Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1906-08-23


jeste. Nobody can criticise a spotless
Butte official. The city fathers are
frothing at the mouth and threatening
instantaneous arrests. The cause of the
hubbub is the speeches Of t. E. Latimer
on the Butte streets in which he accuses
the capitalist grafters who are supposed
to administer government in Butte of
being present at the orgies of sporting
house opening. OF course they weren't
there, were they, dear votersf Great ex-
citement among the Heinze saintsi You
konw Heinze has a Sunday school admin
istration at present They tell US the
lid lie on. All the parasites of capitalist
officialdom rush to deny the charge.
They shout; they rave; they say they
are insulted. They call socialist Alder
man Ambrose up on the carpet-these
| pharisees that have refused to touch the
filth Of the red light district after Com
rade Ambrose's earnest Investigations
and solicitations. The Evening News"
states that the police are looking for
Latimer and will promptly arrest him
for making such statements about city
officers. Mind you nothing is said about
the constitutional right of the people to
the streets The objection is all because
the administrative tools have had their
sins told out in public. They must be
protected in their vices-this sacred
| crowd, that have defied state laws, are
allowing gambling to run full tilt, and
snap their fingers in the face of the law; |;
are protecting and fostering prostitution
and all of its horrors against the express
stipulations of the state statutes; and
vet this sort of a gang are acting like
maniacs, not because of what they've
done. but because they've been found
out. And those awful socialists are
all to blame. They can just put it
down, and put a mark there that they
are. They are going to camp on the
trail Of this hideous nightmare of cap
italism until kingdom come. Thank
heaven, it is not the socialists that are
defending the vices of the age. 1t is the
capitalists. And Latimer and a few
others know how to make the reptiles
squirm. The following is the account
of the affair taken from the Anaconda
Standard:
Remarks alleged to have been made
at a recent street corner meeting of the
socialists, at Park and Main streets,
caused quite commotion in the meet
ing of the Butte city council last night.
The business had been disposed of and
the council was about ready to adjourn
when City Clerk Kennedy got up and
asked permission to say something. He
stated that during the afternoon he had
been informed that ono evening during
the week a man who was speaking in
the interest Of political party had made
statements rejecting on men in public
Office. He stated said Mr. Kennedy,
that only few days ago the city clerk
had sent out from his Office, on city sta.
tionery, officially stamped, and the
stamps paid for by the city. an invita-.
tion to city officials TO attend the open.
ing of q sporting house. One alderman
known to be an honest man-Alderman
Ambrose-did not receive this invitation
they knew better than to send him such
thing My informant, an ex-alderman,
said he was present when the statement
was made. This evening a physician
told me he had heard part Of the state
ment When heard this, deemed II
part Of my duty TO look into the matter
I got the speaker, Latimer, by telephone,
he declared he had made no such state
ment He admitted that he did say
such an invitation was sent out to city
officials, but not on city stationery.
tried to get the name Of the party who
made the statement, but could not
When such statements are made on the
streets Of Butte at = public meeting,
deem II only just to myself TO say that
the man who makes IL is a lying, COW.
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