The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-11-13
WELCOME TRIAL TALK HEARD
OUTSIDE OF THE COURT ROOM

I conveyed is radically wrong and it does
| gross injustice to the citizens of Helena.
While the heelers have made all the
racket very large percentage of Hell
ena's people have observed dignified
silence. They have their own opinions
| and they have not been proclaiming
| these from the housetops or brawlng
| ut the street corners, they do, however,
protest earnestly against the effort to
| make it appear that the city of Helena
| is ready and willing to surrender it's
| reputation and its self-respect for the
benefit of this man or that man or any
| mans political fortunes. It was all very
well when the noisy forces in attend
ance here during the session of the leg
islature kept up their hurrah night and
day. 1t is altogether different now
when matter which is admitted by
all to be Of the highest political and
legal and moral significance, is UNDER
going the calm process OF a supreme
court inquiry. That fact seems to be
! perfectly-well understood here except
in the Office of the Helena Independent
| and it is a fact which ought to be made
known the length and breadth of the
state, that the recent indecent out
breaks in the Independent, designed to
| awaken old prejudices, are dead fail
| ure right here in Helena. 1t is a stupid
attempt to start stampede and it has
!, fallen fiat. ... .-
In the by-play in this city during the
past week, not least in interest was the
presence here and the conduct of some
OF the Clark workers of last winter.
| They struggled in here from all parts Of
/! the state. Like grim specters of guilty
past, they haunted the lobby of the
Helena hotel they appeared in the cor
ridors of the court house. they lurked
around the street corners. They seem
to have come to Helena at this time on
| their own hook. They are what might
| be termed 'the disappointed among
| the Clark workers, or the gold brick
| contingent" They did not get what
they thought was coming to them for
their services last winter. At any rate
|!
| and threat to the Clark people They
would take particular and quite ludi-
crous pains to be talking confidently to
attorneys or leading witnesses for the
prosecution whenever Charley Clark or
Welcome or Bickford of Corbett or any
of the rest hove in sight. and as is the
case with the guilty, their presence was
the occasion of much apprehension on
the part of the Clark folk. That is why
early in the week, Welcomes attorneys
demanded from the prosecution a list of
the witnesses they proposed to put on
the stand. The list was furnished. and
some Of these disappointed specters ap-
peared in the list and some did not.
They We're not, however, summoned as
witnesses. They are still in Helena,
however, and it is gossip that some of
them succeeded in getting what they
came after, and their trip was not
| fruitless.
Speaking of the attorneys for Well
come, it has leaked out that there is a
good-sized row in the camp and that
there have been some marked disagree
ments. There have been several Incl
dents which would tend to show lack of
| harmony, but there was a decided ex-
preston of opinion among the attor-
| neys relative to Wallace's conduct Of
| the ross-examination of Whiteside.
Mr.. Wallace is admittedly one of the
most expert and searching cross-ex-
aminers in the entire state. 1t was un-
derstood among the defendants attor-
neys that Wallace should go only so
far in his cross examination as to show
the duplicity of Whiteside, leaving it to
be inferred that he was employed by
Daily and was working for him in the
matter. But nettled by his utter in
ability to make any headway in the
endeayor to get Whteside to contra
dict himself. or to extract any admis-
sions which might prove of value to
the defendant Wallace carried the ex-
animation farther than was intended
and thus gave the witness an opportu-
occupa tion, that he is not employed by
Mr.. DAILY and has not been, and that
his action in the matter of the expo
sure was totally without the conniv-
ance of Daily and his people and solely
for the purpose of exposing the bribery
which he knew to exist,