Yellowstone monitor. [volume] (Glendive, Mont.) 1905-1928, 1912-09-12

3aass hamilton
Oe'seNe'i y hanging on princes favorx
and IN catering 70 the chosen few
N IFS best human nature IL xast
The cares 1T the world and the o.
fulnesS of riches ofttines stiaa $50
ous Impulses. Great crises ara -.
sary 10 awaken many men ~ So.
sense OF duty Ii was because !
Thought crisis IT, lie MT hand tb.t
-FOUR Years az" | made the Statement.
that NJ per cent Of the people of tnai
ana were Democrats nj hear. &C.,
though they did not know II nv,
enlarge that statement and declare
that Nd per cent OF the entire canntrr
believe IN the historic Democracy ~
Thomas jefferson This cananaier i,
going TO rid the Democratic partv Of
every man who does not believe in i+s
principles and is going to add TO tho
party's ranks. nope. every man who
does believe In them.
Men have allowed their personal In
terests. ambitions and preiudieas ~
sway their political conduct. and ron.
sequently this great body of American
citizens. thinking alike and feeling
alike at heart. has never been united
under one banner to fight for the com.
mon rights OF common humankind
The strength OF those determined RI
give every man his chance i'm life. nm
hampered and unaided by legislative
enactment. and TO strike down every
species Of special privilege inuring to
the benefit Of few; OF those like
minded IL their view that government
Ii g necessity and not a luxury and
that business should have it's large on
portunity for success. but that this
government was made for men. not
corporations; for principles not inter
ests. aud Of those with sufficient euttr--
age and fortitude to drive the money
changers from the temple OF our ma
Gional life. has been impoverished by
assertions due to personal interests.
ambitions and prejudices.
Time For Patriotism.
This campaign calls upon some for
justice. upon others for charity. upon
all for patriotism. 1t does not call for
the bandying Of epithets nor for an
appeal TO the personal We may safe
II leave TO that seniIe dementia which
has seized the SO called Republican
party the personalities of this cam
paign. Its unfitness to rule the repub
lie Is disclosed by its inability to keep
its temper. It was cohesive so far as
its leadership was concerned while it
was engaged in footing the public. but
even its leaders are now disorganiZed
while quarrelIng over the loot AS for
the party's bosses. the improper intu
ences In American political life are
about equally divided between them.
swords with Boss Finn. and their
charges and countercharges disclose
greatness only when we apply Elmer
sons statement. Consistency In the
hobgobiin of little minds"
How comes 1t that we have reached
life that the party In power is rent In
twain, that boss Is charging boss with
knavery. crookedness and dishonesty
and that each faction In claiming an
exclusive patent upon honesty anu
patriotism while avowing that the sue
cess of the other would spell Irrepara
Bile ruin for the republic! And. more
particularly, how comes this to pass
under Republican system OF govern
ment consisting Of coordinate branches
10 which were ceded By the people
none of their inalienable rights. but
only such powers as were thought 10 De
needful to redress the wrongs. pre-
serve the rights and keep unshackled
the moral. intellectual and physical
forces OF mankind?
Though d majority or the people
have been voting the Republican ticker
and have been assuming thereby that
the majority would rule. the disgrace
ful but purifying scenes which have
been enacted recently In Republican
conventions disclose that large mum
her of those who have been voting the
Renublican ticket are Democrats at
heart These scenes disclose fnFther
that we have been mistaken in some 81
our conclusions touching government
i'm America We have yielded qule'
assent to the proposition that major
itv Is all powerful and that minority
has 40 rights which a majority II
bound to respect But now we Emo"
that the theory of the historic Demo
cratic party-that it is the right OF
ma toritv TO rule, but only within con
atituf;onal limitations and without me
usnrpation of a single inalienable right
of q single individuai-is correct
Majority a Minority.
It In only when majorities thus RUE
that governmental machines move
without friction. The right OF ma
;ority to thus rule must always DC
conceded. wonder however. II II
has dawned upon the sober second
thought of this people that t u possi
BILE for a majority TO be q minority
IL feazElhER Tor II