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The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-20

fallible they declare themselves--the
very violence Of their opinions riveting
them the more to their idea that Clark
must be sent to the senate at all haz-
ards and at any cost The bribery
exposure has irritated them into a
frenzy of fanaticism. Disappointed
vanity steps in to confirm their orig
inal morbid bias, and you behold in
Helena the strange spectacle of dis
gust and impotence at the efforts of
Clarks opponents to establish justice
and morality
The Standard by no means accuses
all the citizens Of Helena of having
thus been carried away by rage and
spite. There are plenty of good men
there who deprecate, earnestly and sin
cerely, the present ebulition of preju-
dice, who lament and shudder at the
tone that public sentiment has assumed,
who confess that their faith in virtue
has been staggered, who profoundly
deplore the contagion of the revolving
sophistry that the end W. A. Clark is
seeking justifies the abhorrent means
he has adopted. But the Standard
does assert that, however earnest these
men may be or however outspoken,
their words are lost in the din that is
raised and methodically kept up by
those who condone bribery in every
corridor and in every resort, high or
erless to check the shocking contamin-
alton.
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More Trouble Possible.

nth due diligence, Ambassador
M White, at the Kaiser's court,
has put the best foot forward
in all that relates to friendly relations
between the United States and Ger
many. Dr. White is a man who knows
how to use the press-in proper way,
of course. At the time when 1T looked
as if there might be a clash between
Washington and Berlin because of what
Dewey did at Manila, cable messages
giving out what our Ambassador White
had said were frequent arrivals These
were uniformly an assurance that the
emperor of Germany was all right and
not disposed to quarrel. More than
that, in one or two speeches and in
communications to the German press,
Ambassador White did much toward
holding the German people in friendly
mood toward the United States, at the
time, last summer, when some of the
German editors We're disposed to pick a
quarrel with us.
AS events in another quarter of the
world are shaping themselves, DR..
White may have a question of state to
deal with, even more delicate than the
one which took his attention last year.
In Samoa it is the house of Malietoa
against the pretender, Chief Mataafa,
and the fight is on. This is case
where our government has foreign rela-
tions-away off in the South Pacific we
hou Of ri rt Wit
England and Germany in the matter of
keeping things at rights in Apia and
thereabouts. AS has been mentioned in
the Standard, the present disturbance is
the result of rivalry over succession to
the kingship, as the sequel of the death
of King Malietoa, last year. The agree
ment was that the chief justice, Cham
bers, should be the umpire of the sort
of plebiscite held for the choice of a
king. 1t was foretold that, whichever
way the decision proved to be, the de-
feated side would fight
Chief Mataafa is the aspirant who
was ruled out, by the decision of the
chief Justice and he is UP and at it.
The English and the American consuls
at Apia are for the Malietoa side, but
it appears that in the recent hostiities
the side we are backing got a good
deal the worst of it-Mataafas follow
ers routed their rivals, sacked the city
of Apia and compelled the chief justice
and the rest of the foreigners unfriend-
ly to their cause to flee to the English
ships lying in the harbor.
According to all accounts, the Ger
mans who are representing Kaiser Will
lam at Samoa are operating with Ma
taafa. In the pending troubles many
things can occur which may lead to
complications Of the most serious char
acter. The emperor at Berlin might
find it his duty to level London with
the ground and then destroy New York
or he might, at least, feel disposed
to try to.
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yHEN the Great Eastern was
" launched. nearly half a century
ago, and proved such a signal
failure as a practical and paying ocean
carrier, shipbuilders the world around
predicted that no vessel approaching
her size would ever again be attempted.
They seemed to be right, too-for a de-
turn to shorter models even than had
prevailed up to that time. At length
courage revived, and the liners as a
general rule began to be built each a
little larger than the last.
1t was not, however, until within the
past ten years that there was any sen-
eral belief that the famous British
leviathan would ever be surpassed in
size. There has just been launched at
Belfast shipyard a ship that takes the
Great Eastern's place as the longest
ship ever built. The Oceanic is 704 feet
long, the Great Eastern was $780, But
the Great Eastern still remains
with the record as the largest ship,
bulk being considered. She had about
fifteen feet more of width than the
Oceanic and fourteen feet more of
depth.
After the Oceanic and the Kaiser
Wilhelm der Crosse, the Campania, Lu-
cania, Majestic and St. Louis are the
largest of the ocean liners built in re-
cent years. When the Campania was
launched, Nov. 20, 1892. she was re-
garded as probably the limit, with her
length of 625 feet. The Lucania, launch
ed year later, was only five feet
shorter. Then came the st. Louis, a,
monster as to tonnage. but seventy feet
shorter than the Lucania. Her advent
was thought by some to indicate that
reaction against extreme length had
set in. But then came the Kaiser Will
helm der Crosse, and now the Oceanic.
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The End Not Yet.

~ T Helena the senatorial business
drags, to the impatience of the
public. There is no relief for
that, The changes, as far as the Clark
vote are concerned are precisely those
which the Standard told it's readers to
anticipate The contest is prolonged in
part by the unprecedented effort kept
up by combination Of Clark heelers
and residents of Helena whose cry is.
Select Clark anyhow, no matter how
much he has spent in brides or on whom
he spent it, The aim is to keep up
a noisy claque, in the hope that it
may have weight by serving to divert
the attention of the grand jury from
the real rascality in this bribery bust
ness.
. 1t is case that calls for patience.
This is a fight of honesty in Montana
against a million dollars of w. A.
Clarks money. 1t is the severest test
to which any commonwealth in the
United States was ever put Politics
in this country can show no parallel
for it. The Clark attempt to buy the
state deals in offers to individuals so
lavish that they outrank the criminal
fly of William NJ. Tweed's operations;
the amount of money is so large, that,
in comparison, infamous bribery oper-
!, ations like those that have disgraced
boards of aldermen in Chicago are in
significant.
There is no occasion for alarm, al
though the conditions at Helena very
naturally awaken a feeling of deep
concern in the breast of all decent
citizens. 1t will come out all right.
w. A. Clark will never be a senator
for the sovereign state of Montana
pit he himself has digged. 1t is not
going to be part of this states his
tory that this purse-proud briber can
buy Montana. Already, the damning
evidence against him is ample to make
certain his failure to occupy a seat
in the senate, even were he able to
buy the Helena end of the contest
which he surely will not be able to
do.
Not to speak of the $4,000 of Clark S
bride money that has already passed
to the custody of the state, if w. A.
. Clark stays long enough in the race,
you will live to witness the rising up
$ of members of the Montana joint as
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Sentiment in Helena.

IN his Life of Napoleon William
Hazlitt tells how, before the break
ing out of the French revolution,
debauched French noblemen, while
walking through the streets of Paris,
used to bring their guns to their shoul-
ders and, taking deliberate and care
full aim, shoot at carpenters and other
workmen on scaffoldings or on the
roofs of tall buildings. Although less
proficiency in craftsmanship was re-
quired, bringing down human being
in this way was considered more en-
joyable sport than hitting bird on the
wing. Murder was thus a pastime, a
delightful form of recreation, a bracing
tonic to the nervous system, some
thing to be encouraged and INDUCED
in as often as a man could spare time
from his other occupations.
In the city of Helena to-day there
are men, hundreds of them, who, by
their words and their actions, attest
in the same light in which the French
aristocracy of 1870 viewed the slaugh-
ter of innocent workmen. Inconceiva-
BILE as 1t may be to right thinking peo-
pie at distance, Clark's bribery OPP
erations are not only condoned by many
people in Helena, they are defended
and praised and eulogized as neces-
sary, right and just. Let no man who
reads these lines think that the stand
ard is INDUCING in exaggeration. What
IS here stated Is the absolute truth,
and no stranger can spend six hours
in the boodle-tainted atmosphere of
Helena without being convinced of 1t.
The pretext of a defense, that the
Whiteside exposure was a conspiracy
and that the 100000 is money put up
by Marcus DAILY for the conspirators'
purpose is kept up in the Clark circle
simply for outward show. No sane man
stances pays the slightest respect to
that defense; among themselves Clark's
friends laugh at it and wonder how
many people outside of Helena are
being fooled by it, for they know well
enough that in Helena itself mono but
possibly the women and the children
have been deceived
The serious aspect of it all is the
laxity of local moral sentiment touch
ing bribery. Every trick of sophistry,
passion and prejudice has been adopt
ed in Helena 10 excuse Mr. Clark I'M
til, astounding as it may sound, there
are those who, admitting that he is
a bribe-giver extol Clark as a hero
instead of condemning him as GRIM
inal. And the more undeniably wrong
these Clark shouters are. the more in
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FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 1899.
TWELVE PAGES.
n T Harrisburg the opposition to
Quay is stubborn enough to
leaNa him reatlu without

n T Harrisburg the opposition to
II Quay is stubborn enough to
leave him apparently without
the possibility of gain. Yesterday on
"a joint ballot requiring 1875 to elect,
Quay polled lii. His strength was
very accurately given in the forecasts
that were made before the first ballot
twas taken. Apparently Quay started
tsput with all the strength he is going
ITO be able to muster. The IS votes
least for jerks represent practically the
fdem ocratic strength at Harrisburg
tThis strength in union with the anti
| Quay vote could score a plump ma
jority, but while that fusion has been
tmuch talked about and warmly ad-
Ivocated in some of the newspapers,
Where are no indications that it will
Ego into effect. A good deal of the most
trecent gossip in the Philadelphia press
IDS to the effect that when Quay be-
comes sure that it is all up with him
Ee will let go, SO that a republican
Isnay be chosen. Everywhere the prayer
,of decent American citizenship is that
the years contests will involve in a
common ruin Quay rascality in Penn
ssylvania, Addicks rascality in Della
ware and Clark rascality in Montana.
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Shafter in Command.

San Francisco. Jan. 19.-To-day Major
General Merriam issued an order relin-
gushing the command of the department
of California. Immediately thereafter
Major General Shafter issued an order
announcing his accession to the command.
General Merriam will go to Denver to as
sumo command of the department of Col
orado. He will be accompanied by his
personal aides Lieutenants Benjamin and
Graves and Colonel Volkmar, who will
act as adjutant general.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-20
A Shocking Tree.

German authority on forestry an
nounces the discovery, in the prime
val forests of India, of tree with the
most curious and inexplicable charac-
teristics. The leaves of this tree are
so highly electrical that whoever
touches one of them receives a severe
electrical shock. Even upon the mag
netic needle, this tree, which has been
given the name Philotcea electrical, has
a strong influence, causing magnetic
variations at distance of 70 feet. The
electrical strength of the tree varies
according to the time of day. 1t is
strongest at noon, but almose entirely
disappears at midnight. It's electrici-
ty also disappears in wet weather
Birds never nest nor perch upon its
branches, nor have any insects ever
been seen upon it,
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Current Comment.
Superfiuous Generals Galore.

From the Atlanta Journal.
It appears that our government has Gre
ated too many generals and that several
of them are soon to be mustered out.
When the war with Spain began we had
only three major generals. now we have
10. OF brigader generals we have no less
than s46. Our army even under the infiat
ing process of the expansive policy does
not need so many officers of high rank.
The proposition to reduce the number
of generals. however, raises a difficulty.
Which Of them shall go?
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Admitted To Probate.

San Francisco, Jan. 19.-The will of the
late Adolph Sutro was admitted to pro-
bate to-day. The contest of Edgar Sutro
and other children of the dead million
aire was formally withdrawn in open
court, with the request that the holo-
graphic will which Sutro executed in
May, 1882, be admitted to probate and the
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-20
Let the People Elect Them.

TTOm the DenVeT NEWS.
The Montana exposure in connection
with the election of United States sena-
tor furnishes the best possible argument
in favor of the election of senators by
the people. Hitherto public sentiment IN
this regard has been quite Indifferent. 1t
may be aroused by such occurrences as
are reported from Helena, which can be
characterized as one of the boldest at
tempts to bride legislature on record.
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whole estate be delivered into the hands
of the executors named therein. The ex-
ecutors are Mrs. Emma Sutro-Merritt and
w. r. H. Adamson, whose bonds were
fixed by Judge Coffey at 100000 each. 1t
is expected that the contest of the will
by Mrs. Clara Kluge the woman who
claims to be Sutro's widow by contract
marriage, will be instituted shortly.
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~ : = --I4 II Y q - y
Not Amenable to Justice.

From the Philadelphia Bulletin.
The New York police and press have an
abundance of clews and theories on hand
relative to that poisoning case, but the
dscouraging thought, u arises that you
can't hang a clew or put theory in
prison for life flr
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-20
Kelley Motor a Fraud.

Philadelphia. Jan. 19.-The Press to-day
publishes an article covering with illus
trations over a page of space, giving the
details of an investigation made by that
paper of the dismantled workshop of the
late John W. Kelley, which investigation
the Press contends clearly proves the
mysterious Kelley motor to have been a
delusion and a deception, and that it is
alleged that the mysterious force was the
result of trickery.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-20
A True Bill,

Canton, Ohio Jan. 19-The grand jury
to-day returned a true bill against Mrs.
Annie George for numbering George d.
Saxton last October. The indictment is
for the first degree and the penalty is
death by electrocution. Saxton was a
brother of Mrs. William Mckinley.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-20
New York as a Morpue,

From the Cleveland Leader.
There is always one sure way to tell
whether a man is out of politics for good
and all or not. If he is he causes it to
be announced that he will take up the
practice of law in New York city"
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-20
A Piratical Practice.

From the Indianapolis Journal.
Prize money should either be abolished
in the navy or extended to the army and
certainly nobody would like to see looting
legaized in the army. The practice sa-
vors of privacy, and probably naval Off
GERS themselves would like to see 1t abol-
ished
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Where He Excels.

From the Rochester Democrat and Chron-
icle.
General Eagans testimony before the
war investigation committee furnishes
conclusive proof of one fact to-wit: that
the commissary general of the United
states army is an expert blackguard.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-20
Three Charred Bodies.

Memphis. Jan. bout of the remains
of the steamer Ouachita, which burned at
the Memphis warhf early this morning,
three charred bodies have been taken.
Present identification of the bodies is
purely circumstantial, but they are be-
lieved to be those of DR.. Murray of Grenn-
vile, Miss, and Mr. and Mrs. Keck. No
other bodies could be found, though per-
sistent rumors reported the loss of other
lives
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-20
A Protectorate.
From the Chicago Evening Post.

From the Chicago Evening Post
A protectorate, with commercial
treaty guaranteeing the open door, will
yield us all the benefits of annexation
without burdening us with it's enormous
difficulties. The sober second thought Of
the American people, is asserting itself in
favor of that golden mean.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-20
Good In ANY Place.

From the Troy Press.
As George Dewey has never voted, he
seems eligible to a presidential nomination
from the democratic, republican or any
old party
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-20
After All McKin1ey's Caution, Too.

From the Kansas City Times
The president has had a head-on COLI
sion with public sentiment. Public senti-
ment hardly knew that it had struck
something but the other party is all in
heap.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-20
Something of a Task.

From the Los Angeles Times.
One of the duties imposed on the United
States will be that of teaching Cubans
and Filipinos to work for their living.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-20

New York Objects Tribune Building.
Chicago Ofiice469 The Rookery.
The s. C. Beckwith Special Agency
sole Agents Foreign Advertising.
Washington Bureau-1,415 G street, N
w
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-20
Sheriff Interfered.

+ Galveston, Texas, Jan. 19.-The 25-round
glove>contest booked for tonight between
Joe Choynski and Jim Hall was declared
off to-day on account of the sheriff hav-
ing interfered.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-20
Sowing and Reaninr

An Atchison man. who was married two
months ago and whose wife received 12s
wedding presents because she was Love-
~ Character, is now compelled to attach
his suspenders to his pantaloons with a
nail.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-20

y The Standard has branch offices at
Butte. Missoula and Great Falls where
advertising rates will be furnished on ap-
h|ica fion
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The First Thing.

From the Philadelphia Times.
When expansion is an accomplished fact
one of the first things should be to cut
down that name IloiIo one-half.
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One Thing Sure.

From the Chicago Journal.
And in some quarters the opinion pre-
walls that if the beef wasn't embalmed it
ought to have been.
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Daily and Sunday, three times greater
than that of any other newspaper pub
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The San Francisco call., 1899-10-29
Home Gutherinds.

Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel Hamilton of King
City on the 11th r1st. had the pleasure
OF celebrating an anniversary that but
few have, and that was the fftieth ami
versary OF their welded life. The cele-
bration was the more enjoyable from the
fact that there were present at the re-
union a number of the relatives Of the
celebrants. The event took place in the
residence Of j. E. Steinbeck in Paso Ro-
prettily decorated. All wished the aged
couple who have so long harmonlously
sailed together adown the stream Of life
another quarter century of companion
mond anniversary OF their wedding Those
who were present to congratulate the
guests of honor, Mr.. and Mrs Hamilton,
were Mr. and Mrs. w. J. Martin of San
Los Angeles, Mr.. and Mrs. w. ]. Hamil-
ton OF Salinas, Mr.. and Mrs. G.. W. Ham
ilton Of Paso Robes, Mr.. and Mrs. ]. z.
steinbeck Of Paso Robes, Miss Dessi
Of King City and ]. r. Hamilton of STAN
ford. After congratulations all partook of
an excellent golden wedding dinner, and
ehe recollections Of the pleasant event will
long linger in the memory of each who
was at that reunion. Half century ago
Mr.. Hamilton was a resident of the city
Of New York, and while there married
Miss Elizabeth Pagan. At that time the
tention of the world and Mr.. Hamilton,
catching the gold fever left his wife
with her parents and came TO the Golden
West around the Horn, landing in San
and hardships of the early days of Cali
fornia and after a time was rejoined by
his wife: About ten years ago they se-
edeq and MRS R Hamilton are ne the name parents M5 IF
eight living children.
On Monday evening, October %, pleas
The San Francisco call., 1899-10-29
SCOTCH DRAMATIC RECITAL.
Katherine E. oliver, the Celebrated
Character Impersonator,
Coming,
o. Scottish charactl

Lovers Of Scottish character as ex-
pressed in the works Of Sir Walter Scott,
Robert Louis Stevenson, Robert Burns,
Ian Maclaren, S. r. Crockett. ]. M. Bar
RE and others will have the opportunity
of enjoying dramatic treat of more than
usual interest early next month, when
Miss Katherine 3. Oliver, the celebrated
impersonator Of the various characters
intended by these authors, passes through
this city. She has consented 10 give one
recital here at the First United Presby-
terian Church, corner of Golden Gate ave
nue. and Polk street, on Friday evening.
November 10.
This is Miss divers sixth season as an
interpreter Of Scotch and Irish character,
during which time she has visited many
countries and appeared before noted peo-
pie. The secret of her success in the de-
lineation of Scotch life and character rs
that she is Of Scotch descent, speaks the
language to perfection, has visited the
scenes depicted in these productions and
has brought to the work the love, genius,
enthusiasm and untiring industry Of a
masterful mind and sympathetic heart.
In the latter part Of 1897 Miss Oliver ap-
peared before President and Mrs. McKfn-
ley at the White House. She has letters
Of commendation from some OF the most
noted divines and college presidents Of
the day.