Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-02-05
Personal NEWSPAPER ORGANS.

1t is an ill wind tina avors no n e
While the senatorial controversy will cost
anywhere from $4,000 to $50. eco and UNI
doubtedly deprive Montana of govern
ment appropriations for some years to
come, as well as inflicting a most serious
blow to the reputation and welfare OF
the state, there will be at least one COM
pensating result. The Montana public
paper organs at their real worth. The
official organs of the respective demo-
cratic factions, like shysters pleading a
case before a country justice of the peace.
lose sight of every public consideration
IL the personal rights of the individual.
in their frantic efforts to Twin out" in the
estimation, of the people who are look
ing on.
The Anaconda Standard is the most
conspicuous of it's type, because 1t is the
most noisy and the most unscrupulous.
The veriest ragamuffin. besmirched from
top to toe with filth, and reeking with the
vilest odors which human depravity can
impart to a degenerated human soul, be-
comes a prince in the editorial eye of
that newspaper whenever his testimony
is in line with the purposes which it may
have in view. On the other hand, no
anism of it's self-acting slop-jars, when
ever he t~estifies against the interests it
is defending. AS a purely personal organ,
without a conviction IN any public ques-
ton, or an idea concerning the rights and
privileges of n public man. which is
not dictated into it's editorial a by the
high-mightiness whose hand is upon it's
level, the Standard pursues a course
which would be instantly %repudiated in
any community which had not been edu-
Gated by political oppression into a stoical
Indifference to its work. p
In a somewhat lesser degree, due per-
haps to smaller abilities in that particu-
lar line, rather than to any lack OF in
| clination, the Butte Miner Helena
Independent follow the same course.
The result is, the three leading demo-
cratic morning dailies Of this state are
advertising to the world, as we'll as to
our own people, that Montana is a rotten
borough, whose public mel ought to be
in the p~enitentiary instead of running at
large. Those who have been classed as
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turned loose upon the public by the
Standard, while those who are classed
as the enemies of that gentleman are
promptly spiked by the Miner and indie
pendent. The men in public life in this
state who have not fallen under the GRIM
inal accusations sown broadcast by these
three democratic ~wspapers are few and
far between.
When some fellow like whiteside goes
back into the past, and to prove his owr
purity as a reformer attempts to be-
smirch men of unimpeachable reputation
who have had nothing to do with the
fractional row in the democratic party
the Standard pats him on the back an6
points out the splendid moral attributes
Of the man! It hugs to it's bosom such
cancerous characters as Cason ant
Hewitt, and kisses the brow of perjur,
and disgrace.
Then, when such double-dealers a.
Wright and Hill go on the stand, th,
Miner and the Independent see anothe,
set of regulations tumbling to ruin, an,
the former, as a pace-setter, predicta
with all the prophetic ore-knowledge O
a double-leaded editorial, that the gov
ernor. the attorney general, the con
gresham. the speaker Of the house, an,
two state senators-all Of whom are law
) yers-will be disbarred by the suprem
court Of this state for the part they ar
playing in the senatorial fight!
{ 1t cannot be denied that the mora
turpitude Of the democratic press Of thi
e state arouses the suspicion that tn
newspaper organs are no worse than tn
forces behind them; and that. after al
l there may be more or less truth In tn
: statements which each faction is maxim
S about the other. BE this as it may, in
4 side of three months after the senatorie
matter shall rave been finally dispose
: of, these turbulent ROSTERS will ohok
I down their pip and rub their rufie
feathers smooth as they line up alongsid
t the political meal trough to make CON
mon against h republican part
of Montana.
The Anaconda Standard Is trying