Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-03-30
ROOM FOR SUSPICION.

messed resolutions referred to in the In
ter Mountain last evening. the claim Is
made that inasmuch as they were sup
pressed they have no bearing on the
situation and are not pertinent to the
issues of the city campaign.
Such a position cannot be maintained.
The existence of the resolutions, and the
threat that they would be sprung on the
show that the harmony" subsequently
proclaimed has no heart in it. and was
brought about for reasons that do not APP
pear on the surface of things.
1t is undisputed that lengthy resolu-
lions were drawn up by a prominent DAILY
democrat, whose nam is in u posses
sion. Misunderstanding Senator Clark ito a
fare-you-well."
These resolutions are more violent. ii
possible. thar those adopted by the demo-
cratic city convention last year. and it
was the intention Of the followers Of the
Anaconda Standard to force them into
the platform.
The counter resolutions, assailing Con-
gresham Campbell, the political leader
of the Anaconda wing of the democracy.
were equally pointed.
Both factions showed in the prepara-
ton of their respective-or. rather. disre-
neutrality-suspicious. that they believed
the Clark-Daly controversy just as per-
tinent to the city campaign as at any
time in the past.
These resolutions were a confession on
the part Of the Daily men that a repudia-
ton of the Clark methods was a neces-
sary step III the direction of democratic
success: and they indicated a fixed belief
on the part of the Clark men that unless
the methods of the Daily men were con-
demned the democracy had nc right to
ask the good citizens of this city to sup
port the nominees Of the democratic
party.
If each wing was pining for harmony"
and it was believed that joint action
would best conserve the interests of the
people, these resolutions would not have
been thought of. much less placed in
typewriter form to be sprung upon the
city convention.
This being the case. the public has a
right to ask why they were suppressed.
Why did the men who had each Other
by the throat, politically speaking. and
between whom harmony has been impos
sible in the past, suddenly retreat from
their warlike attitude, right on the verg
of battle. and compromise all charges an,
counter-charges made under bath AM
through the press, for the sake of elect
ing four DAILY men and four Clark men t.
the city council-when. on the face O
things, no great party issues are at stake
Can this compromise have any othe
significance than a willingness to bur,
past differences, despite questions of hon
or and manhood involved, in order t
have a "cinch" when BILE franchise
and paving contracts are let?
When men go to the extreme of crawl
ing into the same political bunk wit
those whom they a accused Of all tn
disreputable offences under the sun, tn
motive for doing SO must be a strong on,
On the face oe things, there is too lit
tie at stakei in the election of 'eight alder
men. to bring together the two wings c
the ma rtv when ono uirr 10 uyi1lirn 70 1o
prive the democratic party of the stat
of Montana of a representative in tn
United States senate, while the othe
would cheerfully deprive the Democrat
party of its representative in the low
house of congress.
There is no evidence to show that til
Daily wing has withdrawn its fight Q
Senator Clark, or that the Clark win
has taken Congressman Campbell to II
bosom, yet they are willing to 'forgiy
and forget all in order to cultivate
Harmony" in the city campaign tn:
will elect four Clark men and four Dal
men to the board of aldermen!
The extraordinary infatuation whic
the two democratic factions show Il
each other in behalf of the alderman
candidates. while Jointly they woul
gladly rob the state of it's entire dem,
cratic representation in congress. rails,
q question of consistency which can l
answered in only one way-and that
by defeating the possible schemes
view by defeating their Representative,
on the municipal ticket.