The producers news., 1919-04-25
Defense of Pontius Plate
(From Butte Daily Bulletin

HOLY WEEK.
1t is therefore an appropriate time
to discuss with Christians the trial
CT Christ, and how and by whom
this noblest sof the proletarians was
scourged and crowned with thorns.
The subject has been introduced,
not by the Daily Bulletin, but By
THE LINEAL DESCENDANTS OF
THOSE WHO SPAT UPON HIS
FACE, THOSE WHO GAVE HIM
THE GALL AND VINEGAR,
THOSE WHO APPLAUDED HIS
MURDER.
The copper press have taken up
the defense of their masters model
judge, the Honorable Pontius Plate.
Their excuse is the decision of
the supreme court of Montana in
the case of w. F. Dunn and James
J. Mccarthy against Charles H.
Treacy, city clerk Of the city of
Butte, the DECISION that
PLEASED the MASTER: BECAUSE
IT DISFRANCHISED THE PEO-
PIE OF THE METROPOLIS OF
THIS STATE.
Coupled with laudation for what
the Butte Post calls "a DECISION
OF RIGHTEOUS JUDGES" the
Missoulian, Livingston Enterprise,
Great Falls Leader and Helena In
dependent, true to the hand that
feeds them, calls upon. the supremc
cpnrt to disbar B. K. Wheeler, one
of the attorneys for Dunn and Nc
Carthy, because he said of the deci-
sion of the court and of the court
@YOU CANNOT EXPECT JUSTICE
IN THE SUPREME COURT. YOU
MIGHT AS WELL THROW AWAY
YOUR LAW BOOKS AND USE
THEM AS FUEL"
Mr.. Wheeler said this, to 5000
people assembled in Butte last elec.
ton day IN PROTEST. AGAINST
THE DECISION AMI. ON STRIKE
AGAINST AN ELECTION THAT
THE SUPREME COURT HAL
TURNED INTO A MOCKERY.
Mr.. Wheeler did make that state
ment and the 5000 people became
when he hurled those words at the
supreme court, accessors after the
fact. BECAUSE THEY THEN AMI
THERE MADE THE ECHOES RING
ALONG THE CONTINENTAL DI
VIDE WITH THUNDEROUS AP
PLAUSE.
The Missoulian asks: "NOW
THEN, WHAT WILL THE SU
PREME COURT, ELECTED By
THE PEOPLE OF MONTANA, Dc
WITH REGARD TO THIS MAT
TER?"
The Livingston Enterprise, after
the fashion of the end man in thu
minstrel shows. interrogates in thi
wise: LAW ABIDING, LAW-RE
SPECTING CITIZENS NATURAL
LY WILL TAKE OFFENSE AT
THIS CRUDE ATTEMPT TO UN
DERMINE THE COURTS, WHICH
AMERICANS FOR GENERATIONS
HAVE CHERISHED AS THE Bull
WARK OF THEIR RIGHTS AMI
LIBERTY. What ACTION will b.
taken against Mr.. Wheeler! 1T l.
INCONCEIVABLE THAT HE WILL
BE PERMITTED TO CONTINUE
THE PRACTICE OF LAW IN THIS
STATE.
The audience at the minstrel shov
will not get the answer Immediately
The Enterprise know, for the En-
terprise says: "THE NEXT FEW
DAYS MAY SUPPLY THE ANS
WEIR"
The Great Falls Leader joins il
the copper chorus in this fashion
"That practicing attorney of thu
state of Montana should make SUCE
CHARGES against the district AM
supreme court is something which
the COURT THEMSELVES SHOULI
ATTEND TO. Mr.. Wheelers himsel,
is q sworn officer of the courts HI
charges with subversion of justice
and THE PEOPLE Of Montana
WILL WATCH WITH MORE THAN
ORDINARY INTEREST THE AC
TION OF THE COURTS IN CUES
TION on the charges made agains
them by court officer"
The lowest of the copper press j:
of course the most fulsome in it:
praise of the decision.
THE BUTTE MINER, PERSON
AL PROPERTY OF W. A. CLARK
WHO PAID $1,OO0,O0O FOR A SEAT
IN THE UNITED STATES SEN
ATE AND $4,000 FOR THE PRES,
kNI ONllEO - n lEO LILO h1S 4
ATTORNEY, SAYS: "AFTER An
EXCEEDINGLY BITTER LEGAL
FIGHT WAGED BY THE SUP.
PORTERS OF SEDITIONIST DUNN
TO SECURE A PLACE, WHICH
HE WAS NOT ENTITLED TO, UP,
ON THE MUNICIPAL BALLOT
4 MONDAY, THE SUPREME COURT
YESTERDAY CAME TO THE RES
a CUE OF THE LOYAL CITIZENS
OF BUTTE BY DENYING THIS
MANS APPLICATION TO AP'
B PEAR UPON THE TICKETS AS
AN INDEPENDENT CANDIDATE.
The Anaconda Standard speaks il
like happy vein cf the decision.
We have not heard from The COP
ptR sONGSTER Of the Ye'loWstone
valley, the Billings Gazette. BU1
WE KNOW THAT IT HAS DONE
IT'S DUTY BY THE MASTERS