The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-11-13

0soAA correspondence OIL Lue StauQdI0.
Helena, Nov. 12.-Nothing in long
time has aroused as much gossip in
this city as the editorial which appear
ed in the Helena Independent of satur-
day, under the caption, IA Day of
Reckoning" Those here who read the
Independents editorial columns regu-
larly assert that the article in question
was not written by any member of the
independents staff, but that it was
written by one of the attorneys for the
| defendant in the Welcome case. They
even go SO far as to make a guess at
the name of the attorney who wrote the
screed. In view of the dignity and the
solemnity Of the proceedings now pend
ing in the supreme court, the article
is regarded here as extremely ill-timed
and uncalled-for. The hurrah business
had its effect in the city last winter,
and the constant abuse Of Mr. DAILY in
the columns Of the Independent was Of
service at that time in screening the
guilty conduct Of the Clark people. But
tne Gay for that sort Of thing is past,
ana II the design is to influence in any
way the action Of the court, the opin-
ion here is that it will not succeed.
Many OF the people OF Helena used
| their moral influence in behalf of Clark
last winter because they thought they
| owed him debt of gratitude Many
others helped in the condoning OF the
| acts Of Clark's agents because they
recognized the possibility that after all
it might be as the Clark people claimed,
and instead OF the $4,000 belonging to
Clark it might be Daly's. They were
willing to give Clark the benefit of
the doubt at the time and they did So
At the same time, the citizens Of Hell
ena never proposed to be put in the po-
sition of condoning the election of
senator by bribery, if such should prove
to be the case. Mr.. Clark, in a public
speech, assured the people of Helena
that the money shown in evidence be-
fore the legislature was in reality Mr..
Daly's money. The Independent and
the Miner Mr.. Clark's organs, repeat
edly made the same assertion. The
people of this city who are not inclined
to condone crime, but who were willing
to give Mr.. Clark the benefit of the
doubt, have been waiting patiently for
the day to come when Clark would
make good his statement and prove be-
yond the shadow of a doubt that he
was a victim, and that, instead of be-
ing a briber, the money exhibited was
Mr. Daly's, put up for the purpose of
running Clarks chances for election
These people are expecting that this
will be shown in an unmistaka BILE man
ner this week. That is what they are
expecting. While indisputably there
are many people in this city who would
condone Clark's acts no matter how
criminal they might be- there are very
many others who will only go with
Clark SO far as he can show his hlno-
cence in the respect OF securing his
election by the use of money. These
people are Withholding judgment in the
matter; they are watching very closely
the proceedings before the supreme
court, and they are not slow in ex-
pressing their marked disapprova1 of
the policy of Mr.. Clark's Helena news
paper in seeking to reawaken a sense
less and harmful prejudice, and in seek
ing to cover the truth which is coming
to light before the supreme court by
hurrah campaign of TRADES and abuse,
furnished, evidently, by one of the, de-
fendants attorneys. There are very
many people in this community who
have gone so far but if they go any
farther the Clark people will have to
show them why they should do it.
In fact, and to tell the whole truth
about 1t here and now, every man who
spends time in getting the run of Hell
ena opinion and who is disposed to be
candid in making his inquiry, is
brought squarely to the conclusion that
this city has been the victim of a good
deal of Misrepresentation in these re-
cent months. Those who have made all
the noise and whose clatter has found
a place in the columns of newspapers
like the Independent have conveyed TO
the outside public the impression that
the city is ready and willing to pro-
claim its approval of any sort of deal
and of all the deviltry that has been
going on in connection with the Clark
senatorial affair. The impression thus