Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-03-13
ADVOCATES A PUBLIC MEETING.

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To the fact thai yours is the only
daily paper in the city in which one can
hope for a fearless, open and impartial
discussion of matters of present vital in
terest to III people, and also because of
your jealous and capable defense of the
good name of our people, in the face of
the storm of filth which has been
pouring from the muZzles of the mud
runs of the Investigating committee,
and beating continuously on the bat
Elements along our border this COM
! munication is due.
It is written by one who is not a men,
Der of either warning camp of the demo-
| cracy by one who loves his adopted
state and is anxious to do his small
| part toward saving her from the con-
| tempt of her sister states, by relieving
; her in a measure of the responsible
| ity for the political existance Of the ex-
traordinary person who In the
west, to the name of A. j. Campbell.
MAY we never see the like AGAIN. n
for the elevation of the immaculate At
torney General c. B. Nolan.
That Nolan took a swig too much, or
played the red when the black had the
CALL" need not cause any Montaniant to
blush; those are vices which, simply
prove his human origin, notwithstand-
ing his present divine height. besides
they been sanctified by h giants
of the century. r
That the attorney general of our state
sent a testimonial of esteem to the man
whom he suspected of trying to bride
him is q reflection on him, on. his party
and on the entire state, so long BIS we sit
silent under it. f9I ~
That Congressman Campbell will be
unseated is, of course, a foregone con-
clusion. fG II
The body which denied Brig. Roberts
a seat for observing what was to him Il a
divine command, for te
Whatever creeds be taught or hands be
trod, - o.
Mans conscience is the oracle of God,"-
Will sure never disgrace itself by per-
Knitting to remain on it's rolls of men,
bership the name of one who is admit
ted to be a purchaser of perjured testi-
mOny, an employer n an associate OF
, Pinkerton thugs and black legs; who has
"waded in the mud" and a violater OF
the sacredness of private correspond
ence.
It is indeed seldom that so much
l-oathsOmeness is embodied in one nan
particularly by an Honorable" man.
His unseating. as I have said, Is, ]
think, a foregone conclusion. =
There is nothing we a do OF leave
undone that can affect 1t. ~
There is one thing we can do, however,
as a whole people.
It is to show the world we did not
knowingly commend men of the char
acter of these; hat we do not as a peO-
pie endorse the methods of any house
breaking gang of political whisky guz-
zling Cleveland insists, of different poll
tical connections but of NO political
faiths, who have bestridden us for years
Selling positions of honor only to pros
titute them, while we, through u al
most criminal Indifference, have be
come a party to a condition which re,
warded ~chicanery, fraud and double
dealing with high Office, while Jealous
dignified and honorable service were re-
warded with retirement and neglect.
The mode of procedure which suggests
itself to me whereby we may in a meas
ure, escape the obloquy which SO justly
attaches to the man Campbell. is thu
calling of mass meetings where we may
; through our leading citizens, give voice
to the feelings with which we view thu
actions Of our congressional representa-
tives and our susceptible attorney gen
eral.
In a matter of this kind 1t will, sO
course, be necessary that the move ~
set going by the n~on-partisan press, VIII
} dare to d. the right undismayed by
> threats and Indifferent to gold brick:
and Doodle.
I should like my idea discussed by you
readers.
Let us leave no stone, the turn
ing of which may enable us to 'drag VI
drowned honor by the locks" II