Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1874-07-31
THAT GALLATIN co. LETTER

THAT 0ALLATIN co. LBTTEH
| The last issue of the Madisoniar
contains q letter purporting to have
been written by q correspondent in
this county, signed Nv. c." We Dc
not believe it. We accord to Ward
more intelligence and stricter regard
for truth than is displayed in this lilly
constructed and glaringly false letter
Abiding to the removal Of the capital
the letter says: . .-
A large number Of the voters 81. Callatir
cannot see WHY il Is more expedielt 70 re-
move tho capital from Virginia to Helens
didn't went"
He might have added that the only
reason it "didn't went" were the false
election returns sent in from Madison
county. And in making the assertion
he could have had no fear of contra
diction, as the tact IS well known to
both the editor OF the Montanian and
Madisonian that the official vote Of
Madison county, on the capital ques.
ton in 1860, was 1914 votes, which
was afterwards changed to 1890 OF
| thereabouts, taking from Helena .
Legitimate majority Of about 500 votes
and placing them in favor Of Virginia
City. That is why it "didn't went"
but the foulest corruption that ever
disgraced . few would-be leading men
Of Virginia "dil 60" to stamp them
with an intamy that We would not
carry tor all the capitals in the:coun-
try. And this pretended correspond
ence speaks Of corruption on the part
Of the people of Helena! And the viz
tuous ~ Madisonian commends it.
20, would some power the giftie gle US,
To see ourselves rs ither's zee u.s."
Tho old-foggy,sn Of many who arc
opposed to the removal Of the capital
is expressed in the following sentence
quoted above from the letter alluded
to;
"a large number Of the voters Of
Gallatin cannot see why it is more ex-
pedient to remove the capital from
Virginia to Helena now than it was
several years ago." We give the peo-
pie more credit for intelligence and a
just and true recognition OF the rapid
progress Of our Territory than to be-
lieve anything Of the kind. The peo-
pie of Gallatin county are more pro.
gressiye in their ideas, and do not
believe that because our grandfathers
balanced sack Of grain by putting
a stone in one end that they should
do so. They do not think that because
Virginia eight years ago, being then
the centre Of business and population,
although on the outskirts of the Ter
ritory, was a fit place for the capital,
that. .aoas, whom slao - tho r.a>st isea~4>A
place in the Territory, the capital
should be longer retained there. Ac-
cording to the sentiment expressed in
the above extract the capital should
sever be remored, however inconveni
ent it might be to the people to keep
it in its present isolated position.
~. c. says the Democrats Of this
are q unit on Maginnis for
Delegate and many Republicans will
vote for him, which is as true as any
statement made in his letter. He
winds up with the following:
The Madisonian is growing in favor weekly
with our especially since we have
long been deprived OF an exponent Of our
views at home.
We should be immensely grieved
and mortified to think that the CoUR-
Ter would ever be prostituted to the
base level indicated above; that it
SHOULD ever become the exponent of
such views as are entertained and ex-
pressed by this correspondent. It has
q nobler mission. It's course is char
acterized by integrity and truth, and
the ambition of it's editor is to make
it . reflex of the sentiments of the
good and true people Of Gallatin coun-
ty, regardless Of the malicious and
untruthfM ATTACKS Of scalawags aud
al such.
THEY who seek for wealth by delv-
ing into the bowels Of the earth may
know that within the accessible fast
nesses Of our mountains lie buried and
awaiting development untold millions,
which, can be had by energy and we'll
toll. They whose tastes in
cline them, to pastoral pursuits will
and mr. nafirA crAaeoS o0ilal to the