The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-10-29
The FIRST DAY

THE FIRST DAY.
Proceedings i'm Judge DE Wolfe's
court relative to the vote at the tunnel
precinct hardly got a fair start yester-
day. Most of the hours during which
the court sat were vOte tn the dis
eussion of technicalities having no re-
lation to the merits of the issue. m
concerning legal trities incident to the
preparation of papers i'm the case. The
lawyers who are defending the case are
disposed % he quite as severely tech
meal n were the laymen who tried to
steal the state.
The theme of yesterdays discussion
In fully set forth in the STANDARDS re-
port of yesterdays proceedings in
Butte. II appears that the action in the
ease Of Mr.. Mediation WAS brought i'm
the name of the people of Montana, a
form with which h members of the
legal profession. and laymen as well, are
familiar. But the counsel for the re-
turning board insisted that this was
wrong, since sovereignty does not lodge
with the people of Montana but with
the territory, and that therefore the
writ under which the proceedings
started should issue i'm the name of the
territory itself and not in h name of
people.
Judge DE Wolfe found that the OBJ
lection thus raised to the proceedings
wa extremely technical, hut he gave
the lawyers all the advantage they
asked for, and thus the writ Of mandate
was open to correction. Then the coun-
sel insisted that the writ could not be
amended, and that point WAS discussed
but it was not sustained and the cas-
proceeded. Before adjournment the
right Of Judge DE Wolfe to hear the
,.u. .H,alaA A,,l chat 80
the case will he disposed Of to-day.
The plan OF the defense evidently In
10 throw every possible delay i'm the
way OF progress i'm this case and, by the
introduction of all of frivolous
objections to Ike ,p AN n Z ,omt the real is
sue as long AZ possible. The i~nexcusable
delay will vex the public, but il mo
be- helped. A conspiracy of this sort,
afraid to face the real issue, il pretty
apt to cling persistently to trifies.
drowning men grasp at straws and, in
this county, the code il no liberal
toward offenders that Justice some
times journeys SLOW. 1t is best, how
vel. that these people a all the rope
they want There will come an end to
trifies by and by. and then the real issue
ean be disposed Of i'm short order.
Counsel for the Silver Bow returning
board have NO love for the people. They
have been trying to count the people
out n they are quick to notice the
improperly there is in permitting the
name of h people to be used in con-
nectiOn with anything relating To the
conspiracy.
4 negro student at Harvard has
been made famous by his election as
class orator. All these years gradua-
ting classes have been electing orators
for the 'swell" day i'm graduation week
but the Negro is first On the list to win
wide fame out of the appointment.
Now that Ia newspapers have printed
extended sketches of this young man,
starting i'm with the cradle i'm which he
was rocked, at the home of "a Washing
ton barber. they will find ii necessary to
60 through IA same process ag ain. AZ
. telegram that the MEM
beers Of the class of w i'm Cornell uni
versity adopting the Harvard III All
v also elected "A darby orator for
class-day. strangely in contrast all
this with IA fact that. -four weeks ago
officers Of h American navy refused
outright h cOurtesies Of their mess
TO Frederick Douglass. while on the
way ~ perform duties incident to a
diplon ATTIC mission.