Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-10-24
ATTACKING 4 ~

= ~ ~ Ue IeSIttttu THAT the we'll eS-
tablished and highly cultivated demo-
cratic feud in this state cannot be so
conducted as to omit w%omankind from
the filings of outraged fortune. To. take
it for granted that the press of both
wings of the party tell the truth about
each other is not a very serious strain
upon the credulity of the public.
Whether the charges and counter
charges Of corruption are true or false,
the general public will bear with patience
the Investigations tina are being made,
Notwithstanding the Judiciary of Mon
tana was primarily intended for the use
of the people rather than for the use of
the democratic party in the airing of the
grievances generated by the political
feud. If both wings of the democracy
are properly aired in the courts, those
judicial institutions may not have been
created in vain. The cost of maintain
ing them will not appear so burdenso4ne
on the taxpayers if each faction Of the
democratic party gets it's deserts. in the
final summary of their work. ~
However, it is manifestly out of place
for any party to this feud to divert his
fire from the persons accused of guilt, in
order to attack individuals who could
have had no concern in the acts charged
against members of the legislative as
sembly. When such attacks are made
upon women. the. situation calls for a
care little how much disgruntled demo-
cratic boosters and politicians may snarl
and fight among themselves.
1t was reserved for the Anaconda
Standard last winter to cast reflections
upon the good women of the city of Hell
ena during the senatorial contest, and
in doing so it did much to unity public
sentiment in that city in behalf of the
candidacy of Mr.. W. A. Clark. That
gentleman would have had a much
harder time of it swinging the residents
of the Capital City into line for him,
had not the Standard made the political
mistake of intlrnating that the ladies
were going out Of their way to aid his
candidacy. Instead of profiting by thai
mistake, which made Helena a bulwarl1
Of strength for Clark, the Standard this
morning attacks a lady who resides in
that newspaper, has the misfortune to
be a distant relative to the wife of Rep
r%esentative Carr of Flathead county.
Carr is one of the members Of the leg
islature that the Standard classes
among those whom it suspects of hav-
ing sold their votes for a cash considera-
ton Of no small dimensions. Whether
the Standards surmises as to Mr.. Carr
are correct or incorrect that paper Will
fine it hard to explain it's attack upon
one Of his wife's relatives. 1t seems that
| this woman, Jane Wickham, was sum-
| moned before the court to testify to what
was done with the zone which Carr is
said to have received for his vote. She
swore she knew nothing about any mon
ey of that sort, and that the ranch which
of the legislature was bought for her,
with her own money, the member of the
legislature acting as her agent in the
matter.
This gives the Standard an opportu-
nifty to attack Mrs. Wickham, and it
gives her the benefit of a severe editorial
raking over. If. as the Standard infers,
she was trying to shield Mr.. Carr, and
resorted to perjury to that end, action
pending which she should be free from
newspaper assaults upon her integrity
If all the distant relatives of the several
and respective victims of the democratic
feud, including women, are to be brought
into this row and made parties to it, a
wholesome disgust will settle down oven
the public. The Inter Mountain would
suggest the propriety of the men-folks
concerned in this feud doing each other
up in a thorough and systematic manner
even if it means carrying the war into
Africa, with huge clots of blood on the
moon, and all that, but for Heavens
sake, gentlemen, do not so far forge
yourselves as to drag the gentler' sex into
the fight.
BIVOUAC OF THE DEAD.