Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1902-06-25

ilout upOn AHe HnOuaIcu VI a hlnuIeu
and friendly people, to whom this
great nation wished TO extend a sim.
pie courtesy; thirteen votes against
the tariff; thirteen votes for free
trade, or anything to cripple our com
merce and industries. SO as to create
a Bryanite panic in this country;
thirteen hypocritical walls over the
poor laboring man and his empty din
ner pail; thirteen points with PRIDE"
thirteen views with alarm" thirteen
votes to keep Jim Butler in ~rascally
possession OF his stolen seat; thirteen
whoops against imperialism; thirteen
groans over the consent OF the gov
erned, when they well know that the
ballot Is being throttled to death right
here in their own state with nearly
half its people practically d~isfranchis-
ed; thirteen shyster weepers over the
unhappy fate OF the Beers; thirteen
when Champy hic-er hic-er hicchough-
ed, and belched up his childish. pue-
rifle little TRADE against King Edward
and the English people; thirteen bra
vos and one tiger when Backyard
Wheeler. from Kentucky, made his
dirty little assault upon that prince of
gentlemen and good fellows, Henry of
Prussia, and upon the honest, patri-
otto German citizens of this great
country of ours; thirteen screams for
16 to 1, or any other ratio, or no ratio
at all, Just as you please; thirteen
apologists for Nesbitism in Missouri
when Jim Butler s brought to the bar
of the house to have inadequate JUS
tice done upon him thirteen votes
(coming) for anarchy under the hypo-
critical pretense of safeguarding the
right Of free speech and freedom OF
the press yellow; lnirteen yellow
votes to scale down our forces in the
Philippines, with the raging hope that
some day the rest may be cut tc
pieces; thirteen abettors of the cut
throat, ~bribe-taking Aguinaldo; thir
teen yellow bullets to fire at the real
of u army; thirteen yellow ballot.
to keep our soldiers out in the wealth
er in the Philippines, and last, but b,
no al least, in this incomplete
list of Democratic iniquities-but one
Of the most Observation-Disclosures
scribers to the st. Louis Republic
There they stand, Mr.. Editor-thir
teen of EN-!
Egad. sir, It's Just the right mum
Der and just the right sort of stuff
to everlastingly disgrace and hoodo'
this poor old state of ours! What
showdown for your whiskers of ba
latant, mouthing deuagogues! Wha
an array Of political mountebanks
shysters and hypocrites! What
galaxy of i%nnocuous desiccated yellow
%stiffs! What a noble phalanx of mi
c%roscopic. lemon-colored ragttim,
statesmen! What a spectacle TO
the gods to contemplate of the lates
improved. up-to-dste democracy
Is it any wonder that they. and sue
as they. have made it almost unan.
nous in this country; that they hav
been dashed and driven into hole
and corners where they can only holl
their grip by sc~ourdrely gerrymand
ers, thieving Nesbit and Goebel laws
and the manipulations of such politt
, cal %cutthroat freebooters as German
Stone, Tillman, ct al?
Is 1t any wonder that thousands uI
on thousands have quit 'em and gon,
squarely into the republican ranks
weary and sick unto death of thei
dishonest. self-seeking unpatrioti
, Observation-Disclosures democracy
I ask you again, is it any wonder tina
our noble old commonwealth Is still
pointed at as the bandit state" an
poor old Missouri" as she goes tot
tering and staggering along unde
such a load? Misrepresented and di'
: graced in congress; weighed dow
and bent double under her steamin,
, reeking load of Nesbitism, Organism
Caldwellism, Brovnism. Butlerisn
Stephenson, Dockeryism. Stoneisn
> Marshallism, Carringtonism. Cool
ism. Seibertism and st. Louis Repul
licism. her school and other fund
Incorporated. discredited and h,
inflated abroad; dishonored and roI
bed at home-with the Jefferson Cit
gang of blood-sucking tricksters draI
ging at her skirts and exposing he
~nakedness to a s%cornful. jeering worl
lit Is a shameless spectacle, and on
to make angels weep and strong me
blush to call Missouri their mothe
1t is. indeed, a crying time for chang
A and for a reckoning. or failing tina
for our poor old state to turn HI
weary, saddened face to the wall
. curse God and die.
Don,t Fail To Trv This.