An Enthusiastic Campaign — the Democratic Municipal Ticket

# An Enthusiastic Campaign. *The Butte Miner, Sunday, March 25, 1917, p. 4 (editorial).* --- Mr. William H. Maloney, the democratic nominee for mayor; Mr. Neal A. Ward, democratic candidate for city treasurer, and Judge P. J. Whitty, democratic selection for police magistrate, head a democratic city ticket that deserves the support of all entitled to vote here at the coming city election. Mr. Maloney is an energetic, forceful and able man who has the confidence of the people. Mr. Ward is the present city treasurer of Butte and has made a splendid record in that office. Judge Whitty also deserves another term in the office of police magistrate, for his official record proves that. The democratic aldermanic ticket likewise is splendid, it being: First ward, Mr. Peter J. Cavanaugh; Second ward, Mr. P. T. "Tish" Maloney; Third ward, Mr. John Hanratty; Fourth ward, Mr. Stephen Fletcher; Fifth ward, Mr. George Hageman; Sixth ward, Mr. Arthur V. Corry; Seventh ward, Mr. Charles Swanson; Eighth ward, Mr. W. J. Magill Jr. Several of these gentlemen have been aldermen before and, in fact, there are six of them now in the city council, thus showing them to be men of much aldermanic experience. They all certainly combine with the democratic mayoralty, city treasurer and police magistrate candidates in composing a ticket of remarkable strength, and one that is going to win out handsomely. Elsewhere on this page the democratic city ticket is published in its entirety in handy reference form and all voters are urged to memorize it. While it is the sincere belief of Butte's democracy that the democratic municipal ticket will win out by a most decisive majority at the coming city election, that sentiment is not preventing the democrats of the mining city from showing the right kind of enthusiasm in the campaign now under way. It is an enthusiasm actuated by the knowledge that Butte is going to have another democratic city administration installed by reason of the coming election, and it is an enthusiasm stimulated by the desire to place in office the democrats who were nominated as the result of the recent primary election. The democracy has expressed itself for a vigorous campaign. That is the Miner's way, too. Certainly the Miner always has been a consistent and ardent advocate of democracy, and never has been tardy in its advocacy of democratic candidates whom it has sincerely believed to merit the most enthusiastic support, such as the present democratic candidates in this city campaign deserve, and are getting and will receive. There are those who have not agreed in times past with ideas on election subjects expressed by this newspaper, but they never accused the Miner of being half-hearted in fighting for any cause it esteemed right and for the best welfare of all the people. As it already has declared, this newspaper has no personal fight with the candidates on any of the other tickets. Some of them it esteems very highly in a personal way. But this newspaper does not propose to stand in the background when it comes to urging the people to vote for a municipal supervisory control such as would be given it by the democratic city ticket now before the people. In city campaigns, party lines often are not tightly drawn, in fact, sometimes are entirely forgotten when, with all other conditions equal, voters select the candidates making most appeal to them as men deserving of election. The mere fact of a man being the member of any certain party does not at all mean he is deserving of the support of his party if he is not a fit man for the place. But when it is the positive case, as it is in this campaign, that the democratic ticket is composed of men of prominence, capability and entitled to the vote of every elector irrespective of political affiliation, it follows that surely Butte will rally to the support of the democratic ticket and insure its triumphant election by an overwhelming vote. *[Text checked against the clipping image (661 x 1999 px, extracted from clipping.pdf) at 2.5x, 21 Oct 2026, starting from the proofed reading of 4 Oct 2026 in transcription_claude.md. No tile-by-tile page reading exists for this page: the archive holds the clipping only.]* *[The words the clipping cut off ("support of his party if he is not a fit man for the place. / But when it is the positive case, as") were read on 21 Oct 2026 from the full page scan held in `_inbox/The_Butte_Miner_1917_03_25_4.jpg` (column 2, below "Getting Ready for the War!"), at 3x.]*