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THE MADISONIAN, VIRGINIA CITY MONT., SEPT. 25, 1914 poims OF THE VAN LOONS yEs 114K1'3 IT: L.---, 131V1 1 1 ISIeT WHAT 010.1.. etIVE. IT'S THE SPIRIT IN irciA , YOU KNOW I HAYS. To BY cRAcE A PftsgMT TOO rr's AWFUL HARD To THINK . OF 10 GET 1MS Siia_ ( .1._ IS MAtilOON, 3 v c -I4 WstAt-TA ITT 54 e_. WoN'r WANT FOR ANNI- v il 4 \ WE ave IT t - Wt wANT ro C;IVE SOMETINNU THAT WILL BE. USEFUL AN o ESEAEFICIAL_ To 1.oTH oF kw , 4 fAND NOT 014 1 -4 FOR 1 - rinea BeiNC: PAJT „SoMIE,TH.NC' THEN reAV ALL TNEAR MARRIEt . ) cl‘G.T seeeerateec:, Ow, /Rea WILL A Lway FtlairlIND TM o oft I llr OkEIGHT AND THOUG HT g Ut-t4E.S,S IN reyiNc To sftit4c: THEM NAPPiNESS At that Father's present was up to Specifications ma, e° ST! JUST THE. Vubliet'a 3Sp tin Chelibabisonia it anOisonOnPublisbin Co. 1 .... ,. --......-..-......,.... ; I\ j'i if ilt. 11 VerffilititteittallSOnt . Ira Cole ' Editor H. M. Colwell Manager Rates of ubscription (The Year $2.50 Six Months . a $1.25 Three Months . . . .........$ .75 Admitted to United States Mail as Second Class Mail, Virginia City, Mont. Introducing Our Gandidates. BRIEFLY THIS WEEK THE MADISONIAN DESIRES to introduce the democratic ticket to the voters of Madison county, although most of them are well known -through having held positions of honor and trust in thl past, while the new candidates have borne excellent reputations as private citi- zens in the Communities in which they now reside. FOR,. MEMBERS OF CONGRESS the two gentlemen who are sacrific- ing their personal and political interests at home in order to'finish the ad- ministration's program before adjOurnment, have been renominated unani- mously for second terms. Judge John M. Evans of Missoula and Editor Tom Stout of The Lewistown Democrat' may have niade minor mistakes during their first term, but on the whole both have pfoved loyal to their Tarty and to their state. Both hive been diligent in attending to the duties of one of the longest sessions of congress in the history of the nation, and both 'deserve election this fall—whether they are able to return or not in time to make a personal appearance before the people of Montana. JAMES M. CLEMENTS FOR SUPREME JUDGE is one of the -most fearless and independent jurists in the entire state. On the district bench in Helena he has served several terms with greet creait to himself, and his ability is unquestioned. J. E. McCORMICK OF BOULDER for stale railwit commissioner is one of the noted hotel men of the state. At Hunter's Hot Springs and at Boulder Hot Springs he has made a state-wide acquainta'nceship, and his In- tegrity is, positive. He has pledged himself to stand with Hon. Jack Hall, the only democratic commiesianer op the railway board, for many reform; which the republican majority has opposed, and which would be of direct benefit to the shippers and other railroad patrons Of Montana. CHARLES C. HILL OF SHERIDAN, for state senator, has served Madison county faithfully as sheriff and as county commissioner. He is a ' man of undoubted ability, and his election means that Madison county in the upper house of the legislature is not to be made a cog in the notorious stand - pat machine owned and controlled by Donlan and Marlow, Lanetrum and Selway. • FOR STATE REPRESENTATIVES the democratic party presents J. A. - MeAllister from the northern - part of the county Ind Charles A. Shen from the southern portion ol' the county. Mr. McAllister is a merchant and ranchman at the enterprising little town which bears his name, while Mr. Shott liyea at Ruby, being foreman of the blacksmith shops at the dredges, andllepresenting the laboring men of Madison county. FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER the democratic party -happily gave representation on the ticket, through Peter Grant, to the tbriVing town of ' Pony, considering that the northern section of Madison county was duly — Citified to represent irtiurren the -heard. - Mr:<Irant-ie it-ranchman near Pony. - is an old-time Oregon Short Line engineer and a man of keen judgment and re executive ability. ITe •` , 1* -Ts f -e good schools, good roads and enconomy of county e•overnment insofar as it is compatible with public progress and public needs. GERALD ,ARNEY OF WATERLOO represents that prosperous section on the democratic ticket, being the nominee for county clerk and recorder. He is a young farmer, popular in his home community, and well qualified to fill the office with the utmost satisfaction to Madison county tax payers. * EVERYBODY KNOWS IpE ADAMS, .:nominee 'for sheriff, Elijah Mains was popular for his many. amiable qualities long before he became under sheriff. Serving with great faithfulness in that capacity, his many friends of all parties two years igo advanced him to one of the most responsible\ positions -in -the -gift of- the people, -his-majorify -being a most handsome one. • - FOR COUNTY TREASURER the democrats have placed in nomination Rodney R. Herndon, a native son and good fellow. He is a self-made young man, of strict 'accountability and will handle the people's money most sat- isfactorily. He is a good office man, and in every way qualified for the position his party would have b1111, having been educated at Wood- land college, Independence,. Mo., and served two years in the National Bank of Comtnerce at Kansas City, Mo., at that time the fifth largest bank' in the United States. FOR COUNTY ATTORNEY the people of Madison county will mike no mistake in electing, Howard P. Beckett, the y(?ung lawyer who moved to this city some months ago to become a law partner of Judge Lew. L. Callaway. Perhaps no county in the state has employed so many young lawyers, who later achieved success,, as has ours., - Mr. Beckett is not officious por pre- sumptuous, and will make a worthy successor to others who have' filled the place—men like Governor Stewart, Judge Callaway, Judge, Clark and Sen= ator Duncan. FOR COUNTY ASSESSOR the likable and unbeatable Harden C: Vin- son has no opposition. He knows his county like a book, and no other county in the state has less complaints at their annual equalization made by the commissioners. FOR COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT people of Laurin presented before the primaries the name of Miss Josie R. McFadden, a young lady of rare charm and ability, and a very successful teacher. She promises to make her permanent office in the county seat, if elected, a great convenience to - school patrons and officials who desire promptness in the dispatch of educa- tional business. • WALTER W. PAYNE OF LYON for county surveyor _needs no recom- mendation to Madison county people e is one of the finest civil engi- neers in the state, and political exigencies alone prevented his appointment to the responsible position of surveyor general of Montana. FOR PUBLIC ADMINISTRATOR the name of Richard Peel, pioneer , hotel man of Virginia City and a long time resident of Madison county, is presented. He is well qualified for the position and his integrity is un- questioned. EMIL HEDRICH OF VIRGINIA CITY has been named for coroner, and is able to fill the bill. He has been in the livery business in the county seat for a long time, while holding the mail and express , contract between Alder and Virginia, which has given him a wide acquaintance with Madi- son county people. THE DEMOCRATIC TICKET, as a whole, presents candidates who will serve the people with credit, and The Madisonian will be pleased to say more in their behalf as the campaign draws to a close. Madison County Progressives. • THE PROGRESSIVE AND INDEPENDENT VOTERS of Madison have had their stronghold in years past beyond the Virginia City hill. Not until last electicn did they align themselves very materially with any independent political organization, when their strength not only proved a surprise to the democrats, but to republicans, as well. 41 , MOST OF THESE VOTERS HAD PREVIOUSLY been republicans, and had tired of the sad condition into which that party had fallen. In both istate and nation leaders of ,the old party had become so arrogant, so.dic- tatorial, and so unobservant of the welfare of the public that the common people rose in revolt, and cut the -republican party in twain. NOT ONLY IN THE NATION BUT IN THE STATE distrust of re- publican leaders and republican platform promises became prevalent. i Montana cast an unexpected progressive vote, and a very large socialist vote, largely in protest against the things for which the republican party stood and other things which its quartet of dictators tried to do. THERE IS NO REASON FOR BELIEVING THAT ANY of these earnest men will return to the old republican party. -In Montana the same quartet of leaders is dominant. The platform dodges many questions, and promises many reforms which no republican legislature would ever dare enact—were the asseinbly to be in controVef Marlow and Lanatrum. Donlan and Selway., There can -be little, under such conditions, which would appeal to progressives this campaign. IN THE MADISON COUNTY STRONGHOLD of the progressive party, north of the capital, there are further reasons why prbgressives should pre- fer to vote the democratic ticket, rather than with their recalcitrant brethren of the standpat party. While the democratic party is in itself pro- gressive, although not so radical as the bull moose, it has been glad to give the northern part of Madison county representation on its ticket. Madison valley people have a democratic holdover commissioner at Ennis. This year the democratic party recognizes the Meadow creek section with a candidate for the lower house, the Waterloo country has .a democratic 'nominee for county clerk, and the Pony -Harrison-Norris secticn has a democratic can- didate for county commissioner. But in all this vast expanse of rich and enterperising terirtory cannot be found - a single republican nominee! And ; in fact, the only northern candidate in, the republice,n primpries suffered de- feat at the hands of his ,rganization. THE REPUBLICANS AND PROGRESSIVES THERE are practically disfranchised from a party standpoint If they desire to. be represented in the legislature and in the court house they will be constrained to vote the democratic ticket complete this year. Pt _ AND UNLESS THE MADISONIAN IS GREATLY MISTAKEN, that's _ just what those people over there—regardless of political ,affiliations—in- tend to do. Two Discredited Issues. his efforts people whose natons were suddenly found in a state of war with the kaiser were cared for as if they were our own. • OTHER ISSUES MAY ARISE IN THE FUTURE, but the Mexican policy of the president and the diplomatic organization of the state depart- ment will not be brought to the fore by republican detractors of the ad- ministration. AND ikflEN THE WEARY AND WORN ARMIES OF EUROPE have the futility of their struggles—the republican press and the republican politicians of this nation wIl find Woodrow Wilson and William Jennings Bryan the foremost apostles of peace, and the two men most Iective in alt the world to bring these happy conditions about. War bears heavily on the sold- ier's .mother. And many a man has a kick com- ing that never reaches him. Suspicion is the fly in the republi- can ointment of Madison county. One way to hold a man's interet is to take a mortgage on his property. ®0 Love's young dream may be all right in its way—but it is only a dream. ----CO Another, hardship the war brings to - America is our loss of importei sardines. Luck has a perverse habit of favor- ing those candidates who -do not de- pend upon it. CC) In just a few weeks now defeated republicans will be laying the blame upon each *other. Don't vote this state into the hands of the Lanstrum and Donlan, Selway and - Marlow machine. CX) — The way for republican candidates to get their expectations to come out right is not to have any. Baseball players players are signing up for the vaudeville season. Republican candidates should take the hint. CO— . Knowledge is power; but many a' man fails of reelection to office be- cause he thinks he knows too much. - The republican republican who supposes he has no chance to win is one of the most accurate supposers of whom we know. Some people are always telling what they 'would do if they had a million dollars, but they wouldn't do anything of the =kind. No doubt some clubs have all the comforts ofa home, but a home with all the comforts of a club would be pleasing to most men. Sir Lionel Lionel Carden has followed Vic- toriano Huerta and Henry Lane Wil- son out of Mexico, and that country is to be congratulated. IT IS A WISE PROPHET WHO CAN TELL today what the -political issues of two years hence or a - year hence—or even a month from now will be. Soon after President Wilson Was inducted into office the standpat press and the much raking' magazines cast about for issues which they thought might beeonte popular and which would discredit him with the people in the congressional and state campaigns of this year, and in the general elections two yenta from now. THROUGH MOTIVES SUCH AS THESE, his secretary of state was ridiculed and maligned from one end of the land to the other. Republican newspapers reeked with intolerant 'criticism of his so-called peace policies, while every diplomatic appointment was assailed—it being foretold how' the national honor would suffer and our foreign business interests would be destroyed through the installation ,of \untrained\ diplomats who were re- placing republican political appointees of many tears' standing. THE MEXICAN POLICY OF WATCHFUL WAITING brought tor- rents of - abuse upon the president's patient head. The jingo republican, press As a result of the American oc- endeavored to 1'f:wee America into war with any or all of the Mexican fac- cupation of Vera Cruz more than $1,- tions—a war at once so cruel and 'so expensive in the loss of life and treas= 000,000 in customs has been turned ure that no one could have predicted its end. None can doubt but what it into the Carranza treasury. 'There would have burdened this nition with an enormous war debt, while'bringi g will be great doings in Mexico for a - n - few days. 03 ------ Charges and counter -charges of atrocities committed are being made by the European combatants. Did they expect such a war to be a picnic excursion? About the time It man is old enough to have acquired fairly good sense he slips up long enough to let the republican party nominate him for some office, to many of our heilnes its awful tax of dead and maimed fathers and sons. NOW THAT ALL EUROPE IS IN THE TERRIBLE THROES of war, republican newspapers have become wonderfully silent. There is no more criticism of President Wilson's policy as to Mexico, the horrors of war now being too painfully „apparent to us—even thongh the oceans lie be- short by war in Europe. It is 1-.9p- tween us and the fields of carnage. The European war, following the peace ed to interest American women in which has at last come to Mexico, shows that President Wilson was riglit and that his traducers were in the wrong. - , AND THOSE WHO SOUGHT TO MAKE SECRETARY BRYAN a vic- tim of their political malice have also been taught a lesson. No longer is his diplomacy sneered at nor the humanitarianism and ability of,his \un- trained\ appointees held up to scorn. In all the hostile capitals of Europe, and even in Japan, these \untrained\ representatives of the state depart- ment not only .have charge of the interests of those governments which have armies in the- field, bht thousands upon thousands of Americans have been given aid and protection in reaching friendly ports. In Germany the son-in-law of our own Marcus Daly has performed wonders, and through CC) Judging by the brand of British poetry inspired by the war thus far, it might .not be a bad plan to or- ganize a company of the rhymesters and put it in the lead of the next assault upon some invulnerable fort. CX) ---00 -Southern women are planning a \cotton show\ to develop interest in that grand 'product of many states, the demand for which has been cut cotton apparel. Some sense to that idea. —CC) The rivers and harbor bill has been a species of graft with the republican party ever since the civil war, when- ever that party controlled congress. Now that 'Most of \the pork\ has been cut out, republican newspapers point with pride. Had there been anything in it for them their stand on the oeestion would have been far differ- ent. Why is a republican? 00 There are a lot of family trees that need spraying. Every politician is the herb of his own pipe dreams. CO Many a bluffing man has a wife - who can call the hieff. CO * It's the easiest thing in the world to bear the ills we haven't. - 7 - 00 Some people never enjoy good health, even when they have it. 00 Montana prosperity is reflected this week by the state fair it Helena. CC) There is ilways a chance to learn, 'except from a standpat politician. The kaiser and the republican par- ty seem to have a fat chance this yeaf. • The man who stutters has ,one ad- vantage; he never speaks before he' thinks. ' --CO— • The average man is always butting in, and adding to his collection of enemies. CO-- • We would rather be right than be' chairman of a republican central committee. Most republican candidates this - year will fail to believe they got just what they deserved. --CO--- • Will. in Europe is just one damned battle after another, paraphrasing the old maxim about life. Beware of the yellow peril! Chink athletes are already in training for the Olympics of 1920,. O'Connor's Weekly wants to exile the kaiser to St. Helena, First, catch your kaiser, T. P. 05 There is every evidence that the, republican party of Madison county is determined to commit . suicide. In- terment, November 3rd. • The foreign demand for American products is bound to come, and with it prosperity will bless this nation. Then we'll hear a lot of croakers talk about \democratic luck.\ Those republican newspapers which grieved because they thought the democratic party in congress would tax freight transportation were scared before they were hurt. Gloom - Gloom thicker than limburger cheese pervades the republican candi- dates in Madison county. Even this early in the campaign they realize that they are foredoomed to defeat. CC) A republican exchange demands' that the \administration 4 strengthen- our army.\ With the foreign demon- stration of what war means this po- litical jingo simply reverts to his' party type. --CO Nine hundred million, people are now bound by the Bryan peace treat- ies, and millions more will see the - beauty and the practicability of the colonel's theories .wherte,this terrible - war is over. CO The Billings Gazette, eastern Mon- tana organ of the standpat state ma- chine, seldom hesitates to sneer at the progressive party. That's one- way of getting the bull moosers back' into the fold. Imports are few, if not entirely negligible, from the war zone. And yet republican ranters are abroad in the hind blaming conditions upon \the nefarious democratic tariff.\ Is there little wonder that a party with such hypocritical exponents is completely down and out so far as the confidetce of the people are concerned? 00 (4dditional editorial on Page
