The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-04-07

It is instructive to witness in this
day Of law AMI order the want OF
candor aud regard for truth mani
tested by the mob organizing, knock
down and drag out portion of the
! Montana press when discussing the
Custer county matter. Our evening
co!emporary, with the docility of a
lamb, follows the cou:se marked out
for it by lis masters in Helena. and
ignores facts with, as little regard fer
consistency As 10 its leaders at the
Capital. The Helena syndicate of
ambitious, politicians takes its pinch
Of snuff aud our obedient contemporary
forth with falls into a violent fit of
sneezlng. IL said Governor Crosby
is the only Governor Montana has
had who is alive to her interests, and
parrot-like our neighbor repeats,
"Governor Crosby is the only Gov
ernor Montana has had who is alive
to her interests" The Governor
said: 1T is time that thieving, the
illegal counting Of votes, ETC., should
BE- punished" and til. Inter Noun
tain pipes the same refrain. And
when the "dAwdIing dandy from the
banks of the Arno," quoted the lam
guage of Phil Sheridan to show u
rough Mountaineers that he is adopt
ing the style and manners of the
West, and said: "By G., this thing
must stop" cur meek-eyed neighbor
timidly raises its voice and says:
"By G., this thing must STOP
When the Helena syndicate said
"Judge Conyer was rightfully sus
pended" the chorus was taken up by
its Butte follower: "Judge Conger
was rightfulIy suspended" And
when the syndicate repeated the
thread bare lie that ''the Court
Judge Conger) afforded no remedy,
whether from the apathy of the dis
trict judge or collision with the
wrong doors is not yet made plainly
apparent" the Butte tail to the con-
Germ wagged its approval and re-
peated the falsehood.
Now we submit if this is the proper
way for an independent journal to
treat so grave a question as has been
opened to the PEOPLE of Montana by
the extraordinary action taken in
regard TO the Custer county matter.
There is not a lawyer in the Terri
tory who may properly be called
such, and who has a regard for his
professional reputation, that will
admit the legality of the proceedings
instituted against some of the OFF,
GERS of Custer. neither is there a
citizen IMMERSED in law who does
not know that if those proceedings
are sustained by Judge Wade, that
any officer in any county in the Ter
ritory may be ousted and another
man placed in his position by an act
of the Legislature. Admitted,
that the Board of Commissioners
of Custer county is composed of the
grandest rasc,l~ unhung; that they
have committed all the diabolical
acts charged against them and de-
serve punishment therefor, the
courts are the proper tribunals before
which they should lie arraigned.
And until it was shown that the
court Of that judicial district was in
with the alleged offenders
and hence corrupt nc change should
have been made in the personnel of
the judge. But the whole proceed
ings have been carried with a high
hand from the beginning un-
til the present time. Law
and precedents have been set
aside and might is ruling the hour.
There is a purpose in this which
the most obtuse cannot fail to see,
and hence it is the senseless
chatter Of the jack davis Of the
press, that utter the
Of the Helena ring, is
as void of reason as it is of truth.