The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-06-26

legations OF official wrong-doing
brought by Miss Harris against super
Carleton. These nave been
80 frequently repeated in the press of
the state that the public Is familiar
with them. Next day the Standard
printed a letter from Mr.. Carleton. the
essential part OF which is that Miss
Harris was engaged temporarily to do
stenographic work in the Office at $50
a month. She vas not engaged as
the regular clerk" In her riginal
statement she admits the hiring at $50
a month. and she will not deny il. She
was inexperienced and not worth more
than that mount.
The letter of Mr.. Carleton to the
Standard was more than a column long.
but the short passage is its essential
part. Much of the Carleton letter deals
with wha he styles the original
story" He says: i have read Miss
Harris statement as she has made II
over her own signature, and / only re-
gret that the Standard did not get her
original story n print II in fun" Lat
err in his ~letter-the Standard printed IT
June I4-Mr. Carleton says: Her own
letter. first submitted to the press here
CHelena). shows that she has no cause
of complaint" This Original state
ment'' or letter submitted to the press
here" is something the and
the public know nothing whatever
about and never heard OF until Mr..
Cartoons mention OF II. AS appears
below, however, Miss Harris denies
having written any letter at all. 20
that the letter which Mr.. Carleton took
nearly a column Of space in the stand
ard of June IA to lombard, is as much
q MYTH, so far as the public knows, as
q Spanish phantom fleet.
To hasten to the letter addressed by
Mr.. Carleton to Governor SInith-the
burden of II is that this newspaper has
refused to print corrections made by
Miss Harris, and that the state super
fntendent is put in a wrong light. This
is reinforced by the remark OF the lnde-
pendent, kuoted above, which says
that MI. Carleton read the story of
the affair printed in the
when he read it, The went to Miss Har-
ris and said the story as printed in the
Standard was not according 10 the
facts and. at Mr.. Cartoons request, she
sent a correction to the west side paper
which was not printed"
All About the Letters.
How now? The Standard did receive
from Miss Harris a letter written after
the publication in these columns of the
Carleton letter. The Standard did not
print what Miss Harris wrote. 1t seemed
not essential; IL sustained every fact
of account in the original statement;
Ii seemed to smack a little OF ptoue
IL was rather needlessly personal; IL
dragged in the name of Mrs. Carleton
uselessly; ii seemed to throw no light
on the case: the Standard withheld II
from publication. The way Mr.. Garlic
ton tells 1t this Withholding on the
Standards part does him injustice sc
gross that he wants an investigation to
set the facts right. 1t is not too late
now to set Mr.. Sarleton right II the
publication of the withheld Harris let
ter will do that. The Standard willing
ly gives II space-still satisfied. how
ever. that the letter were as well left
imprinted. 1t is dated at Helena, ad-
dressed to the Standard, and signed
by Josephine Harris. Here is the let
ter:
I'm the Standard of June 10. under
the heading of Serious Charges
Against Carleton Mr.. Carleton in an
interview Is quoted as saying that there
was no truth in the statement / had
made to the correspondent, n that
/ he understood ] had made the charges
against him through being vexed al