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Newspaper
Daily Inter Mountain
Location
Butte, Montana, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1901
Page
5
M A Berger manager directs correspondence to Inter Mawnialy Publishing Company at Sf West Grinile Etrert, Butte City, Montana. The message records the manager and the publishing firm address for formal communication.
Republican slate lists Mayur Bubivan as candidate for mayoral duties with support from police magistrate Turner. Ward candidates include Thomas Kelly Charles Caddy George Wedelind and Henry Kroeger. Local names archambault Manchester highth Jos Bryant appear in later lines, indicating multiple ward contests and party alignment within the city election.
The Republican platform denounces the Democratic administration in Butte for mismanagement and police inefficiency while championing public health morals and municipal improvement. It pledges strict enforcement of law, cleaner governance, a professional police force, fair ordinances, and opposition to private influence in office, urging the election of Republican nominees to advance the city’s interests. It emphasizes the city becoming “the metropolis of the west” and supports open, just governance and equal treatment for all engaged in business.
The piece argues prosperity rose with Democratic rule since 1856, citing McKinley era shifts and government policies. It claims capital returned to mines and mills, prices rose, and the country led the world in trade, crediting copper and industry growth to Democratic administration.
The article shows rising building permit values in Butte from 1896 to the McKinley years, with permit counts climbing from 504 to 450, and values increasing from 34 000 to 443 000. It notes 1888 permits at 1 992 with 360 000 value and 1899 value at 635 703, last year 755 153, and current year 340 permits worth 705 296 as the McKinley administration advances growth. It contends Butte would differ under Cleveland's extended term.
The piece outlines a new election law stressing ballot marking by candidates and strict no electioneering rules within polling areas. It notes amendments requiring elector privacy, assistance for illiterate voters, and disallowing ballot removal before closing. It also mentions local school election registration, auditorium nominees, a proposed bond issue, and a forthcoming visit by President McKinley with California poised to host.
Baltimore Sun reports on John G Woolley the prohibitionist who narrowly failed to win the presidency in 1900 and imagines his imagined inaugural cabinet and the nation’s capital becoming a dry town. Woolley jokes about Congress and Washington life while imagining McKinley Bryan as cabinet members and a reform era ahead.
The piece notes five thousand acres in Santa Clara Valley planted with sweet peas to celebrate color and fragrance. It contrasts Butte's lack of flowers and hints at presidential ideas. It questions French census methods and implies a link to police methods, asking if voters in Butte desire change.
The State Press notes Governor Toole vetoed the reapportionment bill, leaving Cascade county more underrepresented than any other in Montana. Cascade has grown fastest, with Daly and Lewis and Clark gaining seats ahead. Local sentiment blames the veto but hopes for fair treatment in next year’s apportionment.
The Missoulian lauds the twentieth anniversary of the Butte Inter Mountain praising its quality, finance, and brains. It describes the paper as a first-class publication that Montanans take pride in and notes its long-standing strong performance as a leading state paper.
The Kalispell Bee argues for sending U S scientists to Montana to stock lakes and rivers with trout and grayling. It says stocking would sustain Montana as a destination for scientific anglers, noting many streams and lakes suffer from over visitation and should be restocked.
A collection of anecdotes about public figures and writers. Andrew Lang corrects a claim in a letter in the Academy. Charles A. Cooper, age 72, venerable Scotsman and journalist, earns fame in Scotland. Evarts sends Bancroft a note pairing pork from Vermont with a eulogy on Judge Chase. Vice President Roosevelt clings to a high collar despite new office.
The Chinese minister Wu Ting Fang told The Tribune that Russian seizure of Manchuria alarms him and believes U S intervention now could best aid China. He declined to discuss other powers’ positions beyond newspaper reports.
About 13,000 bakers in Manhattan and Crooklyn threaten a strike on May 1. Five thousand have already decided to strike. M. Lurie of union No. 36 says the action, reported by other bakery unions, would be the largest strike ever seen in the city.
Governor Samford of Alabama vetoed the bill authorizing state purchase of the old Jefferson Davis mansion in Montgomery, the first Confederate white house, for preservation as a Confederate museum. Reverend Robert F. Coyle, pastor of the Central Presbyterian Church in Denver, commented.
The Indoor tennis championship final, postponed due to Ward, concluded with Calhoun Cragin and O. M. Bostwick of West Side Tennis Club defeating their opponents in four sets. Final score 6 1, 6 4, 4 6, 6 3.
A traveler described his Florida trip as particularly enjoyable and said he hopes to visit again in a year or two, though he has not set a specific time.
A Mexico City dispatch reports Chicago and New York capitalists have secured a conversion of a railway through northern Mexico. The line would connect with the Mexican Central near Chihuahua and run through Sonora to the Gulf of California, boosting regional connectivity.
San Jose March 27 The California Cured Fruit association reduces prune prices for export by 1/2 cent per pound for sizes 40-508 to 90-1008 inclusive. The move aims to place exporters on equal footing with European prune jobbers.
Vienna notes Signor Zanardol asserts that economic and political interests are inseparable, citing Prince Bismarck, and suggests time has shifted Germany towards approving closer Italy France ties. It claims the triple alliance fosters peace and no hostility toward France, amid Austria and Germany’s satisfaction.
Alfred C. Harmsworth proprietor of the London Dernly Mail sails for England today aboard the Oceanic with his wife Reginald Nichia secretary accompanying him Harmsworth said he was pleased with his visit to America and spoke of his experiences on his recent trip
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