The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1915-05-14

all parts Of the state?
Geographically, Major Edwards has
an enviable residence location. East
ern Montana, with representation in
the senate from the time Montana has
been a state, is now the dominating
factor in population and political in
6uence. Of the thousands of settlers
who have made this their home with
in the past six years, this section has
received the largest part of the in
| aux Of the new counties that have
been placed upon the map, eastern
| Montana has received more than Is
per cent; so that in numerical
strength at the polls in the election
of next year it will rank first over
the older counties of the central and
western portions.
That this section shall be given re-
presentation in the federal senate, will
be the demand of the people who are
expected to furnish the republican vot-
ing strength.
All things considered, Major Ed
wards combines more strength than
any other candidate mentioned. Hav-
ing been a loyal party worker through
thick and thin; having carried the
banner of the republican party when
others were attempting to besmirch
it; having stood for party organization
when reputed leaders deserted and at
tempted to wreck the organization,
his friends justly claim that mas
much as honors are now to be bestow-
ed. that he and his party associates
who remained true and loyal to the
principles of the republican party
are entitled to the honors that party
will have to distribute at the election
of 1916.
It is conceded that the next presi-
dent of the United State swill be a
republican. 1t is also conceded that
the next governor and next United
States senator for Montana will be
republicans. In all fairness, a large
majority of the republicans of Man.
tana also concede that the selection
of these two important officers should
be made from the rank and file of the
republican party, not from the ranks
of the returning prodigals who did all
within their power to install a demo-
cratic administration at Washington
and to destroy the party organization
with which they had been identified
for many years."
The Pioneer Press of Cut Bank in
it's article advancing Hon. Chas. N.
PRAY of Fort Benton for the same
office pays that gentleman the fol-
lowing tributes:
"Charles N. Pray. of Great Falls
has been nominated for United States
Senator on the republican ticket, to
succeed Senator H. L. Meyers. The
nominating introduction has been
made by Dan Milestone of the Cut
Bank Pioneer Press. In issue of last
week in nominating the Great Falls
man the Press says:
"When Charles N. Pray went down
to defeat two years ago, carried out
of public life by a wave of "fussy
radicalism" that swept over the coun-
try and even submerged as sane a
| state as Montana, the Fort Benton
lawyer retired to private life without
a whine or whimper and since that
time has been assiduously devoting
his time and talent to his profession
at Great Falls. The defeat contained
no tinge of public disapproval. Nc
bitter personal fight was made against
him. Even the militant Great Falls
Tribune, in the heat of the campaign
could not allow itself to say a dispar
aging thing about the Benton lawyer
and whenever congressional polite:
was under discussion about the wors
it could muster up was that "Charli'
Pray was all right but was unfortun
ate in his association with the Tai
reactionaries," or words to that eff
feet.