The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1916-10-19
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1icipal, that any political party too
org enthroned in power, becomes
lax in its methods of administration,
oareless, Indifferent to it's duties,
| 'avish of public expenditures, over
liberal in providing new offices and
a host of needless deputies and
clerks.
More often than not. the party
long in office becomes corrupt and
wasteful of public funds. It builds
up ap olitical machine to perpetuate
inself in office and ignores the rights
Of the people.
This condition of unrestrained
power, these abuses and vices now
aer pdevalent in the democratic par
i tv in this state. During the last
two democratic administrations the
! creation Of new offices and bureaus,
each with a swarm of deputies and
clerks, has become chronic, and
state officials and understrappeds
have been multiplied, until, as Sen
ator Romney, democrat, we'll says,
that 'the forty vacant Offices in the
Capitol are now filled to overflow
ing, and that if the Stewart admin
istration is continued for another
four years. it will be necessary to
build two more wings to the Capitol
to accommodate the increasing mum
ber of new state employees
Nor is this multiplication of state
employees the only cause for criti-
cism and condemnation of the Stew
art administration. For the first
time in the history of state admin
istrations stain has been put upon
the state. A federal grand jury has
exposed condition OF malpractice
among elected state afticials that
calls aloud for redress and punish
ment. State offices have been COM
mercialized. States offices have been
used as vantage ground to launch
corporations to prey upon the people
and to enrich the pockets of state
officials. They have made merchan-
disc of public Office for their own en-
richment and to the detriment of the
people. There is a regular Tammany
ring organized at the state house for
the same purpose and using the same
methods that have made Tammany
4otorious.
Every day come reports of new
,1licials abuses, until the people have
become suspicious that where so
much of evil is known there must
be many abuses and cases of NAL
administration hidden and unknown
The only way to learn the whole
truth is to elect an entire new set
of officials ardturn the present in
cumbents out SO that thorough in
vestigation can be made into every
department and bureau of admins
tration. 1t is necessary to open the
books and make thorough renova
tion.
The democrats can not fool the
farmers of Montana with this bun
combe that prosperity is attributable |
to democratic legislation Our peo-
pie are far too intelligent to accept
any such doctrine as that.
They realize that the prices they
are getting for their products today
are due to the European war and
that they are getting them in spite
Of, and not through the assistance of
the democratic administration in
Washington
The wool growers Of Montana
have their six-cent wool experience
from the Cleveland regime; the best
growers have vivid recollection of
the collapse of our vast sugar-been
industry under democratic govern
mental theories; the stock growers
have only to look at the market
sheets to see that democratic sue
oesses in national campaigns have
invariably made prices tumble; the
lumber men have had the leanest
days Of their experience under dem
ocratic rule; the mining industry
sutfeder severely in competition with
foreign ores mined by foreign labor.
Our orchards, our grain fields
and our flax industry have reflect
ed the blight of democratic legisla
ton in the influx Of these products
from the vast empire of Western
Canada which adjoins u.s.
Bald statements from imported
democratic campaign speakers,
whose very words betray an utter
ignorance of the conditions in Mon
the Montanan Our people are ia
they realize that if the democrats
in power, the minute the
war is over down will 60 the market
prices until, instead of prosperity
hey will face ruin and distster.
Ml Iu6AcS uldue Spleuulu LII
in Montana. Not only in
he farming and stockgrowing sec
ions was he greeted with the utmost
but in the great labor
,enters like Butte, he found large
audiences which
,heered his utterances and extend I
I'd him tharaughly Montana well
come. One instance will illustrate
It was learned in Billings in the af-
ernoon, that, according to the train ;
schedule, the Hughes party would
lot arrive until midnight. In half
IN hour the people of Billings col 5
ected jackpot of $3.50 and en- {
saged special thain which brought ,
Nr. Hughes into Montana's eastern l
metropolis at seven o'clock, in time
o speak to cheering audience of
1000 people.
There is not doubt in my mind
hat Montana will give Mr.. Hughes
majority. l would not be sur {
'rised to see the republican cleo {
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