Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-03-29

the future control Of the courts. 1t Il
time for the patriotic citizen to draw thu
line. Public patience will tolerate a grea'
deal. But it will not calmly submit te
the injection of poison into the arteries o.
justice. 1t is time to call a halt. =
Were an individual to attempt to cor.
rupt a court he would be rightfully sub
iected to the extreme penalties of the law
Yet the extraordinary spectacle is Wit
messed of corporate wealth trying to
shape political conditions so as to place
men in judicial positions who will do
their bidding without reference to the
merits of questions tina may come before
them. )
This unholy attempt to turn back the
wheels of civilization, and brutalizet the
community. should arouse the patriotic
energies of all our people. 1t matters not
what a mans political affiliations may be.
if he be an honest man he should arise in
Judgment against the efforts of any man
or set of men to control the adminfstra-
ton of Justice. The courts should re-
terests of any man. and interpret the law
with the impartiality of conscious hon-
esty.
When a corporation SEXES the machin-
cry of a political organization for the pur-
pose of securing control of the courts, and
debating their decisions, it is time for
every man who believes in the fundamen-
tai principles of a free country to regis
who does not is a traitor to the true inter-
ests of his country.
No intelligent man will make an honest
attempt to deny the seif-evidert fact that
the wing Of the democracy now in charge
Of its party machinery in this city, is alb
solutely controlled, dominated and en-
gineered by a corporation that has
sought to bend the legislative assembly
to its will. and is now trying to get the
judiciary within it's power. The energy
ard intensity and zeal with which tit is
,It -,lt ,oC this M ic i1lI1ctfa ta6 nv
the fact that the political agents and
~claQuers of the millionaires who own the
company. are directed to spare neither
none nor threats to land in the chair Of
the police ma g~istrate the candidate Of the
hill democracy. ANYWAY u. ..1s~ i i.
We're these gentlemen actuated only
by a desire to promote the public good,
tlpey would hardly go to such extremes to
to take the bread out of the mouth of a
man who was ambitious to run indIepend-
entity for that office, and whose candidacy
might have contributed to the election
of the republican nominee. The gentle
man purchased the right to live in Butte,
and possibly immunity from the brass
knuckles of some thug, by reconsidering
his Intention to stand as an independent
Such are the methods of the million
| aires behind the hill democracy. Such is
the desperation of the men who are de-
termined to capture the courts Of this
commonwealth if bribery, threats, coer-
cion and intimidation can effect that
end. If they will go to such extremes in
behalf of a police judge, how far will they
go to capture a district judge or "a county
attorney? 81. .
If permitted to control the affairs Of
Butte, they hope to control the affairs of
Montana, for this city holds the balance
of power i'm the state conventions of the
democratic party. Can this city afford
to acknowledge to the world that it is
dominated and controlled by a corpora
ton that a designs upon the judicial
bulwark of the peoples liberty?
What do the European capitalists, who
are the real power behind the throne in
the present municipal contest, care for
the good name of this city or the pros
.aaaitu aud n~olitical indaner . deraca OF olIr