The Montana post., 1868-12-04
THE BANNACK scAPE GOAT.

IL is an hallucination possessing the
Gdzsfte, that an asserted falsehood if
not contradicted every three DAYS. be-
comes an established fact. and that the
guilt of one expiates the guilt of another.
of such is the declarations that the Ban
mack Legislature was Radical. and on
this false premise il attempts 10 escape
responsibility for the acts of the Ban
mack Legislature. and makes it the
scape goat for the hundreds of thouN
sands OF dollars squandered by the four
recklessly extravagant Democratic As
emblys of this too much and badly
governed Territory. We take no um>
bragg at its denunciation of the course
OF this paper. The approval of our sen>
timents on any political subject, by the
G0zette, would instantaneously suggest
To US we had committed a laundering
crime against humanity, justice and po-
litical honesty. The gazette, however
not having any recent ideas on any SUBJ
ject, reverts To ITS files and reprOduces
its old humbuggery about the Bannack
Legislature, and presents bill of $SJ,-
900 expended in 1865. First: That Legis-
lature was Democratic. and we cite the
names of Jno. II. Rogers, Francis Bell,
A +. Mayhem, w. J. Mccormick, p Ry-
an. w Huffaker, NJ. Courtwright and j
). Healy, comprising majority of the
House, who were and are out and ont
lOcotocos. while McLean's 300 Demo-
cratic majority is sufficient evidence of
the status of the Territory. The expend-
itures and Indebtedness of the year
were heavy. but we have not given them
prominence. because if any others have
been excusable they were. There was
not a dollar of taxes collected, no pubs
lie buildings except those built with
labor three or four times as high as at
present, and the territorial warrants
would not realize over % or 30 cents on
the dollar. This would reduce the ex-
penses to 100000 or $4,000. The Ga>
zettc says the Code Commission (Radi-
call expended S,053.J2. That Commits
sion consisted of VIM. II. Miller, noto.
rious secessionist. brother~in-law of
Ben Stringtellow. Of Kansas, and of.
course violent Democrat, Geo. w Sta
pleton. at present a. then Democratic
Legislator elect from Beaverhead county.
and Col w r Sanders, the la:ter of
whom never received one dollar tor SER
vices on that Commission. Do two
Democrats and one Republican make a
Radical Commission Then the item
"ior writing practice Act (Rad.) S400,
said writing being done 10y and the
money paid to Harry Burns, Democrat,
and his receipt taken therefor. Then
''Featherston pursuing fugitives which
he never caught (Rad) $12O5G.OO." is
falsehood, for the prisoners were caught.
and the appropriation did not pay the
actual expenses incurred in gold
dust. for the most hazardous
service in which Montana officer ever
periled his life in the performance of his
duties. The Post Publishing Com
pany, (Rad) S6,3O7.50l" No such Com
pany existed, and in the little printing
bills of Bruce, Wilkinson & Co. which
we will produce in a few days, with the
items of squandered thousands of the
later Legislatures, the $1,000 paid Til
ton & Co. tor printing before these lat
ter worthies had packed their carpet
bags for Montana, will prove a synonym
for economy And so with the entire
list, including the S2S:297 extra com
psnsation to Democratic Legislators, and
exclusive OF the 5000 or 800 paid John
II. Rogers. Democrat, last winter, for
service in a Legislature lie never even
voted in. Wherever there was ardu-
Gus or perilous labor, requiring an or
dinary degree OF intelligence and good
moral character. Republican was Sc
lected to perform IL by the imperative
force of circumstances. and STAYED off
on the barest pittance, while the eorpu-
lent thousands went into the pockets of
those Democrats who pcriled their pre-
cious lives to escape the sight of the
JarSpangled Banner. This is merely
a slight token of respect to the Gazette;
we propose shortly something more ex-
plicit
KING OF THE SYCHOPHANTs.