The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1922-10-18

you find a Kenyon? Do you find a Fighting
Bob LaFollette? Do you find a Capper, a Ladd, al
.Brookhart, and one like that peerless progressive,
Albert Beveridge? There is only one
in the United States senate that is num-
Oered with the new progressiveism, and that is
David /. Walsh of Massachusetts, and not
Senator Walsh of Montana.
Where we find one progressive leader in the.
Democrat party we will find a score in the Repub-
lican party.
The senator made himself ridiculous to all
thinking men and women in his derising Of Con-
gresham Riddick. He drew a tragic picture of the
Millionaire Club in Washington, sometimes called
the United States senate. He made a solemn de-
scription of how the galleries would look down
upon the senate and pick out the discredited ones,
and lamented how the senate would be disgraced
by the election of Mr.. Riddick, whom he charged
had never achieved anything since coming to Mon
tana, while Mr.. Wheeler was a great lawyer, a
fighter, and had won his way to success.
No doubt but that the old English lords, looking
over that immortal gathering of patriots who
wrote the Declaration of American independence,
and seeing no royal blood among them, Haunted
in the faces of those patriotic founders of this
republic: "You are unworthy, because you do
not wear the purple of your master, the king
Such is the insinuation of the millionaire gazers
in the galleries at the national capitol.
1t has been the doctrine of our free and liberal
democracy, that the common man, no matter what
humble station in life, may aspire to any office
within the gift of the people.
If we have a bunch of toadies in Washington
who cater to the Millionaire Club, the sooner we
get rid of such snobbery the better for America
The question with the senator seems to be
that MIR. Wheeler is more fitted to occupy a seat
IN the Millionaire Club than Mr.. Riddick, because
Mr.. Wheeler has accumulated wealth, that he
would grace the chamber more brilliantly, and be
more attractive to the elite in the galleries.
Who ever heard of Mr.. Wheeler being more thar
a good lawyer. He knows absolutely nothing
about the economics of civilization, and what lit
tie he knows about the farmers problems h,
learned from the Nonpartisan league, but if al
reports are true, he has even deserted the nobl
men and women who were loyal to him two YEAR
ago.
MIR. Riddick began in Montana, as a farmer
a dry-lander, if you please. He was elected as
SCISSOR of Fergus county, made an honorable rec
ord, ran for congress and was twice elected.
He has a fine record, as senator Walsh admitted
in giving prompt attention and service to his cor
~stituents at home.
There are thousands of worthy men ON I'll
farms in Montana, who no doubt, would max
line senators-for the common people|but in tn
opinion of Senator Walsh would not be a credi
in the eyes of the gazers in the galleries.
Such a reason given by Senator Walsh. apains
Mr.. Riddick is only an appeal to the false nrid
of the over-rich, and is not good old America
doctrine.
All the progressives in the Republican part
STAND against Newberryism, and they also believ
Chat even though a man is poor, but possessin
good moral character and good common sense h
mas the right to a seat in the highest body in tn
parliamentary government, the gallery gazers Z
washington to the contrary Notwithstanding.