Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-05-16

b~ernatorial duties. it is now a little cruel
just a little cruel-for the Warns
Springs organ to place in cold type the
statement that lin some way, for some
reason, Governor Smith was absent from
the state,' thus throwing a doubt
upon the alleged reason for hisaexcel!
lency's absence. Governor Smith is him7
self authority in effect for the statement
that he was either seduced int a deal
which took him hence, or practically kids
mapped by mining sharks. In an inter-
view at Wordsworth, Nevada, enroute
home-published in another colurnn-he
makes one of the foregoing conclusions a
necessity. TI,ss.s
Referring to the action of his gubernae
torial understrapper his eXcellency says:
Il pray Goo 1 may reach Helena in time
to prevent it's consummation." AS this is
the first trip the governor has taken out
of the state in which he Acknowledges
! that he prayed to God, the appointment
OF MI. SldTk III DIliSlIS dOouS hiS Si
feet may not have been wholly in con-
tempt of Providence, as the Anaconda
! Standard would have the people believe.
The governor concludes his interview like
a philosopher, as follows: eff the ap-
pointment is made before I reach Helena,
! 1 will accept the inevitable" In this re-
! =, III tho rn1-arrpr cbnv-S q much hottays
spirit than the Standard, which does not
believe in having any inevitables which it
does not have a hand in shaping 1t is
enough to make the cold chills run up and
down ones spinal column to think what
might have happened had Governor
Smith actually refused to accept the in
evitable upon his return.
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Few people outside the Daily contin-
gent will regret the cup executed by
the Clark men at the eleventh hour, as
it were, of the senatorial controversy
not that they like the Clark wing Of the
democracy more, but the Daily wing less.
The aggressiveness of the Anaconda de-
mocracy is a menace to the state, hence
a feeling Of satisfaction on the part Of
the general public when it encounters a
political check of any kind. That Mr..
Clark's appointment comes under that
head does not admit of a doubt, what
ever may be the final outcome of the
case.
But there is one feature of yesterdays
political coup very embarrassing to the
Inter Mountain. Some time g this
paper extended it's congratulations to
the able and affable editor of the Ana
conda Standard on his appointment to
the Clark vacancy-an event which was
expected to take place just as soon as
the Standard could persuade Mr.. Clark
to resign. Our journalistic enthusiasm
led us to anticipate this great compli-
ment to the newspaper fraternity, and
work in our congratulations in advance
to avoid the rush. Fortunately, oul
=. presence of mind on that occasion led us
to attach a string to our congratula-
tions, and now, alas, it becomes our duty
to roll up the spool and call that well
meant courtesy in. To think that Spriggs
. would do such a thing after the Stand
l ard had praised the Sioux Falls conven-
: ton to the skies, and patted the popu
= lists on the back-to think that he would
= forget the long winter months wasted by
, Montana's most distinguished editor
: watching that senatorial seat as it day
, after. day became more vacant and va
cant-is to feel that life. after all, il
= nothing but a VapOr.
Breathes there a man with soul S,
dead,
8 Who never to himself hath said:
f ct feel as if I stood on my head f..
When Spriggs' announcement I ha'
read" 49, +