The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-12
THURSDAY, JAN. II. 1899.
TWELVE PAGES.
Trying to Insult His Betters.
HE defense w. A. Clarl

HE defense W. A. Clark pro-
poses to put in is outlined in
the columns of his paper, the
quite Miner. That newspaper promptly
raises the howl that DAILY did it, The
Miners assertion is that the $4,000
turned over to the state is Mr.. Days
own money.
Let US look into this effort of Mr..
Clark's newspaper to divert public at
tention from the truth. To begin with,
what the public knows about this mat
ter is what the public reads. in the
newspapers. in report of what was said
and done at Helena. The Miner has
deliberately withheld the truth and the
facts from the public. The man who
! reads the Miner and accepts as final it's
recital of what happened at Helena,
when the bribery committee made its
report, is a man who is deliberately
misled
Yesterday morning the Standard
printed, column after column, to the
word and the letter, the proceedings of
Tuesday, at the session of the two
made it's report. What was then
printed in these pages included, YER
ibatm, the sworn statement of Senator
i Whiteside of Flathead county; the
sworn statement of Senator Clark of
Madison county: the sworn statement
of Senator Myers of Ravalli county;
the sworn statement of A. j. Campbell,
this states member of congress elect:
the sworn statement relating to the
money paid or to be paid to Represen-
tative Carr; the complete text of the
speech made by Senator Whteside; The
full report of the legislative proceed
ings. This, all was printed, word for
word.
Yesterday morning the Butte Miner
printed the merest shred of all this. 1t
did not print one fine of the testimony
given by Senator Clark of Madison
county; it did not print one line of the
testimony given by Senator Myers of
Rayalli county; it did not print one
line of she testimony given by Con-
gresham elect Campbell; it did not
print word mention of Represen-
L tative Carr: it did not even so much es
intimate that any man of these was
seen or heard by the investigating COM
nittee: on the contrary, it left every
reader of the Miner to assume that the
committee that made the inquiry con-
fined its attention entirely to Whiteside
There was method in this. Having
thus perverted the news. the Miner
turned it's editorial page TO the abuse
of Whiteside-with studied omission Of
the names of all of the other wit
nesses-and then to an attempt to make
it appear that Whitesde was the lonely
single-handed agent of Mr.. Daily and
that the investigation is conspiracy
That is the dishonest use to which The
page are put. Presenting the news il
a false light, it is easy for a news
paper, through editorial talk based OF
that false news, to leave its reader:
under a wrong impression.
What is the truth in this matter? j
is this that, from the first hint al this
great uncovering of crime in Helena
the matter has been in the hands Q
men who stand high in this state ant
who, in the majority, are men witt
: whom it happens that Mr.. DAILY him
self and those who are sometimes de
: seribed as "Daly men" have never haC
even remote relations or even a passing
acquaintance-men who, it happens