Yellowstone monitor., 1914-10-01
eY SENATOR I. J. WALSH.

will be detained in Washington on
official duty throughout the greater
part of the ensuing campaign. No
one here ventures to predict when ad-
journment will occur or that there
will be any adjournment. Their an
tagonists will be addressing the people
daily asking the retirement of Messrs.
Evans and Stout, who must content
themselves with long distance appeals
or abandon the post to which stern
duty assigns them. Fortunately, their
record will plead, trumpet tongued, in
their behalf with the discerning voters
of Montana. l essay to review it for
the information of those interested,
dwelling first upon some consideration
of an impersonal nature.
President Wilson has undoubtedly
made profound impression upon the
country, which has generally approved
his attitude concerning great national
questions, and indorsed the measures
and policies with which his name is
linked. He enjoys in the highest de-
gree the public confidence. A very
general faith prevails in his wisdom,
his patriotism and his leadership. His
devotion to the public service, un-
shaken by narrowing domestic Attic
tion, resolutely purposeful that neither
he nor the congress shall be turned
awry with important work undone, has
enkindled in the public mind warm
admiration and deep-seated attach
ment.
Appreciation is Earned.
The president has richly earned the
appreciation of our people; it can be
expressed in but one way, namely, by
the reelection of the present members
of congress who have cordially sup
ported him at all times in his efforts
to bring peace and prosperity to this
nation and justice to its people.
A just resentment may be felt at an
effort to foist upon state congress
sional representative without sufficient
merit of his own to prompt his selec-
ton merely because he happens to
belong to the party of popular pres
ident. 1t is very Indifferent recon-
mendation to assert that the candidate
will vote for the policies and in ac-
cordance with the desires of any pres
ident. When the candidate has been
tried and not found wanting, the ap-
peal may very legitimately be made
to afford fair opportunity to the chief
executive with friendly congress to
prove the wisdom of the policies he
advocates, and to express approval of
them so far as they have been de-
veloped.
Those who indorse the achievements
of the present administration and the
course of the most conspicuous figure
in it, will express their appreciation
by voting for Evans and Stout, those
who believe the wisdom and success
of what has been done and entered
upon, are still problematical, ought to
be quite willing to give free hand
until by trial the truth shall be demon
strated; those who unqualifiedly con-
denim will, Of course, vote to hamper
as far as possible the further pursuit
of the policies to which the admins
tration has shown attachment, looking
to restoring the old order Of things
which it displaced, or substituting
something yet untried represented by
a party without history.
An argument adroitly, but not inef-
fectively used In the past in support
of the candidates of our opponents en-
couraged the selfish desire to be in
harmony with the party in power-ad-
vancing that the state could secure
much more If its representatives were
politically allied with the dominant
party and thus in favor with the ex-
ecutive branch and the majority in
congress. It never appealed to me, as
addressed to high type of citizen
ship, or as contemplating an exalted
ideal of the franchise. If it has any
merit, it offers an added reason why
the Democratic candidates should be
elected as there isn't chance that the
majority of LAT in the
house can fade away, and none who
are informed see any prospect of a
change in the complexion of the sem
ate as a result Of the ensuing election. |
Most of the Democratic members of |
that body from the north and west are
now in service. Practically all the
majority members whose terms are ex-
Diring are from the south.
Too much stress cannot be laid, how
ever, other things being equal, on the |
Importance of continued service in the
1ouse. A member, and through him
he state he represents, is ordinarily
influential in direct proportion to the
period of his service. The career Of
brilliant men like Martin
.ittleton Of New York or Charles Lit