Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1889-12-25
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ooVAVuS. 4 Aec onVAtc W Aaon0 AVo koouO
believe that a lie is the truth, and that
theft is the unmistakable symbol Of hol
esty. It gets in the amen corner, tune
its voice with the choir Of bosses, and
sings the same old song over and Owe
again as though 1t were the only one i
the book. No matter what the intimi
dators, the bribers, the periurers, tn
conyicts may do, they can one and al
depend upon the Journal, and, indeed
the entire Republican press of Montana
o to crowd into the amen corner, that the.
may not be without the appearance o
sanctity. and sing a sacred song Of in
jured innocence, while they, theil
pals on the outside break down the
safeguards Of the people and rob them
Of their most sacred inheritance. These
pals use the sand bag of the intimida-
tor, the ill-gotten Doodle of the briber
the oath Of the perjurer, the stripes Of
the convict, the courts of justice, and
even the religion of the Master, that the
truth may be suppressed and a lie pre-
vail, and in all of which they have the
willing and unqualified support of the
Republican press. But a still more de-
plorable ingredient in the Republican
hotchpotch that boils over with fraud is
the men from whom the state has the
right to expect the highest sense of
duty-the men who were elected to rep
resent the state in a capacity that de-
mands the highest and best attributes OF
citizenship, and who were SO elected
because they were supposed to possess
such qualifications. That such men
should sacrifice personal charac-
acter which had been built
up through the well : directed
efforts of many years is
grievous disappointment to their friends,
a milestone around the neck of the states
destiny, an irretrievable disgrace to
themselves, a faint upon the blood OF
their posterity and a wholesale triumph
for the devil and the municipality over
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which he presides. The present political !
situation in this state is a most serious ]
matter, and it is so simply because Of
the prominence Of some of the men who !
are identified with the paid partisan l
press and the in%timidators, bribers, per- 8
jurers and convicts. The latter would
have no standing nor the cause which a
they represent If it were not for the 81
former. MI. Richards and his colleagues n
are not the first men who had borne good Il
regulations who have accepted political "
jobs from the hands of crime after it had
passed through the dangerous stages, K
and who have then attempted to bolster in
them up with the strength of previous in
good character and social and business or
prominence. The men who are to-day th
engaged in an effort to complete the tn
swindle of honest citizenship in Mon CT
tana OF its rights may not be amenable Pi
to any law, except that of God, but they no
stand convicted at the bar of err
public opinion Of having trailed their wi
integrity and manhood in the mire, and gu
svery one Of the number is destined to a ma
ostracism that time cannot out sta
i've nor repentance atone. Agood repu- ma
alton and prominence are well to have, dis
ut the penitentiaries are crowded with pal
nen who might have escaped the cell had Rel
not been for the opportunities of say
equation and prominence. The rec of
rds Of the courts prove that the best tina
quotations have succumbed to the frail- ma
les Of men when subjected to the fiat eve
Try Of opportunity and the realm of met
,litics has contributed its quota. very
Lieutenant Governor Richards and his Nor
have outraged the written fran
I'd unwritten constitution of every civ Kno
Ized country by their action on Thurs coll,
y last, and 1t is as useless for tho Hell
a Journal to attempt to make the
'ong to appear to be the right in this q,
~ disc
0u' 'n0 the
~ '"y' and
l'' the
ased to designate "The Senate Organ "a. d,
d" I'm the same article it says: .oto
is nothing in the constitution OF su.,,
requiring q majority vote on the -.
t OF o legislative body in the selection
bs temporary officers. The right to effect
result by a plurality vote 10 not ques.
led In the fundamental law OF this state. pi0 Oh
4 q majority vote il reopired ,or tbs day, {
,tment OF law is clearly specified, but q reill
does not, even by Implication. involve the ey
OF temporary officers. can u
the senate has no rules, and as tell.
Q Is nothing in the constitution pro- theolo
ag that a plurality vote shall be law into IL
then the unwritten law which gov cal ser
all deliberative bodies in the alb tical a
} of the written should obtain, and partak
The very argument that the esthsti
lal adduces to prove the correctness expect