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THE MADISONIAN, VIRGINIA CITY MON ' T., GOT. 2, 1914 00134 2 itilbable0111411 tinat)toontanp ¢. • 1 )0,11.ND: b y - t e i be bing Th Admitte 2 ,... i .. ; „ k „,........z..,..:, 4 _---- ,..,, .,-...,- - ;-7F - - - - --- A .. eop,i.,' 4 , 1\ .....„,„. . L. j ..../, ; ...ti_.., , . j e•'• th ,._ . ,:'•e, ,,,:, 'i / r I I IW aCitudf1Sont. Jra Cole • Editor H. M. . . . .... Manager Rates of Subscription One Year . Six Months $2.30 $1.25 Three Months $ .75 ited States Mail as Second Class Mail, Virginia City, Mont. Typical Standpatter. THE HONORABLE JOHN DAUTERMAN, republican nominee for county' Commissioner, Is typical of his party as it is now Constituted in Mad- ison county. Now, The nadisonian isn't going to abuse Hon. John, for its editor rather enjoys the old fellow and would like to see him happy where :he belongs --and that is not in any public office of importance. • IN THE FIRST PLACE; HON. JOHN' was selected as the republican candidate' because' it was known by those -in control of the party that he would \stand hitched.\ lion. John detests everything not labeled with the G. 0. P. brand—and his kind of republicanism is of the old school. A demo- crat has no rights which a republican should respect, is a doctrine firmly imbedded in the Hon. John. A progressive should be stood up against the wall and shot at sunrise. Of course, this may be putting it a little strong, but Hon. John would -deliver the 'goods—to republicans only—in case he .should be elected. ANOTHER REASON HON. JOHN WAS SELECTED was for the pur- pose of humiliating County Commissioner Charles Kyle. Those who engi- neered the deal, and the republican organization in Virginia City wasn't far from the engine house, knew that Mr. Kyle could not be \handled.\ but their venom even went so far as to induce him to again become a candi- date, so that they might knife him at the polls and mortify him in the eyes of his friends - by, defeating him with a candidate of the moss back type. ALTHOUGH COUNTY COMMISSIONER KYLE has made a good, conscientious official, and is very generally admired throughout the county, no word of praise has ever been sounded for him by his party organ. In fact, that paper—representing the views of its owners, no doubt—has man- handled 1V. Kyle quite mercilessly at times when he refused to let someone else do his thinking for him. However, Mr. Kyle filed his nominating peti- tion—he had made a good officer, he was considered by everybody regard- less of politics as a loyal reptiblican, and the least that his party could dec- ently do for him—were that party not absolutely under ring rule—was to give him the nomination he aspired to, and then let the people pass upon his official record.at.the..polls. And although the democratic party has a strong candidate, The Madisonian is free to admit that had Mr. Kyle been nominated against Mr. Grant, it would sure have been some hoss-race, with the best vote -getter under the wire first. For Commissioner Kyle is a broad-minded, progressive and intelligent man—so considered by the people, and appreci- ated as such by 'everybody save the rulers and wielders of the double-cross iri his own party, THAT THE REPUBLICAN PARTY in,hladison county is retrograding, is indicated when a man like Kyle is deposed to make room for a manlike Dauterman. For it is some intention of ours to talk more about Hon. John. HON. JOHN DAUTERMAN .IS A RANCHMAN, owning 240 acres of the - richest valley land adjacent to the enterprising, little town of Alder. Having one of the finest location's in the finest county of the finest state of the finest country in all this world, being well provided with reasonable wealth to keep the wolf from his door and to pay bounty on wolves at other folks' doors should he so desire, one might naturally think that he would be an optimistic, progressive citizen. BUT WHEN ONE BEGI,NS TO COGITATE on what people should be, instead of what they are. \then we would like to hear a joint debate between Hon. John and the present county superintendent on the rural school ques- tion,\ as Potash and Perlmutter might say. IT MIGHT BE REMEMBERED that last winter an attempt was made to consolidate the Alder, Ruby, Taylor and Laurin school districts into one, building a central school house affording ri-full high school course, and by means of conveyances paid for by the districts take the children to the new building in the merning and returning them home at night. Strange to say, the proposition was defeated, and the one man who did more than any other to prevent the children of his home district and those adjoining from having • high school privileges was the Hon. John Dauterman—now republican can- didate for county commissioner, and the reactionary citizen used to humble County Commissioner Charles Kyle. ON AUGUST I, 1914 1, THERE WERE more than 2,000 of these con- solidated rural schools in the United States, and the number is increasing rapidly. The whole idea, as in the Ruby -Alder-Laurin -Taylor proposition, is that one efficient school emrffnyins at least five teachers as this one would have done much better than four inefficient one. In this respect The Sat- urday Evening Po.,t, tit idea editGrially, says: \Experience shows that'the cost is 'usually - not trwh frven+ er and often is less.\ Schooling up to the clty standard is something every farmer and every resident of the country village might reaonably demand for his children, and something he can have in every well settled region if he insists upon it. Short-sightedness or stinginess is the only excuse for inefficient schools in such communities. TETE PROPOSED CONSOLIDATION was ideally suited . for such a worthy purpose. Eminent speakers from Stevensville, where a school of this kind is being successfully and econ,omically conducted, and from the state agricultural college spent a day in Alder in behalf of the idea, hoping that Madison county would set the pace and that consolidated rural schools would spring up as a result in every thickly settled community in Montana. BUT HON. JOHN DAUTERMAN PLEADED extravagance, 'he \threw a scare\ into others, and aided by a few who had no interest in Madison county eduCation, enough votes were mustered to defeat the prop- osition. THE'SCHOOL FUNDS ARE THE LARGEST of all in the county. Mr. Father and Mrs. Mother, do you want the Hon. John Dauterman handling them? Do you want his antiquate ideas, his morbid inclinations against growth and progress to _weigh like an incubus upon the Madison county school system? AND THEN THERE IS THE ROAD QUESTION. - Under the present system \thereis never enough money for road requirements, nor will there ever . be. However, that is not. the fault of the county commissioners. They must spread out the inadequate road funds as best they can. We believe that Mr. Kyle acted upon this theory, but his own party—through manipu- lations in Virginia City—defeated him with a man who does not believe in good roads he has no occasion to use, even when the improvements do not cost him anything. re\ WHAT MADISON COUNTY CITIZEN does not remember the half mile mudhole extending from the Alder depot towards Ruby, on the road to the county seat? Realizing that the county road funds, as apportioned by districts, would never be able to make this so-called \road\ passible in wet or wintry weather, a number of citizens of whom Lew Dudley was the sieving spirit, sought to rectify the Matter. The county helped what it could, the commissioners loaning their machinery; people donated teams and labor, and those who did not have either subscribed in cash. And now, lead- ing for' a half mile from the terminal depot is a finely graveled road, so far as we know the only •F ttetch of permanently built road in Madison county. HON. JOHN -DAUTERMAN, REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE for county cernmissioner, fought this permanent road proposition al' Augh it is in his own county and his own precinct. For the Hon. John lived on the other side of the river, and at that time never, had dreams of driving to the county seat. as • a, public official. ROAD FUNDS ARE NOT LARGE ENOUGH for half the de- mands made upon them. Does the Madisen county voter want to trust the Hon. John, feeling as he evidently does tolitaxds. good reads, with a judic- ious expenditure of these funds? AS WAS SAID EARLY IN THIS EPISTLE to the Ephesians, we like the Hon. John—as a private citisen. We are for him first, last and all the time—as such. But the duties of ka county commissioner are so diversified that men of great executive ability only are able to make good. THE COUNTY COMMISSIONER WHO HAS a full conception of his public duties must be fairend impartial, liberal in many expenses and close- ly economical in others, and with a mind able to grasp the thousand -and -one things his office demands. TIIAT'S WHY HON. JOHN DAUTERMAN won't do. He is a poor substitute for , Charlie Kyle, and he would be a handicap to the progressive policies of County Chairman Chowning and County Commissioner Paige. They Have No Issues. USUALLY IN OFF-YEAR ELECTIONS the minority party, no matter which one that' may be, is able to make some headway upon concerted issues. Going before the people united and well organized, aided by earnest cam- apign speakers and an enthusiastic press, the minority Party has frequently reversed the situation and at election time found itself once more to be in the majority. BUT NO SUCH BRILLIANT HOPES ARE HELD FORTH for the re- publican party this good year of 1914. In times past the house of represen- tatives has changed political convictions in the first election following a presidential canvass. And early in the life of this congress it seemed that there might be a loss in democratic membership, but all the indications now rre that there will be fewer republican representatives after next March than ever before. THE NATIONAL REPUBLICAN PARTY IS NOT UNITED this cam- paign. It has no issue. It does not know how to present itself to the pub- lic with any chance to be believed. In fact, it is stated that this once pow- erful political organization—who , e biennial campaign book was larger than the ordinary bible—will let each republican candidate for congress shift for himself, and do for hmself what he may. WASHINGTON DISPATCHES SAY THAT NO SUCH BOOK will be printed this year. So fair, so sane, so equable has the Wilson administra- tion been with all classes of people, high and low, rich and poor, there has been no cause for complaint. Malefactors have been punished, it is true, but those walking on the narro.v ledge of unfair dealings, either with the people or the government, have been warned to discontinue questionable methods. -And s'o justly has the president dealt o& -all issues, backed by his party, that on nearly - every roll call in both house and senate occasional republican members have broken from their party manacles and voted for those things the administration proposed. TIME AFTER TIME HAVE REPUBLICANS voted with the adminis- tration. There has been no concerted plan, no factional republican fight. It was simply an admission that the republican party no longer stood for any great moral or economic issue, and that Woodrow Wilson and his party were endeavoring to enact legislation for the greatest good to the greatest number of a patriotic though cosmopolitan people. THE THOUGHTFUL AMERICAN CITIZEN admires the schoolmaster president. The thoughtful American citizen would do nothing to subvert the 'chief magistrate's plans for making this a better country in which to live,and a greater country of which all might be proud. The thoughtful American citizen knows that it is more consistent to send as his representa- tives to congress men who will always vote for the president's policies, rather than to Send men who will only support the president upon rare oc- casions—opposing him in the greater number of instances. HENCE THE REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE for congress is like unto a man shipwrecked on a desert rock in the political seas. Ile thinks of noth- ing, cares for nothing, but himself. His ideas are hazy. His principal thought of humanity extends only far enough to hope that someone will save him, somehow. IF THERE BE NO ISSUE MA _THESE...CANDIDATES, whet excuse have they for running? Why do they pose as \the people's friend,\ when the true friend of the people is the democrat in congress who helps make his president a powerful and just and upright instrument for the public wel- fare? It must be nice to be a ;congressman, even a republican one. The salary is entirely adequate, and there are a few perquisites which tend to aid one's purse, and there are a, few occasions to get in the calcium light which keeps one's vanity from going to seed. But for the republican con- gressman these things are the summum bonum. Ile can do nothing for his people, and his ultimate activities end in his blocking the wheels cif progress. THESE SAME THINGS ARE TRUE, in a measure, when it comes to state offices. Take the present associate justice, for instance. He hap served one term—or is it two? He is a very estimable man, perhapa a little vain, and certainly \a poor mixer.\ All his life he has been a republican. In fact, he is asking for another erection as a republican and is one of the lead- ers on' that ticket. As a lawyer and a judge he is capable enough. But an a man who probably voted for, William H. Taft, who probably admires such grand old republican leaders as Cannon and Crane and mayhap when they were alive followed the leadership of Mark Hanna and Matthew Stan- ley Quay, have exactly the trend of mind as to political economy which would bring the common people close to his heart and the progressives ideas of these latter ye‘.rs on an even basis with his life time conservatism? Mind you, we are not criticizing the republican candidate for supreme judge. We are simply wondering whether or not his ideals coincide with the ideals of the people walls whom he must deal justly. In other words, is not the democratic candidate—Judge J. M. Clements of Helena—more nearly abreast of \the times, the customs and the people?\ IF ENVIRONMENT COUNTS FOR ANYTHING, and we believe it does, the republican candidate for railway commissioner has not made good and does not deserve another term He is a practical railroad man. When he was in the ranks he had smypethy both with his fellows and the shippers with whom they dealt face to face. No doubt of that. But as he ad- vanced in railroad authgrity his views evidently changed, and much sym- pathy for the shipper or the passenger was lost. And when he was chosen state railway commissioner, at first haying two republicans on the board with him and later but one, the 'old fashioned railway official's belief that the transportation companies were generally right and their patrons were generally wrong might have followed him. At any rate, it is widely believed that the republican railway commission has proved inadequate, and that it has dealt more leniently with the common carriers than with the common people. There is one democrat on the board who asserts that the state rail- way commission is not livng up to its requirements, and for this reason— and certainly a member of the board should know—he wants another demo- crat on the board so that many desired reforms may be brought about. The democratic commissioner, Hon. Jack Hall, also is a practical railroad man. But he left the road before his instincts as to justice had been warped, and bad he another man in sympathy with him on the board, substantial benefits might accrue to the people without unfair dealing to the public util- ities of Montana. BARRING ONE OR TWO EXCEPTIONS in favor of the democrats, as to rival county tickets, the nominees were never so well balanced as to in- tegrity and ability. And with these exceptions, no dire calamity would come to old Madison county were the whole bunch elected. But here again we have two classes of men. One is liberal, the other is conservative. The democratic nominees believe in progress, in the \New Freedom,\ in President Wlison and Secretary Bryan, in the cutting away of red tape and deadly precedent on the supreme bench, in justice to the common people as well as justice for the common carrier, and for the same service in the county court house for the man who only pays a poll tax as for the one who pays his thousands. WHILE ON THIS OTHEROTHER 1AI4D, with one or two oxceptions, the re- publican nominees are standpatters still. They are not in sympathy with the president, they will work for two congressmen Who will help balk ad- ministration plans, they believe that the Donlan-Lahstrum and Marlow-Sel- way state machine should be perpetuated and they will vote fdi state and and legislative candidates favorable to this unholy combination. They are. out of tune and out of touch, insofar as their political training and point of view is concerned, with the vast majority of Madison county people. THEN COMES THE QUESTION—What are the people of Madison county going to do on November 3rd? Are they going to vote—from con- gressmen to coroner—for men who beileve in Mark Hanna's old policy of well_eneagh_ alone!\_ or are they going to vote for a ticket which— from congressmen to coroner—is in sympathy and active suPPOrt Or all the things Woodrow Wilson has done and which he is trying to .do? THE MADISONIAN FIRMLY BELIEVES THAT WOODROW WILSON .is the greatest American since the days of Abraham Lincoln. It also be- lieves that in Madison county next November the party of which Woodrow Wilson is the gifted leader will be overwhelmingly victorious. To The Sheridan Forum: Have a heart! ' • , sop__ You can save a lot of trouble by not borrowing any. ---00 Plugging the primaries will prove anything but a joke. When a woman says there's no use talking, why does she? CO —• The blue laws in Butte keep men from painting the town red. • 0.3_ Many a man's deficiency in dollars is duetO his deficiency in sense. There are men in this world who simply cannot get along without a boss. Consistency is sueh--a-'-rare—jewel that it can't be successfully counter- feited. Perhaps most people would be dif- rerun+ if Cirei• reighbors wg?-c what they Lliould !Je. --The Politician, as well ..a.s the palm- ist, believes that the people should be taken in hand. ' That September snCav seems to have given our republican friends an uncurable dose of cold feet. —00 Any man who isn't thankful for what he gets has occasion to be thankful for what he doesn't get. Carranza arbitrarily took over the Mexican railways, reminding us that once upon a time Teddy \took the isthmus.\ (X) Doctor Fred Cook could do no worse than some of those war cor- respondents, admitting that there is some class to Doc. CO Prunes supply the highest brain or nerve food, but to do some scheminw politicians any good they would have to be as full of them as a prune \warehouse. How much showing those republi- can candidates could make were they to give public notice that the -county central committee had nothing what- ever to do with their canvass. Canadians have have a practical idea of patriotism. They promise to put in an exceptionally large .rep of wheat for next year in order to feed Great Britain, whether peace comes before the harvest or not. • A standpat exchange says that \the republican state convention at Ilelena met the issues squarely and fairly.\ To be sure—save the dozen or more important questions which were con- scientiously dodged. - CO A German prisoner says that war is a terrible thing. The best they have seared up yet are not so ex- pressive as our own General 'Sher- man, who not only knew what war was, but described it in three words. —CO A dispatch says that belts and Socks are badly needed by the British troops in France, adding -that 'Queen Mary will do her share to supply the demand.\ Tommy Atkins might be able to wear her majesty's hose all right, but he would probably be oblig- ed to use her belts for garters. —00 The democratic state platform en- dorses the demand of eastern Mon- tana farmers that the sugar trust, which has a factory at Billings, ply fair with the beet growers. When the tariff bill was passed the trust com- pelled growers to make contracts cut- ting the,price of beets fifty cents per ton on the theory that \the new dem- ocratic law r yLiii cause the sugar com- pany to lose milionsofdollar::.\ Sug- ar has almost doubled in price— showing that the trust obtained its low contracts through misrepresenta- tion or a misconception of future sugar markets. Instead of losing. mil- lions the trust has gained millions, and the growers rightfully demand that they be given a fair share of the proceeds through a bonus on present contracts. The trust is standing pat, - and is receiving the support of east- ern Montana republicans and the corn\ bined republican press of the state. An out* which would \rig its scales\ in order to steal from the govern- ment would have little consideration for the Montana farmer, as the posi- tion of the beet sugar end of the trust amply dronstrates. Hope is a good asset, but it isn't so practical as a meal ticket. When an an old king abdicates, - his mantle usually falls upon the sheuld- ers of a weakling. —00 The republican party' stands no show because its record in recent years , is wholly against it. —CX) Republican logic: The war in Eu- rope prevents imports to this coun- try. Q. E. D. The democratic tariff is to blame. --CO England is clamoring foe' some battle songs, but the brand turned out thus far would strain the cog; of any phonograph. --CO Madison county men should vote for Peter Grant, and Madison county women should demand butter made by the Pony creamery. - But you can't show the suffragette that as long as women are denied the ballot they can't be held responsible for •_.ry pert of the pollutio or cor- ruption of politics. The emperor of Germany is con- fident of victory. In that respect he is like the repubilcan party, ansi has about the same chances. President Wilson wil; do some more .ehful waiti er in regard to hIe:A- co, while republican jingoes- who would m. the last Men t3 go to the front will }owl for war. The republican state platform de- mands retrenchment in public expen- ditures. The standpatters always fa- vor cutting down appropriations— when the democratic party is in pow- er. That protege of the republican par- ty of Montana, the Billings sugar factory, had a fine displayatthe state fair. No sample of its monumental gall was exhibited there, however. Dec Lanstrum, chairman of the re- publican state executive committee., may not be a citizen of Madiaon county and eligible to the senatorship. But Doc knows what he knaws. When the Southern Pacific train was held up by two bandits last week a banker's wife dropped her $8,000' necklace to the floor, and saved it by covering it wth her skirts. How did she ever do it? Villa has chosen a poor time to rev - °lute, in case he wants to get into the limelight. For weeks, and maybe - for months, any little affair he can stir up will be relegated to the back pages of the new/poners, aionieside the recipes and pant me'icina ads. All records were broken at the state fair last week for attendance and for the size and quality of agricultural exhibits. And yet, the republican politicians are endeavoring to con- vince those prosperous farmers that a democratic administration in na- tion and state has forced them to the verge of bankruptcy. And at the same time it should be remembered that the republican who reversed all former traditions of their party to defeat the pork bill were simply playing politics. It took the aid of sixteen good democrats to suc- cessfully pick the juicy plums from the rivers and harbor bill, and these' will be given most of the credit in the end. ---00 , Merchants in every town in the country have special sale days, and Miss GenevieveClaric,daughterof the' speaker, saggestili that there be a na- tional bargain day for cotton goods. 'his would make cotton wear popu- lar, and he of immense practical bene- fit to southern farmers whoiie exports have been reduced $500,060,000 by the European wa,r. A republican paper which comes to our exchange teble harps editorially upon deplorable conditions in this country. Tprning to its, news and lo- cal pages are found interviews with home merchants and visitors to the town, who declare that the United States was never more prosperous nor has had better prospects, despite - the terrible state of affairs in Europe. The paper should either censor its editorial columns or the news stor- ies, or both. Additional editorials on page 7.
