The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1908-04-17
STATE PRESS

STATE PRESS COMMENT.
The endorsement given Mr.. Bryan
by the democratic state central. COM
might have been stronger, but
then it was better than none at ALL
Helena Record.
Tennessee has put the Standard OIL
company out Of business within her
1t is liable to be dark in
for the moonshiners don't
make kerosene.--Missoulian.
At a meeting Of the Billings Cham
Der Of Commerce the other evening
there were over 100 bushes and pro-
fessional men in attendance. Guess
that is going some.-Missoula Herald.
Caad,r ccrnEc!!s tue admis3lca tina
the Coming Thro' the Rye" girls
look prettier when dancing on the
stage than when chewing ham sand
wiches in a Observation-Disclosures
Standard.
For the first time in his life Mark
Twain displays a selfish streak; just
because he has quit making a noise,
he wants everybody else to. But he
will have opposition as long as w. ].
Bryan lives.-Missoulian. e
When the president, his term ex-
pred, goes hunting big game, It is
doubtful II he finds anything bigger
than he has bagged in the last two
years; there Is the Standard OIL. fol
instance; that was big game.-Mis-
soulian.
This spring will be a most oppor-
tune time to Plant trees AMI shrub
berry. Let every citizen help make
this Il city beautiful, thereby contrtbul!
ing to Ills own comfort, enhancing the
value of his property and making. the
towr attractive & ~homeseekers. Why
not put: together for the common
~good?-Westerns News.
0~5 5As
The Northern Pacific Railway COM
pany has shown to the people of Mon
tana that 1t has a soul even If it is a
watered corporation. The people OF
Big Timber are rejoicing over the an
nouncement Of the Northern Pacific
that the latter will pay 50 cents on
the dollar Of the loss sustained by the
former In the fire which swept over
that town a few weeks ago.-Missoula
Herald.
This Taft business is bad all the
way through. There's a town named
"Taft" over in Missoula county that
is causing the ministerial association
and the county officials all kinds OF
trouble. 1t is run by the saloon ele.
ment at present and apparently those
in power are making a sorry mess OF
it. The republican party ought to
take warning and fight shy Of Taft
Dawson County Review.
We may look for all sorts Of silly
stories to be set aloat about q rusn
Of women towards Panama as the re
suit Of the ofacial announcement thai
there are husbands down there for al
the women who can be induced to &c
there. They are doing better going
there after good husbands among the
canal diggers than rushing OF to Eu
rope after petty princelings and de
crepit dukes.-stevensvile Register.
Never mind the knockers. Boost
every enterprise Of q public nature
which tends to improve the town in
any way. Don't show the white
feather. No project was ever vel
launched in any community without
the hoarse voice Of the croaker being
heard, decrying the efforts Of those
who were working for the benefit Of
all the citizens. It was ever thus, and
when the public-spirited citizens o.
any community give up the fight and
succumb to the bellyachers, then. viii
stagnation come.-Whitefish Pilot.
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Some of the Billings newspaper!
are exceedingly wroth at the action o
the Yellowstone county board Of com
missioners in appointing a democra
as to James T. Webb, tn,
murdered sherif, they maintaining
that inasmuch as a majority Of tn
board was OF the republican faith
member of the g. o. P. should hav'
been given the coveted plum. In fac
a good many of the rank and file o
the party seem pretty sore over tn
matter, which forbodes considerably
bushwhacking In this falls election
Forsyth Journal.
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