Show political libel BUTTE mont oct 4 special in the district court at deer lodge today to day A J seligman late chairman of the republican state central committee brought suit anaconda kland ard for libel placing the damage the alleged libel appeared in the standard on the instant as follows we take it that mr selig mans business career in montana ia too dishonest too dia reputable and too unsavory ag that he can make his insulting adjectives stick to the gentlemen they never yet were in a position where their reputation needed the shelter which he has been obliged to seek and this is the language of a man who in his timo tried to rob the montana miners of their hon est and who would hadj been hanged at a ropes end as a common thief if he had not settled as he was forced to do the above article was published the day after the republican irate convention and it is supposed had its inspiration from a speech delivered before alie by mr seligman in v nich he criticized the methods practiced by the democratic leaders during the campaign last autumn |