The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-07-05
CONSISTENT NOT BLIND.

CONSISTENT NOT BLIND.
Simply Because The Gazette at this
late date cannot figure out a victory
for the republican party of Montana
in the contest of last fall it has
aroused the ire of several republican
newspapers of Montana, among them
the Yellowstone Journal. The latte,
paper The Gazette of manipu.
lating the second violin to the Helena
Herald, an impeachment which this
newspaper does not consider neces-
sary to deny, as the record of the
Herald and The Gazette during the
campaign are too we'll known of all
men who take interest in such mat
tiers. 1t must, however, reiterate it's
statement of some days ago that the
campaign of last fall was anything
but a source of joy or congratulation
TO the republicans of Montana. Just
now the Journal or any other news
paper can make out the contrary we
: are free to confess we cannot see.
II this newspaper remembers COR
rectly the Journal was one OF the
republican newspapers which felt
that If ever the party had a chance
TO win In the state last fall was the
m The democratic organization
was disrupted and dismembered and
it's leaders at wal with one another.
Tho rQnl,1l1iaonc rnvo,iro+oJ - .,~.xj
excellent ticket and the men com
posing it, with possibly one excep-
ton, that of Mr.. Yoder, who was
absent from the state until almost
up to the date of the election and
consequently could not be expected
to make as effective a campaign as
did the others, really expected to be
'elected and were not at all backward
in expressing the confidence they felt.
The Journal will also probably re-
member that even money was bet on
the election of good, honest old
Dave" Folsom as governor, for it
was the opinion of everybody that no
matter what might befall the rest of
the ticket, he would certainly be
elected Yet he went down in defeat
with the rest and almost as badly.
Not a single republican on the state
ticket was elected or even came
within a reasonable distance of it.
For this reason The Gazette saw fit
to characterize the defeat sustained
by the republicans as disastrous"
No other word that could then be
thought of expressed the kind of al
defeat sustained and the Journal to
the contrary Notwithstanding, The
Gazette still thinks the word a proper
and fitting n to describe the result
of that campaign.
1t has the same opinion of the
appointment of Mr.. Webster it had
when it wrote the article to which the
Miles City contemporary seems to
take such vigorous and %splenetic ex-
ceptions. 1t was not a good stroke
OF political work and the Journal
knows it as we'll as The Gazette
knows it, but would rather not adj
init the truth. The objections raised
by The Gazette to the appointment
We're not because of any personal
feeling in the matter. They were
based on larger and broader grounds.
Much as the Journal would seemingly
like to ~disparage the republicanismof
this newspaper it will not succeed.
The Gazette has established a reputa-
ton for consistent and stalwart party
fealty, but it's loyalty is not of the
kind to make it blind when it comes
to the matter of party mistakes. It
is because it considers party above
individual that it has seen fit to crit
Else the appointment of Mr.. Web
ster.