Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1903-01-15
THURSDAY JANUARY Is, 1908
MUZZLED PRESS SNARLS.

the Standard Oil horde to sneer and |
gibe everlastingly at Joseph X. Toole,
governor of the state of Montana. The
Anaconda Standard never ceases to
bark and bite when Governor Toole
appears upon the scene, and the Butte
Miner and the Helena Independent an
all other Clark newspapers grow green
with rage and envy when Governor
Toole occupies the center of the stage.
In like manner the Montana Record
and all newspapers inspired by Carter
hound and villify Governor Toole in
season and out of season. And the
secret of all this is that the Standard
Oil power hates and fears Joseph K.
Toole. The petty, envous soul of Will
liam A. Clark is chagrined at the
knowledge that Governor Toole is the
best beloved, the most trusted and the
most i1lustrious citizen of the state.
Carter and the Standard Oil gang
know that Joe Toole is the strongest
barrier between the people and the
control of the state by the money kings
of Wall street.
1t is, therefore, meet and just that
the people of the state of Montana
should gather around Governor Toole
and listen to the words of wisdom that
fall from his lips. Tom Carter has
evidently got the republican party of
the state by the throat. He controls
the machinery of the republican party,
and he will use that machinery and
that party to deliver over the state to
the Standard OF octopus. He has be-
trayed, and he will betray again, the
republican party for Standard Oil gold.
The man who sent a crew of pirates to
Cape Nome as federal officers to rob
and loot the miners of that bleak and
storm-bound coast is capable of any
treachery. The United States sena-
tor that tried to hold-up the archbishop
Of Havana will stop at no infamy. and
he will surely wreck and betray the
republican party again.
While Thomas H. Carter is in the
saddle, the republican party of Mon
tana will be the tool of the Standard
Oil, and recent events prove that Carr
ter is in the saddle and will continue
in the saddle for the next few years.
The people of Montana must, there
fore, look to the democratic party to
save the state from Standard Oil
despotism. w. A. Clark's control OF
the party is gone forever. Joseph X.
Toole is democracy's uncrowned king,
and Joseph X. Toole is the natural and
only leader of Montana's democracy
today. If the democratic party rallies
around Joe Toole and proclaims him
chief and leader, the people of Mon
tana will rally to the standard of de-
mocracy, and they will make shor
shrift of the Wall street money kings
who seek to usurp the government o
Montana. Today, as yesterday an,
the day before, the one great and onl,
issue before the people is whether they
or Wall street money kings shall ruiz
this state. Clark and Tom Carter ar
allies, active, sleepless and ruthless
of the Wall street money kings. Jo
Toole is the faithful and dauntless all,
of the people. The rage and hate witt
which the hirelings of the Standard Oh
greet the name of Joe Toole should b
sufficient guarantee to the people c
Montana that he is their best am
truest friend We know and believ
that the vast majority of the republic
ans of Montana fear and abhor tn
Standard Oil power. But they seem t
be powerless to save their party fror
Carter.
The democratic party has been al
along overwhelmingly anti-Standar