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Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1904-04-07

We have been awaiting for weeks,
since the opinion of the supreme court
was rendered in the contest cases, for
some action by the proper authorities
in regard to the illegal votes cast at
the last election. The supreme court
upheld the decision of the lower court
on every count. Why do not the great
purifiers arrest and convict some of the
said illegal voters? Is it not their
sworn duty to do so? If they claim
not to be able to find any of them we
can assure them that some of them are
on the streets of Forsyth nearly every
day and this paper will use its utmost
efforts to find the present location of
large number of the said illegal vot-
crs. Is it not the sworn duty of the
county attorney (who was the great
puritier) to enforce the law? We de-
mand that this be done. Ii these men
voted illegally, we demand they be
sent where they belong. a prosecu-
ton mot persecution) will do more to
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1904-04-07
Villification is not Argument

Lee, Mont, April 4, 1904.
Dear Editor: Some time ago l took
occasion to express in your paper my
views of the grating that is going on
in a couple of our county offices. The
sight of the article had the effect on
the Forsyth Times that the sight of
red cloth has on an Andalusian Bull.
1t seems that the editor of that sheet
cession. BY the wo DIS written in that
impotent condition he demonstrated
several facts. The one most potent of
pion of grating on the part of republic
can officials, for what CRATER could
put more venom into his utterance
when charged with his offense than he
has done in defending them. He has
removed the last lingering doubt of his
position on that question.
He demonstrates his ignorance of
the rule that is we'll established
among intelligent men that villi6ca-
ton is not argument, and that the at
tack on the motive of ones opponent
reveals baffled condition of the
mind.
He also demonstrates in fit No. )
that it would have been waste of
postage on my part to have sent my
communication to his sheet, for who
can believe, after reading his innuen-
does against me for discl iminatlng
somewhat freely at the poles, that he
would have allowed breath of such
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1904-04-07
Concerning Incorporation

CONSERVING 1uCOTpOrAJlOu
In the promises that are being made
in the interests of incorporation we
wish to call the attention of the people
to some of the promises made when the
long fight was on for the creation of
Rosebud county by some of the same
people who are so prolific in promises
first opportunity they repudiated all
their past pledges. In the fight for
county division the unsophisticated
voter was told that this county would
be a county of the seventh or eighth
class for years, while at the first op-
portunity when the commissioners
tried to carry out this pledge) they
went into the courts and compelled the
commissioners to raise the classical
ton of the county and county officials
salaries regardless of the fact that
they were the highest paid men in the
county for the work done. You will
all remember the pledges made about
deputies and how those pledges have
been broken, and in fact is there
pledge that was made that has been
kept?
When these smooth fellows come to
you again remember the broken
pledges.
We do not wish to be understood as
fighting incorporation but wish to see
it carried strictly on it's merits and
not by promises only made to be brok-
en-. You must bear in mind that all
the good you are told you will derive
from incorporation will have to be
paid for, and the farther fact that it
invariably costs municipality more
for improvements than private indiv-
idual.
We farther believe this to be ques-
ton that should be settled entirely by
the property owners and taxpayers of
the town. When any one comes to you
with argument for or against the prop
osition look for the motive especially if
he happens to be one who pays very
little, or maybe nothing, towards the
maintenance of county or municipal
affairs.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1904-04-07

The city election at Butte Monday
resulted in victory for the antitrust
party. Only one of the candidates
known as the "solid ELEVEN was elect
ed, and the antitrust people claim
that his election was fraudulent and
will contest it.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1904-04-07

It is authoritively announced that
convention of negroes will meet at st.
Louis July 6, for the purpose of plac-
ing in nomination a negro candidate
for the presidency.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1904-04-07

The democratic county central COM
mittee is hereby called to meet at For
syth Saturday, April 9th, at two
O'Clock p. m. It is desired that all
committeeman be present.
T. ]. THOMPSON,
Chairman.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1904-04-07
OFFICIAL PAPER OF ROSEBUD COUNTY

than anything else. We not only de-
mand the prosecution of the illegal
voters but perjurers as we'll.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1904-04-07
Another Exacting ROsebudder

@AAOCAACE GAaCVluS INOSCUuuuCT
We notice in looking through last
weeks Stockgrowers Journal that ex-
ceptions are taken to some of the legal
terms used by one of our correspond
ents in recent letter published by us.
Now, the above named paper has
very genial and portly gentleman at
the head of it's editorial staff which
makes it quite worth while as news
paper, and democrats though we be,
we read the Journal and usually en-
joy it, especially such parts as are de-
voted to our very unworthy selves.
In the particular article referred to,
the Journal INDUCES in several laughs
at the expense of our correspondent,
and appears to be quite in the dark as
to what a 'Iaw statue" is, and as to
the exact composition of a "man-
dante.''
For their enlightenment, and in de-
tense of our correspondent, we will ex-
plain that a claw statue'' is new
type of edifce built by the fa11able
fingures of a printer, and permitted to
stand by virtue of the fal1able eyes of
one, known in print shop, as proof
reader. And "mandante" is, SO far
as we are capable of Judging, about
the same thing.
Since we can depend on the good
nature of our Custer county contempor-
airy, we are forced to assume posi-
ton putting him on the defensive.
Our attention was attracted to an
article entitled ga Grass Year" in
the next column to can Exacting
Rosebudder," and being in search of
good English (Which is very often to
be found in the JournaD this is what
we found: "This year is to see the
range clothed again so that it will rip
pie like the waves of the sea when the
wind blows.' This is figure Of
speech full worthy of Longfellow but
we must confess our ignorance of the
fact that the sea ripples when the
wind blows. And we shall keep a
sharp lookout to see just what kind of
clothes are necessary to cause the vast
and mighty range to perform the un-
dignified ''rippling" antics of brook.
A little further down we catch this:
"But grass that would tickle a cay.
uses belly has long been a stranger
in these parts and for fact the big
grass dated back to II when it was
mild all winter and rained all
spring. We are not wholly unable
to gather it's sense but it's construction
is as bunglesome as the efforts of an
ex-United States Senator to control a
Helena primary.
"The frost caught the moisture be-
fore it dried up and froze it up APP
pears; also, 1.-The suns knock the
grass"
Next comes, "But after all our main
though of course it is so much better to
have good stand for the rains to OPP
perate on, and it is in this respect
that this year promises so WE'LL" Do
you detect it?-''It is better to have
good stand for the rains y y and it is in
this respect" etc. Better than what?
But here comes the "Lollypaloozer"
as our friend George AIDE would say:
at takes June rains and later to make
winter feed and that, after all, is the
main desideratum. Well, we hope it
is. We know that June rains are all
right, but just what this ''later' is
composed Of and how it is applied to
accomplish ''the main desideratum, :"
we must appeal for calculation to the
superior knowledge of the Stockgrow
ers Journal.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-08-13

1T burned down or leveled by an
enemy for the sins OF It's people. . In
the code of Hammurabi, the esteemed
monarch-supposed to be Amraphelp
King of Shimar mentioned in Genesis
among the countless heroes whose
names are recorded. is that OF the
king who gave his life to Ud-nun-ki.
Hammurabi ruled in about the same
way Mayor Carter Harrison Is govern
ing Chicago, only In ancient times
when city became entirely lost to
the "grafters," the police and the
gambler, 1t was demolished and am
other experiment in municipal admin.
istration was made over its ruins
Finally in the case of Adab, the ex-
pertinent was abandoned altogether,
and since then no one has known ex-
actly where the original foundations
stood. Fortunately, some OF n the.
Adab stone masons cut the name OF
the city on brick. and with equal
good fortune one Of President Harp
er's diggers came across the brick
and translated the name without din.
Guilty. If Chicago Is ever to disap-
pear as Adab did, let US hope that
some one will thoughtfully cut It's
name in the city hall cornerstone. II
will be Of much assistance to future
explorers If, perchance, the written
records Of Chicagos reputation are
not sufficient to identify the metropo-
lis
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-08-13
THE WRECK AT EDEN.

The death plunge of the Denver &
Rio Grande train near Eden, COL,
though one of the most horrible rail-
road accidents of the century, seems
to have been unavoidable in spite of
the many safeguards the mountain
railroad systems employ to prevent
wrecks. Though there are frequent in
spections of tracks and bridges, night
patrols, weather observation systems
and orders to engineers to sacrifice
speed to safety, accidents will happen.
The wreck of the worlds fair special
brought death to more than hundred
people and filled with sorrow scores of
homes But Judging from all the re-
ports thus far obtainable no one can be
held to blame for the awful accident
and 1t must be laid entirely to the
agency of the cloudburst that started
in the mountains and converted Dry
creek, together with many another dry
rum" into raging torrent in the space
of few minutes.
These arroyos are common in the
west and they are the most formidable
enemies of the railroad companies.
Dry gullies during the greater part of
the time, they become fierce and turbid
streams when the water comes boiling
down the mountain sides. In this part
of the country one cannot realize the
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-08-13
THE MEAT SOLD IN IOWA.

Cedar Rapids Republican.-Wil the
time ever really come when Iowa peo-.
pie will have sense enough to eat
Iowa corn fed steers instead of Texas
rangers and Gamer cows? Iowa pro-
duces the best beef in the world and
on the whole eats about the worst. It
is said that the requirements of even
the state Institutions, such as the
penitentiary at Anamosa. are such
that they cannot be supplied out ofthe
beef warehouses which the large
packers have in this city. That is,
Cedar Rapids is furnished with beeyes
that the state board of control would
not permit to be fed to the convicts at
Anamosa. The state institution re-
quirements call for Iowa corn fed
steers weighing between a minimum
and maximum weight, and 1t is said
that such cattle are actually obtained.
They are sent direct from Chicago for
the simple reason that no such meats
are carried for Iowa trade 'vt .gag
These are not fanciful statements.
They are actual truths and they have
been admitted by the officials of the
beef companies. Iowa raises the best
cattle. but the best are for consumpe
tion out of the state, for the larger
cities. But even for the. poor meat
that is. sent back, Iowa pays too high
prices. What piece Of follv.it Is that
Iowa cannot have the best at the most
reasonable prices, since Iowa produces
the cattle. = >,.,,s,,.-,y.,
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-08-13
TAeeART's RESPONSIBILITIES.

New York Tribune-They tell a
story in indianapolis which goes to.
show. that Thomas Taggart !. makes
promises with the freedom OF a politi-
clan and Is never at a Toss to get out
Of them, If need be-, When eTaggart
was running for mayor of Indianapolis
he made to a medical association a
promise which was absolutely impos-
sible for a mayor to keep. After his
election delegation waited upon him
at the city hall inaIndianapolls and re-
minded him of his obligation to themi
The spokesman told him that he had
promised a representative of certain
medical organization that certain.
things would be y done, and
that he, was nexpectedad to-
make good Taggart bantered the
delegation as long as he could, but An,
ally when driven to his corner turned
upon the spokesman of the delegation
and said: @ 49,
4 did make that, promise?" Il o..,
you certainly did. Mr. Mayor" said
a member Of the @ delegation: t'You
promised that you would, dosthis for
our society. and you ought, to keep
your word
well, look here" said Taggart, II
guess 4 did make that pfomise.s Tom
Taggart the Individual and Tom Tag
CART the mayor Of Indianapolis are
two different persons, so you 60 back
to your society and tell them that the
mayor of Indianapolis says that Tom
Taggart is a liar" .st - at
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-08-13
THE LIMIT REMOVED.

New York Press.-Devery at ESQ
pus2 Is not this the limit g'-The
leading democratic newspaper.
Why? Hill is there, and Boss Muir
ply and Tom Taggart and Pat McCar-
rem. Devery has not had so large an
experience In the crooked ways of
politics as those other gentlemen
who are Judge Parker's most trusted
managers and most frequent advisers,
but he has had a very thorough train
ing in his own particular line, and his
energies, added to those of the other
purifiers, should produce results which
in the eyes of the Belmont Parker
syndicate, may compare very salts
factorily with the Taggart- Hill Muir
ply McCarren record. In any event
we beg to suggest to the democratic
newspapers which are still waiting for
Mr.. Cleveland and men of his type to
supplant the McCarrens and the Dew
erys at the council board that there is
no limit" in that game. When Judge
Parker got on a Organized platform
with a gold telegram in his hand to
play for the government of the United
States, in behalf of the trust power,
his syndicate hackers took off the
limit"
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-08-13
CROP PROSPECTS.

vermillion, S. D., Republican.-The
government undertakes to publish
from time to time scientific reports
from all parts of the country touching
the condition of the crops. The prac-
teal farmer does not have much in
terest in the crop criterions. To him
they are little more than a farce. So
much is a crop dependent on the skill
of the farmer that huge crops and
failures are often found in adjoining
fields. A general disturbance-too
much rain or too little, hot winds or
a cold spell-may occur to affect a
widespread territory, but when such
is he case the news columns give the
best reports and give them oftenest.
At Huron is station where regular
reports are made and sent forth. Who
reports to Huron? o. generally some
one who knows a great deal more
about cuffs and high collars than he
does how to thread binder. These
crop reports are somewhat like the
china egg in the hens nest. inviting
the biddies to deposit the real article;
so with crop prognostications-th
granger finally brings the goods and
shows no .wfoolish they were.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-08-13
JUDGE PARKER,s NOTIFICATION.

Today the Honorable Alton Brooks
Parker, LII. D., accepted the nomina-
ton for the presidency at the hands
of the democracy. being notified Of his
nomination by committee headed by
Champ Clark of Missouri. It has been
hard to believe until now that Mr..
Parker, after voting for William j..
Bryan twice and thus endorsing his
free silver fallacy. would face about
and seek election to the office for
which Bryan was a candidate, declar-
ing that he was wrong four and eight
years ago but wants the honor now
because he has come to his senses on
the money question.
Judge Parker's attitude is indeed
an unusual one. Representing party
whose chief claim for confidence is that
1t admits its past errors he proposes
new and untried schemes which he
says will prove wise if adopted. Pro-
Tossing hatred for trusts, it gives
every reason to doubt the sincerity of
this profession by accepting as leaders
men who are known to be intimately
connected with monopolistic enter
prises. Omitting from the platform
this year the issue that was blazoned
forth in the Bryan campaigns as par
amount" the party starts on an al
together new tack this year. Its old
idols are forgotten. Bryan's crown of
thorns" and "cross of gold" are rele-
gated to the past with other dead is
sues and the farmer of Esopus takes
the place made vacant by the over
throw of the sage of Lincoln. Silver
tongued oratory is unpopular and tel
egrams are used to tell the superiority
of the gold standard.
A party that must, in order to hold
It's members together, omit the issues
from its platform is the party for
which Judge Parker stands. 1t in
spires no confidence but rather oper-
ates to destroy what confidence the
people might have in the candidate
who is weak enough to allow his name
to be used by political organization
which does not know its own mind
By surrounding himself with corps
of managers and advisers known as
the most unreliable of politicians,
Judge Parker has brought himself to
their own level. When he allows Hill,
McCarren. Murphy and Belmont to
dictate his actions he lets the public
know the price he has paid for the
nomination. And yet, voters are ad-
vised that Roosevelt is mot safe"
Compare Hay. Cortelyou, Shaw, Will
son, Allison, Root and the others
among the Presidents advisers, with
Hill, Taggart, McCarren, Murphy and
Belmont. then think which group is
the most dependable, which is the one
to whom the affairs of government
should be entrusted.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-08-13
THE PUBLIC LANDS.

i An article In the Burlington Hawk
Eye which was reproduced by this pa
per yesterday, offered objections to
the system employed by the govern
ment In giving away as homesteads,
the western Indian lands. The Hawk
.TsNe thinks it would be better to keep
the title in the government and to es-
rablish paupers, tramps and convicts
there in an effort to make of them bet
Ter citizens, or rent the land to bona
(hde settlers, instead of throwing 1t
open for settlement, the priority as to
claims being settled by lot.
AT first glance the Hawk-Eye's sug-
gestion looks like good one but when
considered it shows many disagree
able features. The opening of the
Rosebud strip is fresh in the minds of
all. Every town and city has It's story
OF poor men who have become indie
pendent through this lottery to which
the Hawk-Eye, in common with many
other papers. objects so strenuously.
Boiled down this objection to the gov
ernment's lottery system is merely a
complaint without reason. There
are more people who want farms than
!. there are farms to be given away.
This would be true under any condi-
tons and has been the case whenever
any Indian lands have been opened by
the government. Some way must be
hit upon to give all an equal chance
but to let the lands be allotted without
causing friction among the settlers.
At first the plan of allowing no one
on the land until the minute Of the
opening and then starting great race
for desirable farms was followed. This
resulted often in quarrels between the
settlers and these quarrels often end.
ed in murders or long standing feuds
This was soon admitted to be an un.
wise scheme for apportioning the
lands.
The plan of drawing the claims was
then hit upon Under this plan the
1names are registered between two
dates. the settlers go out and look ov.
Ter the land to be opened, determining
where they will locate in case they
drawn an early number. There are
no heartbreaking races with either
death or farm as the goal There is
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-08-13
THE MURDER HABIT.

Chicago Record Herald. ~ Statistics
of murders which have just been COM
piled in Italy show that while in
France the annual rate is one murder
to every 100000 inhabitants. in north
ern Italy it is fou- in the middle pro-
vinces, twentyfour and in the, north
ern provinces, in the southern pro-
vinces,5 including Naples and Sicily, it
is thirty.
Last year the Cook county coroner
held inquests in 118 cases Of homicide,
of which only eleven were reported by
him as justifiable. This Is at the rate
Of about six for every 100000 of the
population.
Chicago can hardly take pride in the
fact that her murder record is five
times better than that of Naples and
Sicily. On the contrary she can feel
nothing but shame that 1t is six times
worse than that of France.
Probably the local record for the
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-08-13
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) A ."DEUCED BORE"

New York Press.-A weekly publ
cation remarks: This talk about i'm
perialism bores u.s." The anti-imper-
ialist chatter has indeed been a bore
for some time. but it has never been
SO universally acknowledged as such
as at the present time The demo-
Gratis, especially, regard it as an UNI
mitigated bore. They put a Filipino
plank of glittering generalities into
their st. Louis platform, as they put it
in any old thing that glittered-except
gold-but we have heard precious lit
tie from them since concerning the
wrongs of our "downtrodden and OPP
pressed brown brother of the. sunny
isles" The republicans are always
ready to discuss the question with
their opponents, but the democrats
have suddenly discovered that the
whole issue is "deuced bore"