The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1894-11-03
The Butte Miner Meets the An.
acOnda Standard Fairly
and SGuarely.
THE STANDARD KEEPS SILENT.
"A Keen ltebuke Administered
From the Pen of the Ver-
Satile Quinn.

L
Front" the Standard of Yesterday
morning printed challenge to Hell
ena to debate the capital question
upon the rostrum, the challenge hav-
ing been issued after it had been
clearly demonstrated at Missoula
that paid mob of Anaconda howlcrs
in the rear of the hall could defeat
any speaker and knock the best of
arguments into smithereens. The
Standard, which for two months has
been the coward in the fight, run
ming away from a discussion of the
merits of the question and stink ing
into it's hole whenever The Miner has
endeavored to drag it out into the
open, now shouts from behind it's
gang Of heelers and thugs: "Come to
the Front!'
AS both The Miner and Standard
reach more people in one day than
the stump speaker can get into halls
during an entire campaign, we take
this occasion of acting upon the
Standards sham show of courage and
respectfully, earnestly and anxiously
inviting it to "Come to the 'front.'"
Is the Standard in earnest? Does
it want anyone to come to the front
and discus the capital question free
from the bulldozing tactics of the
mob. Will it give the people fair
debate in cold type, where every
man can read for himself and use his
own Judgment? Will it engage in
discussion of the question in the
greatest of all forums-the press
where the commonest citizen and
most modest of voters can give his
intelligence full play and discuss
with himself the issues upon which
he is called to act--a forum where
noise cannot take the place of argu-
ment, where brass bands cannot
drown the voice of reason and where
the merchant in his office, the mag
nate in his palace and the workman
in his humble home stand upon an
equal footing? That is the question
which The Miner submits to the Ana
aconda Standard and the Anaconda
capital committee!
Will the Standard come to the
front?
Come now, Standard, be candid
about it. Dare you "come to the
'front.'" You have given to your
editorial page caption which leaves
you no alternative but to crawl out
of your hiding place and at least
make show of fight or admit that
you have no arguments to produce,
no reasons to offer for the removal of
the capital to Anaconda and no ex-
cuse or apology for the silence and
trembling cowardice with which you
have thus far treated the capital
question. 1t is an easy matter to
challenge reputable citizen to de-
bate when you know that he will be
answered by hooting mob of hired
disturbers. To issue an indefinite
challenge to citizen in the hope of
compelling him to meet some sub
sidized demagogue or irresponsible
blatherskite is trick so old that it
smells of mildew and decaying moss.
These subterfuges can deceive no
one. The people cannot be blinded
by any such transparent insincerity,
especially when the challenge comes
from newspaper which has not
only failed to discuss the question,
but has proved cringing and voice.
less coward whenever a challenge
has been issued.
If the Standard will not scome to
the center? VIII it ctond mp
Will it rise from the dust in which
it has been PROSTATE for months and
look The Miner in the face? Will
it move, wriggle, roll over, crook a
finger or bat an eye in order that
we may know whether it needs the
services of coroner or a physician?
1t has been down SO long tnat it has
long since been counted out, but