The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-10-31

ue. The long feeces had been i'm.
ported as recommended by those dis
tinguished experts and all know the
result. Mr.. Mantle told of his ex-
perience in the senate and his work
in behalf of the wool tariff, saying he
believed such a tariff was right and
that if foreign wool was kept out the
short feeces grown at home would
take care of themselves Mr.. Mantle
continued at some length on the tar
if and the prosperity it had brought
to all and said that while there were
still some poor people, the beauty of
prosperity was that all got some Of
it, some probably more than others,
yet all got a share and he asked his
hearers to vote next Tuesday to keep
prosperity here longer.
The speaker then branched off into
discussion of state politics. He said
there was no longer any democratic
party in Montana, simply combina-
ton of factions dominated by men
who were kept in power through the
potency of the "barl" They had
made the name Of the state byword
and jibe. In the last four years ev-
cry other state, especially those in
the west, had advanced, while Mon
tana alone had practically stood still.
Capital had remained out, being
afraid to come here because of the
reign of bribery and corruption and
political debauchery instituted by
democratic politicians. They had cor
rupted men, ruined regulations and
debauched public morality. The
halls of the national capitol had been
made to ring with the story of Mon
tana's shame, shame brought upon
it by democrats and their peculiar
political methods. The so-called dem
ocratic party still in the state was
not bound by lofty purpose or patriot
ic ideals. 1t was merely a camp of
factions, a lot of millionaires and cor
porations who had adopted the name
and were out for nothing except Of
fee and to secure control of the courts
and legislatures. The people were not
considered by them and did not en-
ter into any of their plans or ambi-
tions. They were working only for
themselves. Heinze came along and
ho1 1,n hol nd
sold out by Clark and then Clark
came and related how Heinze had
misused and abused him.
The only political party now in the
state, said Mr.. Mantle, is the repub-
lican party. 1t is coherent, stands for
and is held together for
lofty and patriotic purposes. 1t is
not owned by any individual or any
and treats and considers
all alike. It demands exact justice for
all and wants laws enacted that pro-
tect the poor as well as the rich. 1t
promises this and nothing more
Mr.. Mantle paid high tribute to
the partys nominee for congress, the
Hon. j. M. Dixon. He declared him
TO be good, pure and able man and |
predicted that if elected he would |
make the ablest representative Mon
ana has ever had. For four years
he state had practically been without
representation in the lower house.
Campbell had been so busy keeping |
Clark out of the senate that he had |
% be introduced to the doorkeeper
he few times he did go into the hall
If representatives, while two years
lgo a man had been elected whose
lame nobody could now recall.
Judge Holloway, nominee for as
;ociate justice, also came in for IA
Torable mention and the speaker paid
lin high compliment as man and a
awyer. He declared him to be above
eproach and without stain. Judge
Holloway was the tool of no man or
The democrats did not
ike him because the populists and
abor party had endorsed him with
tut solicitation. Those parties had
imply done so because they had no
nan of their own whom they believed
ould fill the position. There was not
member of the supreme court who
lad not been endorsed by those same
PARTIES, still nobody charged them
With being anything but able and hon
st men. The speaker could not un
lerstand why it should be reflection
N any man to be endorsed by those
,arties.
Two years ago the populists and
aborites had endorsed w. A. Clark,