The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-01-01
A TRAITORS RusE.

I1tlcud IlcId1u pdsScu uuuc1 tAlo JUL
troll of its present mysterious owner
ship The Gazette, prompted by its
sense of duty to the republican party,
gave warning that the sale portended
no good for the republicans; that the
Herald, while ostensibly a republican
newspaper, would be found OIL the side
of the enemy, but in a covert man
spoke and did all in it's power to
make the matter clear to all. For
mouths it remained alone in its posi-
ton as regards the Herald, receiving
no support from any of the many good
republican papers in the state in the
fight it was making against treachery
and deceit. The convention was held
and as the campaign progressed the
truth, so often and long held up by
The Gazette, began to dawn upon
some of the other papers and they did
all they could to counterfeit the mis-
chief which the Helena traitor had
wrought. While resultant of some
good, the fight al begun too late, the
Herald had to a certain extent accom-
plished its purpose. The many who
had read it in the years when it was
under the control and ownership Of
the Fiske Bros. could not bring them
selves to believe that the Herald COULD
possibly be ought than it had always
been--a stanch, reliable exponent Of
republicanism, and to question whose
sincerity and honesty would be like
questioning the party loyalty of the
founders of the party itself. To fur
ther it's policy of deception and trea-
son it Judas like pretended greater
love than that which others who were
truly fighting the cause Of the people
could possibly feel. To do this it set
itself up as the new Moses of Montana
republicanism and pillar of fire and
smoke, all in one, that was to lead the
party from the bondage of trusts n
| the corrupt domination Of men who
were the friends of trusts. While all
the time pretending to be the cham
pion of the people, it was the tool Of a
man and clique stepped in corruption
and bribery SO deep that though were
they to live for ages the faint and
smell of their villainy would never
leave them and they would continue
as thew now are, a shame and dis
grace to the state which harbors them
and an eye sore to all who really love
their country and have regard for its
institutions and the perpetuation OF
all that goes to make the country what
it has always been-the home Of free
and untramelled citizens. It contin'
ued it's shameless game until the tina
ballot had been cast in an election
that would have been an nverwhelm
ing defeat for the party that is respon
sible for the odorous reputation thu
state now has had it not been TO
e the Benedict Arnolds, like the Herald
in the republican party, who, whll
: pretending to be battling with it, wer'
:. secretly plotting against it and Il
every possible way giving aid to tn
S enemy.
It Had it's treason ended with tn
IS campaien time would have blunte
70 the memory of it, and ~reprehenslbl
# as was it's conduct, pity rather tina
le contempt would be it's share wheneve
If it's name was recalled. But bougt
1t and r~eorganized for the purpose {
r. wrecking the party whose organ
rs pretends to be, like a red haire
in harlot mounted on a white stee
I'd Haunting her depravity and wicke'
at ness, SO does the Herald continue
ht it's course of d~uplicity and. now seel
er to disrupt and disorganize that par
to beyond all possible hope OF ever
ly uniting it's shattered forces. To a
IL complish this it has begun a wal
d. an individual prominent in the par
u and seeks by every possible means
ke discredit him with its members. Fes
he full lest its real motive be discerne
he II clnaks it under the guise of soli'
las tous concern regarding the welfare
the party. By becoming his accuf
id it hopes to allay suspicion and dive
let attention from itself.
me It singles him out as the target
aer its abuse because OF MS prominen
III md oftamnts tn fasteu npon him I