Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-12-03

the governor Of Montana is q hypo.
critic and a falsifier. He dares not
do ANYTHING about it. He takes ms
medicine, well knowing tina ne y
HELPLESS in the light Of his own rec
ord. But Montana will pc a sonir-
eign state for ages. joseph NJ. ST.
on and his gangsters are Due 49,
ing characters on this stage =: aasa
'"The governor having lost =. !.
and Mr.. Conley having secure .ote :
saws the Butte Miner tdem.), 1T
viii naturally follow that the taxpay-
ers Of Montana will be calico upon
to paw the enormous costs that the
trial. which extended for many weeks,
has entailed. Presumably, Governor
Dixon will find some small satlsfac-
tion in the fact that Mr.. Coniey. mas
been put to great expense In defend-
ing himself. while it has not cost
the executive q dollar to wreak MS
spite upon the former warden Tor
the states bill has to be footed by
the taxpayers of Montana. me gov
er4lor used the machinery OF Mon
tana in an effort to crush and dis
homer ono of the most loyal and
honorable citizens of the common
wealth. Thus, in this case, the state
wins. because justice has been sus--
tanned in spite of the will and whim OF
an arb;trarv executive. Some means
should be found to make the governor
nav the cost of this persecution, for
Il was his own personal affair. and
there is neither right nor justice IN
compelling the taxpayers OF Montana
to meet the expense OF this most cost
ly litigation"
The Terry Tribune, a Dixon repnb-
lican newspaper, says: For Mr.. Con
lev we are indeed glad that he has
nsovan himself innocent Of the charge
that he obtained unlawfully from the
state some $500 600, yet at the same
time we cannot construe the decision
of the Judge to exonerate him IN con-
Quoting a state prison where the ex-
pense to the taxpayers of the state
was nearly $500 per day for each
convict. nor does it exonerate the
prsion board from gross neglect of
duty in allowing things to drift at the
prison in the manner the evidence
showed they did. That there was some
thing wrong at the prison mo be
denied, but the judge says that Mr..
Conley is innocent, and We are always
ready to accept the opinion OF our
courts, so the conduct of the prison
which has entailed such heavy ex-
p~enulIureS OF tHE cts Hlohey tan
only rest with the prison commission
which had charge of the prison for u
years prior to the time when Governor
Dixon took office
In similar vein. the Miles City Star,
another Dixon republican paper, says:
Whether Warden Conley owed the
state or whether the state owed
Warden Coniey is not the fundamental
issue with the great rank and file of
the citizenship. who are not going to
be satisfied with conditions that have
been permitted to obtain the manage
ment of our state institutions. We
doubt If the people in the future are
going to excuse boards entrusted with
responsibility. who admit that they
kept no records of official trans
actions. Conley may have made an ex-
cellent warden and he may have given
the state the fullest value for every
dollar expended but we do contend
that any systm that would permit an
official TO get his own personal affairs
mixed up with those of. the state is a
rotten one"