Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-03-31
THE C/7Y ELECTION.

Next Monday he voters of this city
will register their choice for aldermen
in the several wards, and it's is the belief
of the Inter Mountain that good judg-
ment will be exercised in the perform
ance of this duty. The republican party
has presented to the public for endorse
ment at the polls the names of men emf
nently qualified in all respects for the
duties and responsibilities of the alder
manic board. It's candidates were Sc
lected with special reference to their per-
sonal fitness and with the interests of
his community in view. In point OF
ability and integrity and business adapt
alton, no one has been able to point to
a flaw in the composition of the ticket,
or show that it's victory at the polls
would not conserve the welfare of this
city. Each and every man on the alder
manic roster placed before the voters by
the late republican convention, will prove
a tower of strength in the city council
in all that concerns the growth M up
building of this city.
Were nothing involved in Mondays
election, other than the personality of the
candidates, each man on the republican
ticket should be triumphantly elected.
But when serious consideration must be
given to other questionsinvolved, the rea-
sons for a republican victory become in
Vulnerable. While the election of a board
of aldermen in the city of Butte will have
no bearing on the status of the Philip
pine question, or the Porto Rican ques.
ton, or the tariff question, or the silver
question, or other issues Of more or less
interest to the general public, it win
have a deep and significant bearing on
the reputation of this community abroad.
Butte has been heralded to- the nation
as the hot-bed of political corruption
a corruption traceable to the leaders of
the democratic party and to them alone.
This city has acquired a most odious and
damaging reputation from such sources,
and must suffer financially from that
cause, in the lines of Investments, min
ing development and population, unless
it can be shown hat our people do not
endorse the political methods imputed to
this community.
With each wing Of the democratic
party imputing this disgraceful state OF
affairs to the other wing, both come to-
gether at the last moment, in the fear
that they may be held to a joint ~responsi
bility, and, like drowning men clutchins
at straws, seek to justify their respect
i've political sins by pleading for the en-
dorsement of the public: They hope
to modify the reputation which each wins
has created for the other, by making the
public a party to their respective politi-
cal methods.
1t thus becomes necessary, in protec.
ton against the cheap, temporary and
~treacherous truce, which the democracy
has subscribed to for the purposes of thu
campaign, for The Independent citizens
of this community to cast their votes 70,
the good name and reputation of Butte
To show to the world that the citizen.
of this city do not endors the politica
methods which have made Butte the but
of ridicule and contempt all over tn.
land, they must repudiate at the poll.
the party which is responsible for tn,
existing state of affairs. This NAV I'm,
ply the defeat of some personally goof
men on the democratic ticket, but tina.
duty is none the less imperative, if tn,
future of this city is to be protected from
the evil results of the reputation which
democracy has given it abroad.
BY supporting the republican nominee,
at the polls, the voter not only place.
upon the board of aldermen men full quail
fled in every respect for the responsible
tiles of that position-men who canno
be swerved from the course of duty-bu
the voter will likewise place the city i,