The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-10-18

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PROSTATE and cannot lift his voice i'm
protest.
HOW ABOUT "?
Chairman Seligman hastens to assert
that no charges of any description
against Judge DE Wolfe have ever been
sent to Washington, within the knowl-
edge Of the republican committee.
That gentleman protests too much
and denies what this NEWSPAPER has
never charged. We nave asserted, how
ever, that a movement to bring the dis
trict court into disgrace n to remove
Judge DE Wolfe was both started and
matured as far as the dark-lantern re-
publicans who manage the Silver Bow
business could perfect it. If Mr.. Selig-
man in disposed to raise any question
on this point. let him step right to the
front. and if he wants the list of
names Of prominent republicans who
knew all about the movement and
then fastened to deny their own rom
nectiOn Herewith, all he has to do il
to call for il.
The STANDARD will he grateful i'm
behalf of every reputable citizen Of
Montana If this scheme perishes before
il il allowed tO ripen, hut it will not do
tn tell us that it was not planned or
that republicans of conspicuous prom
inence were in Ignorance about it. 1t
in not news to he told that Charges
against Judge DE Wolfe have not been
forwarded tn Washington" We are
all well aware Of the fact: and we are
also aware that the gang Of conspira-
tors who concocted the cOwardly AZ
sault were restrained only by the fear
of whitening popular condemnation
that overlook them.
The people Fan find cause for con-
graduation i'm the fact that Montana
may escape this most dastardly of out
RACES. At this time, when an Office
hungering horde il seeking to thwart
the popular will. to trifie with the
registered ballot and to throw every
possible obstacle i'm the pathway to
statehood. let us rejoice tn know
that, at least, the assault on Montana's
judiciary may yet be frowned down.
KEEPING IN THE DARK.
Montana cannot pass the portals of
the Union hand i'm hand with the sister
hood Of states i'm the Northwest. She
is to he left behind. North Dakota,
south Dakota and Washington are
ready to I've received. They have waited
for us but they are impatient and they
are to be welcomed without us. The
fact furnishes cause for deep regret,
the more profound because the people.
anxious tn enter in. are delayed by the
wiles of a handful Of ccnspiring dema-
ogues
\ republican contingent did its best
to block Montana's advance toward
statehood last spring. h mean motive
at that time having its source in the
idea that, for political reasons it would
be better to hold the admission bill until
President Harrison could sign it. An
other republican contingent, incompar-
ably meaner and more cowardly i'm it's
methods, blocks the way of Nontana's
progress now. 1t must astound every
patriotic citizen to reflect how fiimsy
the pretext il OH which these political
wreckers base any excuse for the delay.
the turmoil and h ill-repute in which
they have involved this territory and
it's people.
There il not a reputable republican
i'm Montana who offers To father the con-
spiracy Matched out last week in Butte.
IL In an open secret that Congressman
Carter affects tn regard the business
with disfavor. The Helena managers
have never allowed their names to be
publicly used i'm connection with the
outrage. The statement has been vol
unteered by republican newspapers
that Colonel Sanders has held quite
aloof from it. and h party press has
defended the relations of Judge
Knowles to the conspiracy on the rom
venient professional grounds that are
supposed to shield "a lawyer in defending
a perjured assassin or a besotted harlot.
of the democratic members of the can
wasting board, flies of to Europe
knowing that he annot he here on the
first Monday in November. although
his presence on that occasion might be