The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-06-21
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own party-both as regards national
and state affairs some of the dem
ocratic editors of Montana have under.
taken to create d@issension among the
republicans by appointing themselves
champions of one or another of the
different gentlemen who are more or
less prominent in the councils of that
party and under a p%retense of friend
ship for the one whose cause they
favor seeking to create feeling and
strife by playing upon the sentiment
of those known to be friendly toward
him. The game is so apparent and
the motive so plain that lone will be
deceived by either.
Among the most persistent and
seemingly earnest Of these self-ap-
pointed champions is the Helena indie
pendent, with the Butte Miner as a
sort Of me too The Independent
is always the first to make the play,
when it is taken up by the Butte organ
and enlarged upon or approvingly
\ quoted as demonstrating the wonder
full political pe%rspicacity of the other
CLARK publication. OF late those two
pals have taken UP the matter of Mr..
Lindsay's candidacy once more and
are working over time to convince
that gentleman's friends that he is the
victim Of a "job" by which he need
not look for anything more than a
mere place of recognition, a sort OF
niche to get him out of the way OF
those with whose political ambitions
he is said t O be interfering.
Now, this would all be pretty and
interesting reading were there any
ground of fact upon which to base it.
Mr.. Lindsay is a candidate for the
republican nomination for governor
and his candidacy has the support of
a large and influential segment of the
party-the truth may be said to be
that it is in response to the wishes
of this element that he is now in the
field for the honor. To say that he
has consented to any understanding or
scheme by which he is to sacrifice
himself and the ambitions and desires
of his friends for the f~urtherance of
those of some other individual or indi-
viduals is making a charge against
him that his past conduct bellies.
Both the Independent and Miner
should still wildly remember that he
is not the sort of a man that is to be
bribed or cajoled into lowering his
W manhood and honor or into SELL
ing out those who have trusted him.
Should their memory on this score
have become a trife dim, all they need
to do to refresh it is to read the pro-
ceedings of the legislative assembly
of only a few years ago.
Mr.. Lindsay has demonstrated in
every way his fitness for the position
and no member of the republican
party in the state has a greater or
stronger claim upon that body for rec
ognition and preferment than he. This
is a fact that the republicans of east
ern Montana are not blind to ant
they have decided upon him as theil
candidate and choice for the govern
orship and will go into the c%onventio,
prepared to give him every honorabl,
support. The west side has been hon
Ored in the past to an extent that lef
no doubt as to the loyalty of the mel
of the east side. The time has com
when they may go before a state nomi
mating body and with every sense O
justice and right on their side ask tina
their claims be recognized and tina
reward be given where it has bee
earned. They have singled out MI
Lindsay as in every way worthy G
any honor the party has within it
power to bestow, and in selecting hir
they have not only honored a mos
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