Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-11
ANOTHER OUTBREAK.


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Notwithstanding the recent peace con-
gress at The Hague. there has been still
another o~utbreak-not as bloody. per-
haps, as the war in the Transvaal, but in
man respects much more interesting.
Last Saturday hostilities broke cut be
tween County Attorney Connolly and
Judge Clancy, in which lyddite shells and
dumdum bullets Were used with reck-
less impunity by o%ratorical batteries
stragetically arranged.
1T seems that Mr.. Connolly took ex-
| ceptions to the verdic of the jury in the
Hesley case. the prisoner having been
! sent up for only six months for Draining
exercise the p~rerogatives of an Ameri-
can citizen and hirt with his wife. In
the opinion of the county attorney this
light verdict was due to the character of
Hence, he waxed wroth.
While his indignation was in good
working order he mad a speech to the
power behind the throne, saying in eff
pen for five years for merely striking a
man with a pocket knife, While Hesley
got the homeopathic dose of six months
for the elmo crime of destroying the
intellect of an idiot with a club. And
then, after asserting in so many words
that the instructions of the court paved
the way for what he deemed to be a far
cial verdict, he is quoted as saying:
I also desire to say ri hit here that if
this is going to be the course pursued
by the court it is no use to file Informal
tons against anyone. / think the time
will come in this jurisdiction that no
matter which smelter or mine a man
works in he will have a far trial.
This was equivalent to saying that
Judge Clancy did not stand for the i'm
partial administration of justice. but was
mines than by the statutes made and
provided. 1t was a case of casus belli
which his honor could not afford to allow
to go belli up. The judge is quoted as
Ai lie liioAE III lllS ltJpllluSI.
I do not care to heal any talk of this
kind. 1t is unusual. / have been around
courts thirty-five years and have never
seen or heard anything like it before. For
Mr.. Connolly to come in here and pour
dirty water on the doingS of the court is
something l don't understand. Only a
few lays ago he reported to me in a num-
Der of cases that the prosecuting wit
nesses had disappeared and asked for a
diGfDiGC4l nf rha actions All thic Iican-
p~earance business was going on while he
was over at kalispell making politics.
He has no respect for his profession or
the court.
From the remarks attributed to Judge
Clancy it is evident thai his honor has
his own opinions relative to what he is
pleased to term this disappearance bust
ness on the part of the prosecuting wit
nesses, as we'll as the voyages of political
To the unbiased observer it would seem
that the democratic wing and the popu-
list wing of the judiciary have, by a pro-
cess of evolution, gotten themselves into
a loggerhead condition that calls for a
diagnosis.
1t would be rank heresy for an ordin-
airy jimerow layunan to make the charges
against a district judge which fell from
the lips of the county attorney, and it
woul call for blood in copious quantities
We're the humble citizen to intimate that
the county attorney was concerned in the
disappearance of prosecuting witnesses,
or subordinated his judicial duties to the
higher demands of politics! No member
of the common herd would dare go to
either extreme. No matter what is done
by the courts it is customary for the pub
lie to lift it's voice in LOUD acclaim and
Shrek: Long live the judiciary."
But if the county attorney and the
judge meant what they said, in their re-
spective judicial capacities, there are
some abnormally curious individuals
who would like to see both of them prove
their accusations against each other. In
default of this, it will look as if the dig
nifty of each was away on sick cave when
the controversy took place.
The pest house recruit that are daily
picked up on the streets do not reflect
much credit on our health officers. It
seems that they initiate the police in not