The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-06-24
ITS EFFECTS IN MONTANA.

ITS EFFECTS IN MONTANA.
The effects of Doctor Cleveland's
recent plea fer harmony in the demo
cratic party are already beginning to
manifest themselves out this way
The two leading democratic newspa
pers of the state are fairly falling
over themselves to harmonic the par
ty. The Anaconda Standard is work.
ing for accord and unison by calling
the doctor a canting hypocrite and
blaming him for the disruption of
forces which now characterizes the
condition of the party. It says the
defeats of the party in the last two
presidential campaigns are solely at
tr%ibutable to the doctor and that he
alone is responsible for the absence
of democratic representatives in the
chamber of the senate, of which he
complained in his speech, and to him
is attributable the extinction of dem
ocratic governors in northern COM
mcnwealths. Condensed to it's small
est space, the article of the Standard
is as artistic and complete a "roast"
as ever was administered to any in
dividual in the columns of a news
paper.
Admitting MI. Bryan's waning popu.
larity, the Standard declares that he
still has within the party a large and
important following, composed of
men who sufficiently respect, admire
and honor him to resent justly and
deeply such speeches as Mr.. Cleve-
lands"
In regard o Hills speech that paper
is not quite so outspoken, merely con-
tenting itself with saying that the
New Yorker may be a trickster, but
never a chump. 1t does net give him
credit for seriousness, but at the same
time it frankly expresses admiration
for his shrewdness in refraining from
following the example of Cleveland
and aiming ~inuendoes, taunts and
sneers at Bryan. The Standard is
willing to admit that Bryan is a dead
n politically, but it insists that a
proper amount CT respect should be
shown the corpse.
The Butte Miner is also out for
harmony. but pretty much along the
lines of its contemporary. 1t is liber-
al enough to attribute only the sin
cerest and mcst honest of motives to
the other fellows, but it says they are
not possessed of tact. While pleading
for a restoration of coed feeling and
harmony, it says they do not miss an
opportunity to show their contempt
for the man from Nebraska and their
resentment cf him, instead of accord
ing to him the political credit to which
he is entitled.
Like the Standard, the Miner is
just a little bit touchy on the sub
ject of Bryan, but for all that it
wants harmony and is willing to go
to any extent in the direction of sac
rifcing Cleveland, Hill, Olney or any
of the other fellows that were at the
Tilden club banquet. Rather sadly
it remarks that the prospects for a
thoroughly reunited party would be
greatly enhanced if the press and pol
iticians of the democracy would be a
little more charitable with one an
other and accord to both Cleveland
md Bryan, and their respective
friends and followers, "the sincerity
of purpose and honesty of action
that breadth of wisdom exercised by
each along different lines growing out
of vastly different environments
that the impartial historians Of the
future will undoubtedly place to their
credit"
The Miner lives up to it's teach
ings. 1t gives Bryan credit for ev-
erything the other side denies him,
without saying anything unfavorable
of Cleveland, b%estowing upon the ex-
president a sort of negative praise.
If his friends want something more
the Miner is perfectly willing that
they should say it themselves.
AS contributions toward the restora-
ton of harmony in their party the
articles of the two, newspapers are
gems and will no doubt awaken I'M
bounded enthusiasm throughout the
east. ..5b
Unless the house remains obstinate