The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-01-21
the WORK IN BUTTE.

TIE WORK IN BUTTE.
This newspaper proposes to extOl
that which is good and condemn tina
which is evil, every time. That is what
il was born for, and the fact that it
grows and prOspers i'm a community
that admires fairness and demands de-
cency, is proof that il is fulfilling its
mission.
The STANDARD has pointed out evils
i'm the administration of city affairs in
Butte. IN this work it cordially invites
a continuance of the Butte Inter
Mountain's hearty opposition, invOk-
ing il, i'm the future as it has in the
past, to stand, up to its u~noffended nos
trils, amid the surrounding official filth
and utter no word of protest; thus
pursuing the time-stained policy which
has compelled it to grope through the
journalistic world all these weary years,
leaving the STANDARD, not yet five
months old. to claim a larger circula-
ton than the Inter Mountain can
show, and prove that claim OIL call.
Weeks q the STANDARD earnestly
directed attention to the gross malad-
ministration of an important office i'm
the police department Of Butte. There
was nothing like insinuatiOn i'm the
pointed comment then made. The
name of the offender was distinctly
put i'm type eleven days ago. 1t was
repeated on occasion, and the inquiry
ordered by the city council was aimed
directly at the official whose name the
STANDARD had openly used.
When n inquiry was progressing,
evidence SO conclusive i'm character
was produced that the STANDARD FRO
posed i'm a sentence, now twice quoted
8 A. a Al..a
should resign, otherwise the time would
soon come when "a removal would be
necessary. All that the STANDARD has
said in this respect il confirmed by
what Judge Newkirk himself frankly
admits. Meanwhile, it appears to be
the disposition of the authorities to
give that gentleman another trial. The
event must prove the wisdom of this
course. The STANDARD certainly il not
disposed to pursue Mr.. Newkirk, to deal
with him i'm any spirit of unfairness or
to interfere with the better service Of
which he il capable il he keeps his
word. If he does this, il will he a
grateful reform wrought in Butte's po-
lice administration, i'm the Inaugural
ton of which the Butte Inter Mountain
has neither part nor lot.
IL now our Butte contemporary
wishes to manufacture any political
capital out of this business, il has our
full approval. 1t may have the whole
assortment in hat line to itself that is
not our field. Its present Intellectual
mission is to defend Mayor Kenyon,
City Attorney Corbett and a string Of
officers who never, for all we know,
were subjected to even q much as the
slightest insinuatiOn i'm any newspaper.
If the STANDARD eve has occasion to
pass just criticism on any officer of
Butte, the person interested will not
find il necessary to lush to h Office of
h Butte Inter Mountain i'm order to
find out whether he has been hit.
The Inter Mountain requests MS to
furnish information regarding official
remissness i'm Butte. IA to which the
STANDARD will produce evidence when
it il ready. We are not hurried by any
fear hat the Inter Mountain will get
away with the news ahead OF the
STANDARD. We are safe OH that point.
We suggest that il our neighbor would
ask less questions and do more rustling
IL would be a mighty sight better news
paper han il is. And we heartily agree
with the Inter Mountain OH another
important point; it il strange indeed
that a paper printed 30 miles away
from Butte should be the one to be
helpful to that city I'm all salutary
measures and the most useful in direct
ing It's people to the official field where
reform Ia needed. But such is the fact.
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