Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1877-11-01
MILLS AND HIS ENEMIES.


: tate. OF Conscientiousness, and when sucf
'. men would scoin his offers OF money OF
position he considered them essentially
mad without knowing it, 1t is the mis-
: fortune of this age that whenever a man If
l. raised to 4 public position, he is called {;
thief and sco,Indpl. We do not wonder
that a great many who. before accepting
an office, were known as honest men, nj,
lerwar, fall from grace. for it takes man
Of s.rong character to stand up against the
combined opinions of his fellowmen. and
: he is very apt 10 say be might AS well have
the spols of office and the name, rs the
y name and none of the spells. But III the
case Of Mills. we have Il notable exception
n to this rule. Here i 4 man who had lived
such lite that none of the vile mIld-sling-
e ers of the Territory dared raise the cry of
thief. Men Of both parties knew that he
/: was man OF integrity and honor. as well
! as Of superior intellectual abilities. Then
what DO they do: They have to abuse
him some way. 50 they raise the cry OF
"big-head - This of itself is nothing
against Il man. providing his brain is OF IL
good quality: bu! the meaning they intend
to convey is that he is vain and pulled ur.
As TO his being vain AID carried away with
, his office. any person who is at all t;lmilia,
with the man knows it to be ts.lse. True.
he may appreciate the good opinion of his
fcllowman. az well or9a:.iZcI men should.
but h' IS not nun to stoop to attain II. lie
is too independent and conscientious for
that. HE IN? ii reason tor these accllSa-
lions being brought against him is. that he
has resi- -ctcu himself too much to spend
his tile lo.ling around saloons. playing
"redro" or "cl.css" and drinking beer with
those he knew TO be his interiors. His
enemies. therefore. abuse him on the same
principle az the ciirs barked at the New
foundland dog that had saved a child from
drowning. Having done nothing Of merit
themselves. When they see a man who is
Eonorel and respected by the people, they
Immediately set upa howl.
The fact of the matter is. that if mills.
Potts 4 Co.. had paid the assessments
against them fvft.!c good g. Of their party. :
they would not now be pursued and abused
by one o. the papers of the Territory. The
former Secretary gave all the patronage of
his office tn the HcraH and when we learn
that the new Secretary withhold> his pat
rona"c from this hiyh-toned institution we
see why they abuse him-why they have
continued to abuse him from the time he
was appointed 10 the present week. We
suppose the Hc1uia lays tie tlattering unc-
ton TO its soul that it has opposed Mills.
Potts d Co." for purely disinterestcd mo-
tives and for the good OF the party to
which they belong. but the papers now on ;
file in Washington. signed by nearly all
the prominen, men of the party. give the I
lie to such a conclusion.
The greater part of this abuse was J
brought ont. by Capt. Mills asking where y
the Territorial laws were. that the public t
printer had promised to deliver to the Ter g
ritory several months previous. Not being Y
able TO offer any excuse for the long delay. t
the Herald man places in his paper IN ar +
ticle full of vile personal abuse. The Times Ii
man eagerly grasps it. and with its assist h
ance. writes IN article even more vile, and c
sends it on to his paper. e.
Another reason for this abuse is the fact D
that Mills has had the courage to expose Il
the lack OF principle. many shortcomings 5;
and villaiEies of his revilcrs. m
The last issue Of tie Times contained an L
lrticle abusive OF Capt. Mills and his rls
MS If only another instance of the old te
'ii;'in Judging others by himself: because an
Is under written contract. carefully m;
l:Wn up by one OF the best LAWYERS Of
'e iefli!oEy' which binds him to open to
III smut his mouth Only at the dictates of sci
he owner of the Ti,aes outfit. he must 70.
"!"c others 20 he haunchmen like hi,nself nj,
ne ""es ciawls out of its vill:.ines by
F%el'In@ What they said. We don't need
refer back to the time they ran the Ca 49,,
ft'. \ friend in Helena wrote us. under v,
lte OF October 12;h: 49,
"Onc prominent business man inst in ~,
rihed me that old man Wilkinson had an,
Aofled 5000 from his partner. for sub did
r'ptioh TO his paper. when at the Same tIo
ne the Old dishonest pailper was owinc b.,
g firm III the neigh5or!iood of SIOO on ;, -
we VIII guarantee that Capt. Mills was Ri,
Yer g'il!ty OF such a piece of villany. and bac
csc are not half as bad as some of the Co1
Is of Mills accuscrs. w
We know Wills is not incapable for the ano
slii"n lie occupies. and we believe that =
lcnevcr lie does not serve the noon,o
hestly and faithfully. lie is ready to step two
WI ana out. for some man who will, cam
e peoplewillingIy place confidence in him moo
are Disguised with the abuse of him %
owing that if arises from purely seltisl, If ;
'pOScs.
-, o,l;,o, g. ''' 'i'iele iuii OF advice you
'e'' s'"' "a newspaper ought to be +. .,
10 MAINTAIN an impersonal characters -
Heicha Daily H@aiG. May %, 1877. ~
low well the HeraM fellows its own i"'
ICE almost every issue of the paper ..'i
VS.. p''l''' pie Il
-hateyer NAV ho so;1 then
Is. if canno, ho s.;I H.. o.p,aii hOm
finously as to say that the constituency sPEE
ca by hls paper was mot unfieouentlv
'ied 10 1900, or that he ever collected q
icy Tor his party and then placed it do.
ere II VIII do the most good-in his treatt
pocket (:) or turned traitor tn h;s have
ds and abused them without the least were
c'e OF an excuse. prom
n OF such experience in editorial over
Us are on the Herald, Times and Mis- like Il
a" should have learned ere this t,.. them.
pie who live in glass houses shopld [Shoo
how stones.' renee
all tie reHilers of Capt. Mills we fen
.e so'ud advice to first cast the YO,
ON OF time own eye, and then shalt dren:
see Gle. rly to cast out the mote out of and Ii,
rothcr's e,-e." ITO
one of
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