Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-11-08
THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 8. 1900.
THE RESULT IN MONTANA,

To say that the people Of Montana
need have no misgivings touching the
results of the election in this state and
that the situation is bright and hopeful,
would amoun to a confession that the
arguments presented by the republicans
during the campaign We're not made in
good faith, that they were specious and
false and printed only for political effect.
1t is the opinion of this newspaper that
Tuesday will live in the history of Mon>
tana as the day when the men having
The balance of power in his state lost
their senses and went on record against
Every interest they should have held
sacred. The republicans generally voted
loyalty for good government and every
principle the flag stands for. They cut
down Bryan's majority from 1000 to
about $1,000. But a majority OF the
voters, either in ignorance of the true
conditions or for pay, or for petty re-
senge, rendered a verdict which BODIES
no good to the material interests of this
state, for it was a notice to the world
that large aggregations of capital are
not wanted to develop Montana, and
that the men who control that capital
Need raSt rJnIar no S,1 MOO ~ 49,
safety of their investments. That is
what Tuesdays verdict means if the
democratic platform and democratic
candidates and democratic spell binders
told the truth, though there is some
lion to falsehood will prevent the exc
eution of their solemn promises.
The outlook, however, is some better
than it might have been. The intelli-
gent and patriotic people of the state
disaster as would nave followed if a
democratic victory in the nation had
UCcH etlilcitieilt N4tn Jldl III NOItldQd.
The glorious victory of Mckinley and
Roosevelt will operate to a great extent
to save Montana from itself. 1t means
tina the wool industry of Montana will
not be ruined, because no free trade bin
will become a law. 1t means that the
lead tariff will not be abolished for the
same reason. 1t means that the great
manufacturing industries which con-
sumo copper and transform it into mer-
rhanable commodities will continue to
flourish, thus keeping up the price of
copper, which a democratic victory
would have put down. lit means that all
other Montana products will continue to
find a market at good prices and that
the prosperity of the state at large may
not be s%upplanted by depression, even
though the people themselves, or a ma
jority of them, voted against tina pros
perFty influenced by the ~demagogue
harargues, false argument and an
archistic spellbinding which character
lied the campaign.
Capital and enterprise, however, have
received a setback. The men who We're
doing the most for the state and it's
people, who We're doing THE most for
labor, fer business. and for property
values have been attacked by the very
men they We're befriending. The voters
actually Endorsed the party which
threatened to ruin the city in which they
live, the industry by which they
thrive, the very company which pays
them their wages. A worse case of
shifting the hand that feeds them was
never On record. That a community
should seek to suppress the enterprise
which sustains seve%n-eigrhths of it's bust
ness life seems Incredible; but it has
been done, and we can only hope the
natural consequences will not follow
Let US hope for the best.
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