The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-03-06
FRIDAY, MARCH 6, 1903.
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ana political Intolerance inc eQlCOF OF
the Butte Miner is commended above
all men. To a greater or more absurd
degree was either quality *
hibited than by that estimable gentle
man yesterday morning, when in sup
posed earnestness and seriousness he
declared that connection could be
traced between Saturday nights un-
d%erground fight in which employees of
the Amalgamated company and MI.
Heinze were the contestants, and the
alleged encouragement given Mr..
Heinze by the republican members of
the legislature. 1t is impossible to
conceive that anybody outside of
Warm Springs asylum could be found
who could be guilty of making such
an assertion, much less a man of the
supposed intelligence of the one who
makes it. BY what process OF reason
ing a normal mind can arrive at the
conclusion that the republican mem
bers of the legislature are in any way
1CSpOASlOlC " vi SOAAOSION AAN
is said to have been a serious and
fragrant violation of the law and an
order of the supreme court is a ques-
ton too deep for an ordinary person
to- even attempt to solve. That the
Miner editor began to think the same
way after he had penned the opening
sentence of the article in which the
charge is made becomes apparent
toward the close, for his premises and
conclusions are in direct opposition
to the inference he would have the
reader draw at the outset.
After directly charging that the re-
publican legislators are responsible
for the occurrence, he says that "the
prospective change Of venue law
seems to have made the representa-
tives of the Heinze interests desper-
ate, and it looks as if law and order
are to be ignored and force and out
lawry resorted to in order to carry
cut their purposes" Where any con-
nection exists between the fears of
Heinze at the prospects of the fair
trial law becoming operative and the
alleged encouragement" he may
have received by the republican mem
bers of the legislature is not shown
in the sentence quoted. On the other
hand the very reverse seems to be
the case. 1t was the republican ma
jority in the house that passed the
bill after it had come from the senate,
and as it is admitted that the Heinze
interests were opposed to the measure
and by every device they were capa-
BILE of and every effort within their
power sought to compass its defeat
the charge of encouragement does not
hold. BY concurring in the bill it did
not look very much as though the re-
publican members We're giving any
material encouragement" to Mr..
Heinze or to what the Miner has been
pleased to characterize the move
ment" of which the gentleman is cred
tied with being the head. The very
fear of the prospective law, the Miner
says. was the cause of what transpir-
&c in the Pennsylvania Saturday
night, yet that paper asserts that it
was due to republican legislative zen.
couragement.' Was greater absurd.
ity ever manifested by any person
supposedly of sound mind?
Of the merits of the case in con
troyersy between Mr.. HeinZe and the
Amalgamated company The Gazette
will not assume to speak. as it is a
matter with which it is not CONVEX
ant. knowing only that it is one Of
able mining suits with which the
courts of Silver Bow county are en-
numbered. The controversy between
the two involves title to mining
ground of conceded value that boil
parties claim. In the district court o
the county Judgment was rendered TO,
Heinze. From this an appeal was tax
en- and the supreme court readjustet
the boundaries in a which
threw the ground into the lines of thu
Amalgamatede company. At least thi'
is the way The Gazette understand
the situation, taking the Miners ex
PLANTATION as true. Along with all 9th
ers who believe that due respec
should be shown to the courts and tn
law observed The Gazette deplore
such occurrences as the one responsl
bility for which the esteemed Butt
contemporary lays at the door of tn