Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-10-02
THE CARTER CASE.
the preside

conservative, impartial course pursued
by President Mckinley on all matters
coming before him for consideration, has
doubted for one moment that he would
do what the facts seem to warrant when
the Carter case was placed in his hands
for final action. 1t will be remembered
Captain Carter, whose position in
the army, social standing and capacity
as an engineer, secured for him a fed
eral contract, succeeded in ~defrauding
the government. His case has been per-
sistently fought on both sides. Captain.
Carter has had the benefit of every
doubt, yet was finally found guilty of
the charges preferred against him. AZ
ter a thorough investigation into his
guilt, the president approvedofthe sfsen-
tence which consigns that individual to
five years Imprisonment at Fort Leayen-
worth and to pay a fine of $1,000.
7 During the tendency of this. sopeWhat
peculiar case it has been interesting to
note the attitude of the democratic press.
When it was believed that the. president
would make an example of Carter many
of the bourbon organs discovered that
the captain had been unjustly charged
and it was a case Of prosecutions but
after the case had dragged for sometime,
as such cases usually do in order that
exact justice may be finally melted out,
and no serious mistakes made, the afore-
| said organs reached the conclusion that
scheming to secure the captains acquit-
tai! Then a fusilade to that effect OPEN
ed upon the president. He was, repeat
edly accused of dishonesty trying to
consequences of his wrong doing. Now.
that the president has approved the sem
tence after an investigation into the
merits of the case, the bourbon news
papers discover that it was the power OF
the press that brought the chief execu-
tive 'to time The democratic idea is
brought out this morning by the Ana
conda Standard as follows:
The power of the press is again illus
trated by the approval by President Nc
Kinley of the sentence imposed upon
Captain Oberlin NJ. Carter by the court
martial that tried him. No
matter how powerful the influence in Car
ter's behalf. the president dared not rs
habilitate him: neither did he dare de
lay approving the sentence of the court
any longer. His prOcrastination was
fast becoming a public scandal.
In the opinion of u Warm Springs
contemporary the president has done
nothing of a meritorious character during
the past year, unless frightened into II
by such great potential moral. agencies
as the democratic press. 1t this be true
it is indeed a remarkable debt of graft.
tude which the country owes to the cop
perhead newspapers which have been sc
in~dustriously saving a republican presi.
dent from ruin and disgrace, and al
manner Of public scandals, by working
continuously on his fears. Think of what
an awful condition the republican party
idential compaign, had not Mckinley
q been DETECTED from n constant round
Of public crimes by the watchfulness ant
discretion of the democratic press! VIVA
a glorious thing it has been for the re,
publican party that all the copperheat
penny-a-liners in the country have sac
rificed themselves Upon the altar of publ,
duty, and kept the president of the United
States in such a constant state of fear o
exposure that he has failed to perpetrat,
the uninterrupted series of crimes that h,
had in mind!. The Inter Mountain viii
take the responsibility Of thanking tn
Standard, on behalf of the republican
party, for its great work in keeping tn,