The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-06-13
ARE EASILY ENCOURAGED.

ARE EASILY ENCOURAGED.
Because the republican candidate for
governor of Oregon seems to have
been defeated, the democratic Jews
papers of the west are assuring their
readers that the fall campaign
throughout the country will result in
a victory for their party. Great
stress is laid upon the fact that in a
republican state a democrat has
seemingly been elected to the office
of executive, and the probable success
of the individual is employed as a
basis upon which to predicate the
assumption of universal republi-
can discomfort and dissatisfaction.
Admitting that the democrat has
been elected and the republican de-
feated, just how this goes to prove
the assertion of general republican
disaffecticn is not SO very plain. Local
conditions of which those papers make
no mention conspired to encompass
Furnish's defeat. Personally he
seems to be very unpopular and the
element in the party he represents ap-
parently stands in no better favor
with the msjOrity. The most that can
be made o. his defeat is that he was
beaten because of his personality and
by no manner of reasoning can his
want of success be attributed to OPP
position to the platform and princi-
pies of the party whose candidate he
was. This is made all the clearer by
the fact that he was the only man
on the state ticket who failed of cleo
ton. All the others were successful
by increased majorities.
Had there been the discomfort and
dissatisfaction the opposition allege
exist. the two men nominated for
congress would most assuredly not
have been elected. They, above all
others, were. nominated because of
their accord and sympathy with re-
publican policies and their election
must be accepted as the strongest pos
sible proof that SO far as Oregon is
concerned the republican policies of
expansion. protection and the others
for which the party stands have the
heartiest endorsement of the people.
What encouragement the democrats
a take out of the Oregon election
only one of that party can explain.
At the very most they succeeded in
electing >r.ssssan to only a local Office.
No matter What his sentiments may
be as regards national policies and
affairs he is powerless to do aught
against the dominant party at Wash
ington. Had the thing been reversed
and two democrats were elected to
congress and a republican sent to the
state capital then cur democratic
friends might be %pardoned for feeling
as the say they feel on the PROPOSE
ton. Such action on the part of the
people Of the state would have been
capable of but one construction-no-
tlce that they were no longer salts
fed and demanded a change in ma
tional policies. But by their votes
they expressed the very opposite,
showing that ~villification of the Amer
lean soldier and opposition to all that
has c%onspired' to bring prosperity and
happiness to the nation right on the
heel of the stagnation and wretched-
ness into which the country was
plunged by a democratic administra-
ton does not appeal to the people of
Oregon. When the votes are count
ed in the other states it will be found
that the men of Oregon stand not
alone and that they have the support
of the countless thousands who are
intelligent enough to know when they
are well OF.