The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1923-11-28
MIXING EDUCATION AND POLITICS

the propriety, or otherwise, of the deliverance, last Friday night
at a banquet in this city, of a political speech by Mrs. Peter B.
Olesen, of Mortified, MINI, after she had been invited here to
deliver an educational address to the delegates at a girls voca-I
tional congress.
One can readily picture the astute Democratic politician,
Senator Tom Walsh, laughing behind the palm of his hand at
reading of the rapid-fire address of the lady politician from Mime
sofa who was "gloriously defeated" for public office in her own
state, and who came to Bozeman through the courtesy of the
heads of the vocational congress who invited her here to talk
on educational topics.
Regardless of sex, age, religion or political affIiatiOn, the
spectacle of a defeated candidate for public office in a PARKWAY
state, coming to a purely educational convention, presumably at
public expense, and in which both religion and politics should
be taboo, and injecting, between the acts, so to speak, a decidedly
partisan speech, many months in advance of a political campaign,
is, to say the least about il, very "outre," which, in the vernacular
of the farming population of the country towA from whence Mrs.
Olesen halls, means "out of place."
Picture if you can the terrific import to the nation of her
crushing diatribe, which, by the way, she delivered latter men
tally wondering what she would talk about and then decided to dis
cuss the issues of the coming presidential campaign" and of which
she delivered herself, thuSly: "The Republican party is the re-
dictionary party of the day"
Hooray! And may the shades of Jackson, jefferson, Cleveland,
Tom Taggart. Richard Croker, William F. Murphy, Samuel Inter
meyer, Barney Baruch, Widrow Woolson and all those other
iluStrious "dimmycrats" of dear departed memory, lie still and
u%ndBurbed in their ante-mortum of post-mortum mausoleums.
And so can the ilustrious living Democratic office seekers,
who are "on the outside trying to get in" look well to their
laurels; and the ilustrious Democratic dead look well to their
epitaphs. For here comes the modern lady political aspirant from
Mortified, Mimi, volubly discussing big national issues with just
about as much real inside knowledge and breadth of experience
as one would expect of a youthful congressional page whose only
absorption of craftsmanship is obtained from a daily carrying.
of sealed documents of state from the senate chamber to the
house or "wisa versa"
For the benefit of those several thousand or more Gallatm
county citizens who were absent, for one reason or another, from
the pOitico-educatonal banquet, we publish herewith a few of
those sOulshrrng atrophysims, at which one can either laugh or
grow sad, according to ones view of the estimable lady from Min
nesOta, who, at one time, aspired to a seat in the august body of
the senate of the United States:
"The Republican party is the party responsible for New
berry; for the Fordney- McCumber tariff bill; and the failure of
an international policy that will aid in bringing peace into the
world"
Can vou nicture Nevbarrv bGno horn and raarod under the
malignant wing of the Republican party, which party should be
held responsible for every one of his private or public acts? Can
you picture the farmers of American clamoring, under the Demo-
cratic slogan of free trade" for a repeal of the FOrdney-McCum-
Der tariff law and, therefore, a lower tariff on Chinese eggs, Aus
tralan beef, Canadian wheat, Siberian butter, Russian wool, Ger
man cutlery, Japanese toys and similar foreign, poorly-paidlabor
made and producted articles? Can you picture the people of these
United States throwing down the principles of American non-inter-
ference and non-participatiOn in European entanglements, as laid
down by the immortal George Washington, to take up the peace
policies of Woodrow Wilson, which intended to give England six
votes to Americas one vote in the League of Notions, or Henry
Ford's peace ship proposition, which was intended to get our
soldier boys tout of the trenches by Christmas? ?"
Here is her masterpiece:
"The party of today is the Democratic party. 1t is the pro
gressive party, and 1 hope and pray that at the next convention the
delegates will choose William G. McAdoo as their leader. If they dc
not, then they must choose some man of progressive thought and
action, who will surely carry it on to success and triumphal vic
tory. believe McAdoo is the hope in the next campaign"
She didn't say that this part of her speech was in any way
intended to be educational. Perhaps she introduced it solely OF
the ground that it was informative and instructive, not to say
enightening. We wonder what Republican fathers of vocationa
ture of Mrs. OIesens speech on her educational visit to Bozeman
Here's another good one on the Volstead law and the 18th
amendment to the constitutions:
eff there is anything wrong with the liquor law, please re
member it is not the fault of the Democrats, for the Republicans
are in power and they are responsible for the results"
One wonders if she referred to national or local prohibition
enforcement; and, if so, why, when, how, who and what.
Not to take the entire matter too seriously, the following
conversation, after the banquet, must be recounted:
"Who is this Mrs. Olesen?'
"Oh, she's a lady politician from Mortified. She ran fo
some office or other"