The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-20
purpose of brieing members to betray

| purpose of bribing members to betray
their party, and that he hoped if he
ever voted for any one but a repub-
| lican for United States senator his
| constituents would take him out and
| hang him when he came back. Mr..
| Geiger couldn't remember having said
any such thing. Neither will he re-
member that in Helena last January
| in consideration of his being seated
| he promised to vote for a republican
| to the end of the session and, if need
| be. to the end of time. For Geiger
was republican and an Hon. man.
What, he, John H. Geiger, vote for
democrat! Could leopard change
his spots? Could a whale fly? Could
a starving lion do service as Mary's
little lamb? Could an elephant be
caught in a mouse-trap? Could an
eagle perform the functions of a mos
quito? Could lobster dance the cake
walk? Could a hippopotamus change
beings with Staten Island clam?
Could an army mule win the Futurity?
Shall the behemoth be as the grasshop-
per? Or the leviathan even as the fool
hen? Shall the ostrich suffer from indi-
gestion and be operated upon for appen-
dicitis? Grid up now thy loins like a
man, o Job: for I will demand of
thee, and answer thou me. Who is this
that darkeneth counsel by words with
out knowledge? When the morning
stars sang together and the angels
shouted for joy, was it not ordained
that John H. Geiger should vote for
none but a republican for United
States senator? Go to, we of little
faith! For Geiger is an Hon. man.
What did John H. Geiger, by the
grace of the devil and the most bare
faced fraud ever perpetrated by
Clarkized legislative body-by the
grace of these agencies senator
from Flathead county--what did John
H. Geiger promise Thomas c.. Marshall?
Would he vote for a republican to the
end? Well, would he, Try him, gen
tlemen, try him. Powers and prnci-
palities might totter and fall: England
and the United States might decay
and crumble to dust like Greece and
Rome: civilization might reach it's
anti-climax and society relapse into
savagery; the sun might be bloIted
out, and the earth again be without
form and void, and darkness be on the
face of the deep; the solar system
might be rolled up as a scroll, the
universe resolved into it's primordial
chaos and cataclysm, and infinity and
eternity annihilated-and still John H.
Geiger would be found rising in crea-
tons topping ruins and voting for a
republican for United States senator.
For Geiger was an Hon. man.
Others might go over to Clark, he
could not say. He feared that there
might be weak sisters in the legisla-
ture, like Beasley and Jacqueth and
Marcyes, and, on the democratic side,
like Carr and Hannah and Kuphal-he
could not vouch for what others might
do; but as for him. John H. Geiger,
give him a republican or give him
death. AS a republican not only would
he vote for a republican till shecl be-
came an impenetrable mass Of ice
| bergs, but he would strive nightly and
increasingly to keep the republican col
umn as solid as the eternal rock of
Gibraltar. For Geiger was an Hon.
man: SO were they all-all Hon. men.
Mr.. Geiger was seated on January
26. On January % he voted for
Clark. Mr.. Geiger went home after
the adjournment and, his constituents
courteously declining to take him out
and hang him, secured lands and began
erecting buildings and branching out
! as a man of substance. He has receiv-
ed money from his" mothers estate"
and from an eastern bank on his
brothers note''-names and addresses
and amounts not given; for Mr.. Geiger
says it's nobody's business but his
own; and Geiger is an Hon. man.