Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-03-09
THE HARTMAN INCIDENT,

This morning the Anaconda Standard
denies the truth of the incident mention
ed in these columns some months ago
relative to the hanging of Hartman in
effigy in this city.
AS related by the Inter Mountain at the
time, the affair took place in South
Butte, the figure being suspended from
a railway bridge on the B., A & p, near
Nevada street.
Scores of people viewed the ''remains'
and commented literally on their striking
likeness to the original. |
Considerable hilarity, and not a little
approval, cropped out in various quar-
tiers. but the Inter Mountain promptly
condemned the proceedings as an i'm
proper way of expressing contempt for a
public a
This paper had condemned the
hanging of Beasley in efigy by citizens
of Big Timber, when the Standard was
giving to that d~isgraceful episode it's
most hearty approval, and the same po-
sition was taken relative to the express
sion of contempt for Hartman.
The Inter Mountain has never hesitat-
ed to 'censure such a course of proceed
ure, whether the victim of the prank was
Beasley, Hartman, or any other man
whose conduct may have led up to a
! feeling of contempt on the part of the
people.
But while the Inter Mountain publish
ed the fact, as a matter of news, when
the Hartman incident occurred, and sup
plemented it's report with expressions of
~unmistakable disapproval. the Standard
did not utter one word in condemnation
of such proceedings.
1t suppressed the news Of the event, as
it usually does when any of it's henchmen.
are placed in an embarrassing position.
and it could not condemn efigy-hanging
on general principles, as 1t had gone on
record in favor of such expressions of
public contempt.
Therefore it kept silent.
Had the Inter Mountain told an un
truth at the time, it would have been
promptly "called down. by the Standard,
and the public never would have heard
the last of it.
For the first time that paper refers to
the incident this morning. and now seeks
to convey the impression that it was
purely imaginary.
By the same system of banking on the
f~orgetfulness of the public, it again an
nounces that the "Raleigh hotel Incl
dent reported by our Washington cor
} respondent, never occurred, although at
) the time this paper Offered a wager OF
$500 tina the statements made by its cor
respondent were correct.
| Subsequently, the Standard acknowl-
edged the truth Of the incident, but now
in the belief that the witnesses to the
!, affair have left Washington, it boldly
= designates it as an untruth.
= Before the next political campaign i.
half over it will deny three-fourths o
, the testimony given by Campbell, Nola1
! and others, in the belief that it can rail-!
!, a few gullibles at least to it's waning
cause. s@s
The Standard has carried it's system
of public deception to such a disgusting
extreme that it is only necessary for i
to champion a man or a measure to i'm
: lmediately arouse a well defined suspl
cion on the part of h public that it ha
g an Interior motive in view.
'e It's political successes are due who'll
i to coercion, b%ulldozing. b~ullyragging an
the unlimited use of DOODLE.
le AS Campbell put it so aptly on the wit
lc ness stand, it has millions for defense!
ID Unfortunately, it lacks the stronge!
10 element of self-defense ever vouchsafe
a. to mana character for truth and We
es acity.