Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-04-05
ARGUMENTS made ARE
QUITE SENSATIONAL

Thousand dollar bills handed out as free
ly as cards at afternoon receptions! NO
attempt at economy. Welcome, the can
didate's alleged representative, saying to
an acquaintance of less than a years
standing: 1.-THE man who ''votes for
Clark without being paid for it is a fool"
The candidate is one of the best known
men in the state; a man who was chosen
to be president of the first
constitutional convention, with extended
business interests, and who has paid the
expenses of the election of large num-
Der of the legislators; and. yet no one is
willing to vote for him without a bribe.
No one is asked to do SO.
No pretence of concealment
Crimes which are usually conducted in
such secrecy that the party seeks to pre-
vent his left hand from knowing what his
right hand doeth, are here perpetrated in
public.
Approaches to State Senators like
Myers not made by sounding them OBJ
scurely through their friends, but by
sending to the same man three messen-
gers at once; strangers who do not know
him, and to whose arguments he would
be unlikely to listen; loose tongued men,
like Hill, in whose discretion he would re-
pose no confidence; notorious knaves,
like Hewitt, from whom he would fear
betrayal; all sent by Welcome, tum-
bling over each other in their impa tience
to reach the member and to offer him his
bribe. The payments not made private
ly, but in each case witness is said to
have been called to give formality to the
transaction. The lieutenant governor of
the state and the marshal of the United
States are offered as Stockholders, and
when they are deemed to afford INSULT
cient security a national bank is said to
be ready to enter the bribery upon its
books. The speaker of the house pro-
poses the payment of $4,000 for his vote.
The state auditor offers himself rs a
broker to buy three members in return
for a commission of $1,000.
CAMPBELL AND OTHERS.
A member of congress who glories in
the fact that he has committed an Of
fense which men of honor, where it is
not forbidden by law, regard as worse
than a crime, the reading of a private
letter: which by the penal code of Mon.
tana is punishable by Imprisonment;
that he has bribed the letter carrier to
aid him in stealing it, thus making him.
self if not in law thief, at least the
receiver of stolen goods. which by the
same code is punishable by imprison-
ment for five more years; who has writ
ten letter asking his agent to corrupt
a grand jury; who has betrayed his po-
litical friends for salary of $1,000 a
year; who has been proved by several
witnesses to be guilty of subordination
of perjury; and whose own perjury was
plain to all of you.
An attorney general who confesses OH
the witness stand that he has betrayed
the secrets of the grand jury, and wLo
has been proved, by his own witnesses
to have falsified his report of them; who
has confessed that he has committed Il
felony punishable by ten years impris-
onment by advising the state treasurer
to pay the state funds of the common
wealth without lawful authority, in vic.
lation of the state constitution and hey
penal code; who has been proved by two
witnesses to have been guilty of subor-
nation of perjury; who in your presence
exposed his own perjury by his repeated
contradictions of himself; who We,
would have you believe that he might
have had his own price, which he fixed
! at 500, ,000 in return for abandoning q
case, and that he Indignantly spurned
the bribe.
Why. Aladdin with his lamp was moi
| so extravagant as they would have you
story had not 1.-The reputation of being
liberal payer" the Junior senator
from Montana These volumes of tes
timony read like tale of the Count OF
Monte Cristo dealing with the inhabt
ants of Inferno It is as the dream Of
I III
idiot full of sound and fury and signi.
flying nothing"
| No, senators, Montana is not lilkt
Sodom and Gomorrah, nor is her capito
a tabernacle of bribes. All speakers O
her assembly are not as venal as Stiff
All her legislators have not been as 'lc
based as Whiteside. All her attorney.
general have not been as impudent law
breakers as Nolan. All her congress
men have not been as shameless al
Campbell. The high character OF tn,
gentleman who is my clients colleag,
your daily walk and conversation Will
him and with those who were his prede
cessors must have convinced you tina
| the state Is not so vile as she has beer
represented here to be; for otherwise
men of their reputation would not hith
erto have been uniformly chosen to rep
resent her in the senate. There was n,
scandal about Montana at the nationa
capital until Campbell was elected ther
to congress.
Out of all this war Of conflicting evi
dence there is one thing, however, upol
the proof of which we can all, think
old adage: Foul is the bird that foul
Its own nest" Never hitherto has
court Of justice listened to a set OF wit
nesses SO degraded by their own admis
sicns as those who have testified in sup
port of the ISLANDERS against their owl
state. Bribe offerers like Whiteside. VIII
pleaded as II he had been his brothe
to induce Bywater to sell his soul in or
der that he might betray him. Obtain
Iers of money under false pretenses, sucl
as Whiteside. Clark and Meyers. I'm
successful solicitors of bribes as Stin
Sullivan and Normoyle. Would-be
bribe- brokers like Poindexter. Admitte
liars like CasOn. That clerical embez
zler, brawler and whoremaster. the un
frocked priest. the late Reverend Benja