The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-11-03
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THE SITUATION.
AS soon as Judge IDe wolfe's deci-
sion was rendered i'm the Mediation
of Silver how county were hurI led tn
Helena by special train and submitted
to the board of state canvassers
The news is that these returns were
received. but that, i'm turn. the state
board dispatched he private secretary
of n Governor to Butte in quest of
the abstracts of returns which were i'm
the keeping of Recorder Booth. The
Governors private secretary returned
tn Helena without these returns or an
abstract of them, and thus the count
for Montana is still in dispute.
Democrats will insist that the re-
corder was justified i'm withholding re-
turns that are under dispute and in the
hands of the court. In this they doubt
less nave n right of it.
On n other hand republicans
will wonder why returns that are i'm
dispute and which ave been carried
ntO court should be packed of to Hell
ena tn rec6Ue the sanction of a board
that has not received them through the
authorized channel: and the wonder
thus excited among republicans will he
the most natural thing i'm h world.
If any gentleman having average
horse sense can explain how the situa-
ton got into its present d he can
have i'm this newspaper all the space
he needs to put his explanation into
type.
If there is in the territory any level
headed man who never studied law but
who has five well developed senses who
can tell the truth when he sees il and
who is keen enough not to let II lot of
| precinct thieves get away with him,
the STANDARD would recommend his
immediate engagement, and ii will
help to make his pay liberal.
IL was n fools errand tn fly tn Helena
with returns which. confessedly. the
state returning board could not receive.
since the court confined itself to the
count on McIIatton. and even in his
case Hall refused to obey n mandate
of the court. Ii was n bigger fools err
rand to send the Governors private
clerk to Butte i'm quest of returns whose
validity were awaiting the Judgment of
the court.
This chasing up and down the terri
tory with returns that are entitled to b.
counted. is tiresome. IL gifted counsel
cannot get a decree seating members
of the Legislature who We're chosen 10y
the vote of the people. let the shining
kuts "t wv JOS see o"t w tbS way
and eav II issue tn h arbitrament
of the common people. We guarantee
that the men honestly elected will take
their seats.
But give the territory u rest Oh this
legal monkeying. which, before We
know ii, will make fraud clean and
theft reputable, if things go Oh at their
present pace.
We are toll that the moc were
lamentably weak in their pleadings.
That is true to the letter. We are as
sured hat the scheme to steal this state
expects to accomplish by intrigue and
technique what it could not hope to
achieve by square dealings. 1t looks
very much like it.
The democrats will los a just cause
I'm default of the exercise of average
common sense unless they take heed
and stop making blunders.
Fraud will never win i'm this territory
but fraud will steal the livery of heaven
with which tn serve Satan whenever II
gets q chance: and it's our opinion that
the men assuming tn manage democratic
politics in Montana are giving fraud
every possible chance to get it's work
i'm. this trip.