers of the state convention be-
gan and left off, insofar as the infiction
of punishment was concerned.
It lay within the power of the county
convention of Choteau to have excluded
Mr.. Phillips from the delegation to the
state convention, by refusing to accord
to him the necessary votes to entitle
him to credentials as such. Such an ac-
ton might have been based on his lack
of personal popularity, his geographical
location in the county, his lack of fitness,
or the fact that in the Legislative assem-
bly, he voted for a democratic candidate
for the senate, or on any other circunl-
stance which prevented him from secur-
ing a majority of the votes in the county
convention. But after his election by
that body, and the issuance of credentials
which were favorably reported on by the
committee of the state convention, he
was entitled to his seat and the state
convention had no right to so behind the
returns when no question whatever had
been raised as to his rights as a duly
accredited delegate.
The state convention could have shown
its desire to punish Mr.. Phillips for his
dereliction of duty as a member of the
legislature in voting for Mr.. Clark,
through resolutions pass ed and through
a refusal to place him on any committees.
Or to recognize him as a candidate for any
position within it's gift. But it estab-
lished a precedent which may in the fu-
ture prove both dangerous and vexa-
tious to the harmony of the republican
party and its prospects for success, by
saying to the world that it proposes to
expel from its councils any man who max
be properly chosen to represent a county
in the state convention, provided he has
done something in a political way which
was displeasing to the majority of its
members.
If a state convention can go behind
the returns n annul the action take,
by q county convention in the selectio,
of delegates, when the county itself !,
perfectly satisfied with the gentleme,
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-05-21

hibited an abnormal desire to hasten a
the Spriggs credentials may be officially
recognized if pressed to an issue in the
senate. To the onlooker the situation is
an amusing one, viewed from the stand
point of politics. despite the fact that the
recent cat-hop of the Anaconda democ-
racy has added fresh ridicule to the repu-
tation of the state.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-05-21

THE STANDARDS ADMjS SION.

The Anaconda Standard admits this
morning that the seating of Clark. under
the present conditions, would prove ad-
vantageous to the republican party in
this state, hence must not be permitted.
In a somewhat roundabout way, and
based on logic provided by its own view
OF the situation, it remarks:
The palpable truth is that the republic
can press in these mining states appre-
clates the necessity of turning every
THING in the political situation to the ad-
vantage of their party. They know that
Mr.. Clark is a nominal democrat, and
hence they are anxious for him TO retain
his seat SO that they may point to him
as a horrible example of democratic in
fanny 1t is a strange spectacle indeed,
to see republican newspapers flying to
the rescue of Mr.. Clark on the flimsiest
kind of technicalities.
The Salt Lake Tribune, n other
prominent republican newspapers. famil-
lar with the political situation in Mon
tana, take precisely the same grounds
that are maintained by the Inter Noun
derelictions, he is infinitely more entitled
to public respect and political recogni-
ton than the democratic buccaneers
who are bounding him from post to pill
lar. This would be true, were one to adj
init all the charges from time to time
preferred against Clark BY the Standard
itself. 1t requires only a knowledge Of
the inside workings Of Montana politics
to recognize this fact.
Every We'll posted man in the state
knows that the supreme effort Of Clark's
democratic enemies is to drive him from
Montana, and absolutely destroy him as
a factor in the affairs Of this
wealth. That accomplished, the Ana
conda democracy hope to control this
state with a rod of iron, and hold our
legislative assemblies and our courts in
the hollow Of it's hand. To this end it is
industriously working.
Those who imagine that personal en-
nifty against Clark alone inspires the
Anaconda democracy to go to the lengths
it has in an effort to crush him, are fat
witted. State contro is the objective
point, and Clark stands in it's way. When
the situation is summed up, that is the
long and the short of it. Those republl-
cans who refuse to take their politics
from the columns of a democratic news
paper recognize this fact, and common
sense teaches them that under existing
conditions the seating OF Clark on the
tics for the republican party and pave
the way for the election of two epubll
can United States senator's next winter.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-05-21
HAVE CHANGED POSITIONS.

An amusing feature in the Clark case,
to the Independent observer, is the fact
that as to one of the most important stra-
tegic points in the issue the respective
combatants have snapped positions.
Though one may have never witnessed
that ennobling sport known as a cock
fight, few ave gone through life without
seeing an ordinary pair of barnyard
| r~oosters scrap over the possession of the
feathered harem of the hennery. Each
holds his position in the fight with dig
nifed earnestness for a time, when sud
denly, without any apparent reason
which the onlooker can detect, one OF
them will jump clear over the other, and
when he alights their respective posi-
lions in the fight lave been changed.
For a long time it has been generally I'M
! derstood in the Clark case that while the
DAILY democrats were exceedingly anxious
to bring things to u conclusion during
this term of the senate, the defendant
! was equally anxious to tide matters over
till December. The disposition to urge
the early consideration of the report of
| the committee on privileges and elections
was warmly applauded by the followers
| of the Anaconda Standard. and every
step indicative of delay was just as cor
daily criticised by tina newspaper. But
that was when they had what the
plumbers would call a lead pipe cinch'
on the situation. They We're so sure f
their game that they actually volunteer-
ed to do Mr.. Clark the service of check
ing his baggage out of town for him. and,
! if necessary, secure him a return trip
ticket to Montana, as an evidence of
good will.
Since the resignation of Mr.. Clark,
however, and the issuance of the Spriggs
credentials the situation has undergone
the amusing metamorpl sis referred to.
Now the Clark men are insisting upon
the final consideration of tlus case before
the end of the present term, while the
DAILY men are planning for it's indef lite
~postponement. The appointment of Ma
ginnis, %ostenaibly made in good faith,
was in fact, made merely with a view
to so compiicating matters that the
Spriggs credentials would go over to the
next session without consideration. Gov
ernor Smith knows, as does every intelli-
gent man in the state, that Acting Gov
ernor Sprigsss had full authority under
the law to make the appointment he did
to fill the Clark vacancy. and that the
chief executive of the state has no more
power, upon the resumption of his duties
as governor. to revoke the action han
he has to annul any other ---,cial duty
performed by the man who filled his
chair. The Maginnis appointment, there
fore, was planned as a sort of counter
~irritant to the credentials issued by Mr..
Spriggs, with the hope that senatorial
consideration of the latter might be in
definitely delayed.
1t appears that Chairman Chandler,
who was so exceedingly anxious to push
his report to a conclusion, is now more
than willing to evade the issue which the
resignation and appointment of Mr.. Clark
has raised. Tn evident desire or the
Anaconda democracy to hold matters in
allegiance, after having for months ex-
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-05-21

background to his appointment will
make him conspicuously present in his
seat. Good men are hard to throw down,
IT seems to be necessary to OCCASION
any teach even the senate Of the United
states that all-surrounding truth. More,
we predict that hen Montana elects a
new legislature Mr.. Clark will be re-
eieeteu' II n democrat is, and we be-
l1eve, too. that if left to a direct vote of
the people, he would come nearer being
eIected than any other Montana demo-
crat.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-05-21

Miss McAndrews, the winner of the In
ter Mountains great voting contest, is
one of Butte's most estimable young la
dies and will carry with her to Cape
Nome the best wishes of thousands of en-
thusiastic admirers in this state. The
history of the contest is a most interest
ing one, as given elsewhere in today's pa
per, and will be read by all who have kept
in touch with the progress of the battle
royal for the elegant prize offered by the
Inter Mountain. In electing to go to Cape
Nome instead of Paris, Miss McAndreWs
shows an indominable spirit of enterprise
that reflects additional credit on her
splendid generalship in the contest. The
fight for first place excited interest all
over the state, where the contestants
were more or less widely known.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-05-21
TO ADVERTISERS.

We wish to %nnoun that the inter
Mountain is the only paper in the north-
west that has a carrier system through
out the state. We have succeeded IN es-
tabll.hing a carrier system from Butte
to Glendive at all points on the North-
ern Pacific railroad, and we are now III
creasing thai system to all OF auo
Inhabitants throughout the state: ~
books are open to all advertisers ior u
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Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-05-21
REPUBLICANCoUNTY Coz MITTE1

There will be a meeting Of the republic
can county central committee Thursday
night, May "a, at ) o'clock. A full at
tendance is requested.
M. GILLIS, Chairman.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1900-10-12
GLORY OF THE ARMY.
Some of the Hollow Phrases Uttered
by BOurke at
Chicago.

AS a purveyor of nOthings, Bourke
Cochran is second only to Mr.. Bryan.
In a recent speech at Chicago he said:
1.-The glory of American soldiers has
not been in the greatness, but in the
smallness of their numbers"
That sounds well in a speech, but
what are the facts?
In the war of 1912 we had SIS, 1000 reg
ulars and 471,G22 volunteers in the
field.
In the Mexican war we had 30,954
regulars and 1916 volunteers.
The civil war called for over 100000
men.
The Spanish war brought out al
army of 216,o29 men.
There is nothing small about these
figures. The glory of the American
army, at all times, has been it's IN
finching courage, it's high morale, its
devoted patriotism. It's recent record
in China is the last laurel which it has
won.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1900-10-12
NOT A LOCAL ISSUE.
Bryan's Remark About
Trusts and His Connection
with Them.

AT P~ittsburg, Kan, while Mr.. Bry-
an was discussing the trust question,
some one in the crowd shouted an in
quiry about the New York ice trust.
Mr.. Bryan replied that the ice trust
is a local affair and concerns the peo-
pie of New York.
Can he mean by this hat a trust
may be of the worst possible criminal
character, like this ice trust, but so
long as it is a local affair is none of
his business, nor does not concern the
American people?
In other terms, is it that the people
of every community in the United
States may be criminally squeezed by
trusts" and he will not care so long
as the squeezing is only localized in
each and every locality?
The principles of such philosophy
are certainly broad enough to chart
tably cover not only every trust which
specially Expresses one locality, like
the New York ice trust, but also every
one which Localities it's operations to
a particular section, like Senator
Jones' cotton bale trust in the south.
According to this idea a trust like
the Standard Oil company, in order to
be like the ice trust and cotton bale
trust, has only to go by different
names, and take out different charters
in different states Or groups of states,
so that it's national operations arc le-
gally only a sum total of its local OPP
oro{;orc prr,, Will hnrrnuar in tho
case of the new York ice trust, find it
as difficult to l~ocalize interest in it
to New York as Senator Jones finds it
difficult to localiZe interest in his cot
ton bale trust to himself. The ma
tional democratic party made the ice
trust a national issue when it dele
gated Van Wyck, II of the largest
stockholders in it, to write the anti
trust plank. Bryan himself increased
national interest in it as an issue by
the recognition which he has given to
Ice Trust Stakeholder Croker, instead
of to the non-ice holding element of
New York democrats led by Hill and
Coler. In similar manner, the cotton
bale trust has been given a national
interest by the fact that Senator
Jones, who made out of this trust the
money which puts him in the st.
Louis Globe Democrats list of Six
teen ~millionaires of Arkansas was
made chairman of the national demo-
cratic party.
Finally, it would be well to remem-
Der that Gen. Hancock, a splendid SOL
der, said in 1880 that the tariff was
a local issue. He was buried beneath
an avalanche of votes in consequence.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1900-10-12
BRYAN ON THE FARMERS.
An Emphatic Refutation of the Pop
ocrat Oracle's InsoIent
Assertions.

Republican farmers look at your
wives, beset by II months of incessant toll
each year. You can't take them to sum-
mer resorts and resting places. You ought
to be ashamed of yourselves when you
look at them, to vote the republican ticket.
W. J. Bryan, in his Fort Scott Speech.
So long as farmers are willing to al
low themselves to be gulled by such
political d~emagogues as you are, and
pay you from $500 to So, SOC for a speech
that is not worth 25 cents on the dollar,
so long they will eat corn bread and
wear wooden shoes. But what are the
facts in the case? In our little bank at
Walnut the individual deposits are $43,-
9SS.25, which is nearly twice as much
as they have ever been since we have
had a bank. And what is so at Walnut
is so in every bank in the state, and
in every state in the union. In the last
two weeks two farmers near Walnut
had sales to pay the mortgages on their
farms coming due next spring. The
sale of the one amounted to $1.275, and
$500 of it was paid in cash. The other
ones sale amounted to $9O7. so, and he
received $500 in cash. When the sale
was over they had nearly all the money
in their hand and could deposit it in
the bank and be ready to meet the
mortgages when due. The rate of in
terest was low. At sales several years
ago the rate of interest was high, and
frequently there was not enough paid
in to pay the a%uctioneer and for print
ing the sale bills. When the notes be-
came due it was very difficult to make
collections. This illustrates the diff
ference in the times then and now
among the farmers. The farmers come
to town in buggies and carriages. They
drive fine horses, have comfortable
homes, plenty to eat and wear, and
many of them have a nice bank ac-
count to their credit. and are not the
paupers that you represent them to be.
Walnut (Kan.) Eagle.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1900-10-12
HOW SOUTHERN EDITORS FEEL
Sentiment of Leading Journals Re-
garding Organism and Ex-
pansiOn.

Little by little the sentiment of
the leading southern papers toward
Organism and favoring expansion
come to light. The Memphis CONNER
cial-Appeal recently likened Mr..
Bryan to a "blabberer." and now the
editors of the Nashville Banner and
the Atlanta Constitution have this to
say about the facts:
"The thinking people of the south
know that 16 to 1 was a concession
to populism, and they know hat Mr..
Bryan's imperialism" is a phrase to
juggle with-a campaign cry. Intelli-
gent people in the south want ex-
p%ansion, and they believe in protec-
ton. MI. Mckinley has made no
mistakes, except in a few instances
in the appointment of postmasters."
Leland Rankin, Editor Nashville
American (Dem.).
"The south will go for Bryan. We
are not imperialists, but we favor
expansion. The south realizes that
the retention of the Philippines will
make for her profit more than for
any other section of the country. I
will say that President Mckinley has
many warm friends and admirers in
the south."-W. A. Hemphill, Editor
Atlanta Constitution CDem.).
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1900-10-12
ARMY F
Some Facts for Democratic SPELL
Binders to Peruse and
N

While all this speechmaking is going
on about the army and the danger of
"militarism," it would be we'll to bear
in mind the facts given below:
The army has never interfered but
twice in labor troubles, and then after
state were exhausted.
The first occasion was in the Debs
trouble in Chicago in 1894.
The city government was powerless
to stop the rioting, and John P. Ait
geld, then governor, would not let the
state militia be used.
Grover Cleveland, democrat. sent
troops to Chicago, and the rioting was
ended.
In the Occur d'Alene district in Idaho
mining troubles precipitated the rule
of the mob.
The county authorities were help
less. Frank Steunenberg, twice elect
ed as governor by the democratic-pop-
ulist fusion element. called on the fed
eral government for aid.
1t was granted.
In neither case was there any in
reference by the national troops. who
are in reality the national police. until
the power of the local authority was
gone.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1900-10-12
SOUTHERN CLUB SETBACK.
the Philippines by Democrats
Is All Cant.

James S. Evans, a w~ell-known mer-
chant of Chicago, formerly of the
south. has declined to join a south
ern Democratic club" now forming
In Chicago. Below will be found his
reason for declining to join:
Chicago. Sept. %. 19OO-My Dear Sir;
/ thank you for your invitation to join the
Southern Democratic club. the headquar-
tiers of which are at the Sherman house.
Al the same time / must respectfully de-
cline to become a party to an organization,
the purpose of which is to assist MIR. VIII
liam Jennings Bryan In reaching the high
est office within the gift of "a sovereign
people.
81 come of a long line of democrats. many
of whom AVE been conspicuous In the po-
litical history of the gulf states. From
them l was taught the cardinal principles
of true democracy: and. remembering
these. | cannot subscribe TO the teachings
of Mr.. Bryan and those candidates VINO
are advocating them. Believing them to
be dangerous to the people, and especially
to the interests of the south. l
shall cast my ballot against the Kansas
City nominees and for the first time in
the history of a member of my family vote
the national republican ticket.
THE cry of Imperialism raised by MIR
Bryan and his adherents, TO my mind.
Is a canting hypocrisy. And IL seems 10 me
to be the very acme Of insincerity for "A
southern democrat. such as you profess
TO be, to preach about individual liberty
the right of the governed TO be consulted
on matters of state issue. when all of us.
long ago agreed that the negro's place Is
inferior to the white mans on election days.
Is 1t your wish to concede TO the rebelllOua
Tagalos greater Individual liberty than we
permit half of the population of the states
of louisiana. Mississippi. South Carolina.
Tennessee. North Carolina and rkansas
to enjoy?
"At this moment as you well know, every
southern state that has not made pre-
vious provision Tor the isfranchisemen
of the negro is arranging to do so; and.
no one of our section who believes In the
right of the Anglo-SaXOn to rule. Is OPP
posing.
ing to destroy the interests of the Amer
lean government In the Philippines. placed
there by a combination of circumstances
this country could not honorably have cir
cumvented; and subsequently consecrated
by the blood of my kinsmen who fell fight
ing for the honor of their flag, l should feel
as If | were a common traitor.
"A southerner by birth, in politics a dem
ocrat, an American by the grace of God. l
shall, in the absence of a democratic nom
inee, vote for Mr.. William Mckinley, be
cause he is something more than a man
after an office. Very truly yours,
JAMES S. EVANS.
Mr.. t. Il. Powell. President Southern
Democratic club. Chicago.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1900-10-12
STRAWS.

There is an old saying-aI know 1t,
IT'S not out of place then to blow it:
To find out the course
OF the wind, or its force,
A straw will successfully show 1t.
The old proverb, I'm happy to say,
Is illustrated apt day by day;
For in every newspaper
Desertion's the caper
From the party of mouthy Bill ].
The result of these straws, be it known,
Is that the G. o. party has grown;
And as 1t has done before
1t will do once more,
Which next fall will be very well known
I am free to confess the great fact
The believers in which there's no lack
That the coming election
VIII be the selection
OF Teddy and our own Billy Mac.
Then we'll forward! with never a break,
For we very well know what's the stake:
1t Is honor and fame
Or a dishonored name
For our country-that's why we're awake!
The Republican party remember
And know when their beefsteak is tender,
So let the Demos. and Pops.
Continue their fiops-
The verdict will be right mex November.
Then rally once more for the right!
We still lave the same foe to fight;
Never look for a calm
Till We carry the palm,
And victory brings daylight from night.
The forthcoming election by all
Will be an almost unanimous call
For our worthy president
To continue a resident
Of the White House, by endorsement next
fall!
WILLIAM M K