The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-04-06
THE "HERALD'sn BACK-DOwN.

d0ender OF the peoples interests irrespective
of their political principles, and when the
Republican managers undertook to put into
execution a scheme similar to that lately pro-
posed by the Republican Executive Committee,
aided and abet ed by the five editors of the
Blaine organ, the object of which scheme
was to deprive the administration party in
this Territory Of a voice IN the selection of a
representative 10 attend the Chicago conven-
ton. it become our simple duty to notify the
people Of the contemplated fraud, that they
themselves on the subject. Ofthc intention of
the committee to appoint a delegate instead
of having one selected i'll a proper way, there
was not the shadow of a doubt. Well know
ing that the voice of a majority of the Repub-
lican party in this Territory tavors the nomi-
to call a convention, for the Herald c~onclave
have particular reasons for desiring the nomi-
nation of Senator Blaine, who is a distant
relation of the Herald proprietors. They are
not in favor of Blaine through any honest
convictions of his superior talents or patriot
1911. Lie cullOIS vi IlidG SicCI SeluOm ca
press an honest conviction and in their sup
port of Blaine they are in no wise actuated
by a desire to all in securing the nomination
of an upright statesman. They pull wires
for him for the simple reason that in the
event of his election, they expect to push to
a successful issue several pet schemes of a
personal nature. One of these schemes is to
cause the removal of the Governor of the
Territory and the appointment of one of the
Herald proprietors to that office. Because
Governor Potts. refuses to be subservient to
their wishes, and for the reason that he gives
the Territorial printing to a respectable pub
fishing house in Helena instead of to the
corrupt and disreputable Herald outfit,
the high. minded Blaine organ nurses a
bitter animosity towards his Excellency,
whose only crime appears to be that he is too
careful of his reputation as a government Of
ficer to form an alliance with the Herald
gang. They are thus pulling wires for his
removal, and in the event of Blaine's election,
a strong effort will be made to have his Excel
lency superseded by the appointment Of one
of the Herald tribe, who would besides dis
grazing the Office and running the party in
Montana, give to his paper all the Territorial
patronage possible, which is the main object
of their solicitation. Thus it is not honest
bottom of the Herald plot to deprive the Re-
publicans of Montana of the natural right to
make themselves heard in convention upon
the subject of the Presidentia Il nomination.
But the exposure of their plots and purposes
has sent terror to their coward souls. They
well know that since the matter has been
ventilated, their continued refusal to call a
will result in their political dam
nation, and it is not strange that within the
past few days they have been compelled to
back down from their ~insolent assumption of
power. Tho Capital of Tuesday morning
states that a convention has been decided
upon, and that the people will be accorded
their inherent right Of exercising a voice in
the selection of a delegate.
So much for the Herald back down. The
editors of that sheet have now reversed the
order of things and got their back up, and the
latter spectacle Is truly a most ridiculous one.
statements made in the MINER with ref
erence to their nnholy designs in regard to the
are unanswerable. Our charges
have been the means of showing up the reeking
dishonesty of their intentions and what a
contemplate crew they are OH general prin-
ciples, and their silence proves that
np,1A hrirr No n-,I,H,o to hAar -
disprove our assertions. Their only re-
course therefore was to personal abuse
which conclusiyely demonstrates the weak
ness of their cause. In a late issue, a
joint production of the five editors appears,
would make the most depraved black
guard in the country blush with shame were
he charged with its authorship. But the
question arises, does the chief editor, or
rather chief plagiarist of that journal exhibit
a due amount of caution in provoking a per-
sonai publicity? Is it wise in any man whose
business principles are VIGOROUSLY corrupt,
whose debts to the amount of $4,000 have
just been outlawed, owing to the dishonest
transfer of property which righttully be-
longed to his creditors, a man who not
many years ago was publicly cowhided
in the streets of Helena by a woman, is it
wise, we repeat, to provoke a personal
quarrel? Would it not be in better taste for
to keep mum when it comes down to
matters of a personal nature, similar to those
above mentioned, OF to the Whitlalch tran
saction for instance? But re have no desire
to humiliate the editors Of our great and
mighty cotem. They are sufficiently small
in the estimation of the public already. We
simply wish to remind them that if they
know when they are we'll off they will main