The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-03-09
IN DEFENSE OF CARTER.

This belt of mountains never saw In
print n more g~raceless paragraph than
that in which, yesterday afternoon, the
Butte Inter Mountain sought to with
hold credit from Congressman Carter
for the handsome appropriation voted
to Helena by congress. Really, 1t looks
as il our venerable contemporary had
gone clean daft. Its oldest reader will
hardly recognize il as it hastens to de-
clare that Mr.. Carter is not responsible
for the bill and that since it is not a
house bill, il is plain to see that Mr..
Carter, II member of the house. is not
the father Of it," An astOunded public
will follow this remarkable sentence
with a volley of exclamation points.
There ought to 10 no politics i'm this
federal building business. The
STANDARD doesn't happen to trot in
the same political class with Mr.. Car
ter, but it will never be mean enough
to withhold all merited credit for sue
cessful service rendered by him i'm be-
half of his constituents. Our own SEN
timent il guided by hat noble utter
ance of the Inter Mountain which said
forty eight hours & that "Mr. Carter
In not the representative of Helena
alone, O is he the representative of
Butte Alone. but of both cities and at
the same time of all Montana" From
time to time the STANDARDS special
Washington dispatches have referred
to the deep interest taken by Mr.. Carter
i'm the Helena building. That is alto
gether to his credit. Helena surely will
not be so thankless as to deny him
applause. its republican newspapers
are nor offending by any such ungraci-
Gus conduct.
of all the newspapers cad in Butte,
the STANDARD was the first IA sought
to awaken public interest i'm a building
for that city. The response was ell
thusiastic. At first, Mr.. Carter was
asked to do as well for Butte as for
Helena. Then. when the reduction
process began in Washington, it was
proposed. i'm case Montana were re-
duced to one building, that Mr.. Carter
prefer Butte, on the square PROPOSE
ton of that city's merits. Butte had Il
right to ask this. The Inter .Mou0tain
cannot see why. but the people of Butte
do, and they favored the idea. Mean
while, i'm the STANDARD at least. Afr.
Carter shall have ample credit for m
public service successfully rendered.
lie will never live tn see the day when
this newspaper will sieZe his laurels to
toss them into the lap of senators who
live on II opposite shore of the dis
tant Missouri. 1t is true that members
of n federal senate We're helpful, and
the off reason for that is that
three of hem are largely Interested in
the ownership of Helena real estate.
However, Mr.. Carter will get his full
share of praise: and we imagine that
he is tickled half to death to reflect
that the Helena bill got out of the SEN
! ate before Sanders got i'm.
This unfriendly talk of the Inter
Mountain about Mr.. Carter puzzles us.
Hitherto he has been our Butte con-
temporary's chief joy. 1t has persist
emily praised him, with entire sincerity
we doubt not. lie is the one republican
i'm power whom the Inter Mountain
has learned tn like. lie is a prime
favorite with tho Main street organ.
which feels hat it must tolerate Sand
ers but which, To it's infinite credit,
holds Power i'm contempt. Will the
Inter Mountain belittle the congress
man now? We believe it will do moth
ing of the sort-not for long ut any
rate.
What remains is for all of us tn urge
Mr.. Garter to do at least as well by
Butte as by Helena and thus answer
the Inter -Mountoin's comprehensive
definition of a statesman man who
represents not Helena alone. not Butte
alone: but both cities. and at the same
time all Montana" He'll not have tn
spread himself out dangerously thin Ia
do that.