The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-04-15

but will endorse that statement. There
is not level-headed, honest demo
crat within the boundaries of Montana
who will deny the statement that re-
publican policies, inaugurated and car
ried out by republican administra-
tions, have brought to this nation dur
ing the last seven years a period Ct
the greatest development and pros
perity in it's history.
Comparison Of Policies.
"These are policies that have made
the nation bee hive of industrial
and commercial activity from the At
lantic to the Pacific, policies that have
done more to establish the industrial
and commercial supremacy OF the ma
ton and make of her one of the
worlds great powers; policies that
have done more to ameliorate the con-
dition of the human race, to crush out
despotic rule in the western hemis'
phere and secure to weaker countries
the sacred rights of elf-government,
than could have been secured in a
thousand years through any democra-
tic policies which have been advo-
Gated since the birth of the party.
While, on the other hand, this coun-
try has never experienced more
whitening, blighting wave of industrial
and commercial disaster than that
which swept over this nation during
the last administration OF Grover
Cleveland The arteries of trade
were stagnated and blocked, the in
dustrial life of the nation was paral-
yzed. The grim specter of want stalk
ed through the halls of the wealthy
as we'll as through the humble cot
! tage of the poor. Credits, regulations
and savings that men had spent their
lives in creating were swept away
until men looked into one another's
eyes and with bated breath asked the
question: Is it possible that after all,
the republic is failure?
! "And yet, fellow citizens, if we are
to judge from present indications, this
same Grover Cleveland, whose mis-
taken policy brought such widespread
ruin and disaster to the people OF this
country, or d man who will represent
similar policies, is likely to head the
dnnncra tic atinna1 ticket
Republican Unity.
"The republican party will go be
fore the electors in this campaign
as unit, advocating the policies that
have been tried and tested by time
The national ticket will be headed by
a candidate who is the peer of any
man on earth. A man who is perhaps
in closer touch with the common
people than any candidate since Abra.
ham Lincoln, while the democratic
party will appear as ship without a
pilot, drifting upon an unknown sea
Unless that party performs an aero
batic feat unparalleled in the history
of political parties it will go into this
campaign without . defined policy and
without leader who can unite it on
any one of the many anti-policies tina,
have been advocated by it's different
leaders. The party is rent in twain
by fixed and we'll defined lines and
you might as we'll attempt to unite
the north and south poles as to at
tempt to unite the factions OF the dem
ocratic party led respectively by Gro
yer Cleveland and W. ]. Bryan.
Disgraced and Misrepresented.
1--WE turn from the national situa
tion to the more complex conditions
which confront us within our owl
state. l regret and deplore the fac
that the conditions here are such tha
it is absolutely impossible to confine
the issues of the campaign to thu
: policies of the different political par
ties, but such is the case. For the
last eight years Montana has occupied
an unenviable position in the eyes o
; the nation. No greater wrong ha:
ever been committed against any peo
pie, nor have people ever been mor'
criminally misrepresented or put il
more false light than have beel
the people of Montana by the politica
mOuntebankS who, through method