Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1889-11-20

!. be such by everybody in this com
immunity.
RI TOM CARTIER INTERVIEWED.
The Main street organ Of yesterday re
publishes the Chicago Tribune's recen,
Interview with Tom Carter as to the 20
litical situation in this state. It is prob.
able that Mr.. Carter sought the Tribune
and begged to be interviewed, for II
: there is any one, thing more than an.
other that delights his full-grown and
widely-known egotism 1t is to see Tom
: Garter in print. The Tribune is a paper
after Mr.. Carter's own heart. for ii
= didn't want the truth as to the political
situation here, but such an ingenious
and plausible story Of Misrepresentation
. as might deceive those who have no per-
: sonal knowledge Of the facts; such a
: story without regard to the truth as
: might convince the uniformed that Re-
> lpublieanism In Montana means law, or
der, good government, universal happi-
ness and prosperity and a free vote and
a fair count; and such a story without
regard to truth as might convince the
uniformed that Democracy in Montana
means the worst political condition that
could possibly be depicted. That's the
sort Of a story the Tribune wanted and
that is the sort it received, the proof of
which appears in yesterdays Inter
Mountain. What better could anybody
expect Of the Chicago TribuneP What
batter could anybody expect of Tom Car
ter2 What better could anybody expect
Of the Inter Mountain than that it would
republish the story and swear to its &C.
curacy though every material statement
has already been disproved by the aft
davits of reputable citizens, many of
whom are staunch Republicans and one
of whom was a Republican candidate on
the legislative ticket in Lewis and Clarke
county,
Mr.. Carter's story to the Tribune would
be a good one, indeed, If it were true,
but, as stated, 1t has been SO often dis
proved in Montana and SO c~onclusively
that 1t has nc more standing here than
q counterfeit dollar in a bank. The
story is a counterfeit, and in every par
ticular 1t is on a par with a counterfeit .
coin. IT may be Showed" upon the un- ,
informed, but never upon those who are r
familiar with the genuine. When Mr.. a
Carter found it would no longer pass in b
Montana he took it to Chicago and h
showed the queer" there through the as
'istance of the Tribune. who became a g
party in interest in the profits. But un- :
for Tom Carter and his &C. "
'omplice, the Tribune, Mr.. WI. Penrose, :
he editor of the Mining Journal of this
ity, and James A. Murray happened to
in Chicago when the Tribune counter
Dit wal put upon the Chicago market
nd Mr.. Penrose, in a three-column in :
'rview in the Herald Of that city, re
randed the counterfeit and thus I'M
;opped its circulation. If Mr.. Carter
I'D been disposed to tell the truth there
ere a great many material facts in re- big
ton to fraud at the Thirty-fourth pre- for
net and elsewhere in Montana which for
could not have suppressed, bat he was alt
1t so disposed, and If he had been the adj
'fbune scribe would have driven him ~
'm the building at the point of the tar
ears. MIR. Penrose, however, straight wer
ed out in Chicago the Montana politi- use am
situation through the Herald. He in n
her,
d Of the attempt of a few unprinci- Ems
I'd men, despised and rejected by their Sad
n party, to manufacture a case of foul
the
nd to order with the view of defeat one
: the will of the people and placing eas;
mselves in a position to rob the peo- tt
through the subtle channels of ma thai
legislation favorable to colossal was
His sense of delicacy did not by e
vent him from referring to Convict the
nard, the club, the bottle, the purse the c
the affidavit blank and perjured on es
as the means that were nrese
l to manufacture that fraud that
that all this has been shown time peril
again to the satisfaction of all hon ed sd% sa
men, without regard to party. he came
not forget to state that two of the and 8
q iudooe Of tb. Tn,,o, opoly
'~~e"S 'no Aunnoi piocinet were i've ia
lblicans, and that all of them and count
Jim
'lerKS sWOr0 That the vote was free cious
the count correct; that Jack had n mGra.
~ bet on the precinct and that that it rair
~ based
have influenced him as the chair It is a
Of the county ~canvassing board; t taudsa
The state board violated the law, and ignora
1t jumped through a window, tear tective
sash in its hurry to avoid pur- A amer
that a court Of law gave a judg-
against one and all of these conf
ors. ALI Of these facts and many heat r
Mr.. Penrose brought to the atten- 200, 90
If the people Of Chicago through to a Re
erald, and not one Of which did "sen,