The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-06-15
JURplE-BlAkE.

Yesterdays special dispatch from
Washington to the Helena Independent
says: Judge Blake of Montana is In
Washington. Colonel Sanders intro
duced him to Senator Turpie, remark
ing that Blake is one of the members
of the supreme court to whom the SEN
ator alluded as the triple coil of ad-
ders' in his speech on the Montana
case"
In a way, this little incident is char
acteristic of Colonel Sanders. The re-
mark was evidently something he had
carefully thought out, executed and
then told to the Independent CORE
spOndent for transmission to Helena.
II does not appear TO M that the re-
mark was particularly impOlite-no to
the senator from Indiana at any rate,
because he certainly could stand it If
Judge Blake could. In other words, If
anybody was put to the blush, by the
colonel's words, it was Blake. We
warrant that, after Sanders fired of his
little quotation, Senator Turpie didn't
feel called upon to take anything back
or to make any explanations to the
guest from Montana.
The whole affair teaches us that the
eloquent address of Senator Turpie,
with its forcible figures of speech,
fingers in the mind of Senator Sanders.
That Power has some of Senator Turp-
les phrases craven on his memory,
goes without saying. Undoubtedly
they are present with him by day and
by night.
TN the floor of the senate, Senator
Turpie had a right TO say anything he
was willing personally to back up re-
garding the ~pretenders from Montana.
lie was bold about it. IL what
he said about either Sanders
or Power is untrue, these men would
be justified in calling Turpie to per-
sonal account, because he was very Sc
we're i'm his structures and intensely
personal i'm his comments. We have
not heard that either of the frauds
from Montana have served notice on
Mr.. Turpie, SO that, under the circum-
stances, it would be pretty cunning for
both of them to keep still.
As to MOntana's court, the STAND
ARD has treated ii with distinguished
courtesy, because it is the peoples
court and merits the respectful recog-
milton which this newspaper is not dis
posed to withhold. Judge Blake is
responsible for the only decision the
court has rendered that has any diIe,t
bearing on politics: that is the decision
which he prepared in the L~loyd-Sulli-
van case. IL was wordy, carelessly
composed, and devoted to points that
were not properly under review. II
seated Lloyd, as everybody predicted it
would, because the case was II purely
in the realm of politics. II did not in
terest the public, nor did it set right
anything element in an affair which
the majority of the people of Montana
believed and still believe To be wrong.
The STANDARD is the only newspaper.
republican or democratic, in Montana
that printed a full summary of the de-
cision. so that il may assume to know
something about the impression made
on the public by the Blake opinion,
which leaves every detail of the issue
still TO be settled by the people.
However, Judge Blake, his opinion
and the seating of Lloyd are matters
not worth discussing now. They would
not be revived but for the embarrass-
ment under which Judge Blake was
uselessly placed when Colonel Sanders
introduced him to the Indiana senator.
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