Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-06-27
per and thus convinced the poor bird
that 1t was morning.

and its journalistic diffusers
loss of cerebral viriiity, had
it taken a plain, matter-of-fact view of
the situation at the inception of the pres !
ent democratic war. 1t goes without
be applied to crime, and if the DAILY dem
ocrats discovered overt acts against the
law on the part of the Clark men they
ought to have appealed to the courts of
punishment of all offenses against the
peace n dignity of the commonwealth.
Instead of doing this they advertised to
the world the inadequacy of our courts
to reach offenders and punish crime, by
taking their grievances into the political
forum of the nation n d~isgracing Mon
tana at home and abroad. Having con-
WINGED the country that many of the most
prominent men of Montana We're mad
v~ertently overlooked by the vigilantes,
and inspired a profound regret that the
work of that body of purifiers was choked
offs to speak. before it's mission was half
ended, the Daily democrats-through their
accredited newspaper organs-are now
ever the rank and file Of the people are
boodlers and corruptionists to such an
extent that when a democratic state
convention is held in Butte armed men
to the convention hall. to prevent the
goddess Of liberty from being raped in
plain sight of a helpless public.
! 1t is said to be a dirty bird that befouls
its own nest, and certainly no credit at
taches to any man or any newspaper
for a course of procedure which has
placed Montana and it's people before
the world in a false light, thereby Grip
ping their interests and checking the
progress of the state for years to come.
With judicial facilities for the punish
ment Of all crimes proven to be such un-
der the law, Montana irregularities
should nave been settled within the
Nlimits Of the state, thus proving the
character and temper of our people, and
safeguarding their interests before the
world. Montana is gifted with as much
moral fibre as any state in the union,
and this constant and irrepressible bel
lowing about Doodle and boodIers, x
tending from men of prominence to
those who humbly tread Hfe's dahl,
pathway, until all who do no sympa.
thize with the political aims and pur.
poses of the Daily democracy are in.
Icluded in the list, has become as nau.
seating as ipecac and as disgusting az
am unclean alley in a great city.
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The pendulum of a clock swings bacl
with no more certainty than comes tn,
reaction to a course of conduct thai dis
in order to reach one man. The mos
unpopular revenge recorded in histor,
was that of the man who wrecked
railway train and killed it's occupants
All C1uSl " SCI tNeI "ICll III COlluuClOi
Ranking next in unpopularity will b
the attempt to impeach the honesty an
the integrity and the practical goo
sense of the people OF Montana, In a.
effort to thwart the political ambition
of Mr.. Clark. The fight against NJ
Clark should have been confined to tina
1gentleman and his immediate associate!
and taken into the courts for a hearin
: not so adjusted as to make a large Pre-
:, portion of the population in this stat
jparticeps criminis in the ofrenses i'm
Iputed to him, with all that such a rer
~utation may imply to the future inter
ests of the commonwealth.
It is not at all strange that the Ana
.conda Standard, SO vigorous in its dt
: ~nunciation of those who have asked fl
fair between man and man, whe
the character and standing of prominel
individuals were in issue, should no
feel the force of the inevitable reactic
" and widely advertise it's effect upon tt
|exposed portions Of it's journalistic Gu
: licae. Nor can it defect public attentic
from it's own embarrassing position /
assuming a defense of its coadjutors
the ~scandalizing of the state, or by r
;, iterating it's time worn charges again
:. those who have arisen from the sea
calumny to the undisputed control OF Il
democratic party in Montana. To fly
t+ho rasc,,e If its hrOthers in afhictiO
" and tender its eleventh hour support
@ those who are in as dire political strai
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