Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1892-02-20

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taken possession of the valley: We
have comfortable place in which
to shelter our family ,an office suffic-
iently eonmodious to accommodate
the Herald and it's force The latch
string of both places is,and will ever
be; on the outside, and a generous
welcome is extended to all who will
call to see us either on business or
for social reasons.
A Great Convulsion of Nature.
San Francisco Examiner.
Mr.. Harrison's war with Chile
being "news" has absorbed so mucll
of the public's attention that but
little has been left for the mere
| "event" Of Justice Fields contest
with Senator Power of Montana.
| Both incidents are now either exl
hausted or iii a fair way to hesome
SO. The Chilian affair MAY fJf d
month or SO grumble and thunder
with an aniable and diminuenGd
persistence begotten Of the mere
inertia Of the official tongue, but
| the Field Power matter is praGtia,
ally thing Of history. From the
correspondence which Justice Field
has now submitted to the country
with an oral message explicating
the situation we can get tolerably
vivid sense of the magnitude of the
! great couvulsion which was ''on'f
while all minds were fixed upon
VALPARAISO, and for the first time
understand, with devout thankful
ness for our escape, that "an earth
quake reeled unheededly away"
| Senator Power was reported to
have said in a speech at Hele>f;e
that the illustrious jurist Of whom
Californians are SO proud that many
of our dogs are namedin his honor
had acted as lobbyist in procur<
ing appointments ofjudges in the
interest of the railroads. 70 a
sensitive man who has never before
been accused of anything this must
have been exceedingly shocking:
It is not surprising that be at once
plucked quill from his angel wing
and making pen of it wrote a
letter to Senator Power (the wonder
is that he did not write two asking
if he said SO wicked a thing of sy
good MAN.
Over the reply 10 this letter let
us pass as quickly as possible /:
there are manifestation of human
unworth upon which it is unmeet
to linger. We grieve to state tflat
Senator Power answered, out Of ar
idle mood and with carelessness
most unsuited to the occasion, that
much which the newspapers had
said was incorrect and unauthor-
lied and that one of the learned
Justices decisions had been great
ly criticised. In short, his letter
seems to show, and no doubt was
designed to show, that he would
take the trouble to neither to answer
the great mans question nor to
ignore it. A more irritating atti<
tude in controversial adversary tt
is difficult to conceive. Another,
longer and more earnest letter fronf
the eminent jurist followed; point
ing out in detail the particulars
wherein the Senatorial reply fell
short Of being an answer and stren-
uously demanding one>
That closed the correspondence
the Senator making no reply, the
Justice had the last word, thouglA
like every disputant who is assured
Of it he was all the more 10th toy
to speak tin fact, be continued
the debate single and with marked
asperity for a considerable period,
in the press. But at last "the thun~
ders are hushed on the moors."
Almost simultaneously with the
effacement of the Malta note as a
casus bell between two great Amer
lean powers, the renowned lnnomi~
nee of the Stocton Convention
mutters in his beared his ultimate
protestation Of honesty and the in
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