The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-04-15
FAIR STATE HAS BEEN OUTRAGED
Political Leaders Arraigned for Placing Montana IN Hia
ing position-Just Vengen.e Certain to Come
Republicans Have Mission.

benefit to the greatest number of our
people and at the same time preserve
inviolable the rights and privileges OF
the minority. When political parties
have kept within these limits and have
preserved honesty and uprightness in
their acts, demonstrated by their rec
ords the integrity of their purpose,
they go before the electors OF the
country differing only in their policies.
But when political party has be-
come corrupt, when it has allowed it's
leaders to use it to further the ambi-
tious designs of an individual, or a
combination of individuals, it becomes
the legitimate subject of censure and
criticism in it's organization as we'll
as in it's policies.
"We are approaching that time
when the political party to which has
been entrusted the administration OF
the affairs of the nation since the
last election, will be required to give
an accounting to the people, and re-
turn to them for their future disposal
the power and authority to govern.
Judge by the Records.
Political parties can only be judged
by their records and by the guarantee
their records give of their ability 10
carry out and keep their pledges and
promises in the future. Taking this
basis as a standard of comparison
even though an elector may not be
we'll versed in political economy it
is not difficult for him to determine
wherein his own welfare and the well
fare of the nation lies.
"On the one hand we have the rec
ord of the republican party, beginning
with the election of that great COM
| moner, Abraham Lincoln, and extend
ing down through am unbroken era OF
national development and prosperity,
until the first election of Grover Cleve-
land, who being held in check by a re-
publican congress was prevented from
putting into practice the policies of
the democratic party. But the very
fear of what might result from an
unrestricted democratic administra-
ton, swept that party from power
and restored republican administra.
tion, which gave to the country an.
other four years of progress and pros.
perity.
"And then happened one of the mos,
inexplicable events recorded in the
history of political parties. The par
ty that had made the history of the
nation for more than thirty years
the party that had guided the nation
through the throes of bloody civil
war and the more trying period OF
reconstruction, was defeated at the
following election, and Grover Cleve
land and a democratic congress were
elected. For the first time in more
than 30 years democracy had full
sway, and what were the results?
need mot answer that question, the
answer has been stamped into youl
memories by the iron heel of adver
sity, and while the imprint is there
there is no fear OF the people of this
nation committing the same mistake
again. s.
Montana for Roosevelt.
| There is deep-seated conviction
among the republicans of this stat,
that that fearless champion of th'
common people, that man that has tn,
courage to do what he believes to b,
right, Theodore Roosevelt, will no
only be nominated at Chicago, bu
that he will carry the state of Mon
tana by an overwhelming majority
The Roosevelt democrats concede i
and the rest of the democratic part,
is hoping and praying in their secre
hearts that it may be so.
!. There is not a republican withit
; the confines of this commonwealt