Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-02-12
our WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT.

respondent seems to be giving the Ana
conda Standard another case of the jim
jams, judging from the column and a
half editorial kick in Sundays issue Of
that paper.
Evidently the truth hurts.
While the Standards reports from
Washington are colored to suit the in
terests represented by that paper. and
the Miners reports are ornamsnted with
equally lurid headlines to mislead the
reader, it remains for the Inter o
tain to give the facts impartially, and
without reference to the personal inter-
ests of the parties to the controversy.
Our Washington correspondent adds
to his well known abilities as a news
paper man, and his wide experience as
a news %gatherer, a conscientious desire
to outline the situation each day pre-
ciseay as it is.
Having no personal ends to serve in
this matter. as have the Standard and
the Miner, the Inter Mountain is
actuated only by a desire to give the
public a reliable summary of all the i'm
portant news of the day, relative to the
senatorial controversy.
1t So happens, in the natural order of
things, that when one set of men under
take to blacken the good name and repu-
tation Of another set Of men. whose linen
compares fayorably with their own be-
tween the spots, counter-charges must
follow accusations, just as the night fol-
lows the day.
The Clark case is no exception to the
rule.
Instead Of seeking to punish crime
through the judicial vehicles created by
law for that purpose, and washing it's
political linen within the limits Of our
own state, the Anaconda wing Of the
democracy took it's grievances into the
forum OF the nation.
Naturally. it encountered two forces
in This field, one Of which it had not
figured on.
IT, may CAPtCtcu a. lCdSI q
partial disclosure of it's own shortcom-
ings, while trying to ruin the political
hopes and the personal good name Of
men prominent in the opposite faction
of it's party. it did not apparently antici-
pate the strong opposition from neutral
! sources which the undermining ~of the
reputation of our commonwealth has in
spired.
When the Inter Mountains Wa shing-
ton. correspondent wildly portrays the
situation in hat city, and shows how
point of prestige and reputation through
a controversy which might have been
determined in the courts of this state
by judicial agencies fully competent to
weigh and determine the facts-the Ana
conda Standard howls with pain.
Realizing that it will be compelled to
answer to the people of Montana for the
course it has seen fit to pursue in under
mining the reputation of the state, il
finds in every fair and impartial report
made by the Inter Mountains Washing
tear it's hair.
We're these reports falsely colored tc
serve the M which the Standard ha.
in view, they would meet the unqualified
commentator of hat newspaper; am
We're they shaped up to ard Senator
Clark in his fight, our contemporar,
would find surcease for it's troubled con
science by charging them to the oppo
sition.
But when they. come freighted witt
facts alone, and conclusions drawn from
an independent and impartial survey o
the situation by a far-sighted observe
of events, the Standard squir1ns like al
angle worm on a hot shovel.
Yesterday morning it again reverte,
to the Raleigh house incident-an Incl
dent which it at first denied, but whicl
it was forced to admit after the Int
torical accuracy-showing that the les
son taught by that set-to has carve,
an indelible picture of regret upon tn
Standards nor
From the bottom Of it's heart it wishe
that it had never taken place, for
showed beyond the shadow of a doub
that while some men have pockets am
, some other men have money the nature
? laws of affinity will cause the money t
find it's way into the pockets aforesaid.
That incident would have passed I'M
the current events OF yesterday, an
been formation hy the Stamford ;tcol