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who fought the Metropolitan legis-
lative ticket, last November, and sup
ported administration republicans FOR
membership in the legislature.
The Missoula seeker after silver-re-
publican truth will thus see that the
question he asks is not so easily an
swered. Others have asked the same
question. Not longer ago than yester-
day morning the Standard asked the
Inter Mountain to furnish data about
the silver republicans. That newspaper,
we infer must have noticed the Stand
ards question:; we find in last evenings
Inter Mountain an editorial two or three
columns long and dotted frequently
with the words silver republican" We
call our Missoula correspondents at
tention to this Inter Mountain editorial
IT, in reading it, he finds any of the
information sought-well if he does,
he's a good man.
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Hard To Answer.

~ LAWYER living in Missoula
sends to this Office a typewrit-
ten communication, under date
of January &c, which reads: ITO settle
controversy, will you kindly give the
names of the silver republicans in the
present legislative assembly"
Here is controversy which, unfor-
tunately, the Standard cannot settle
the number of men to-day in the legis-
lature who, by any of the ordinary
party tests, would be called silver re-
publicans, is something that no fellow
can find out. There were, when the
present legislative session began, four
members who We're classified as silver
republicans. These We're johnson of
Carbon county, More of Meagher Par
ker of Granite, Swindlehurst of Park.
These four are voting for w. A. Clark,
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1t Is Not Candid.
HEN it asserts that the Stand
M ard imputes bribery to MEM

HEN it asserts that the Stand
M ard imputes bribery to MEM
bers of the legislature who
refuse to accept the Standards dicta-
ton of senatorial candidate, the Hell
ena Independent knows full we'll that it
does not speak the truth.
From the outset, the Standards ex-
hortation to the members of the legis-
lature has been to elect any clean
handed democrat. The Helena indie
pendent knows that the forces that are
arrayed against w. A. Clark's bribery
include a very large number of MEM
bers who are, and who have been,
ready and willing to give their vote
to any worthy democrat Who is not out
to buy the Office of senator.
When, in 1898. a Clark attempt to
buy the senatorship failed, those who
then opposed him published the fact Of
their willingness to vote for any candi-
date whose methods were reputable,
but W. A. Clark persisted in keeping
the field, and, although he bought sew
eral republicans, he failed.
This year, no formal declaration en-
this score is required-every member of
the legislature, every Montana news
paper and every intelligent citizen Of
the state knows that any reputable
democrat can get the support of the
members who are fighting w. A. Clark
and who, the Standard has every con
fidence, will fight him successfully to
the end.
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4 SATURDAY, JANUARY Is, 1899.
TEN PAGES.
1t Can't Be.

~ ARSON HANNAH, who has had
~ the charge that he is bribe-
taker flung right into his faCe
in open session OF the legislature, got it
into his head, yesterday, so it appears,
that he would take a fall out of Jonn
r. Toole. So, this parson-spare The
cloth!-sought to make it appear that
Toole had been trying to Influence"
his, Hannah's, vote; to-wit Toole mad
wickedly and corruptly limited and in
simulated that Hannah himself might
be senator! Now, there's no telling
what is said and done in politics; stiil,
there are some things which sane men
know that sane man wouldn't ever
do. If you know this man Hannah
alas, for the Christian ministry!-and
il you know John r. Toole, you will
agree with the Standard when it says
that Mr.. Toole is not the four or five
kinds of a fool which Hannahs sena-
torial insinuation would make Toole
out to be.
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His Accusation Stands,

~ ARK indeed is the future of this
l0) young state, for integrity and
honor, if any considerable num-
Der of people adopt the very peculiar
views of the gentleman from Lewis and
Clarke, Mr. Day, that any man who ex-
| poses bribery and corruption, when it
falls under his notice, is a conspirator and
violator of the law. Dark indeed is the
future for probity and official purity in
berry and corruption are to be branded as
criminals while the criminals who commit
such crimes are to be defended as honor
able men.
| These words We're uttered in the joint
session a week ago to-day by Senator
Myers Of Ravalli. The senator is one
of the courageous and patriotic men
who brought squarely to the attention
of the legislature distinct proofs of
bribery, which proofs have, to this
hour not been refuted, and who &C
companied his sworn statement with
| ten thousand dollars of money where
with Clark had undertaken to bride the
| senator.
| Senator Myers is one of the men
against whom the Clark boodlers
| tried-all in vain-to raise the cry of
conspiracy. That was the Clark de-
tense; it was so utterly unavaling
that the Helena society people and
leading business mer" couldn't even
make it stand up straight in the Hell
ena grand-jury room. In most insult
ing talk, and with the brutal bravado
that is the principal factor in their
tactics, the Clark bribers flung their
cowardly insinuations at Senator
| Myers.
The senator met them more than half
way; in the course of the speech in
which the words We have quoted are
a part, Senator Myers also said: II
never sought or ran after these Clark
corruptionists. l never solicited any
thing from them. Every proposition,
every invitation, every offer of neso-
tiation came from them. If they made
mistake in putting up money to cor
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been used in connection with the cleo
tion of United States senator" Yet
the jury adds that the evidence "has
been contradicted or explained in such
way" as to lead these Jurors to con-
clude that it is beyond the ability Of
man to get at the truth, and that, there
fore. there was no way to judge of the
matter SO as to bring it into court and
to trial!
How long do you suppose represen-
tative government could survive in this
land if the Judiciary were administer
ed after the fiabby, shifting, cowardly
policy outlined in the action of this
jury? It's wonder that the jurors
didn't declare that the fund Of 100000
itself is a myth.
From first to last the performance
of this grand jury was a lamentable
miscarriage of justice. The failure to
reach a conclusion, after the matter at
issue had been so long and so unwar-
rantably held up in the jury room,
fills the public with unutterable dis
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All the News.

TT is significant that neither Of the
Helena papers printed so much as a
decent synopsis of Attorney General
Nolan's scathing criticisms of the grand
jury for bringing in it's whitewashing
report. 1t was to be expected that the
Butte Miner would ignore the subject,
but the Helena papers might at least
publish the news happening in their
own local field
The fact is that the Standard, as al
ways, is the only daily newspaper in
the state that tells the Montana public
all that is going on. The exciting
events taking place at Helena receive
adequate attention in the Standard
alone. All the important speeches de-
livered in Joint assembly whether in
denunciation or in defense of w. A.
Clark. are taken down by a stenog-
rapher and reproduced in the Standard,
exactly as the words fall from the
speakers lips. If few remarks in Mr.,
SihIh > DSLdll have Deen puDllSl9Q TINS
week. it is simply because few have
been made.
As newspaper, it Is the Standards
constant endeavor to give all the news
of interest to Montana and that it sue
ceeds is aptly illustrated by what
happened in Helena itself yesterday.
Within fifteen minutes after the ar
rival of the train carrying the hun
dreds of copies that go to the capital
daily, the supply was entirely ex-
hausted. So universal was the demand
that crowds surrounded the newsboys
as fast as they arrived up town, and
some of the audacious youngsters de-
manded and received twenty-five cents
copy. Regardless Of partisan bias,
people wanted to read and digest the
speeches of Senator Whiteside and
Attorney General Nolan. and they
knew well enough that the Standard
was the only paper that would have
them.
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gust and stains the name of the judic-
larry in Montana. Fair minded men,
whichever side Of w. A. Clark's can
didacy enlists them, all admit that it
was within the reach of any seven
men of average Intelligence to say
either that the Clark agents should be
held for bribery or that the accusers
of Clark should be held for conspiracy.
The attorney general of Montana
spoke as well suited the situation when
he said to this jury, in expression of
his condemnation of their conduct:
Before courts and grand juries were
organized in this state our people had
the courage of their convictions, and
had the courage and the determination
to ferret out and punish the criminal.
With time-serving report of this kind
the administration of justice becomes
farce, and It were better far that the
agencies Of courts be discontinued and
that we again resort to the primitive
methods which gave to the early set
tiers of this state an enduring fame"
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in former unsuccessful attempts to buy
the senatorship, w. A. Clark has
bought republicans who have confessed
the purchase. There's no danger about
Representative Lindsay. and the elo-
quent speech delivered before the Joint
session by Representative Hedges is in
convincing proof that there are many
republican members in the legislature
who cannot possibly be induced, how
ever large Clark's money offer, to
Coderize and thus brand themselves
with the symbols of shame for the rest
of their lives.
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Some Safe Republicans.

~ HE men who have set themselves
~ up as the leading business men
of this city, who would be sup
posed to give advice along the line of
honor and integrity, have gone so far as
to say that the republican contingent of
this house should throw honor to the
winds trample under their feet their per-
sonal integrity, be traitors to their party
In order that one man might climb to the
United States senate by reason of their
treason and political dishonor.
It's a senatorial campaign wonder
that they don't accuse Representative
Lindsay, from whose recent speech
these words are quoted, of wearing the
copper collar. If Mr.. Lindsay were not
a resident in a far-east county of Mon
tana, they surely would do it. Clark's
newspapers are trying to abuse Sena-
tor Myers by associating his name with
Anaconda affairs, although the senator
never was even remotely related, pro-
fessionally or otherwise, to the Ana
conda company. But Senator Myers
offending is in the fact that he lives
in Hamilton. That's enough; the Clark
rnanfully exposed Clark's bribery. If
he lived in Helena and wore a Clark
badge, these organs of corruption
would be saying that Myers is real
nice man.
AS for Representative Lindsay, up to
this hour he has not been adorned by
the Clark boodlers with copper collar.
Mr.. Lindsay gave it to the boodlers
good and hard. He denounced their
traffic in republican votes. He warned
his republican associates to beware of
in their effort to capture republican
votes for Clark.
AS citizen who voted for Helena
for the capital, Representative Lindsay
asserted last Tuesday, in the joint SEES
sion: when we chose the city of Hell
ena as the capital of our great com.
would be able to point to it with pride
as the place from which would emanats
just, wise and pure laws. But if We
were to heed the advice that is give1
by the so-called ninety per cent of tn.
republicans in this vicinity, we would
not only bring upon our families tbs
shadow of dishonor, but we would leave
legacy of shame to our children
Republicanism is at it's test In othel
states where senatorial struggles are
deadlocked, there is little fear of the
switching of republicans to democratic
candidates, or the reverse of that II
is threatened. That happens because
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rupt my vote. that is their misfortune.
If they selected the wrong man when
they opened negotiations for bribery
with me, that is their misfortune and
not my fault"
The threat to indict Senator Myers
for conspiracy was as idle as the blow
ing of SO much wind The Clark hood
lers could have got him indicted. They
were afraid to; they did not dare risk
the chance of a trial somewhere in this
state where honest Jurors can be found;
they knew, as now they know. that be-
fore such jury Senator Myers testi-
mony would be upheld to the letter.
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The Fizzle In Helena.
.ONEY to the amount of $4,000
M was right under the noses of the

::, Il UNDER ::s : 's: nose. >:
members of the Helena grand
jury. Men whose word the people of
this state are willing to accept testi-
fed under oath, that this money was
given to them by a known representa-
tive of w. A. Clark, distinctly and sole
ly as the purchase price for their votes.
If the money were not actually in hand
and under the eyes of the jury there
might have been some opportunity for
doubt But that was not the fact
thirty bills, each of the denomina-
ton of one thousand dollars, were
physically present; they were as much
in evidence as a corpse is at an in
quest.
The grand jury couldn't possibly get
away from the actual presence of this
money. Its report is compelled to ad-
NIT that there was some evidence
which tends to show that money has
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Carr.

There's no installing the tenor
of the tidings. His neighbors
write him down traitor, his constitu-
ents denounce his conduct, and, in a
communication to him which is not
unlike warning, they demand that he
return to the candidate to whom, by
every honorable considerat ton, he is
bound.
One of the Clark falsehoods indus
triously circulated when the bribery of
Carr was supposed to have gone finally
into effect, was that ninety per cent"
of Cars constituents favor Clark
That bare-faced, bald headed lie was
also put out as a shelter for Gillette
and Finn. The outraged citizens Of
Cascade county were heard from; their
with enduring shame and disgrace. And
now the citizens of F1athead publish to
the world the turpitude of Carr.
The case Of Carr is one that might
almost excite pity. He was elected by
the people of county who were first,
last and all the time for Conrad. The
convention that nominated Carr pledg-
ed him to stand by Conrad. That oc-
Cured because even then it was known
that w. A. Clark was planning to try
it on once more for the purchase of the
legislature. Yet Carr was one of the
first of the members whom the Clark
boodlers claimed they had captured.
They didn't go after him-according to
their story he came to them, his ex-
penses being paid to Helena and re-
turn. That was about the middle Of
December, and, about that time, open
talk in Helena dealt with the house
where the Clark boodlers met Carr and
what they did with him.
Cars more recent adventures are
public property. He joined in the
Whiteside exposure. and then he tried to
get out of that. He obtained leave of
absence because of sickness in his
family" and the proof was promptly
produced that there was no sickness
in his family. Thus Carr tried an old
rk-brbery dodge and failed, just as
Coder tried the same dodge. in 1893,
and failed.
Carr is badly shattered man to-day.
Evidently, within him, greed and con-
science, lust for money and fear of ex-
| posure have been having terrific bat
tie. There are some cold-blooded bride
| takers on Clarks list who are as stolid
about it as any soulless brute could be-
but there are, also, on the Clark list
some men within whose breast, even
now, honor and dishonor are warning
it out.
If Representative Carr would pull
himself together and resolve for good
and all to let the ill-gotten gain of Clark
bribery go, he could, with infinite credit
to himself, and in full atonement for his
thoughtless folly, step out like a man,
assert his quickened sense of honor and
serve the state well by serving his own
constituents in honesty
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Will Not he Sold.

Philadelphia. Jan. 26-The common
council to-day unanimously adopted a res
olution proclaiming to the public that the
city water works shall not be leased or
sold. and instructing the water commit
tee to report back with a negative recon-
mendation all bills relative to the sale or
lease of the same.
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Killed Three Men.

st. Louis. Jan. ga special to the Re
public from Eufaula, /. T., says: Andrew
Moore, a desperate of the Choctaw ma
ton, killed three men at Whitefield to-
day. Moore is a Choctaw Indian. He
harbored a grudge against the men and
walked deliberately up to them and shot
them down. Moore escaped but marshals
are after him.
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Current Comment.
To Draw the Line.
them

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
1t may be all well enough for the New
York judges to assume gowns after the
fashion of the English bench, but when
the New York lawyers propose to gown
themselves and then add wigs it is high
time for the photographers and the car
toon makers to get to work.
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Strike Situation Serious,

Colon, Jan. 26.-Matters in connection
with the strike of dockmen and railway
employees here and at Panama are grow
ing worse rather than better. The
steamer Alliance. which arrived here
last Tuesday, is lying idle and all bust
ness is paralyzed There have been no
freight trains from Panama to-day
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Plenty Like Him.

From the Boston Herald
Already it has been found necessary to
urge Senator-Elect Depew to stop talking
about the currency for the reason that he
apparently doesn't know anything about
the subject. However, he has got lots of
good company.
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A Sultan's Way.

From the San Francisco Bulletin.
The sultan of Morocco has put down
the rebellion in his territories captured
the 20 ringleaders and promptly beheaded
the lot. What he did with the heads is
not explained, but so thorough-gong
ruler is scarcely likely to leave any
loose ends lying around.
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Elkins' Ridiculous Spasm.

From the Detroit News-Tribune.
For man who doesn't like to do that
sort of thing in order to earn living
Steve Elkins is worrying lot about the
spiritual condition of the Filipinos.
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He Still Thinks 1t.

From the Washington Post.
Undoubtedly General Eagan's private
thoughts are running along in the old
vigorous groove.
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Bank CIearings.

New York. Jan. 27,-The following ia
BILE. compiled by Bradstreets, shows the
bank clearings at the principal cities for
the week ended Jan. rs, with the percent
age of increase and decrease as COM
year:
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So Near Yet So Far,

From the Philadelphia Times.
It's said of Englshmen that their in
suarty tends to make them distant. This
must be an insular tendency generally
for see the distant character of our Pa
cfic island empire.
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Chicago Of1ce-469 The Rookery.
The s. c. Beckwith Special Agency,
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Washington Bureau-1,415 G street. N.
W.
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advertising rates will be furnished on ap-
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POLK MILLER is IN TOWN

Polk Miller, with his banjo
He knocks the numbers down,
And the happy folks are singing,
Polk Miller isIin town. u
He comes from old Virginny--
smile gives for a frown;
It's glory, halieluiah.
Polk Miller is in town.
Atlanta Constitution.
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The Republican journal., 1899-04-06
Francis Shoe Store,
SOLE AGENTS.
Notice of Foreclosure.

CHARLES L. REYNOLDS Of HallowelI, in the
" County of kennebec and State OF Maine, BY
his deed dated November ~ 1896 and recorded
in Waldo Begistry of Deeds, in Book 247, Page
29O, conveyed to Benz amin f. Batcheder of Low
ell, Mass, in mortgage, certain parcel OF land
situated iii the town of Troy, County OF Waldo
and State of Maine, and described as follows, to
wit: The easterly one-third part of lot No, 2, OF
the second range OF lots in said Troy, according
to survey and plan made by Ballard and Bullln
in the year 1877, containing SIXTY hVe acres, more
less. Also another piece OF land III SAID Troy,
bounded as follows, viz situated on the read
leading by the house known as the Tobias Gould
house containing seven acres, more or loss, and
being the premises conveyed to said Is. r.
of warranty dated December 2, A. II. 1882 and
recorded in Waldo County Registry, Book 2Ul,
Page 2S5. Also another piece OF land situated on
the road leading by the house known as the Tobias
Gould house. containing ten acres, more or less,
ano being the same premises conveyed to the SAID
&. f, Batchelder by |. NJ. Knowles by deed OF war
ranty dated August second, A. ID. 1882, and re-
corded in Waldo County Registry. Also another
piece parcel of land situate in SAID Troy, bound
ed and described, as follows, to wit. beginning at
the southwest corner of land Ell by John +.
Gray of DiXmont; thence south on f. Batche-
ders east line land of William w. Mason ,
thence easterly on the line of said Mason ; and
forty (40) rods; thence north, parallel to saId
Batcheders west line before mentioned, to John
F. Gray's south line forty 40 rods; westerly ON
John F. GrayS south line to the point begun at.
containing seventeen acres, more or less, and
being the same premises conveyed TO SAID Batch
elder by William " Mason, by deed of qultClaim
dated April 10th, A. ID. 1897, and recorded in
Waldo County Registry. The conditions of said
mortgage having been broken, therefore clam
foreclosure 3Wl4
b. e. BATCHELDER.