Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-07-14
PROCESSING DEMOCRACY.

Tho esteemed Standard with rare good !
nb,,ncr gently repels the suggestion that
the friends of Mr.. Daily, who object to
the work OF the Kansas City convention
in the Clark matter, should vote the re-
puh,ican ticket in Montana. The Stand
ard appears willing to indorse the sug-
gestion under certain conditions, but II
appears to hold the entire repupncah
marty responsible for an alleged remark
which some generous and well-meanlns
friend of Mr.. DAILY informed him had
been made by of it's whose
name the Anaconda paper does not recall
its memory for names and places is not
good these days, it even believes Kansas
City to be a seaport in Hades. The re-
mark which the Standard quotes refers
no Mr.. Daily and reads as follows: -
--" The Standard says this scurrilous
language contained really two more
dashes, but being a decent family news
paper it does not reproduce them, con-
tenting itself with quoting merely -
--'' OF course the Standard makes no
effort ito prove the authenticity of it's
quotation, those Pinkerton detectives
have to earn their salaries and it
is so easy to make a sensitive man
who has done something that he
is a little ashamed OF, believe
any false report thereby enabling him to
Justify thds act Probably the gentleman
to whom the Standard refers wouldn't 60
Ito the trouble to deny tht he used the
language attributed to him any more
than he would believe the specdous ex-
plantations OF the failure of the certain
plans the other gentlemen had favor
ed" Life is too short to justify q denial
of h yarns of sycophamts and toadies
bent ON making trouble and Jealous Of
every man with whom their chief is ON
speaking terms.
The Standards article lis apparently
full of dark and terrible threats. sugar
coated, but none he less dire in their
Import. It explains that Mr.. DAILY is
oofAo =" Nc " Cll1S ySdI, T.
u somebody told the Standard that
The had been informed through another
mar that a certain republican had re-
ferred to him as - --- A little
Language was used, so that Mr.. Daly's
reason for opposing republicans having
ceased to exist, there should be no fur.
ther cause for withholding his support
from the grand old party. Besides, ir
what other way could he hope to defeat
Mr.. Clark, who is now the acknowledges
head and front of the state democracy:
Does the Standard imagine for a moment
that a democratic legislature would hest
tate half a m to re-elect Mr.. Clark
What democrat in this state can beat
him? How can he be- beaten except by
a republican legislature, and what car
the Standard do except to support thu
republican ticket, unless it ropos tt
apologize to Mr.. Clark and MARBLE "Hai
ITO the chief every time that ro~tlemar
puts a nickel in the Standard slot?
The Inter Mountain hopes to be par.
doned, therefore, for the suspicion thai
the Standard story about some Montana
republican having called Mr.. Daily g
- is made out of whole cloth. It Is no
a nice thing for the Standard to >rint ir
view of what the Inter Mountain haG
done for certain people, frequently a.
their request-the STANDARD can have th&
details at any time. 1t would have beer
much better for that paper had it in.
quired as to the correctness of it's stor,
before giving it currency, for, though
dts purpose evidently was to explai,
why its devotion to the glorious princi
piles of democracy remains u~nimpaired
some people, naWar of it's ranknes
and b~enignity, might suppose that tn
publication was so timed as ito do posi-
ole injury to the republican in .questio
should he happen to be engaged just no,
in litigation on other business %requirin;
hts time and attention.
HE MATTER Win ECAN.