The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-12-08

even the seciusion OF a seat on the SUI
preme court would not permit you 10 be
in ignorance of his depraved reputation
you probably do not know. however.
that those vices which most men put by
them with their youth he has continued
TO his Impotent old age. You may not be
acquainted with the fact. and others who
are seduced into partaking of his degrad-
ing hospitality may not be, that he is a
defaulting debtor to the Peoples bank OF
| this city In the sum of over $4,000 upon a
Judgment. payment of which he with
holds In fraud OF the suffering stockhold-
ers of Ina Institution. But even n you
did know Of the existence OF this unpaid
Judgment held by the Peoples bank land
OF n number of others OF record TO be
seen OF an mem. you probably did not
know that while he Is thus defrauding
that ~plundered institution of Its just dues.
he still nightly squanders his money over
the gaming table. lives in ostentatious
luxury and endeavors TO wine and dim
public fu~nctionaries. judicial and other.
who are so foolish or ignorant as 20 be
sullied by companlonship."
1t was not to be expected that Colonel
Mcclure would stand this sort of attack
without striking some singing blows In
return. The leading editorial OF the
Times OF last Saturday is entitled is
Gordon Insane or Criminal?" IL is a
masterpiece of invective. worthy of
Dana or watterson in his ugliest mood.
Several of Gordon's charges are de-
MED specifically. among them the one
that Mcclure owes the Peoples bank
SIS. 900 or any other sum. III Judge Cor
dom" says the Times. can give a single
G,.to.n1 pVnAontAA hu any rQannnoih1p
source. accusing the editor OF the Times
| of having received a bride of IN kind
TO influence his legislative action. we
would be glad to give such person an
opportunity to establish IL. Babbling
biackguards have made such accusa-
terms. and chiefly from men who. like
himself. are writing with shivered
lances by their sides" In conclusion
| the Times says:
As 70 Mr.. McClure's manner OF living
or personal or social habits. he needs nc
vindication In this smmunity. and such
indecent defamation needs no refutation
against one who had 20 choose between
| retiring from the bench he had dishonored
or accept ~disgraceful dismissal; who had
permitted the prostitution OF his tudicial
powers In politics only to reach the eli
max OF disastrous and disreputable fall
ure. and who seems 10 have succeeded In
little or nothing beyond making the char
acter of Ananias comparatively respecta-
BILE. IL has been the pride of A. X. Nc
Clure that he has always been able. In
his public and private efforts, to provoke
and TO defy the vindictive hatred and
defamation OF every public jobber. every
public thief. every official perjurer and
every forcibly disrobed Judge; and ir
charitable pity he accepts Judge Gordon's
as the highest compliment ever given him
from the criminal class of the state.
The controversy can't go any farther
without calling in the III OF guns. II
all this were happening in Kentucky
bullets instead OF epithets would be fly
ing before now. But what has this
got to do with the guilt Of innocence
OF Matthew S. Quay?