The Yellowstone journal., 1894-12-28
Friday, December. %. 1894.
10! HE HAS Spoken.

Tom Alexander. Cuhe Of Forsyth aud
chief conspirator in the plot 10 create
Rosebud county, has evidently been
moved by the suggestion made by this
paper that Joe Allen was putting up Il
very Indifferent sort uf fig, for county
division. This is made conspicuous by
the new Billings paper the Yellowstone
Recorder taking hand in the fight to
the extent of publishing what purports
10 be an interview with the duke. in
which he IL allowed to unload himself Of
a half a column OF stutr that he could
not safely trust to Joe Aliens diplomacy
or his English. In the alleged inter
view the dule modestly confesses that
he is "the instigator and prime mover IN
the scheme. and that IT is two years old.
thus giving the lie direct TO his Forsyth
organ manipulated by Mr.. Allen, which
has shrieked in ever, key that county
division was up to week or two ago, a
nightmare of the YELLOWSTONE JoCE-
NAL. and never thought of 10y mnn.
woman or child IN Forsyth. Now Mr.
Alexander permits the Billings paper to
state authoritatively. that he has been
at it for two years at least, and how
much longer no one knows. The duke
further says that he has just returned
from Helena. where his business was to
utterly rip up and destroy a lobby that
Miles City had established there to fight
county division, and from this general
statement he makes the mistaLeof par
ticularizing by stating that Banker
Jordan" and =. J. Porter, Of Miles City,
were the persons who had built up this
lobby. This must have been rough
guess on the dukes part. as Mr.. Jordan
has not been In Helena for several years,
and Mr.. Porter's recent visit there was
solely on legal business. OF course the
duke was successful in completely dis
solving this lobby that his Imagination
had cOniured up. and in consequence of
this victory he tells the Billings man
that he now feels quite confident of ulti-
mate success. having secured one mem
Der of the Legislature, with fair pros
pect of getting another. 1t is hard to
guess who the ''one member" is that the
duke has corraled. 1t cannot be Jim
Hopkins, for we have his card staring US
in the face with its point blank asser
tions that he is opposed to county di.
vision, The duke then goes on to tell
the Billings man how many signatures
he has got on his petition for division,
and here again he makes slip by going
recklessly into particulars. He mentions
only two outfits that he claims are in
sympathy with his movement; one Is the
Charlton Montana Cattle Co and the
other J. j. Thompson. We are not ad-
vised of the attitude of the Charlton
Montana Company on this subject, but
we do know that Mr.. Thompson is ac-
lively opposed to it, and is doing every
thing he can to strengthen opposition on
the Upper Rosebud. We don't like to
ultimate that the duke habitually per
verts the truth to serve his ends. but it
is nevertheless fact that in this short
narrative that he pours forth into the
hopper of his new organ, he mas lied
twice or else he failed to read proof on
his article. 1t is unfortunate for the
Yellowstone Recorder that in taking up
the fight for Tom A,exsnder it has to
antagonIze the other Tom" Barry who
has always been such an admirer Of the
editor of the Recorder. but it is written
that one cannot serve two masters and
Just now it is probable that Banker
Alexander will give down more freely
than the other One good thing will
come out of this interview: poor hard
worked old Affidavit-Joe Allen will
hereafter be relieved of the necessity of
swearing that county division origin
ated only last night and then on the sug
gestion Of the YELLOWSTONE JOURNAL.