The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-02-07

republicans was with Mr.. Clark cannot
be questioned, judging from the voice
Of the republican press. but not a single
republican paper IN the state but that
at the. same time said Hands Of" II
is humiliating to republicans all over
the state. this action Of the eleven. We
have nothing more to say about demo.
cratic bribe-takers. In the language Of
Colonel Sanders I'VE have griefs OF our
Bozeman Courier (rep.): We are APP
iprehensive, that those republican drift
ers and floaters in the present legisla-
tive assembly. who have thus aligned
themselves with the avowed and old
time enemies Of their party, will be
called to a terrible account whenever
they return to their constituencies. and
especially should they ever again aspire
to public honor and trust. AT, this dis
lance it certainly looks as though they
had taken republican principles, %univer-
sal political usage and, party fealty-
the sublime unwritten law Of political
morality and unsullied virtue-into
their own ruthless hands and basely
prostituted them to the humiliation and
lasting disgrace Of the grand old party
which gave them birth.
Red Lodge Picket (rep.): The rule
or ruin policy of the Butte boodler and
the Anaconda octopus had about run
riot to democracy's doom, when the re-
publican Iscariots. forsaking honor for
filthy lucre and bartering their sacred
trust for Cla1k's dirty thousands, cast
lightly aside, as if it were a mere trile,
the ivy Of honor and joined hands with
the democratic boodlers in bringing
this fair state into worldwide contempt
and hulnbling its people in the dust Of
everlasting disgrace. For this base
betrayal of the confidence Of those who
honored them with their votes, the
execrated eleven are d~eservedly receiv-
ing the condemnation of every individ-
ual, regardless If political complexion,
who places. principle above purchase
and trust above treachery. From
henceforth political p%referment will be
to them but a mere memory, a rebuking
and hooking "Reminiscences, idle and not
a whit i%rridescent. Dishonored and dis
owned and damned, let their names be
pillored in the public press and their
perfdy held up to public 1t is
meet that their oasis should be eternal
.obliquy. Into their ears let there be
poured the excavations of an outraged
constituency. Objects Of suspicion and
scorn, they are fit Only for treason,
strategem and spoils.
Cabcn County Sentinel (dem.): The
general impression seems to be that.
Notwithstanding statements to the con
trary. the motives which could induce
q republican legislator to vote for a
democrat for senator can best be dis
covered by the intelligent paying Or re-
ceiving teller Of some bank.
Muscular (rep.): The Anaconda
Standard will have it appear that tile
election of Senator CLARK is a republi-
can victory. This paper cannot see it
in that. light unless the eleven republi-
can Legislators, who now want to make
it appear that it was done for the pur-
pose Of demoralizing the democratic
party. should step down and out. They
have placed Mr.. Clark under their obi
cations. not the republican party, and
they should not be considered eligible
to represent the republican party here
after. Give us a new deal and with
the supposed demoralized condition Of
the democratic party we will sweep the
state two years hence and elect a legis-
lature who will elect a republican
senator without the aid Of democratic
votes.