Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-01-21
MONDAY, JANUARY 81. 1901.
LET US HAVE PEACE.

fare among certain of the republican
leaders is said to be the reorganza ton
of the republican party. If such reor-
gan.zation is needed; if it would be BEN
e'icial, and if a majority of republicans.
acting through the regular agencies, in
dictate such desire. the Inter Mountain
would give ready assent to the propo-
,ion for the republican party belongs
To the people. not the Office holders or
office seekers. Defeat of a party. how
ever. is not necessarily evidence of the
need of reorganization. A popular labor
throw the balance Of power against any
party in the close state of Montana re-
gardless of it's merits or its manage
ment. What we really deplore is that
an attempt should be made which in
effect means to disorganize the party, at
q most inopportune time. and that this
attempt is largely personal in its origin
though general in it's damaging effect.
We do not for an instant deny the con-
itutiona right of Colonel Sanders to
talk. or that of Senator Carter to talk
back. 1t is true that the classical and
picturesque language of the one as Well
as the simple and beautiful word pa int
Jig of the other. as he delves into his
toric treasures and thunders his philip
pics m reply are highly entertaining, or
would be We're it not for the possible
effect upon the future republican family
circle. But With entire respect for Colo
mel Sanders and frank recognition of his
courage and patriotism, republicans gene
orally will submit that the proper time
for him to have filed his charges against
Senator Carter for the protection Of the
party from improper leadership, was on
aijher of two occasions last year when
both gentlemen We're members of the
same republican state conventions. In
the first, Senator Carter was chosen to
head the Montana delegation to the
Philadelphia convention, and was be-
les Endorsed with enthusiastic unan-
unity for reelection to the senate in
r.cosntion of his great services to the
ate, of his high standing in Washing
n, and his fidelity to the republican
party. In the second he was a conspc-
u,us leader. He took part in every de-
bate. helped shape the platform. and
was a most trusted counselor. So was
Colonel Sanders who, it will be remem-
hAred. frequently addressed the conyen-
ton, was potent in all its important pro-
ceadings, evidently proud of it's member
ship and convinced of its representative
character. If malign influences were at
work in these conventions, he did moth
ing TO expose and denounce them; # evi:
men dominated their proceedings he did
0ot protest against them; if corpora
ton lawyers worked their will in the
platform, he knew it not, or proclaimed
it not. Mr.. Carter was as wicked then
as he is now, yet he was not expelled
nor complained Of nor was his leader
ship challenged or his iniquities enumer-
ated. With Colonel Sanders able as
Sistance splendid ticket was nomi-
mated at the Helena convention. a ticke
representing the best citizenship of the
Roman who loves and is beloved by
Colonel Sanders himself. For reasons
dates and the principles they stood for
that ticket was beaten, and now GU
good friend, Colonel Sanders, in his hos
tiiity towards Mr.. Carter, wants to re
organize the republican party and begin
all over again after battling So years 70
principle, against totally deprave,
enemy, whose leaders even now ar
doing secretly everything in their powe
to bring about that very reorganiza tor
being evidently of the belief that re
organization means dsintegrat ton, an
realizing that unless the party is d
vided j; will triumph in the next cleo
tion. But why promote the plans
the enemy? Why close the books of tn
republican party, some of whose mo.
inspiring records We're made by colon
Sanders himself, when in many a hop.
less fray he ragged up and down II
state as the war-horse of republicanisl
4i3e recipient of its honors, the evang