The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-16
MONDAY, JANUARY 16, 1899.
TEN PAGES.
Bribery's Methods.

\ himself in the outcome of the
attempt to. brand Montana with
bribery is well aware, the principal oc
cupation of the Clark bribers, during
the past three of four days, has been
to give the widest possible currency
to the prediction that the grand jury
]. - at Helena will certainly whitewash w.
ri. Al CLARK and his associate conspira-
tors Toward spreading this rumor
thepElark operators have had plenty
of help. The press in Butte and in Hell
ssit ena, almost exclusively controlled by
s-0w. A. Clark, has advertised this pre-
diction; the populace of Helena has
done everything in it's power to fore
tell the conclusion which the grand
jury will reach the Clark people them
selves have spoken with much con-
fidence as if he had, by purchase, ad-.
tded the grand jury itself to his sem
atorial string
With these elements, the method has
been to single out Senator Whiteside
and by abuse and epithet, to break
his credibiity down. The studied eff
the public forgetful of the many other
honorable, respected and trusted cit
liens of Montana who bear direct. and
even intimate, relations to this expo
sure of wholesale crime. You do not
find one of these Clark newspapers
attacking Senator Campbell of Park
county, or Senator Clark of Madison,
or Senator Anderson of Meagher, or
Senator Meyers of Ravalli, or the re-
spected and thoroughly-tru
members of the lower house whose eff
forts contributed directly to the ex-
posture.
The Clark conspiracy does not at
tack these men-its desperate effort,
on the contrary, has been to make the
public unmindfu of the fact that their
efforts and the testimony of several
of them is as plainly in proof of brib-
cry as is that given by Whiteside.
1t will be different in the jury room;
all the evidence will have a hearing
there And while the Standard VEN
lures no Observation-Disclosures those are
utterly unwarrantable this newspaper
entertains not one shadow of doubt as
to what the verdict of honest men
must be.
Then, too, the bribery aggregation
is not falling to work every theatre
cal display it invent in the hope
of creating a public impression in it's
own favor. Meanwhile yesterday
gca1 h,ltto i, I1la
corridors, which had its start
in the statement that Clark had
captured republicans in numbers suf-
ficient to make it safe for other repub-
lcans to follow into his camp. that he
had practically gobbled all of them
and that his vote will now advance
to a winning total without any delay
This talk is given out in order to make
ii appear that Clark still has some
reason to expect to win; it is as base
less was the noisy parade during
the forty eight hours prior to last
weeks exposure of the false promise
that Clark was sure to poll fifty-seven
votes on the first ballot.
There are more purchased democrat
who are willing to go to Clark, if the
grand jury finds for him. They came
hard last week-he managed to force
Some of them into line, even with the in
dictment matters pending. Others
were too tmid they do not think it
safe to deliver the goods until they
know what the jurys verdict is to be
They never will vote for him if jus
tice reigns in the jury room. Then
too some of these bribed men have
been taught by the exposure that they