The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-31

~ URE enough, how about it? Last
% Sunday morning the Butte Miner
printed the following:
Beasley's Act Commended.
Special to the Miner
Big Timber, Mont, Jan 2S.-The citi-
zens of Big Timber, irrespective of
party, heartily endorse the course of W.
w. Beasley in voting for w. A. Clark
for the United States senate. The re-
publcans concede that a republican
could not have been elected, and to
prevent deadlock and lop-sided dele
cation in the United States senate, the
vote for Clark is approved.
Whether it ever was special dis
patch or not, this trash was published
in the Miner, in order to take the sharp
edge off, and make things as smooth
as possible for renegade whom thou
sands of people in Montana were de-
nouncing as a rascal at the very mo-
rnent when the Miners special" was
running through the press.
The story of what really did happen
at Big Timber was told in a special
dispatch which the Standard printed
yesterday morning. This is the story:
When the news Of Clark's election
reached Big Timber, there was deep
anxiety to know how Beasley had voted.
1t is to be remembered that Big Tim
Der had already been through the Clark
MILL Hatch, republican who voted for
Clark in $685. was from Big Timber. At
that time Hatch was rated as one of
the most prosperous business men in the
Big Timber region; he is not so rated
to-day
However, to stay with Beasley, there
was an instant inquiry regarding his
vote. Evidently he was under sus-
picion, as bets were offered, pending
particulars, that he had gone to Clark.
Pretty soon Big Timber got the news;
Beasley had proved traitor. Then there
was hot time in Big Timber; the
Standards special dispatch said that
If Beasley had been there, at his own
home, he would have been in mighty
unsafe place for Beasley. An hour after
the news was received, Beasley was
from the top of Kellogg's store across
the main street to Busha and Bailey's.
The effigy was placarded 'Beasley the
bribe-taker,' 'Beasley the traitor to
Sweet Grass county,"
That was yesterday mornings news
It was a strange contrast to the Butte
Miners announcement that the citizens
of Big Timber, irrespective of party,
heartily endorse the course of w. w
Beasley in voting for w. A. Clark"
wasn't it?
This morning the news is that Beas-
ley has sued several well-known citizens
of Big Timber for libel. AS far as the
charge itself is concerned it is in the
5 right form. The oid-fashoned law
/ phrase is, Islander is addressed to the
der is spoken. libel is printed, pictured
put in efTigy. AS ito this libel bluff, we
shall see what we shall see. Mean
while the added news about Beasley is
that he is eastbound. Apparently he
left Helena for Big Timber. He saw .
great light; he just didn't get off the
Northern Pacific train at Big Timber
he kept right on east, and the only It'd
ings relating to him are to the effect
that he was making. probably for St
Paul.
This man has lived a whole lifetime
since last Saturday. horrible expert
ence has been his. Burned in efffgy by
outraged neighbors, How ceaselessly
the memory of what happened at Big
Timber will rise up to plague Beasley
8 How long would he have to live to be-