Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-03-27
THE POWER or KINDNESS.

The Butte Mine this morning declares
that it is for democratic harmony, and
in black type that if demo
cratic harmony be a sin it ''glories in its
~wickedness." Unquestionably. the Miner
is accomplishing through the power Of
kindness that which might be impossible
through the medium Of force. The spirit
of Christian tolerance exhibited by that
paper in the political treatment accord
ed it's late adversaries of ''the other
wing" symbolizes it's triumph along
broad and humane lines.
Weeks ago when it was believed by the
constituents of the Anaconda Standard
that Senator Clark would be expelled,
that paper was abusive to a degree unpar-
alleled in journalism, and the Butte Min
er was layed alive from day to day. But
since it became apparent that in all pro
liability Senator Clark will retain his
seat, and that if any one is expelled from
congress it is more likely to be Represen-
tative Campbell, the leade of the Ana
conda wing of the party, the situation
has undergone a change. The Standard
has figured to the best of it's ability to get
into the Clark band wagon without humil-
iation and without an apparent sur
render.
One year ago the Standard held the
Miner over the political dung-heap and
rubbed it's nose in the feudal offal of
democracy. This year circumstance
placed the Miner in a position to return
the compliment with interest, had it seen
fit to take the proverbial bovine gentle
men by the horns. But with a spirit of
m~agnaninity, far in excess Of it's fore
sight of future possibilities, it gave its
chilly and ~bedraggled party enemies the
most genial corner On it's political hearth
stone and warmed them into life.
1t permitted the Standard to give its
hearty political support to four Clark
men on the ticket, and to prevent any
embarrassment it in turn agreed to make
a fight for the election of four DAILY mer
70 the city ounci In this way, adroitly
perhaps, yet with Christian charity
withal, it muzzled it's lately r~antankerou.
contemporary and lured it's following into
it's own corral. 1t was undoubtedly gal
and NORWOOD for the Standard to &C.
cept the Observation-Disclosures of the Min
er and it's friends, but it had to be don,
or it would awe been left stranded on tn
bleak political highways of Montana
when the Clark band wagon rolled proud
ly by.
Who would have thought one year ag,
that the tandard would nave knel
humbly at the feet of the r%1iun,phan
Miner? Who could have pictured tina
sheet trying to get into bed with the me-
against whom it had filed a blanket in
dictment for perjury and bribery an
gushing type? Had the Miner shown a
indicative and combative a spirit in tn
foreshadowing of Senator Clark's IT,
umph, as did the Standard in the belle
AhoN AAo SAQAiSioA was SUIT IL DG red
lized. the present condition of the Ana
conda paper would have wruns tears i
sympathy from a woode Indian.
But the Miner exhibited a Spirit IF fol
g%iveness. even going so far rs to ovel
look the ruin which it's contemporary ha
inflicted upon the character of prominer
men in this state. before it was asked
do SO. 1t cheerfully abandoned the caus
OF humanity, as ~exemplified in its igi
against the present administration f,
allowing the vice of gambling to go c
unchecked; and dropped its advocacy
the six O'Clock closing movement, whit
1t had deemed essential to the health nr
comfort of those who toll. in order
meet its Anaconda contemporary ha