The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-08-23
Tuesday, August 20, 1904.
REPLIES TO HIS

During the past week copies OF the
b yellowstone Journal and Stockgrow-
Ners' Journal, both published at Miles
d City, have been received containing an
n open letter from Judge Charles H.
i Loud in which that gentleman makes
answer to the charges that have been
printed in the Rosebud News against
, him, in which he is accused of fraudu.
lent transactions as n Of the trus-
d tees of the State National bank of
Miles City.
n The reply was not needed, for those
4 who know Judge Loud know him to be
u above the things with which he is
Echarged, for even his political enemies
u and the enemies he may have made
Mby his fearless course while on the
IN bench know and acknowledge him to
Il be scrupulously honest and upright.
u both as a man and an official. In a
Gdignifed, manly way he takes up each
~Esaaccusation separately, and by aft
SSRdavits and letters explains everything.
I Plainly it is made apparent that a
conspiracy of long standing was
u Matched to assail the judges charac-
ssfer and by waiting until the death of
one of the men who was made an in
nocent party 10 the plot it was hoped
u by the con%spirators that the proof of
8 their perfidy and mendacity would be
N lacking. Unfortunately for them,
. however, proof was available that ena-
81 bles Judge Loud to c%onclusively show
] the falsity of every charge and to
expose the real conspirators. By
i'll telling half truths the men who are
81 parties to the outrage sought to make
ri out their case and blacken forever
Y NE1l0 1ldlll0 duu Gill VI OlC Ol N1Ou-
tana's most upright and able ~jurists.
Unlike them, the judge tells the whole
truth and seeks to evade no respon-
n sibility, going into every detail of the
different transactions that are said
T. to have been questionable and down.
rightly dishonest. The documetary
M testimony he introduces is of the
81 most conclusive nature and absolutely
81 indisputable. Even without his expla
4 nations and denials it would cause ev
RI cry charge against him to fall fiat
IN The letter written by the late Cap
III tain Harmon on information furnished
him by his son, former cashier Of
h the State National bank and recently
4 printed in the Rosebud County News
y was widely distributed four years age
and, like now on the eve OF a cam
paign IN which Judge Loud was q
candidate for reelection. It seeming
~ had the very opposite effect expect
ed, for Judge Loud was elected with
out opposition, the unanimous nomi
of his party and the recipient Of
the hitherto unknown honor of being
endorsed by the political party oppos
ing him. By skillfully Withholding al
the facts and distorting those giver
him to know, Captain Harmon wa
made to believe that M. Loud was the
cause OF the cloud that darkened thu
name of q son of whom he was in
ordiatedy proud and from the steadfas
friend he became the unrelenting ant
~remprseless enemy of the man VIII
had newer wronged him in the slight
est.
its. to be regretted that persona
enmity and malevolence should b.
permdtted to 80 to the extent tina
Is hns In his q It is also astonish
ing thnt men credited with the pos
session u suficient intelligence ant
s-hrewIness to entitle them to tn
posidon q leaders Of = great politica
county should be 20 dull o