The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-06

that the standard has started
the cry of stop thief"
That is not so. The effort of the
Clark boedlers is, not to steal the sena-
torshp, but to buy it. This is not
case of theft; it is case of bribery.
Respectable citizenship in all commun-
tiles sometimes almost condones theft,
Or is at least willing to look upon in
stances of it with a degree of allow
ance But bribery is always a crime
which honest men cannot be persuad-
ed to pardon. 1t is a manifestation of
the corrupt power of money in its most
dangerous and most hideous form. The
proposition we have made and which
we affirm again is that W. A Clark's
money and his infamous and notorious
Willingness to use it for the purchase
of votes is the head and front of his
senatorial campaign now progressing
at Helena, and absolutely all there is
of it.
The Miner lies when it remarks that
every man who votes for a candidate
the STANDARD does not want must ne
cessarfly do soon the Standards the
ory-for DOODLE" That is an assertion
made in deliberate dishonesty. There
are number of citizens of this state
whose candidacy for the office of sena-
tor is recognized, not alone at Helena
but throughout the state. Of those
who are In the race no man at this nour
can be named as the winner. It has
never been in the dream of the Stand
ard-as every reader of these pages is
well aware-to utter even so much as
a discourteous word in mention of any
of these candidates. except as the
Standard denounces the Clark candida
cy as rotten effort to buy the sena-
torship; and there doesn't live in Mon
tana an intelligent man but knows that
this denunciation has it's foundation in
the notorious truth. So shameless is
This purchase process that some of the
trusted agents of w. A. Clark, freely
admitting that his former efforts to buy
the senatorship were failures, have
boasted openly that, this time, he will
put up money in such large sums that
the average member of the legislature
simply can't resist the figure. That we
assert to be the top and bottom of the
RI tor-
in this announcement for any portion
of the Montana public; everybody
knows it.
The attempt of the Miner to hide the
bribery in the Clark candidacy by say
ing that the Standard assails all those
who don't happen to vote its way, is
too gauzy to cover up the deviltry
which the Miner is predisposed to make
light Of
The Standard has no man for whom
it asks senatorial votes; it will hal
with gladness the election of any sena.
tor who can stand up in front of the
people of Montana and expect them
10 belleNe MN when he says that his
title is clean. On the other hand, this
newspaper will not cease to sound the
warning in the hearing of the people
and of the members of the legislature
of Montana that capital crime threat
ems them; that w. A. Clark has bought
some support and paid the money fol
it; THAI, out of the limitless millions at
his command, he stands ready and will
ling, yes, anxious, to make political
prostitutes out of as many members
of the legislature as by the CLINT of his
gold he possibly can lure. The question
running the length and breadth of The
state this morning VIGOROUSLY is; Car