The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-11-07
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1902.
T THE BATTLE.

The people of Montana have a dou
BILE cause of gratitude-that the cam
paign is ended and that it ended
right. The weeks of doubt and sus
pense are over and the strain under
which so many labored has relaxed
and conditions are once more assum'
ing normality.
Regardless of the outcome, the PEG
pie are always glad when the time
comes that politics is laid aside and
men and things again drift into their
grooves and become themselves. OF
course, disappointment and sorrow,
often personal in their application,
come to many as a result of the eX-
preston of popular will, but the
Americans are good losers and the
defeated ones submit to the desire OF
the majority. No. matter how bitter
and intense the strife may have been,
once the ballots are cast and counted
the result is accepted. There is no
interruption in government. The va
rious institutions of state discharge
their functions as usual and the only
difference observable is in the per-
sonality of the ones to whom is en-
trusted the duty of directing public
affairs. This is one of the blessings
of a government of the people rather
thar of rulers. Whatever the ultimate
results of an election, only the electors
are responsible and they themselves
must bear the blame for i'll conse-
for it was their expressed
wish that wrought whatever changes
in policy or administration may fol-
low.
In the case of the campaign now
closed in this state the people have
made no mistake and the future will
bear testimony to their wisdom of
choice. BY a vote so large as to leave
no room for doubt that it is the ex-
preston of an intelligent majority
they have elected Joseph M. Dixon
to represent them in the lower house
of congress for the two years begin
ming with next March. In doing this
they gave twofold proof of the sound
ness of their judgment. First they
have shown that they are capable OF
learning from observation and exper-
fence. They have let it be under
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the good hat comes to the nation
through a republican administration
at Washington and nave placed them,
selves on record as being willing to
further strengthen that administration
so that there may be no relaxation CT
cessation in the flow of that good.
In the next place they have shown
it to be their desire to be represented
by one in accord and sympathy with
the governing party and who can with
good countenance make special plea
for them. should the occanion evel
arise when such a course would be
necessary. Instead of doing as they
did in the two preceding elections
send as their representative a mar
who is pledged to tie the hands of the
president in almost all things, the.
have elected to send one who will dc
the opposite. Then, too, they have
elected a man capable and worthy @
representing so young and grand {
state as their own. They will fine
that after the first formal introduc
ton it will not be necessary for thei,
new congressman to be introduced tt
the doorkeeper of the house when
ever he may choose to go there
Neither will it be necessary to intro
low members. He will soon be know
to all and in a amer that need no
shame those who sent him there. The,
will find Mr.. Dixon to be all and NOR
than his friends and party hav
vouched him to be and his name viii
speedily be among those made cor
spicuous in the house by the zeal an
ability of those bearing them.
The election of Judge Holloway a
associate justice of the supreme cour
is no less a compliment to the part
whose candidate he was than to tn
gentleman himself. Never in the his
tory of a state made notorious be
cause of the bitterness, intensity an
accrimoniousness of its political can
paigns has a indicative an
malicious campaign been wage
against any one than he was compel
ed to endure. Seemingly there wa
no bottom to the depth OF spite an