Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-03-24
1HE DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM.

80 AsA~ 40 ~ Sh\ UhA
for"
That depends altogether upon how the !
word occasion" is interpreted.
If the occasion" was intended merely |
as the ratification of a scheme for the
Clark men to support the nominees of
the "coercionists" and "%perjurers'' and
"colonizers" and "ballot-box Sstuffege:"
and for the DAILY men to support the
of the "bribe-g ivers" and COR
ruptionists," then it must be admitted
that the platform had in it all the occa-
sion called for" and perhaps a great
deal more.
But if the occasion" represented a
political party asking the support of the
erfully weak" pa
1t is weak, in the first place, in ZEN
dorsing a city administration which the
Miner has repeatedly accused Of violat-
ing the laws of his state, by permitting
the vice of gambling to go on ,%uninter-
ruptedly, n under the special protec-
ton of the police.
If democracy stands for good NOR
ais. it cannot afford to endorse" an ad-
ministration Notwithstanding to such
excellent democratic authority a. the
Understands in with the gambling
elements.
Either the Miner has borne false wit
ness against the city administration
during the past year, or the democratic
convention stultified itself in endorsing
the reign of Mayor Mccarthy.
The Miner is so anxious for the demo-
Gratis to be allowed to fix w their own
differences. without interference from
the Inter Mountain. that we will permit
our contemporary to explain these ap-
! parent discrepancies for itself.
No doubt it will find some process
whereby it can justify itself in endors-
ing a platform which endorses an adj
ministration which it refused to endorse.
If it needs any help, it's good friend,
the Anaconda Standard, will help it ex-
J plain.
| Then, again, the democrats ought not
to have Incorporated national questions
into their platform and then kick be-
| cause the Inter Mountain insists upon
| discussing them in connection with the
city campaign.
When reference was made to the sill
yer question, for instance, the convention
invited a discussion of Montana's repre-
sentatives in both houses of congress, for
were they not theoretically on duty when
the currency bill was voted on?A@ ~ go
Why should national questions be dis
cussed in a city campaign, and the men
selected to ~legislate on national questions
ignored? ..,t.
How did the democrats expect to keep
Campbell and Clark out of the city cam
paign, when they dragged in the public
questions with which they have to do in
their official capacities?
Does any one doubt that both These
gentlemen would ave been specifically
mentioned by resolution of endorsement
commendatory of all they have done OF
expect to do during the balance of theil
natural lives, had it not been for the feal
that such a resolution would prevent thu
Clark men from voting for the four Dial,
men on the ticket, and prevent the DAILY
men from voting for the four Clark mel
on the ticket?
When the democratic city convention
denounces the republican party as al
enemy to the interests of this state. doe
, it not invite a comparison of the cOnduc
Of the two parties in this state?
:, Does not this comparison involve tn
, scandals with which the democracy ha
. disgraced the commonwealth?
If the voters are asked to support fou
Clark men and four DAILY men for the cit.
e council. on the grounds that the course o
e the republican party is bad for the stat
t of Montana, is not the republican part,
: justified in asking support for eigh
!. straight republican nominees for alder
f men on the grounds that the democrac
. has inflicted irreparable injury upon tn
: good nam of the commonwealth? g
If the democratic city convention wish
y ed to confine the city campaign to loca
e questions, why did it invite a discussio
of state and national questions throug
the declarations of it's PLATFORM.
If it was the intention to invite a dis
: cussion of state and national question,
why did it lack the courage to endorse II
representatives in congress and the ad
ministration of the immortal Bob Smith
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Notwithstanding the fact that I'll