Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1904-10-26
CONGRESSMAN Dixon ADJ
DRESSES A BIC Audience
Working rlember of Congress, E. w. King
and Candidates Cunningham and Harmon Ac-
complish Great Good in Fergus County Tour.

then and there enunciated a new prin-
ciple in governmental affairs when
they said that all government was of
the people, for the people and by the
people, in utter defiance of the com.
blned experience Of all mankind for
six thousand years previous TO that
time that no government could be
successful unless IL had for its cor
nerstone the old dogmas of kingcraft
and priesthood. These men from the
little handful of struggling colonies
that framed the shores of the Allan.
tic ocean formed the great republic
of the western world. We, with our
added experience from that time have
grown from three million to eighty
million souls, and that which was
then emblematic of a weak. struggling
republic among the great nations of
the world, today. ladies and gentle
men. is the symbol of the mightiest
republic that the world has ever seen:
and with 125 years of history behind
us, the %proudest record in the pages
OF history since mankind was created,
we, the descendants of that little band
of patriotic men. are assembling at
this time to go into the great quad
rennial conclave among ourselves to
determine what men and measures
shall guard this great republic.
We enter the present campaign.
ladies and gentlemen. under peculiar
conditions, such as the country has
probably not seen since the settle
ment of the great civil war in 1865.
Everywhere all over the country, men
this year are profitably employed al
good wages in the mines, mills. smell.
ers and on the railroads, while mother
earth has just yielded TO the hand
of the industrious ~husbandman one Of
the most prolific crops in the history
OF the world. So far as foreign rela
tons are concerned. there is not a rip
pie on the surface nor a cloud in the
shy; mere at home peace and pros
perity among all of the people.
| want to try and briefly and hon.
estly discuss the questions Of the can
paign with you here in Lewistown to-
night. | believe a man in public life
the same as in private life, has got to
be honest in his statements and avoid
telling untruths; that he has got 10
play the game as fairly In the polit.
ical field as he has in the private
business of life, or in the long run
he is going to meet with disaster.
And in my talk with you here tonight
II | make any statements, ladies and
gentlemen. that do not meet with
your appreciation, If ! say anything
that you do not believe is borne out
by the cold facts in the case, | shall
not feel offended should any gentle
man call me down on any proposition
that | shall advance this evening.
Party Aims Are Similar.
| want to say to you. Republicans
and Democrats alike. that | believe
the present campaign. so far as the
two great parties are concerned, has
less of difference in the platforms Of
the two parties than any presidential
campaign that we have seen i'm the
last half century of this country. Now,
| am not n of those men. ladies and
gentlemen, that believes that all good
ness and all wisdom and all virtue Is
wrapped up in n church or religious
creed. | believe that my neighbor
and friend. acting under the best light
at his command, can go to church OH
Sunday and affiliate with the best COL,
gregatIon and worship God as well as
! can. or better than | do; | believe
that he can go into the voting booth
and cast his ballot with a different
political party than that with which
| affiliate, and be just as honest, pa
;rIotic and moral as | ever a ur
hope TO be in the future. | believe In
that free spirit that should animate all
men to fight that which Is wrong and
do that which Is right. | believe diff.
ferences In politics and religion come
from The different aspects from which
We view a proposition. +" y
So far as | am personally concerned,
as the years have gone ny and | have
met my fellow countrymen in open
and fair discussion OF the political is.
sues Of The day, | think | have become
more liberal in my own political opin-
ions. do not believe any political
organization is perfect; | do not be-
lieye a perfect thing has existed on the
face of the earth; possibly 1t may
have been the Ten Commandments
but | doubt whether, outside of that,
any code of morals or political actions
have ever existed that did moi need
amendment or change. When we talk
Of u Populistic friends of Ter years
ago, we sometimes refer to them as
"hair-brained cranks." do not be.
lieve it. ladies and gentlemen. While
many of the things that party adyO.
there was much truth in their argu.
ments and platforms. After being
thoroughly threshed out and the
wheat winnowed from the chat, some
of the things that our Populistic
friends advocated and fought for ten
, ears ago. and which we thought were
ahead Of time and absolutely impracli'
cable, have been finally accepted by
the two great parties of this country
as political truths. When We have
become more developed. when we
have evoluted from the animal into
the spiritual. when IL has become the
rule of action among men to do unto
, ciners as We would that they should
do unto you. possibly some Of the doc
times of our Socialistic friends will
be accepted. and The 'irridescenl
dream" as we call il today. will be
come an actual fact. ! merely recite
this TO show that no political party
combines all the political wisdom OF
this country: no party ever has.
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/, Corporations Control Democracy.
We have heard a vast deal about
the fight for supremacy between the
great copper companies of Silver Bow
!; county. as TO whether Mr.. HeinZe ant
the United Copper company OF In,
I Amalgamated Copper company. o.
Senator Clark and his copper com
[ bany, were going 10 control the courts
and state government Of Montana
These men for the past eight year.
have been at each others throats ant
have accused each other Of ever,
4 crime in the whole category. r~pacnin,