The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1893-11-03
LIES CONTRADICT ED.

Since THE INDEPENDENT changed ownsl
ship II is making q sorry spectacle OF itseli
At heart II is Il Goldbng sheet. Only 4 fe'
days ago it referred to tho silver men Of th
west IS free coinags-or-nothing fools.
1t 10 q railroad and corporation organ.
now claims to have known oil nlonR tina
repeal would pass; and says its passage ha
long been discounted by the business IN .,
of Helena. 1t knows that the repeal ma
jority could have been made thirty as vol
q Comanche for an extra session OF the leg
is!ature upon the dishonest plea that one
moie vote woul defeat TsPsal.-Butte In
ter Mountain.
With the following exceptions the
above extract from the esteemed Inter
Mountain is correct: THE INDEPENDENT
is not making a sorry spectacle Of itself;
it is not at heart Il goldbug sheet; it
never referred to the silver mon Of the
west as "free-ccinage -or-nothing fools;'
it is not a railroad and corporation or
gan; it does not now claim to have
known all along that repeal would pass;
it did not say its passage has long been
discounted Ivy the business men Of Hell
ena; it does not know that the repeal
majority could have been made thirty
as we'll as eleven, and it has not been
bowling like a Comanche for an extra
session Of the legislature upou the dis
honest plea that one more vote would
defeat repeal.
The esteemed Inter Mountain lied as
often as it could in the extract quoted.
1t was anxious to lie more and would
have dom 80, no doubt, had it's editor
boon an ADLER liar. The INDEPENDENT
has been a consistent advocate of the
free coinage Of silver all the time and
it's readers know that fact too we'll to
be deceived by the Inter Mountain or
any other newspaper or person. Hav-
ing no prophets or descendants of
prophets on the staff, THE 1NDEpEN-
DENT has depended upon the same
sources that the Inter Mountain m
ploys for its new of happenings and
probable events at the capital. We
learn from the Inter Mountain for the
first time that we know that the major
ity for repeal could have been made
thirty as we'll IS eleven. The Inter
Mountain probably learned the fact by
the same occult method that revealed
to Gov. Richards that other astonishing
fact that had Montana elected a free
silver senator Wyoming and Washing
ton would have elected goldbug SEN
ators.
Discussing the probable effect in this
state OF the passage Of the Voorhees,
bill The INDEPENDENT Of Oct. 81 said:
"The bad local effects of unconditional
repeal have been largely discounted in
But little silver is now being
produced, and our people have been
preparing for the worst ever since con-
gress met in special session, as 1t has
been the belief Of those best informed
and most directly interested in silver
that the bill Internationally
repeating the silver purchase clause OF
the Sherman law would eventually pass
the senate and become law" Business
mon OF Butte and every other city in
had discounted the bad local
effects OF unconditional repeal. Like
the careful and conservative business
OF other sections they prepared for
the worst, while hoping for the best.
And they had the plainest and most
conclusive reasons for believing that
unconditional repeal would prevail in
struggle at Washington. They
that Montana, greatest Of silver
states, through her governor and the
Inter Mountain, had told the whole
world that the silver question was not
'f sufficient consequence to Justify the
state in paying a few legislators S. a
lay for two or three days in order TO
q free silver senatorl II the silver
was worth less than $500 to
Montana it certainly was not worth
more to any other state. The action Of
heir governor was reason enough for
to conclude that the battle
or silver would be lost, and reason
for them to prepare to discount
he bad local effects that might follow.
The efforts of the Inter Mountain ara
of course directed to the single purnose
throwing dust in the eyes Of the peo-
pie. The Hon. Lee Mantle wants to 90
% the United States senate and wants
q go there as a republican. Should the
governor get instructions to convene
he legislature Mr.. Mantle might be
and might not be. He does not
want to take the chances OF defeat now.
he would rather be elected as a repuL-
lean two years hence than that some
,ther free silver man should be elected
low.