Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-03-01
S7RANCERS--STARDA20 AND COURTESY,

will place upon him.
S7RANCERS--STAHDA20 AND COURTESY.
After denying the truth of the Inter
Mountains charges of journalistic dis
the Anaconda Standard offers
the following explanation:
If the Standard ever asserted that the
Inter Mountain mad a statement that
it did not make, in substance, we are
not aware of 1t. The STANDARD never
charged The, Inter Mountain with man
ufaoturing that now famous Washing
ton special" 1t merely suggested
the possibility Of such a thing. n that
remotely: and when its Washington
correspondent claimed the paternity of
it we freely accorded to him all the
honor that he could possibly derive
from the relationship. We did chal-
lenge it's truth, as published, and as in
terpreted by the Inter Mountain editori-
ally. and we do so still. We ave caharg-
ed that papers Washington correspond
nj with gross unfairness while pretend
ing to be perfectly fair. and have given
our reasons for SO doing.
The qualifying phrase "in substance"
is shrewdfy thrown in to justify the
Standard in placing any sort Of an in
terpretation' upon statements made in
these columns, and then declaring that
the Inter Mountain has stated so and so!
This ha been done repeatedly by the
Standard, and maintained after a retrac-
tion has been demanded or the grounds
that this paper did not make the state
ments imputed to it. If the Standard is
not aware of it, it is because it has no
conception of what honest journalism
consists of.
The foregoing denial as to the charge
of manufacturing kilograms in this Office
is merely a distinction without a diff
ference. The Standards habit Of sug-
! costing a possibility always amounts to
an implication. The time will come, nc
doubt, when its differences against the
integrity and standing Of scores of prom
inent citizens in this state will be apollo
gized for N the grounds that they were
, merely 'suggested possibilities"
1t is the privilege of the Standard to
question the accuracy of any state
ment made in our Geographic columns,
if it so desires; but it is not within the
purview of journalistic courtesy to ac-
cuse the correspondent of being a foo
and a knave because he recites an Incl
dent which CRATES harshly upon Its
nerves. Especially is this true when th&
standing of the correspondent, as a jour
nalist and as a man, is second to none III
the state. The Inter Mountain offered tt
wager $500 on the historical accuracy or
the statements wired by it's correspond
emit, but the Standard-the champion O.
the thimble-rigged racing circuit, which
has robbed Butte of thousands of dol
lars that ought to have circulated d
business circles in this city, and the de
fender of gambling houses and the pro
fessional pinks of the green cloth-imme
diately refused to verify its challenge o
veracity On moral grounds!
In the face of this record, the Standar
can "come back only with the state
ed it as saying hundreds of thousands
) when it really said Hundreds or thou
sands" AS was explained in these col
! umns in the next issue of the paper, tn
e use of the word "of" instead Of the wor
"or" was a typographical error. Th
error was of a minor character, as it di
not materially affect the argument of tn
quotation, yet no time was lost in max
D ing the technical correction as SOON a
lowed the example set by the Standart
8 the typographical error would have re
manned uncorrected, but subsequent
would have been referred to as the exat
statement of it's contemporary.