The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-02-24
THE TRUTH ABOUT THE SESSION

If the Thirteenth assembly does half the work which its
steering committee has mapped out, it will have to work
Montana and harder and faster than it has worked, itself,
since the first OF the year. But there need be no alarm
as to the condition of the members OF the assembly. They
will not overwork. They will go through a lot of motions,
but the gear of the legislative mill is set so that it will not
grind much, no matter how actively the legislators tread.
Last week the house did a lot OF effective work, None
of its efforts, however, accomplished much beyond showing
the good intentions of some of its members. The senate
alliance was able to nullify whatever of house action seemed
at all likely to bring definite results and it has shaped
things for this week so as to sidetrack a good deal more.
Yesterday morning, The Missoulians staff correspondence
from the capitol turned the limelight upon the scheme.
There is no doubt of the frameup's existence. Nor is
there any doubt that it will work out to the satisfaction Of
the plotters.
That was an interesting letter from Helena, which The
Muscular printed yesterday morning. For that matter,
The Missoulian's correspondence from the capitol has been
of the a%ssembly's history and it is almost the only CORE
]spondence from Helena which has told the truth Of this
session; The reactionary papers OF the state have sup
pressed much of the history OF the assemblys work.
Look back over last week: 1t is not necessary, to go
farther back than that. The record will show that The
practically alone, has given a correct report of
what has happened in the capitol.
Monday morning, a week ago, The Muscular foretold
the senates steering-committee conspiracy, by which the
alliance proposed to defeat the attempt of the house to name
its own members of the legislature of ten. There was no
other paper in the state which carried this story. Yet
Monday afternoons developments we're exactly as they had
been forecasted in The Muscular.
TUESDAY morning, Inc MlSSOullan dlOne OF all the papers
of the state told Of the attempt of a republican leader in the
senate to bride the majority of the house by offering, on
behalf of the senate, to recognize the %rightfully named steer
ing committee provided the house would pass the Ubiquitous
new-county measures. The Muscular told the truth re-
garding the Cookingham incident. Attempt was made by
reactionary papers to create the impression that Represen-
tatve Cookingham had insulted Missoua by reference to
the Red-Apple banquet. This was not so.
Wednesday morning, The Missoulian's correspondence
contained the stirring speech of Senator Duncan, denounc-
ing the senate alliance and declaring that the democratic
republican combination is insuring progressive success by
driving all men of progressive tendencies into the new
party. There was no other paper which gave this speech
any more than a bare reference.
Then there was the Lemmon-J ordan case. These two
men were finally forced to resign from the steering COM
mittee. The reactionary papers through the state sought
to make it appear that these designations were the result
of patriotic desire on the part of Lennon and Jordan to
serve their state. The Muscular stated the facts, which
we're that these men we're given a choice between expulsion
and resignation and that they resigned rather than suffer
the humiliation of being thrown out of the house.
These are events of a week only. They serve to show
that it is The Missoulian which tells the truth about the
Thirteenth assembly. Over at the capitol, The Muscular
has more subscribers than any other paper in the state.
That's good evidence.