The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-12
SWEEPING DENIAL MADE
Welcomes Attorneys File an
Answer for Him.
IT'S A BRIEF DOCUMENT 7
The Only Admission Made Is That Clark
Was a Candidate and Welcome
Favored His Election-Dsnies
Allegations OF Corruption.
Special Dispatch to the Standard


Helena, Aug. 11.-John B. Welcome.
| through his counsel, this afternoon filed
| with the clerk of the supreme court
| his answer to the accusations preferred
against him by Fred Whteside in the
| proceedings instituted to bring about
| his disbarment for alleged bribery of
members of the last Legislature in the
interest Of w. A. Clark's candidacy for
| the United States senate This was
the last day allowed Welcome by the
court to meet the accusations in the
usual legal manner by either admitting
| or denying the charges. 1t has been
rumored that Welcomes attorneys
were trying to secure another extension
| Of time in which to answer, but how
| much truth there is to the report is
| not known. At any rate they took
about all of the time allowed to them
to make answer, as it was after o'clock
this afternoon before the look
ed for document was placed on file
1t is brief and uninteresting, being
little more than a general denial of the
| accusations made against the Butte
attorney. About all that s admitted
Is that the Legislature met in Helena
that Clark was candidate: that
Welcome was among those advocating
his election, and that he was elected
| All Of the charges as to the bribery by
| welcome of certain named members
OF the legislature and the efforts made
| to secure the election of members fay
orable to Clark are disposed of by two
! WORDS. he Denies The document is
verified by Jesse IS. Rootc one of Well
| come $ counsel, who, acting in the i b.
sehce OF mis- client from the state,
makes affidavit thai the matter con-
tanned in the answer is true to the best
OF his knowledge and belief. Carpenter
Carpenter and William Wallace, jr..
JON koote in signing it as counsel for
| the accused.
In substance Welcome admits all If
paragraph one Of Whitesde's accusa
tons as to his being an attorney praC-
tcins in this state and paragraph two,
relating to the convening of the sixth
legislative assembly. He denies that
| portion of paragraph three that White
side was a member of the legislature
but admits the balance OF tire para
graph as to stephen Bywater, H. II.
Carr, w. \. Clark, H. l.. Myers W.
X. Tierney and s S. Hobson being
members of the Legislature. He admits
that portion of paragraph four as to
admits he was among those who did as
sumo and advocate the election of
| Clark, but denies those portions of
paragraph four which alleged that he
paid the amounts named in the accus-
alton to the above parties for support
| ing Clark.
He denies all of the allegation o!
| paragraph five, that he paid sums to
those members with the intent to cor
ruptly influence the official actions of
said members of the legislative assem-
| bly, in the performance of duty deVOlV-
ing upon them as such members in the
| election of a senator of the United
| States. He admits that portion of
paragraph six as to Ciark's election,
| but denies the part wherein ii is claim
ed he along with ''one a. }. Steele, one
| William M BickfCrd, one John S NJ.
Neill, one Charles w. Clark, and one
A. J. Davidson and divers other sun
dry persons. to your af1iant unknown,
did unlawfully, wrongfully and malici-
ously conSpIre. combine and cOnfeder-
ate together to by the corrupt use of
money at the general election secure
the election of members Of the legs-
lature who would be favorable to the
candidacy of the said W. A. Clark
The answer in full is as follows:
John B. Welcome makes answer in
the above proceedings and says he ad-
mits all of the allegations of para
graphs one and two of the accusation.
He denies that the accuser, Whiteside,
| was duly elected or at all elected as a
member of the Sixth legislative assem-
| bly, of the state of Montana or was
| empowered to engage or participate in
the doing or performing any act or
| thing devolving upon said legislative
| assembly under the constitution or
| laws of Montana; or that he was ever
| other than a de facto member of said
| assembly and then only until the 35th
| do, nF To N ht4
was by the judgment of said assembly
| removed therefrom and supplanted by
| the duly elected member thereof from
| Flathead county, one j. Fl. GeiGer,
| who forthwith qualified by taking the
| oath of office and afterwards acted in
| said office. And he otherwise admits
| all the allegations of paragraph three
of said accusation. He admits that it
| became the duty of said assembly to
| elect a United States senator from the
| state of Montana, and that w. A. Clark
| of Butte, Montana, was a candidate for
said office. and that he. the said Well
come. was one among many who as
| Sumed to and did advocate and act in
the aid Of the election of said Clark to
said office. but that he otherwise de
nies each and every allegation in
| paragraph four of said accuse lion. He
denies each and every allegation in
| paragraph five of said accusatiO con-
| tanned. He admits that said Clark re
| ceived a majority of the votes Of said
| assembly for United States senator, but
| he denies each and every other allega-
| ton of paragraph six of said aCCusa-
| tion contained, and denies that he has
done any act or thing charged against
| him in this accusation, other than as
| herein admitted or any act or thing
| incompatible with the dignity or honor
| of the profession of law or unbeComing
| an attorney at law, and AYERS that said
accusa ton so far as it charges any such
acts or any acts calculated to inttu-
| ence votes by the use of money is
| wholly false and untrue. And he de-
| nies all the allegations of the accusa-
tions not specifically admitted in this
| answer"
| 1t is expected that the matter will
| come to a definite issue some time in
| the early part of October, when the
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