Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-05-03
THE TRAIL or THE SERPENT.

The political methods now being adopt
ed by the DAILY democrats give the lie 10
| the advertised purity of their intentions.
Not only have they undertaken the work
of keeping the Clark democrats in the
background, and forcing the workers OF
that faction to the wall, but they have
swelled into such political Importance
as to aspire to the control of the republl-
can party as we'll. In the purchase Of
democratic newspapers here and there
the claim was made that such expendi-
lures were rendered necessary by the ag-
gressiye possibilities of the Clark men,
but the strikers for the A~malgamated
Copper company are not content with Or
ganizing the state against the personal
| aspirations of w. A. Clark alone. They
have set to work deliberately to control
the republican party in Montana, failing
in which they hope to create a breach
that will ensure it's defeat. Here and
there they have already succeeded in
placing a ring in the nose of a republic
can newspaper, with a view to leading it
Alright when local politics are in issue!
! Their latest movement in the direction
| the starting of an alleged republican
daily newspaper in Anaconda. Arrange
! ments to that end have been perfected,
and in the near future our neighboring
city will have purports to be a re-
publican organ, but which will be in fact
; under the full and absolute control of the
DAILY democrats. The Amalgamated Cop
per company, or it's friends, will pay it's
bills and shape it's policy. It will be made
as effective as the circumstances will per-
nit in controlling the course of the repub-
interests of the company, when possible.
and automatically undermining them
when they are beyond influences of that
character. With here and there a promi-
nent republican lawyer "retained' by the
company, and here and there a republi-
can newspaper brought into line by the
III "HASA AN OuAy
democrats so we'll know how to exert,
that faction hopes to control the politics
of this state.
The object in going to so much expense
and trouble in a political way is apparent
on the face of things. The DAILY demo-
cratic leaders are after the courts and
the legislative assembly. With the latter
body to make laws for them, and a judi
ciary that will give such laws the prop
err Interpretation, the contamination of
their designs will have been realized.
They will then have the state of Montana
by the throat, and any man who wants
justice at their expense will be compelled
to move over the line to attain it.
1t is a shameful and disgraceful politi.
cal situation-one that should arouse the
hot blood in the veins OF every honest,
self-respecting man in the state. Dozens
of political heelers, disbursers of funds,
and we'll trained organizers, have been
preambulating the state for months
working up the interests of the DAILY
democracy in behalfo of the ~Amalgamated
Copper company. No one should fall into
the error that these gentlemen are en-
dowed solely with an o~verpowering ambi-
ton to devote the remainder of their nat
ural lives to the thwarting Of the personal
ambitions of Mr.. Clark. But they recog-
nize in that gentleman a powerful enemy.
whose political elevation might prove
inimical to their financial interests. He
might stand between them and the con-