The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1901-09-28
CITY OFFICIAL PAPER.
SATURDAY, SEPT. %. 1901.
A MEAN ADVANTAGE.
The Billings Gazette says:

The Billings Gazette says:
ITO atone for all the venOmOusly ma
liciOus and mendacious charges they
made against President Mckinley
while he was alive. some of t. 81,
cratic newspapers of the country dur
ing the past ten days or so have been
working de mortuis nil nisi bOnum"
overtime and occasionally still put in
a few spare moments in the same d.
rection whenever their consciences
give them an extra savage poke under
the short ribs and remind them of the
enOrmity of their sins in flagellating
truth as they did for the past few
years. While the high praise which
these papers have been showering
upon the dead is grateful to the
friends of him whom has gone. it
must be bitter dose to the apologists
who under stress of public opinion
are forced to be truthful for once and
give credit where it belongs, even
though after death has removed the
target of their venality and malice
and renders him Indifferent to what
ever they may say"
1t is pity that so few of the re
publican newspapers seem capable of
approaching the fact that in catas-
trophe and humiliation such as the
country mas recently gone through in
the assassination of it's president,
party lines should be obliterated. The
democratic papers have. almost with
out exception, made such cOntribu
lions to the personal qualities of the
Mt, ,,f,tr
seemed to warrant and the occasion
require. The republican newspapers.
on the other hand, have been pe:,y
enough to misrepresent respect for
the conventionalities as an atoncmcnt
for alleged malicious and mendaclous
charges"
see, no newspaper opponent of the
late presidents policies has found
any occasion to revise it's view of
those policies on account of The presi-
dents death. In the universal horror
which the cowardly and cruel deed ex-
cited, the political opponents uf
President Mckinley forgot their oppo-
sitiOn and remembered only that he
was the official head of the nation
and an individual of pleasing person
atty and many admirable personal
characteristics. This attitude has
been construed by the republican
press as recantation of opposition
to republican policies. OF course
such construction indicates petty
spirit and disposition to turn the
national tragedy Of the presidents as
sassination into a means of political
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT.
Doubtless the republican press
would be willing to sacrifice a few
more presidents at the altar of anar-
chy If the political fortunes of the
party could be furthered thereby
Certainly most of the republican or,
gans. as the Gazette in the above
have shown decided disposition to
use the assassination of President
Mckinley as a means of advancing
the political fortunes of their party
The democrats will refuse to make
assassination a matter of party poll
tics after the manner of the republi
can defenders of the assassins of Goe-
bel. Czolgosz would not have found
refuge in a democratic governor as
Taylor found a refuge in several re,
publican governors. 1t is never "a
bitter dose" to honor the dead. But
it is a mighty small. mean man or
newspaper that will construe tribute
to the dead as an Endorsement of the
living