The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1904-04-08
The Standard as q Truth Teller.

stunding, the 0thnuhru Unlike we
can ''point with pride" to the DEM
ocratic record In Missouri for the
last 30 years. $4,000, 900 OF debt
wiped out, the lowest taxes OF any
state In the Union, the best school
system, not n dollar lost to the
people by boodling or other graft.
IL not that q record sufficient to be
proud OF 2-Mont. Standard.
One peculiarly about the Stand
ard II that It Is always ready to
point with pride" TO anything and
everything done by the machine
end Of the democratic party, be 1t
good, bad or Indifferent. There Is
no principle at stake about its poll
itics, but Is n yaller dog for the
"long green" from the tip Of the
nose to the end OF the tail. While
some democratic newspapers will
condemn the evil doings Of its
party-the Standard will endorse
them. While the published rec
ords and Official Investigations
show that the SO, 1000, 900 state debt
was jumbled up In the school fund
and other claims by the democrat
ic legislature, and never has been
paid-the Standard endorses the
steal, and now says II was paid
While numerous statements from
other states show that the rate of
taxation In Missouri IL by no
means the lowest and never WINS
yet our 'yaller dog contemporary,
as he calls himself, contends that
II Is true, and without anything to
prove the assertion. Notwith-
standing this state Is and has been
for months past torn up politically
because OF legislative boodling
by Its members for twenty OF more
years past; and Notwithstanding
democratic voters OF Clayton and
st. Louis were recently sluggcd
and driven from their convention
rooms and voting places by demo-
cratic toughs, hired by the ma
chine, as testified to by thousands
OF Folk democratic eye witnesses
and sufferers, yet this yaller dog
Standard nan says It II all a mis-
take, that there has been no bood-
ling and no driving of voters from
the convention rooms and voting
~places-that the city newspapers,
preachers and courts are falsincrs
and deceiving the people. Now
what IL the reason or sense In any
newspaper publishing such unmiti-
gated and damnable falschoods as
does this Standard yallcr dog OF
ours. Reading people know they
are lies, and so does the writer of
them, published In hopes of de-
ceiying readers and OF covering up
dishonest doings that cannot be
covered up. Thank God the rep
ublican party of Missouri nor its
newspapers do not have to make
public liars of themselves In order
to defend their party record. A
large number of the people OF Mis-
souri, have been living In the polit-
ical wilderness and as the victims
of their democratic leaders and
such newspapers as the Standard
for nearly forty years, but now
that the thieves have fallen out
a modern Moses has appeared
who may yet manage to lead them
out OF the democratic wilderness,
To the credit Of many Of the lead
ing democratic newspapers Of the
state II a be said with credit thai
they are now dcnouncing thes,
past dishonest doings and are call
ing on the honest but misled mer
of the party to come up out o
Egypt and help purify and EMO,
the land. And they are coming
and will continue to come, as 4
shown by the hosts who are ever,
day all over the state enrolling
themselves for Folk or for the grea
republican party. Let the goo'
work go on, brethren.