The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-10-16

cause the managers of the conspiracy
asserted, forty-eight hours before final
decision was reached. that they knew
what u republican supreme court
would do i'm the premises. Call the
STANDARD tn account. gentlemen. III
you please. for this allegation. and fet
the public learn whether il is true or
false.
The situation il critical because the
STANDARD IL persuaded that the con-
spiracy is likely To win. II has no
backing worth the name with any re-
publican newspaper printed in Mon
tana yet We suspect that fraud il to
carry the day. Men with whom public
office and personal preferment out
weigh all considerations hat have thei
inspiration i'm patriotic purpose are be-
hind this crime. And let nothing that
is here said be- left to conjecture. Will
bur i. Sanders. Of Helena. and Hiram
Knowles. of Butte. are the promoters
of this dastardly business. This news
paper will not grossly insult them by
making the Seligmans, the Nantes and
he Twins partners in their
conspiracy. These two men. in
fiuenced by AN unholy zeal
for unearned honors are the offenders
who rave fixed indelible stigma on the
name of William II. Jack: these two
men merit the contempt Of every
American citizen who prizes fair play.
The STANDARD pledges itself to live.
1t will live if for no other purpose than
to follow these men like M avenging
Nemesis. to make burdensOme to them
all the honOrs that are possible under
American citizenship. to din unceas-
ingly in the public ear the story of their
conspiracy, to hold them up tn public
contempt, to warn men of honest i'm
pulse n who low dectncy in politics
against them. to herald them every
where as the enemies of this
wealth while they live and to brand
their memory with obliquy when Mon
ana's environing hills shelter their
~dishonored graves.
Republican newspapers are explain
ing" the defeat Of their ticket i'm the re-
cent charter election at indianapolis.
They leave out Of account the import
ant factor that Dudley. he famous for
the blOcks-of-five system was not i'm
town. for reasons that rest Oh his liza
bility to police interference with his
movements. In Dudley's absence,
Quay would have been IL good man i'm
indianapolis.
It upltp DO said tina harm came
from publicity given to scandals Incl
dent tn divorce proceedings. and the
practice Of q hearing before q referee
came in vogue. Now il appears that
the evils incident to secrecy are greater
than those that can arise when all the
filth in dumped in open court, because
officers Of h law willingly lend them
selves to performances that make
courts a burlesque and the Law itself an
agency for fraud and deception. The
Flack case. i'm New York city. has
caused a revulsiOn i'm public sentiment,
and, although II il a downright pity to
have sO much filth flung at the public,
it in altogether probable that publicity
i'm all these cases will be enjoined.
Topp is the somewhat unusual name
Of the individual on whose dishonest
practices the Ohio election In spinning
just now. George II. Topp. he signs
himself. and he bid fair to spoil Gov
ernor Foraker's chances for q third
term. Topp was appointed to mem
bership in the board of public affairs
ny NIS VII " 81 Unity. Ill
u letter written four months ago. he
ordered bills made out for gravel mt "A
price that would give him % cents per
yard in cash. 1t was a very smooth
Ephraim arrangement. and now For
aker is having it ascertained that Topp
was insane at the time h letter was
written. He's all clear now i'm u men
tai sense. but he is the central figure i'm
theO Ohio canvass, and n very bad show.
ing he makes.
Tacoma has always been deemed the
favored child Of the Northern Pacific
railroad. although its chief rival OH
Puget Sound has steadfastly held t.
the belief that the day was not distant
when Mr.. Willard would permit Seattl.
to enjoy favors with Tacoma. shart
and share alike. Less han three year.
ago the situation looked fairly desper
ate for seattle. but the newspapers al
that city now claim that i'm the tariff ri
the Northern Pacific road both towns
have been put on precisely the sam,
basis. II is asserted that hereafter n,
discrimination against seattle is tn b,
permitted. and that the new tariff re