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Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-03-22
REPUBLICAN TICKET.
FOR ALDERMEN.
REPUBLICAN PLATFORM.

The republicans of the city of Butte in
convention assembled, view with pardon
able pride the past history Of the republic
can party, and feel assured that such
past history is a guaranty of its future
actions.
We begin the twentieth century with a
republican national administration. at
whose head are the two great repre-
sentative American citizens, William
Mckinley and Theodore Roosevelt.
We arraign the democratic party OF
the city of Butte for it's utter nlisman-
agement and incompetency in the affairs
of municipal government, as shown BY
their utter disregard for public health.
furnishing to us nothing but dirty
streets.
For their contempt for public morals
as shown by the open and notorious vlo-
lations of law in the city of Butte.
For their lack of a proper apprecia-
tion of the advance movement of the
twentieth century in public morals and
good government, as shown by their in
competent and inefficient police regula 4
etionS in the city of Butte.
For their inefficient police officers. who
have become but the mere political ma
chine of the present administration. as
shown by their open and fragrant advo-
Cacy of politics rather than the atten.
ton to pubic duty.
For their failure to provide suitable
ordinances to improve the condition Of
the community. thus failing to insure a
condition of advantage to which every
ritizen Is entitled.
For their open and notorious disregard
of the fact that a public Office is
pub ic trust, as demonstrated by the
fact that the present democratic city
administration believe that "a public
office is private snap
The republican party, as in the past,
assures the citizens of Butte that in the
future its actions, and the actions of it's
promises, if elected to office, will follow
those principles of government which
are best calculated to advance the inter-
ests of the city of Butte.
We favor the better enforcement of
law, and the advancement of good order
and morals of the community in which
we live.
We are in favor of clean public thor
oughfares
We favor a police force made up O,
competent persons.
We favor municipal improvements
such as will make Butte the metropo-
lis of the west"
We favor the enactment of such or
dinances as will deal justly with all
persons, whether in private or business
life.
y. We favor the enactment of such or
6inances as will levy just and equal
taxation upon ali persons engaged in the
same class of business
We favor the principles of government
which would select public officials be-
cause of their efficiency rather than be-
cause Of political pull"
To the end that these principles of
government may be put into operation,
we ask the cooperation and support of
every citizen of Butte to secure the cleo
ton of the republican nominees of the
convention.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-03-22
DEMoCRACY'S PET SPECTER.

Recently Henry NJ. Stanley was asked
what he thought of the prospect of an
emperor for this country, an idea that
seems to possess peculiar fascination for
the democrats, as they never cease harp
ing upon it. Mr.. Stanley replied. II pity
the emperor. would rather be the most
common man in the street than such an
august parsonage. 1t already requires
considerable courage to be president"
The remark of Mr.. Stanley has
called forth the following from the New
York Tribune:
Pity the emperor! Well he might. The
very Righteousness of the imperial con-
ception is the best possible defense
against such an establishment. If the
temper of the American people We're such
that they could take seriously the idea
of an emperor in the white house, even
though they opposed it bitterly, empire
might be remote possibility at the end
of some possible revolution. A usurpel
cannot climb to power by making himself
a laughing stock, and a person putting
ON the imperial purple in Washington
would be much more the laughing stock
tnan the 1edr OF MS fellows. before the
emperor can be crowned he will have t.
eradicate the prevailing American humol
and irreverence. Pity the emperor wht
| would have to face not armed insured
tons but unrestrained laughs! AS Si
Henry NJ. Stanley says, it already re
quires courage to be president. II
simple, we'll behaved gentleman in tina
Office cannot make journey in a pri
vate car. or take a ride in quiet dignit,
in the open street. without every inciden
of his going and coming being mad
the text for the funny mans cartoons
what chance would he with ambitions 70
a velvet robe have to try on that gar
ment before he was laughed of tn
stage? Imagine president returnin
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-03-22

now that it has become definite and
we'll considered policy of the American
people, with no organized or authorize
tive protest against it. further objection
to it has virtually ceased on both sides
of the water, and the manufacturers CT
Great Britain are now advised to shape
their efforts to meet it as a permanen.
factor in the future commerce of the
world.
So too, the policy of the adminstra-
ton in dealing with the possessions ac-
pured from Spain and with the annexed
islands OF Hawaii has, in every essential
respect. become the policy of the people,
and their future political status Is now
plainly foreshadowed to the world. Nor
need mistake be made in anticipating
the outcome of the ,contumacious att
tude assumed by the Cuban constitu-
tional convention in defining the funda-
mental political relations to permanently
exist between the United States and the
autonomous government about to be
established in Cuba. All the admins
tration has asked through congress Is
that the organic law now in process OF
formation shall interdict the Cuban gov
eminent from entering into any treaty
with a foreign power calculated to I'M
pair the independence of the island. or
capacity OF the people to pay. and shall
consent to the right of the United States
to intervene for the preservation of
Cuban independence, and the malnte-
nance of a government adequate to the
protection Of life property and lndl-
vidual liberty. Nothing less could be
asked from a people to whom we have
given freedom and self-government, and
for whose political tranquility we stand
sponsor to the world Yet the conven-
ton has thus far declined to make Theses
constitutional pledges. or any others in
dicative of a sense of gratitude for what
has been done for the Cuban people or
a disposition to accept the kindly guard
ianship of their great neighbor.
1t is believed that the members of the
Cuban convention have been influenced
TO some extent in the course they have
pursued by evil partisan suggestions
from the United States. Be this as it
may. the Cuban people may rest as
sured that they have been asked 10
make no constitutional pledges that are
not fully approved by the thoughtful
citizenship of the republic, irrespective
of party, and more than warranted by
the geographical position of their island,
their experience in the processes and re-
sponsiblities of republican government
and the anomalous circumstances attend
ing the achievement Of their independ-
ence. And, moreover. these pledges are
expected by the civilized world, and our
government is morally bound to see that
they are made. This is another instance
in naeional policy in which the vote Of
party has been awed into silence by ne
rectitude of the popular judgment. and
in which the nation speaks in resistless
unity. The friend is false and cruel who
counsels the Cuban to treat it's words
with defiance. The duty of the govern
n,ent in this patter: is too plain to be
evaded or questioned: and the people OF
Cuba must either consent to frame
constitution that is not self-destructive
or prepare to content themselves with
one made for them.-San Francisco
Chronicle.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-03-22
CHANCE FOR A RAILROAD.

Livingston Republican,: This city is the
central point ON practically two of the
great lines of trans-continental railway
the Northern Pacific and the Burlins-
ton-between two of the future great
mining camps of the state; Copperopo-
lis on THE north and Cooke City on the
SOUTH A railway from this city to these
camps would insure their immense fu-
ture business for all time to come. The
one Is prolific producer Of gold, silver
and lead; the other gives unmistakable
evidence of soon attaining an output of
rich conglomerate copper ores that is des-
tined to make a stir in the metallurgical
world. This business will be worth
reaching for. It can be secured now; at
ter a while it may be ever lastingly too
late. 1t is a down hill pull from both
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-03-22

even to the stateliness of Washington's
republican court" If he were to sug-
gest to those about him the adoption OF
the routine observed in the household
of the French president. whose powers
are insignificant as compared with his,
the merriment of photographers and peo-
pie would be so loud that he would never
be heard of again in American politics.
A statesman can do almost anything
but make himself ridiculous without for
feiting influence. Even national hero
cannot without grave danger touch the
funny-bone Of the American people. They
may love him afterward, but never again
will he be a serious leader for them.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-03-22

The Boston Herald announces that
Governor Evans of Utah. who has We
toed the polygamy bill, has pretty level
head. even it he is a Mormon" The
humor of this is that Evans is the Nor
mon state senator who introduced the
bill legalizing polygamy and fought it
Of the state. while it was vetoed by Gov.
Wells. Such is fame.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-03-22

Squire r. c. Mortiska, of Duryea
Pennsylvania, evidently believes there
are some cases for which corporal pun
ishment is the only proper penalty. y
few days ago one John Pesontioni was
before him on the charge of wife beat
ing, and the testimony showed such an
aggravated case of brutality that at the
close, the squire slipped down from the
bench and gave the wife beaten a taste
of his own medicine. Persontioni tried
to defend himself, but was soon crying
enough, and when the squire had given
him such a trouncing that he will re-
member it for long time. he calmly
returned to the bench and sentenced
the wife beaten to thirty days in jail.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-03-22

camps to this city, Here should be To-
Gated the reduction works for reducing
to bullion the crude ores of these mining
camps. Nature intended that they
should be reduced here; that in this ia
vored spot, where water, wood coal and
coke can be had cheaply and in abund-
ance, the raw product of these rich min
era! fields these countless thousands of
acres of fertile lands should be converted
to marketable proportions.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-03-22

so untaxed. Butte has within the past
twenty years given to wealthy corpora
tons and individuals franchises worth
hundreds of thousands of dollars and
which should be made a source of pub
lie revenue, thus reducing the taxation
on other property. A franchise should
no more escape taxation than building
or a stock of merchandise.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-03-22

What fault there is with the police
department today is the fault of a
systematic system Of making posi-
tons in that department depend from
year to year upon political influence
rather than merit and efficiency
Butte Miner,
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-03-22

WHAT fault there is with the police
department today is the fault of a
systematic system of making posi-
tions in that department depend from
year to year upon political influence
rather than merit and efficiency
Butte Miner
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-03-22
THE ONLY SAFE PLACE.

What is the use of a mans getting
into a crowd and yelling, as he does at
a base ball game?"
why" exclaimed the enthusiast, che 8
got to do it in a crowd. If he were to
go away by himself and yell in that
manner they would have him in a lunatic
asylum in less than a week!"-Wash-
ington STAR
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-03-22

What fault there is with the police
department Today is the fault Of a
. systematic system of making posi-
tons in that department depend from
year to year upon political influence
rather than merit and efficiency
Butte Miner.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-03-22

Two New England maniacs-a mother
at Coldbrook, Mass, and a father at
Clinton, Me- succeeded, between them,
in butchering nine children yesterday
1t was terrible slaughter of inno-
cents.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-03-22
DEMOCRACY AND REFORM.

The democratic machine in Butte Is
thoroughly corrupt. The administration
during the past two years demonstrated
that fact. Through its methods. the city
government has been Of the most lax and
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-03-22
THE STATE PRESS.
He WILL GET THEM.

Boulder Age: J. C. Sullivan is republic
can candidate for mayor in Butte and II
he gets the full vote of those bearing
the same name he stands a very good
chance for success; there are 1853 male
citizens named Sullivan according
to the city directory.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-03-22

What fault there is with the police
department today is the fault Of a
systematic system of making posi-
lions in that department depend from
year to year upon political influence
rather than merit and efficiency
Butte Miner.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-03-22

The police department junta is consid
erably disturbed over the signs of spring
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-03-22

''The signs of spring" are rapid
being buried under several inches Q
snow.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-03-22

The local democracy, which Is now en-.
gagged in pointing with pride" will com
mence to ''view with alarm on or about
April /.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-03-22

Is it not time for the city government
of Butte to stop giving away valuable
franchises? 1t is bad enough to let them
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-02-24

in the world is we'll under way to con-
meet the boroughs of Manhattan and
Brooklyn. Il will have a river span of
1000 feet, a width Of lis feet. twice as
great as an ordinary street; will carry
six lines of railroad track and have a
total weight of more than a hundred
million pounds.
Steel buildings are the notifications
of bridge work, and their sudden ap.
pearance, giants at birth. is the most
remarkable example of a whole class
OF great structures coming to perfection
without slow development. The height
of the 31-story Park Row Building in
New York City, which is 424 feet, will
hardy again be equaled, unless for mere
notoTiety. because it is unnecessary AMI
undesirable, but the greatest existing
roof span will doubtless be much ex-
ceeded, and can even be multiplied al
most tenfold if any reason should justify
such vast expense. Structural freaks, like
the 1000 feet high Eifel Tower, and the
Ferris Wheel, go feet in diameter. will
be limited only by the range of ingenuity
and the strength OF materials.
The construction of massive founda-
tons under water for bridge piers and
in treacherous soils for tall buildings
has developed special designs of steel
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-02-24

and seas. BY his plots and charts,
curved, crooked and 81 ping tunnels are
driven under land and sea so accurately
that they can be started simultaneously
from many intermediate points and meet
almost as perfectly as the tubes of
telescope. In this Geld Of engineering a
perfection sufficient for present require
ments has been alta ned, and few radi-
cal changes may be anticipated. More
delicate instruments and cheaper me-
thods may be provided. but the re-
suits will not be noticeable TO the lay
man. Long before che elise of the
twentieth century the hydraulic and rail-
road engineer will probably find every
portion OF the country so exactly map
ped that, without a survey. he may To-
cate the reads ana canals and connect
works hundreds Of miles apart by mea-
snrements from the nearest monuments.
The railroad engineer has already
brought bis Drain speed up 20 a pos
milo rate Of l0J miles an hour for short
distances Beyond this tho limit OF safe
endurance o. his materials Is not far
distant Tho dangers 10 lie and pro-
rfTty are 10 much multiplied, and the
oQnso 80 difproporti0nate fOr farther
ease that the maximum speed VIII
become notably higher A great
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-02-24

President of Ade,bert College aud West
ern Reserve University, Cleveland, o.
Among the chief advantages of being a
country boy are the advantages of SIM
piicity of life and freedom of conduct.
In a simple life the boy eats plain food
wears plain clothes, sits on plain chairs.
sleeps in a plain bedroom, and associates
with plain people. He is free from lux
uriant living and elaborate conditions. He
knows nothing of the sp.endor which man
makes. The necessities are brought 10
his home every day and the natural means
OF filing them are present His life is
quite Homeric. He W it's on himself. II
ne wants anything done. he does II him
self. He earns the little spending money
which he has, ana often transmutes thar
little spending money into money saved
He comes close to nature IN his moods
OF rest and reflection and he works han1
IN hand with nature In his every en-
deavor. He Is content with little. .,r
rather his little he converts into ntion
Such lie and condition hep to make a
man who emphas yes the realities OF cnar.
acter and who Is abe 10 put proper values
on all the elements which go to the con.
stitutns OF the great world OF humanity
A second advantage Is tho advantage
OF freedom Of conduct. How free rs tho
country boyl The fields and the fore a.
are his Fairgrounds. the ponds his race
course. the trout brooks his private pre.
serve. The steers and the colts are HIS
co-workers, and all the children OF the
neighborhOod are bic playmates. Hl.
nursery Is the mowp and the bays Of the
barn, and the wood-shcd. which unitos
tho house and the barn Il bis u0tting
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-02-24

the cataract is token down deep shafts
and through an immense tunnel blasted
out of the living rock and discharged
GO feet down at the surface of the river.
a mile below the falls Great turbines
are floated in the water at the bottoms
of the shafts and drive huge dynamos
In the power house above. from which
the electric current is transmi' ted many
miles to furnish light and power for
great city.
In California shafts and tunnels have
been driven In a granite mountainside,
and in them a charge of 1900 pounds
of nitro-glycerine was fired to shater
the rock for the building of a great dam.
In the center. like a gigantic sheet of
paper, is a diaphragm of riveted tn n
steel Plates bedded in a narrow concrete
Jacket and set I'm a groove cut in the
sides aud bottom Of the rocky valley.
On both sides are heaoed enormous
slopes of loose stone. The steel gives
tightness, the stone solidity. and tho
dam thus formed will impound the waters
of the valley and furnish a great power.
Hydraulic constructions like these may
not increase greatly in size, but they
viii be built in more and mere remote
wi,dernesses as the transportation of
the power by electricity becomes cheap
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-02-24

most accurate and extensive surveys.
Structural engineering may here be con-
sidered as chiefly the building of steel,
masonry and timber bridges. buildings.
and foundations, thus including the es-
sentials OF modern architecture; and the
other great branches deal with the spe-
cif1c works their names imply, the DIFF
ferent ones overlapping each other on
al sides.
Measuring the Breadths of Conti-
uents.
The geodetical engineer measures on
the Atlantic ccasS base line a few
thousand feet long with an accuracy
of one-f1ve-milllonth part of its length.
From il he triangulates more than 1000
miles to dhe Pacific coast and measures
the total distance with an error of less
than 100 feet His lines are corrected for
the earths curvature and for the re-
fraction of the atmosphere. His levels
are carried over mountains, chasms and
deserts so perfectly that the differences
between the tides of the Atlantic and
Pacific Oceans are accurately measured.
and long canals are Planned and built
with perfect control of the water level
end flow. He extends his maps to de-
lineate the deep bottoms of rivers, lakes
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-02-24

chiUery win be perfected, aud the work
will be done so muCh more cheapiy that
greater and greater enterprises will be
undertaken. and the ships win sail across
continents instead of around them work
has already been commenced on ship
canal across Central America. which will
change two continents to Islands. Able
engineers and cap. talists propose to re-
organize the Inflated Panama Canal CO.
and complete its great enterprise. In
stead Of tedious and wastefui lockages,
large boats viii DO lifted, in some cases
50 Of 100 feet, in steel tanks by hydraulic
pressure.
Mighty Structures of steel.
In structural engineering the applica-
ton Of timber in this country has reach
cd maximum, and is fast going out
Of use for important structures, other
than those constantly saturated with
water. steel being substituted for it.
The general features Of bridge design
and the methods Of construction will
not be greatly changed henceforth. The
dimensions of the bridges will be In
creased, even multiplied; materials will
be improved and strained much higher
than is now allowed. Steel truss bridge
spans may reach, but will heardy ex-
coed, $3.50 feet. Suspension bridges can
be built longer. Fifty years ago iron
had a strength Of barely 5000 pounds
per square inch. The latest steel speci-
ications call for 10000 pounds, and this
will be exec eded by metals of still greater
strength. While limits may be set to
the length Of single spans, they can not
for bridges as a whole. The long pro-
posed bridge across the English Channel
only needs political and financial au-
thorizati, to be possible. The second
largest and much the grandest bridge
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-02-24

and concrete, and ingenious scientific
methods of pile driving, pneumatic
caisson works, etc, which have reached
nigh degree Of perfection: but new
forms of sub-structures VIII probably.
and new methods and appliances will
surrey, be invented
work of the Municipal Engineer.
In two or three years Mani titan
Islands present daily supply Of 100000
900 gallons of water will be increased
by the storage OF thirty two bill on gall
Ions Of water In q resorv,ir Is mil S ny
and l57 feet de-p. This will be formed
by the building of tho worlds gr attest
dam, which will cost go OJ0. Its vast
mass OF masonry will rise about 80 feet
above its foundations, whicn have been
sunk 100 feet below the bottom OF the
RIVER watch they cross.
In municipal engineering feats such as
this there VIII be vas. a va ccs IN the
years 20 como. Urpo lutod drinking water
VIII be supplied 20 the pubic. and n Il
Is not avail bile without, I. VII be nlt red
on great scale. Vic sewage wi be
filtered. chemically pr clpitltod. or made
"a valuable lrrgnrt. Gariage and sold
refuse VIII not b. ~ 10 putref. IN the
street. nor burned az en- expensive, but