The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-04-15
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parties, as is the great majority Of
our people, are men of undoubted and
irreproachable integrity, men who
honestly believe in the principles OF
their respective parties and are anx-
ious to see the legitimate aims of their
respective parties carried out. But
when the leaders of a political party
become corrupt the whole party be-
comes tainted so far as any action OF
the party is concerned, and the only
remedy is to retire that party from
power until it has purged itself OF it's
corrupt leaders.
Disreputable Political Methods.
"a financial crisis is bad for a
community, but you can it's
effect, and determine it's damage. Men
may have the hard-earned savings OF
years swept away in a financial crisis,
but when they have discharged their
obligations to the full extent of their
ability. preserved their reputation and
integrity, they are in a position to
begin to rebuild their fortunes and
regain their positions in the business
world.
"But who can measure the far-reach-
ing effect of the moral and social crisis
that the people of Montana have been
passing through during the past eight
years? Who can determine the results
of the political methods that have
wrecked so many regulations, that
have had such a d~emoralizing intiu-
ence upon the youth of our state, that
has poisoned the very heart OF our
social system and held up the people
OF this young commonwealth as OBJ
jects of scorn and contempt. A gen
GRAFTON, must be swept from the face
of the earth before the effects OF this
saturnalia of political corruption is et-
faced.
Just Vengeance Certain.
"The time will come when the po-
litical leaders who are responsible
for these conditions and whose acts
have brought humiliation and shame
to a people, whose superiors do not
exist under the blue canopy of heaven,
will be buried in the graves they
have dug for themselves. 1t may be
that in times of great political excite
ment, when they are tossed upon the
rising and falling pillows of the wild
sea of political passion, the people will
condone and apparently endorse such
political peridy; but, rest assured,
when they have reached the dead calm
of sober, deliberate thought they will
rise in their wrath and sweep into
eternal oblivion the perpetrators OF
such a crime against the public well
fare. The fires Of public condemna-
ton will burn into their very souls
the word traitor the n word in
the English language that fittingly de-
scribes the most despicable creature
upon Gods earth.
Party Has a Mission.
at makes ones blood boil to think
OF the indignities and insults that
have been heaped Upon the people OF
this grand young commonwealth dur.
ing the last eight years.
For integrity Of purpose for hon
esty of action, for broad and patriotic
views, the people of this state are mot
surpassed by the people OF any other
state in the union. 1t has the oppor
tunity, it has the disposition, it has
the power and it is the God-given mis-
sion of the republican party by its
every public and private act to sc
stamp with it's disapproval and con
domination the political methods tina
have cost the people of this state sc
much and take such a firm and IN
wavering stand for purer politics and
better government that we will nevel
again hear of the rotten borough O.
the United States or of the saturnalif
Of political corruption in Montana.
Crisis at Hand.
"There comes a time in the life O.
every man, when the very force O
events compels him to retire into hi!
secret closet, or drives him into some
lonely place, where, unseen by hui