Daily inter mountain., 1900-02-02
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The Inter Mountain today confesses to
a feeling of lonesomeness. 1t has a sus-
picion that the Anaconda Standard is
wilfully trying to neglect 1t. Instead Of
the usual two columns Of self-defenee.
our contemporary dismisses the state
ment that Senator Geiger received ST. 100
for his vote for House Bill 1872, with the
following:
In his case, Gesiger swears that he has
his suspicious, but he doesn't know for q
certainty: and it seems that such posi-
tive knowledge is possessed by none save
Omniscence and the Butte Inter Mpups,
tain, from whom nothing is conceAaed.l /
Geiger knows nothing whence it came:
all that he knows is whittier 1t went.
But the Butte Inter Mountain knows
everything about it. The Inter Noun
tain is the Great Eye of the Danitee, the
destroying angel of the Mormons, To
the Great Eye the secrets of the grave
are laid bare. mans inmost thoughts are
revealed as plain as BREWER print, and
all that is hidden and mysterious and
incomprehensible in heaven and earth
and hell is known and understood. Not
even GeAger may hope to conceal hiN,faro
system from the Great Eye ands the
Greater Head of the Butte Inter Noun
tain. so' 4
1t must be confessed that it would be
hard to make-that is, it would be- hard
for the Standard to make more power
full argument than the foregoing. The
average reader will at once see how
effectually it disposes OF the following
statement made by Senator Geiger under
oath:
I found package in my room contain
ing $1,1OO. 1t was at the time that Cor
poration Bill 1872 was pending. took the
money and used it and never said a word
about it.
1t will be remembered that the COR
poration bill came up after the sena-
| torial fight was over: and while the Flat
head statesman may have received $40, 900
from the agents of W. A. Clark, as the
Standard has repeatedly asserted, 1t is
not at all likely that he was subse-
quently paid a consideration of 81, 100 for
a. service previously rendered, and which
had already cost $4,000 more than it was
worth. Finding $1.1OO in his room the
day the corporation bill was pending,
Geiger went and voted for it, land never
said a word about it," Yet the Standard
would have the public believe that
Geiger had his suspicious, in addition to
the $1,100-that he didn't know for a
certainty" where the money came from!
It seems. however, that the Standard
does not display it's usual astuteness in
showing where that package of 81, 100 did
did not come from. It has had no difiS
Guilty, for a year past, in tracing
numerous $4,000 packages to Clark, and
has taken the public into its CONFIDENCE
and told the people all about it! But
this measly little Jim-crow package of
81, 100, which Senator Geiger found In his
room, after the senatorial election was
over and the corporation bill was pend
ing, seems to have mislaid It's umbilical
cord, and the Standard can't find the
connecting link. frsr.
Being unable to trace that particular
wad to Clark, on account of it's diminu-
tive and stingy proportions. the Stand
ard reaches the conclusion that it re-
quires Omniscience, instead of a salary
| from the Amalgamated Copper company,
| to ferrit out the problem Not wishing
to show any partiality in dealing with
its opponents, the Standard very kindly
places Omniscience and the Inter Noun
| tain on the same footing. For which,
maAy thanks. However, it is currently
believed that Omniscience would not be
compelled to work double Shift in order
to figure out where that package Of 81, 100
! came from.