Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-03-30

some friends OF his, obtained while he
was working for Campbell last summer.
so l saw him no more. My friend Camp
bell tells me that Hill IL a bad man. That ,
must be because his affidavit and. the
memorial are identical. / do not know
which side he was on Owards the last,
but I think probably on the Hillside
You may explain to the committee
what you think of witness Lyons, and
how he stands in Montana said Sem
ator McComas.
Il regard him as a calumniator and a
villain. I can have no faith in a man
who insinuates that Congressman Camp
bell would seek to seduce him from the
straight and crooked path of rectitude
or agree to give him $50 for a false
affidavit and then refuse to put up for
fear of the result should the fact become
public. Congressman Campbell may be
suffering from a severe code of moral
Qualms, but gentlemen Of the committee.
l cannot believe he would agree to give
any witness $1,000. particularly of an
other mans money, simply to keep a
former friend o. of the United States
senate. Perish the thought! 1t is true
that my friend Campbell did read a let
ter that was not addressed to him; true
that he used the Butte postoffice illegally.
but, being a lawyer, he was ignorant OF
the statutes on those subjects and should
not be held responsible for intentional
wrong doing. That he hired detectives
and told them to get next to members
of the grand jury and that he used de-
tectives hired in New York by a gentleman
who never hired any detectives. was all
admitted by my friend Campbell; but let
me ask you gentlemen of the jury: Would
you have the poor but deserving detec-
tives starve to death for the want of en-
ployment? Ian of e have families
and barkeepers to support n ! Delleve
Mr.. Campbell was merely acting as a
philanthropist in putting them on the
/ pay roll. He did not hire them to work
| up a conspiracy based on perjury ana
, false reports to blacken the character OF
Mr.. Clark. and If they did so l do not
, blame him for getting into a row with
| McLain about the question of
! ton. McLain should not have had a dol
lar, and I can not too strongly condemn
his perfdy in turning Mr.. Campbell's let
ters over to Mr.. Faulkner for the purpose
of showing that the memoralists were
resorting to disreputable means to &C
complish q cheap and nasty and clumsy
conspiracy and did things that would
have mad Carr and Geiger sick at the
stomach If accused Of such work.
'were you in Butte. Mr.. Ginx. on the
night of the celebrated primaries when
5000 men cast II, 900 votes to show that
they didn't want Clark for senator in Sill
yer Bow county?" inquired the chairman.
Eyes sir, 1 was there. and sober that
evening"" I replied. And I know the
story is a villainous lie. It didn't take 81
600 men to roll up II, 900 votes, but only
about 1000. They voted six times apiece
instead of only four times as the Clark
defamers falsely charged. A man that
couldn't vote six times when a great prin-
ciple is at stake couldn't hold his job on
the hill twenty-four hours. My friend
John r. Toole testified that the men re-
peated because some of their own number
were candidates for Office but you. gen.
tlemen of the committee, didn't see him
wink at Nolan. The reason was that II
Clark didn't carry the primaries in his
own county he could not be a candidate
for the senate If the clerks of election
hadn't got tired the boys would have cast
20, 900 votes that night in the interest of
good government. I was there myself
having gone over at the request of the
Helena board Of trade to establish an
agency for the cracker factory in which
the entire force of three girls and a boy
had struck that day against having their
wages reduced to nothing and board
themselves. I reached Butte just as the
polls opened and I never saw a more or
derby election. It was all under orders.
Around each poll were about $50 men un-
der orders to hold possession while the
clerks did the voting. Whenever a bust
ness man or a friend of the Clarks tried
to vote, he was bounced with great
unanimity. It's a villainous lie to say that
such primaries were irregular because 1t
, was the regular thing to run them that
way n had been for fifteen years.
voted six times that evening myself
but of course I had to show my ticket
first. The next day I established my
cracker agency at a store where the boys
| trade.
"Do they have to trade there?" asked
a senator.
"Not a bit Of it. They are told when
they go to work for the company that
: they can spend their money where they
, please provided they don't care whether
they keep their jobs or not. The men who
. exercise this glorious privilege the frs
. month have a good lea of leisure time
, on their hands the second month. but
|, very few men care to work all the time
A little rest does them good. Besides al
, the merchants of. Butte have back door
= to their places of business and they sell
good deal Of stuff that way on darl