Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-03-23


Inter Mountain republicans became
more numerous. They picked up cour-
age and We're soon taking a hand in the
| political game, and it was but a very
short time until they had formed
strong organization and were carrying
elections in the city and county.
The original stockholders and incor-
porators of the Daily Inter Mountain
were among the best citizens of the
| camp. Many of them were pioneers in
! its discovery and development. whose
names are still remembered and hon
ored. Some like William f. Hall, Will
liam Thompson, John d. Thomas. Harry
| Gassert, Jere Roach. Patrick A. Largey.
w. Egbert Smith, Beck Hamilton, John
! Hauswirth and others, have passed
away after having lived honorable and
useful lives. Others, among them Henry
Williams. John 3. Read, William NJ.
Jack, Harry A. D'Acheul, c. T. Meadcr.
James X. Parole, Charles S. Warren.
r. Mel Lowry, David N. Upton. Edward
Re incl, w. N. Aylesworth, A. 7. McMil
Ian are still living, many of them Yet
among us.
| The Inter Mountain at the outset was
a pretentious sheet-for those days. 1t
had one managing editor and editor in
chief in the person Of Chauncey Barbour.
| who had formerly graced the editorial
| sanctum of the Butte Miner-then, as
now, an unrepentant democratic jour-
:, n r;%xy e,Ii
| tor and reportorial staff and Lee
| Mantle stood behind the counter
and collected subscriptions, while Cen
sral Charles S. Warren occasionally
dropped in and furnished the political
pyrotechnics. But while the force al,
around was comparatively limited. it did
| not prevent the Inter Mountain from
| advertising itself as the greatest daily
| newspaper between ST. Paul and Port
land publishing all the news of the
world. Subscription price, $l2 per an
| num-
| In common with every enterprise
which has had to depend upon its OwE
exertions and to rely upon its own in
| dustry, enterprise and perseverance for
| it's success, the Inter Mountain has had
| it's ups and downs. 1t has seen hard
times and felt the pinch of poverty, for
I many of it's promo -ers. after the first
| few months, when it became evidt mt
that the venture was likely to be an UNI
prolific Bile one. dropped out. and the
| burden of maintaining it fell upon Il
! few; but after twenty years of trials
and struggles, of hopes and fears, OF
disappolntments and successes. it is a
source of pride and qualification to those
who stood with it to know that it has
finally reached its present position IS
an istitution and recognized force in
the broad field Of Montana journalism.
~
The Inter Mountain takes a just pride
in its splendidly equipped office and in
the knowledge that it is publishing
newspaper which does not suffer in cotn-
parison with it's contemporaries. enter.
prising though they be. Today it en-
ploys in its various departments twelve
or fifteen persons for every one it en-
| ployed twenty years ago, and it takes
| especial pride and pleasure at this time
| in recalling that with it's very first
| breath it announced to the world that
Butte is the greatest mining camp Oh
| earth!" There were scoffers and I'M
believers then, but there are none now
~
Newspapers are like individuals. They
are liable to err and to make mistakes
| just as men are. Most of them want
to do what is right, and try to do wha:
is right as it is given them to see the
| right. There is occasionally, of course,
a mean cuss" among them who prove
| the exception to the rule. In a COM
munity a mans character is judged by
| the daily average of his comings and
| goings as the years pass on. So too,
with daily newspaper. There are
times when, in pursuance of it's publ.
policies, or in advocating or antagoniz-
ing the things it may believe to be
right or wrong, it will please or offend
certain interests. classes and factions,
But if it be honest and earnest, that fact
| will become apparent as time rolls on.
| and those even who may not agree with
it in all things, will come to respect it.
The Inter Mountain has doubtless made
| many mistakes but it has at least tried
| to be right, although at times it may
| have been wrong. OF one thing, how
ever, we are certain, it has always
stood ready to defend the interests of
| Butte and of those whose business and
homes are here; and not alone of Butte,
but Of the state of Montana as well.
1t is prouder Of both than it can find
! words to express.
That the next twenty years may prove
as prosperous and successful to the
great mining camp and it's citizens as
have the past twenty years is the sim