Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-01-23
Will DAILY TESTIFY

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once explaining the remarkable para
doxes in the American character with
the following illustration: "A man will
go into a saloon and set up the drinks;
he will then say 'Ere's a go!-but he
don't go" The present situation affords
another illustration in paradoxes even
the Englishman, who "a not up in
the vernacular of the day. Though the
Anaconda Standard gets mad whenever
it is suggested that Mr.. Daily ought to
go on the witness stand in the senatorial
investigation, it readily assents to the
proposition that he ought to go-but he
don't go!
1t is argued that Mr.. Daily is not on
trial in the present case, n his APP
pearance as a witness is not as ma
terial to the issue as is Mr.. Clark's.
While it is true, Mr.. Daily is not defend
ing a senatorial seat, it cannot be said
that he is not o trial. He stands at
the head Of a powerful democratic fac
ton in this state, which is moving
heaven M earth to deprive an opposing
faction of it's party of its political pres
tige and power. The faction he repre-
sents is chiefly responsible for the I'M
enviable notoriety abroad which demo-
cratic quarrels a given the state of
Montana. Instead Of furnishing criminal
offenses through the courts, with the
methods provided by law, and sending
bribe-givers n bribe-takers to the
penitentiary, his faction of the party has
seen fit to advertise Montana's shame to
the world through the press-evidently
hoping to accomplish in an atmosphere
made pregnant with the odors of crime
that which a judicial investigation might
fail to bring about
In a judicial inquisition into crime, in
any criminal court in the land, witnesses
who admitted their perjury under bath
would be placed in jeopardy. It is only
in the liberal field of a senatorial investi-
cation that such characters are per-
mitted to exploit Montana's disgrace
and advertise her shame to the world.
With the senatorial investigation made
a necessity, through a failure to take
the proper action in the courts of our
own state. it is the desire of all that it
be made as thorough as possible in all
directions.
Inasmuch as the aims and purposes Of
the Daily faction of the democratic party
are in issue, n the prosecution of
Clark is conducted by that element, 1t
follows as a logical sequence to the
efforts now being put forth to carry out
it's ends, that it's own high character as
a political force should be clearly demon
strated to the American public. Some of
the witnesses for the Daily faction have
made a record on the witness stand that
would disgrace a yellow dog. and it is
mo more than right that the respectable
elements in hat faction should come to
the rescue of Montana's good name,
Must our people be adjudged by such
types of men as nave unblushingly ad.
mitted their personal dishonor unde,
oath? And yet, such men have beer
permitted to pose as representative bust
ness and professional types of Montana
manhood!
1t behooves such prominent men a!
Mr.. DAILY. who stands high in the com
munity, to undo the mischief create,
through false Impressions as to TIL
character Of our citizenship, by goinI
on the stand and making it clear tina
the prosecution Of Mr.. Clark has bee,
seriously undertaken by Representative
citizens of the state-and not by a gan
of bowling dervishes, whose skeleto
fingers are clawing the air for the boodl
they affect to despise! Knowing tina
Mr.. DAILY is at the head Of the anti-Clar
democrats of the state, the efforts of hi
Anaconda newspaper to make it appea
that he has had nothing to do with til
bringing about of a senatorial investigs
tion-that he has kept hands off-ha