Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-03-10
VINO IS ~RESP0KSislEs

desperate tnOuku dUOIlIVc cAAOAS
fleet public attention from the para
mount issue before the voters of this
state. |
1t cringes and writhes and twists IN
der the weight of democratic derel &C.
tons that are laid at it's door, and Is
doing it's utmost to change the cure
of public thought.
1t realizes that no matter what the
outcome may be in the senatorial fig Mt
insofar as the personal political + or
tunes of Mr.. Clark are concerned. the
solemn fact remains that the democrat tic
party of this state stands under an in
dictment which no amount of sophistry
can dissolve.
If the evidence brought out In the
senatorial investigation proves injur-
ious to the defendant and his friends, 1t
is no less true that just as black a pail
Of political misdeeds has fallen upon the
shoulders of their democratic detractors.
A man may not be measured by the
temporary successes or the temporal
defeats thai embellish his public career,
but by the character of the methods he
may employ and his legitimate standing
before the world.
1t is the application of the character
guage h must define his limits in the
estimation of his fellowmen.
From such a standpoint, it is utterly
impossible for the democratic party of
; this state to escape the issue which it's
conduct has invited.
If one wing of that organization has
placed in the senate of the United States
a man who has been guilty of the illegal
not the other wing placed in the house
of representatives a man h stands as
a s~elf-confessed violater of the laws of
his state n the federal statutes?
If the one wing captured a senatorial
seat for a man who seeks to attain his
ends through the use of money. did not
the other wing capture a congressional
seat for a mar who seeks to attain his
ends not only through the illegal use of
money but through the illegal entry of
private rooms and the illegal perusal Of
private letters, and other DISCUS ting
practices of that type?
BY what right does the Standard lay
claim to any public approval Of the par
ticular wing Of the democracy which 1t
represents?
Does it not approve the methods en-
ployed BY the congressman who wears
it's W political brand?
Does it not advertise him as a para
gon of virtue?
Does it not point to him as a MI
among men, as a type of manhood to be
emulated by the young men of our state?
Does it not condone n justify the IL
legal acts to which he publicly con TESS
ed under oath, IN the grounds that the
end justified the means?
Does it not smile a~pprovingly upon
the state officer who sent rare gifts OF
rich venison and braces of wild duck te
the man who was trying to bride him tt
violate the duty which he owed to his
conscience, his God and his state?
Does it not sanction the violation o.
the laws against gambling by a state
officer whose duty it is to see that thu
laws against thai vice are enforced, and
2 who is paid a salary for that purpose?
. If the Standards idea of public virtu'
!, and the duty of public men is based upol
: the conduct to which its approval ha
+ been given, by what right does it assum
to dictate a political line of conduct TO
. the God-fearing citizen of this state?
Does it lie within the purview OF sucl
a sheet to say what the issues shall b
y or shall not be?
e Has it a right to question the CO nduc
of it's enemies, when it condones tn
crimes of its friends?
: BY what right can it assume to die
e tate a course of procedure that W i'll re
dound to the welfare of the state?
= Would not it's policy and it's methods
carried to a logical conclusion, bank
n rupt the manhood of the commonwealth
n and reduce the fairest of states to
s%tench-pot of iniquity?
The Standard must learn the lessO
in store for it.
Democratic rottenness must go.
Whenever the Anaconda Standar
finds itself in a corner it makes haste I