The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-04-03
WHERE IS IT.

WHERE Is IT?
Portland, Ore, Telegram (Dem.):
There are no better men personally
than our friends the democrats. Ev-
eryboly Understands, or should un
derstand, this; and whatever mild and
pleasant structures there may be in
this article are only expressed Of them
from a purely political point OF view
and also a passing point Of view.
Let us not discard the theory that 1t
is possible for even the Author Of Sin
to reform.
But is there any true-blue demo-
cratic paper in Oregon that has sui.
ficient ability and courage to come
out in the open and declare itself, as
between the democracy Of Grover
Cleveland, William Whitney, ct al,
the democracy of Bryan, Stone, ct
al; the democracy of our fervid friend
Watterson, who hates both the other
brands as a saint hates sin?
Suppose some of our local demo
cratic organs, with brains Ito beat
the band" should range themselves
somewhere, somehow, so than an in
quiring. intelligent reader, inclined to
be a democrat on general principles,
would gather from this publication
some inkling of where its party Is
at. .t,
BY the way, though, and pertinent
ly. what democrats can be depended
upon to stick to the only tissue" DEM
ocrats have to stand on at all-tariff
reform and trust regulation? Not one.
German? Everybody kpows that
he is as much a sugar-trust senator
as Quay. The only difference is that
German is a little more %secretive, and
Quay a little more honest, or at least
more serenely contemptuous of the
public.
Cleveland? A nan of considerable
character, of quite admirable disre-
gard for "the common people," a man
whom Wall street fairly worships!
r Hill? A nan who hates women as
vermin, and who knows no straight
path but crookedness. A man who
used all the energy and ability of
which he was possessed to defeat the
most meritorious measure that has
appeared in congress for the last quar-
ter of a century-the income bill.
Bryan? A visionary, a mounting
dreamer, an arrogant overrider and
would~be dictator, a blatant, belliger-
emit anti, who would overturn in ten
minutes what should be overturned
and must be, if done successfully
only in a generation, and, by grada-
tions.
There are your men-your leaders,,
Is it any wonder that republican ma
~jorities are growing-that men-to
bring the case home-like w. D. Fen
ton, M. l.. Pipes, S. B. Huston, w. j..
Furnish, and a hundred others who
might be named-right here in Ore
gon-have deserted the democratic
party?
What is the democratic party, any
way? Where is it at? Who knows?
There has not been for seven years
an intelligent answer.
There is not an alleged or profess
ed democrat in congress today but
will out-Herod the republican Herods
in protection-in supporting the sys-
tenn of reciprocal rapine-if any of
their constituents are or imagine
themselves to be interested in a pro-
tective schedule-not n of them,
from A to lizard, but would plumber
the people to retain his seat.
Look at your leader Jones-robbing
the people through the cotton-bale
trust. Look at your fine-haired dem
ocrats from Louisiana-voting with
republicans every time to plumber the
! people in order to benefit a few cane
| sugar growers. Look at Teller and
Patterson, posing as democrats, but
tools of the beet sugar trust.
Do you elect a democrat from Cali
fornia? He hasn't warmed his seat
| until he conspires with the republi-
cans to rob the people by the high
est possible tariff on fruits, wines,
| grapes, lemons, quicksilver, or what
not. Elect a democrat from New
England, and he Immediately becomes
the most radical OF republicans on the
tariff question, as to anything affect
ing his dear constituents. They are
all hogs, every one. Have we a real
| statesman left? 1t is doubtful.
To sum up, democratic pretense OF