Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-04-03
4 CLARK VICTORY

Whatever of glory the democratic party
is able to extract from the results of yes-
terday's election belongs to the Clark
wing of that political organization. To
the course pursued by that faction, and
carried out through the policies of it's Of
fetal organ, was due the condition of af-
fairs which made the election of any
portion Of the democratic ticket a pos
sibility.
There was a touch Of the irony of fate
in the working Of the plans Of the Clark
men which brought the followers Of the
threshold of an aldermanic campaign.
For months and months the Standard.
representing a large element in the dem
ocratic party, had showered unstinted
abuse upon Senate Clark and his
friends, accusing them Of penitentiary
offence Of the most grievous type. It
had "oficially'' read the Butte Miner out
Of the democratic party. with all it's fol-
lowing, and a~rrogated unto itself all the
rights, titles and Entertainments handed
down from the founders of that organt-
cation. 1t branded the Clark men with
crimes that if true would make them un-
At companions for man or beast, and GER
tainly unworthy of political c~ountenance
or social recognition in the affairs Of life
But the Clark men, without unneces-
sary display or political ostentation, and
evidently in the belief that the humilia"
ton of the Standard would compensate
them for the effort, quietly captured q
majority Of the democratic city conven-
ton. Then. when the DAILY men threat
ened the introduction Of resolutions con-
demning Senator Clark as a political
vagabond and penitentiary bird, and
dumping all Of his friends n advocates
into the slop, the Clark men pointed to
their majority in that body with one
hand, and to a vigorous set of resolutions
dealing with the checkered career of one
A. J. Campbell with the other-and then
they smiled.
1t was a smile more eloquent than
words. It showed the DAILY people thai
without colonizing wards with importa-
tionsf from Anaconda, and herding men at
the primary polls, it was impossible for
them to run" the democracy of the city
of Butte-in short, that the Clarkites
were on top in the councils of the party,
and tina if the Standard did not wish to
become a political Ishmaelite. without d
habitation and a name, they must apply
for seats in the band wagon, and stand
not upon the order of the application. Ad-
vices from Washington, indicating the
probability that Senator Clark will re-
tain his seat, still further disconnected
them, and. in sackcloth and ashes. on
their knees before the men whom they
had mercilessly ~lampooned, ready to kiss
the toe of the junior senator and sing the
praises of his followers, they We're taken
into fellowship by the Clark men for the
purposes of the campaign!
1t is doubtful if there ever was a case
of political humiliation more thorough
and pronounced than that which the
Butte Miner, as the official organ of the
Clark men, has inflicted upon the once
proud and obstreperous Standard. So
completely has it been whipped into line
SO thoroughly has it been crushed-that II
the majority report of the senate commit
tee is favorable to Clark, as now seems
likely, the Standard will soon apologize
for it's diabolical diatribes of the past.
and try to prove that its real desire was
to see the senator indicated, when ii
gave space for the publication of the ru-
mors against him!
Just watch the Standard and see il
crawRsh at the rate of sixty miles ar
hour the next three months. In the
meantime the Miner will continue tt
smile and smile and smile and shake
hands with itself on the side. The fac,
that the Miner stands at the head of tn,
democratic press of this state Is now un,
} questioned.
Congressman Campbell, the leader O
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