Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1902-11-06
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justify increased expenditures. The in
mates of the city institutions are cared
for better than formerly. Street cleaners
are again at work.
The police courts are operated on prin-
ciples conducive to better results than for
many years. Grafters are in the minority.
Receipts from the courts have been more
than doubled under the system of daily
reports to the mayor and the refusal to
remit fines except in extraordinary cases.
If the above were all that had been ac-
complsheG by electing Democratic off,
Gals. the people would be fully repaid for
turning out the Old Ziegenhein gangsters.
However the betterment in the fiscal con-
dition Of the city Is only small part of
the Improvement.
BY the unearthing and vigorous prose.
cution of boodlers a Democratic circuit
attorney has made the life Of the corrupt
briber and bribe giver q continuous night
mare. Some have been driven out Of the
country-a punishment almost worse than
Imprisonment, as the return of the con-
science stricken Murrell testiflcs. Others
have been sentenced to terms in the peni-
Tertiary. A number of the delegates are
in Jail awaiting bond.
Meanwhile the combine in the present
house of delegates is under investigation.
Members of the majority who are be-
lieved to have conspired to pass and de-
feat legislation which will not bear the
SeafcnliSht or puDllclty are momentarlly
expecting trouble.
All of these things have impressed the
citizens of ST. Louis more than any par
tisan action of recent years. The people
do not greatly care which party is in the
ascendency as long as they can have good
government. They wish obedience to the
letter and spirit of the law They think
that business principles should govern
the conduct of public administration.
They believe that boodlers should be
prosecuted and punished to the full ex-
tent of the statutes. They have no use
for faVOritisn.
Because they have been getting this
sort of service from Democratic officials
! they willing to rdorse the party for
furnishing the men who are willing to
give this service.
Republican Campaign Thunder.
The st. Louis-Globe Democrat says
editorially:
The public corporations in Missouri that
contribute to the Democratic campaign
/ fund are assessed only SO per cent for tax
alton. while a private owner OF property
| in St Louis pays on 20 per cent This
discrmina ton is due to the favoritism Of
| the state board of equalization, consisting
| Of the governor, auditor. treasurer,
rotary of state and attorney general some
of whom handle the campaign slices of
cash.
That sounds very well to a man who
doesn't know the real facts. In the
trial of the famous Brown" case in
Kansas City few months ago the tes-
timony showed that some corporations
had made some small contributions to
the Democratic campaign fund and
that they were unsolicited The same
testimony showed that these same
corporations had made much larger
contributions to the Republican cam
paign fund. An assessment of 80 per
the average assessment of the property
of private individuals in the state of
Missouri outside of the city of st.
Louis, where the present assessments
are the same as they have been for
years back. The rate seems high when
compared with % per cent assessments
that prevail in many Of the Demo
cratic counties. but it must be remcn-
bered that the Republicans gave ST
Louis the poorest city government in
the world for year after year under
that same 20 per cent assessment
while the present Democratic city gov.
eminent is giving an excellent admin
istration with the same tax rate and
the same assessment,
Missouri has lower tag rates and
lower assessments than any Repub
lican state in the Union, and the CD
can't rub it out. That is where old
Ananias' shoe pinches.
BY the Way.
Most unfortunately for all concerned
Congressman Jackson Of Kansas fell
down and broke his leg A Democrat
running for congress in Kansas needs
two good legs and needs them very
much indeed. Judge Jackson is fine
man. has made fine congressman
and it must be admitted that it woulC
be great calamity for him to be de
feated. With a magnanimity that does
him credit, he has offered to withdraw
from the race and let some Democrat
take his place who has his runnin:
apparatus in good condition. Individ
ually hope that no such thing will
happen and that Jackson will be re
elected by an increased majority. as b,
deserves to be.
There is a report whispered abou
with bated breath that one of the rea
sons why President Roosevelt Gid no
finish his western speechmakinG bust
ness was that the Republican leaders
became uneasy about his speeches ant
pulled him off. Individually don't be
lieve any such tOmmyrot. They ma.
have been uneasy and may have de
sired to pull him Off, but desiring t.