Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-03-29
THE STANDARDS APOLOGY.

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ard had again resumed it's musical whirr.
and no one can tell where it's symphony
may md.
The dilatory catgut on it's political fid-
die gives forth the same old tune which
charmed it's readers through the other
wise monotonous hours of the past 365
chronological subdivisions of time.
For some days it has been believed by
many that the anti-Clark orifice in the
Standards ~valvular department had been
successfully plugged up at the late city
convention. and that all discordant notes
would be successfully suppressed until
after the ten-day limit had expired, and
the aldermanic ticket was no longer in
jeopardy.
But the unfortunate action of the sem
atorial committee. in giving the briefs in
the Clark case to the public. dispels what
seems to have been an illusory hope for
harmony. and the Standard comes out
this morning with it's voice keyed up to
C-sharp, and apparently reckless as to
the possible fate of the four Clark men
on the aldermanic ticket.
In speaking of Clark's f~riends-four
democratic candidates for aldermen in
cluded-tlle Standard says: almost to
a man, in confidence, they will admit his
guilt. but in the same breath claim that
he ought to be permitted to hold his
seat
. This would seem to imply that since
the late city convention, and the re-es-
tablishing of harmonious relations be-
tween the two wings of the party. Mr..
4 Clark's friends have-'almost to a man"
taken the Standard into their conf
dence and made the Acknowledgements i'm
puted to them by nat newspaper.
Had there been no such outburst of
confidence. following the sacrificial offer
! ings of the fatted calf, o would he
, Standard nave found out that the Clark
men freely concede the guilt of their
chieftain, when talking confidentially?
But the extraordinary disclosures made
the confidence of the Clark men, at the
close of the late city convention, evil
IDENTIFY impressed that sheet with the me-
cessity of defending somebody.
1t is clear on the face of things that if
men who believe in the guilt of Senator
Clark desire him to retain his seat, it Is
because they lave more confidence in
that gentleman-despite the crimes inn
puted to him-than they do in those who
have waeed relentless war upon him.
Such 'horrifying revelations impelled
the Standard to a speedy defense.
Unwilling to concede that it is worse
than Mr.. Clark, whose friends-"almost
to a man. "admit his guilt"-the stand
ard covers up it's own identity as best it
can and makes a vigorous defense of Mr..
DAILY!
Now, Mr.. DAILY has repeatedly asserted
that he had nothing to do with the case
that it was sin the hands of the young
men of the party'-and the record shows
that Congressman Campbell was INSTALL
ed as the official head of the anti Clark
wing of the democracy, with full power
to spend all the money there was in
sight, burglarize private rooms, open pri-
vate letters, send obscene matter through
the postoffice, employ detectives, and at
tend to sue other duties as the defeat
! of Senator Clark might make necessary
If the Standard did not wish to &C.
knowledge it's own completely in the
fight against Clark, for fear of imperilline
| the political prospects of the four Dali,
r men on the aldermanic ticket, why did il
wiring Mr.. DAILY into this matter, an6
t seek to show that that gentleman onl,
l acted in self-defense when he turned hi.
political pocketbook over to Mr.. Camp
bell?
{ Why did not the Standard defend Mr.
Campbell. the real leader of the anti
Clark wing of the democracy?
l After having maintained for month.
past that Mr.. Daily was not a party to tn,
: case, and was merely a disinterestet
d, spectator. so to speak, why does tn,
Standard now acknowledge that the con
tention of the Clark men tina DAILY wa,
: at the bottom of the fight was right?
: 1t makes this concession when it ad
: mits that Mr.. DAILY contributed to the de
feat Of Mr.. Clark and had ample iusti
: ~fication in the course which he pursued
If Mr.. DAILY had not pursued any cours