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2 fel . •.• 1 .1,, • . WI , • 51 THE MADISONIAN VIRGINIA CITY, MONT,, OCT.. 9, 1914 lIl t.k.A: t N 'lliilit •,.;.,-.• .\'‘,74; --- As... . 4,...,„,.. „.......s. .1.:'--- - ..:Ir VO r _. / 40t Mont. puaiisaca is tas apabgeonianpubtiebing co. Ira Cole Editor H. M. Colwell . . . . ... .Manager Rates of Subscription O ne Year . ....... Six Months . $1.25 Three Months S .75 Admitted to United States Mail as Second Class Mail, Virginia City, Mont. Why They Will Lose. THERE IS ABSKUTELY NO HOPE for the republican party this year—in the various states where senators are to be elected, in the state of Montana, or in the county of Madi- son. Republican chances everywhere are exceedingly slim, and the only object republican \leaders\ so-calied, have at this time is to retain control of their party machinery. THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IS UNDENIABLY handicap ped by a deep-seated distrust which a vast majority of voter; have in its leadership. It is the same boss ridden organiza- tion as or old, and instead of washing its dirty linen and re- pudiating the \elder statesmen\ who have boughtit ii.to dis- repute, it again brazenly flaunts these men in the face of the public by endeavoring to return them to congress. The re- publican press claims that the party has reformed, bui the American people know how much reliance to place in this con- tention when they see Cannon running for congress in Illinois, Smoot for the senate in Utah, Penrose for the senate in Penn- sylvania, and rabid standpatters of the same ilk standing for the senate in other states. This is the same gang that forced The scandalous Payne -Aldrich tariff bill upon the people, gave the nation over to corrupt interests and stole the nomination for Taft at Chicago. Their corruption funds have elected presidents and have been used to debauch states that the combine at Washington, under republican rule, might be maintained. It - EXP'RESSED'AS - TO these arch -enemies of the people's welfare. Many of them have been forced out of public life, broken and hated, and the new congress will be purified when the suryiving band of po- litical pirates are compelled by the people's wrath to walk the plank in next November's elections. IN THE GREAT AND PROGRESSIVE state of Montana the republican, party is absolutely dominated by \The Big Four,\ comprising Donlan and Lanstrum, Marlow and Selway. No republican can hope for party recognition unless he proves his subservience to these state \leaders.\ Prominent men have rebelled in the past, like Joe Dixon, and the steam roller operated by these four ruthlessly flattened them out. Other men have fought the machine, like Judge Cheadle of Lewistown. only to see the hopelessness of their task and to return supinely to the old order of things. When republican tickets are named. these men have manipulated the direct primaries and handpicked the nominees. When state con- I ventions meet, these men write the platforms. When leais- !attires convene, these men direct the party caucus. No polit- ical machirie in thy state is less dictatorial, and no machine in any state is more feared by the great common people. And although it is an acknowledged fact, even amonn republicans, that the party has no chance to become rehabilitated while these men direct its affairs, they maintain control and will so maintain it as long as they can in order to prevent the better and more progressive element from forcing aovernmental re- forms and placing republicanism where it is at least entitled to public respect. • REPUBLICAN LEADERS IN MADISON COUNTY have pursued the same policy as their state and national leaders. They have los' —\i 4 \\\ r ' s tiAldkon comity voters, and there is little hope for any of qv! o -called 'republican nomi- nees tagged with the gang label. There was a time in the his- tory of this county when the republican farmer, the republican laborer, the republican business man and the republican pro- fessional man were given party consideration. All had a voice in naminn cadidates for public office, and sufficient fairness prevailed in conventions and caucuses to hold the losers loyal to the winners. The party cvas militant. united and well or- ganized. BUT THIS CONDITION SO SATISFACTORY to the rank and file of the party has become ancient history. No con- sideration whatever is shown the ordinary republican until his vote is required at the general election. His party is in the hands of a despotism. No committee calls are made public. No \common\ republican is taken into the confidence of the dictatorship. A clandestine emissary is sent forth, from time to time, to deliver orders, Secrecy is the watchword, and re- publican Oters - are asked to blindly follow the program map- ped out for them by a select and self -chosen few. DIRECT PRIMARIES ARE MADE A FARCE, and in the only contest between aspirants for a place on the ticket—that of commissionei . :--the party's choice is double-crossed and the choice of a secret caucus is victorious. BOSS RULE REIGNED SUPREME, for the present ticket —the so-called republican ticket of Madison county as it now stands—was absolutely hand-picked, in a back room, the' the dark hours of the night, by those who would ruin the paity, before they would surrender ,their rule to it. MADISON CONTY PEOPLE IRRESPECTIVE of politics long ago wearied of such chicanery'. And in protest, with the view of giving gang rule its death blow and making the pri- maries of the future all that they should be, scores of loyal republicans will quietly vote the democratic ticket on the first Tuesday after the first Monday of November next. Many a man's best friends are those who know him least,. There never was a ,dresa designed half `So beautiful as a woman's mod- esty. CO --- An office in the hand isn't iworth two in the bush from a politician's point of view. Practice makes perfect. The more fault a man finds the more expert he becomes at it. That \pigs is pigs\ will be demon- stracted by the price of pork at the close of the war. When some people lend their moral support to any cause they want to charge interest on it. A girl may laugh all the time either, because she has a keen sense of humor or a 'dimple. • --CO-- Rcpubacans are without an issue this cafflbaign save the selfish slo- gan, \Let us at the trough!\ CO The pet who wrote, \There is no death,\ did not take into considera- tion Madison county gang politics. 00 Lyman might prove a far more successful chairman were he to quit playing favorites with his party can- didates. CY4— Ctlakiing_the republisan chairman may be a source of consolation to gang candidates, but it won't win an election this year. The so-called republican \leaders\ of Madison county are just as se- rene as the woman who sees a mouse run up her sleeve. Democrats cannot understand why it is necessary for those so-called re- publican candidates to carry conceal- ed razors for each other. The German kaiser decorates his heroes with the iron cross, after a battle, but the Madison county kai- 1-4•111--tica-ea I ffiFVai-a....-4. 45 0 Through their hand-picked choice for commissioner the republican gangsters of Madison county declare against good roads and good schools. Gilson Willetts has Written a nov- el entitled \The Double o Cross,\ but any so-called republican candidate can write a far better one after election. This is the hurricane season for ships on the Gulf of Mexico, and squalls are prevalent for gang can- didates on the political seas of Mad- ison county. C)0 It must be a Itource of comfort to Honest Charlie Kyle when he re- alizes that he is not a candidate who must place his canvass in the treach- erous hands of the Virginia City ring this campaign. -- —OD-- Turpinite, the new _French explo- sive, puts full regiments of Germans to sleep in the trenches, and we are inclined to believe that some of the dope has been scattered over Mon- tana republicanism. . As an impartial observer, The Madisonian is free to conjecture that Fletcher Maddox will not debate with Bull Moose Rankin. ,Hop. Maddox knows when discretion is the better part - of. valor. Honest Charlie Kyle has the sat- isfaction of knowing that when the republean gangsters tried to cut his throat they only added to his popu- larity and the respect and esteem the people of Madison county have for him. — _ The report that the so-called re- publican county candidates are more bitter towards each,. other than to- wards their democratic opponents seems reasonable. There is no bate more intense than that of kin folks when they are at outs. 00 Diogenes -only had one lantet'n when he started out to find an hon- est man. Were he to play a return visit, and come to Madison countl, he would need six lanterns to catel the republican politicians who are double-crossing each other. tiXD \Express companies hit hard PY parcels post,\ reads a headline. Al- though the first parcels post pay was considerable of a farce an le experiment, Postmaster Greaeral leson has removed -the express ft stinger so that' he measure Alin* something to the people. 00 The Hon. Wellington D. Rankin, bull moose candidate for congicag, has issued a challenge for a series of joint debates v;rith the Him. Fletcher Maddox, republican ci44i-, date. It is presumed phs wniorta demperi t ry is to referee the contirt should the Hon. Fletcher dare accept the defy. 00 • If Maddox and McCormick, repub- lican candidates for congress, insist upon making Woodrow Wilson an is- sue in this campaign—defaming him and his ivolicies--they will be the worst defeated men since free ver days. And they will take down to defeat with them many local re- publican candidates wherever they spread that style of standpat doc- trine. • There's alit/ayes room at the bot• tom. Many a true word is often spoken by miatake. 00 Where ignorance is bliss 'Us folly to have eyes. The worst thing about politics is the gang politician. He who gives with regret deserves no credit for giving. ----CX) Keep your troubles to yourself and they will not expand. --00 Solomon, when he said \all men are liars,\ beat Roosevelt to it. eo — Most gamblers realize that money can be lost in more ways than won. co Belts may be fashionable, but the old style galluses are still holding their own. The man who is too proud to beg and too honest to steal is often too strong to work. —CO Junod need not be a very close ob- server to find out why he won't get his party vote in Virginia City. CO A tax on bachelors would not re- duce. the supply of old maids. Most bachelors would rather pay the fine. ®31 To Hon. 0. H. JunotCgreetings: Beware of republican snickersnees wherever the gang controls! Wealth doesn't bring happiness, but there is small consolation in knowing that poverty doesn't, eith- er. If Senator Reed of Missouri, a ministration baiter, doesn't like t democratic party why doesn't held out of it? In placing a hand-picked ticket before the people in Madison county this year the republican gangsters are not putting a very high estimate 7orpubwititentgetep:.7- -oo At any rate we can't help but ad- mire the pluck of those so-called republican candidates who are going to their Waterloo handicapped by an inefficient campaign chairman. The papers say that General von Kluck has been wounded in his right wing, but General von Lyman has been wounded in both wings. And the campaign yet a month to run! CO Every so-called republican candi- date is entitled to the loyal support of his county central committee. The election returns will show many a them got it, also how many got it in the neck. The republican board of strategy does well to put a close censorship On the only standpat newspaper in Madison county. In the past its sup- port has alwa/s been an ominous sign for republican aspirants. CO Napoleon ajoie has made 'la three-thousandth hit since he began professional base ball. ,.The ac -called republican candidates in Madison county will be just 3000 hits short of Nap when election day rolls around. , • eo That fiery young progressive, Wel- lifftton D. ha t s challenged bOth repubkary candidates for con - cress to meet ficri) In joint Aelate. They dare not meet him, for they can give but one excuse for seeking - the office: \We want the pie!\ , Harry L. Wiiaen, wpo ran third for governor on the republican ticket, Id - ettimpiaig eastern Montacta • with W. J. McCormick, candidate for con- gress on the same tiaket. One -is po- litically dead, and the other will he when the votes are counted next No- vember. Call a hearse! If The Madisonian remembers cor- rectly, and it thinks it does, the late Senator Thomas H. Carter advocat- ed the taking of appropriations for irrigation purposes out of the hands of the _reclamation service, giving congress control of the expenditures. In this position he was sustained by The Helena Record. Why should The Record now turn upon a demo- cratic conarese for approving of Senator Caii,ffl''s plan? In New York B086 Banner] has re- tired as chairman of the republican ;tate central committee, and a fig- urehead by .the Theme of Tanner is presumed to hold down, the job. This is not the first time, nor the only one, that a party dictator sat behind. the ssenery, and pulled the strings which made a mannikin chairins,S danfe- Although congress - not ad- journ until bctobeir 15th, eighteen days before election—and posaibly tog than that, ,eyen—'.l. M. Brinson, recently from Colorado and bull Moose candidate for congressman, has challenged Stout and Evans to pubic 4_01,ite. 4 ia not likely that Judge Evans will get back from Washington much before election, but had he be -en able to be in Oc\P\ tans a month ago one of two things would have bapp,ened: No challenge from Brinson, or a complete mire of Brinson's debate habit. Pot our own John M. would malce the prolix Arrnegeddonite look like a nickel's worth of dog meat in an affair of the kind suggested. Young Men Recognized. \OLD MEN FOR COUNSEL AND YOUNG MEN FOR WAR,\ thus goeth the old adage. And while none 'of the men named on the democratic ticket are past their prime, recogni- tion has been given to the virile and energetic young men of the party. , „ .TO THE YOUNG MEN OF MADISON ,COUNTY, and espec- ially those casting their first ballot, attention is called to the fact that in almost every instance democratic 'nominees are younger than their opponents. This, in Wien, may not mean so much—but when it is considered,that in the days to come the conduct of our government must fall upon the nmn who are now coniParatively youtithil, arid that When the older men look back upon their political careers with satisfaction 9r other- wise, as they served the people well or ill, they may also hive the pleasure of knowing that their successors hav8‘ been trained to fulfill any duty which public exigencies may de- mand. MADISON COUNTY DEMOCRACY has had no hesitancy in calling goon the younger element of the organization to carry the party pennants and to bear the party burdens. And there is no doubt that these candidates are not only competent, relia- ble and worthy, of public confidence, but they will fill the posi- tions to which they aspire to the utmost satisfaction. of the people. FOR LEGISLATIVE POSITIONS men of ripe experience in life have been chosen. This is as it should be, for in legisla- tive hails the budding statesman is likely to be either a nonen- ity on the one hand or a crusader on the other, nullifying by his inexperience in life his own ability to be a part in making good laws for the people. CHARLES C. HILL, CHARLES SHOTT AND J. A. Mc- ALLISTER are at the meridian of life, and have lived for many years in this county. They know the needs of the west- ern part of the state and have the Welfare of the entire com- monwealth at heart. They are men -of discernment and of circumspection, fully able to winnow the wheat from the chaff and amply able to represent Madison county with great credit. ' IT IS - .1t0TiltallEtertri*Ut; 11 0 W EV ER, that afterte'l -4- man has become of age he must give many years of party service before being recognized as anything but a unit in the organization. Madison county democrats not only appeal to the voter who casts his first ballot this year for Woodrow Wilson's party, but to the young men of all parties, by giving important places on the ticket to bright, capable fellows still below the middle 'thirties. Gerald Carney, for clerk and re- corder, is the \baby\ on the ticket; but for all that, his integ- rity and capabilities are beyond question. Rodney R. Hern- don, for county treasurer, is another one of the young demo- crats competent to serve the people well. Howard P.. Reckett is one of the coming lawyers of southern Montana, and in the county attorney's office will not go to extremes—that is, he will neither be negligent nor officious. THE DEMOCRATS OF THIS COUNTY are not only proud of their nominees 7 but well satisfied with opportunities given'. - to place upon their shoulders the obligations of public office. And in choosing these young men, democracy did not overlook the privilege of filling another place on the ticket—that of county superintendent—with one of the most Competent young lady teacher& of the county, Miss Josie Ft. McFadden of Laurin. Higkly . educated, well cultured, of keen judgment and rare executivtiability, Miss McFadden promises to be a sup- erintendent ranking in the first class. REGARDLSSS OF PARTY POLITICS, the young men of Madison county should not overlook the fact that democracy ismaiinWiljim to oPefl, wile thl son 91 parimunity to them. They should bear in mind bit he dpoictsaV - party is one of progress, and that thro h the demoopitilriy only is there a t hope p of keeping apro ,If fi toe tljlieS. 440 the young man should also remember ir.om The creit ISectetary of state, down throu g h, all the ram cations of our political era to the ilfis - V4c and fiM whose duty Ai citizeJw takes thew_ to ibt polls to vote on election day, there is a united purpOse to stand behind President Woodrow Wilson and the policies and ideals Which he personifies. ' . THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY OF MADISON COUNTY has made it easy for the boy to start right, who casts his first vote this year—and for .all the boys who have other political alli- ances to get right by placing a cross opposite the name of John M. Evans for congress and going on straight down the i column until the ballot s completed by voting for Emil Hedrich for coroner. • A strict censorship of war news prevente any information as to what First Chief Cartanza Hall and Gen- eral Villa Selitay are doing to or for each other. • . From force of habit, perhaps, the republican state convention \Pointed with pride,\ but the more we read of. its actions the more we wonder whit it has to be proud of. Ce The German kaiser has lost all his colonies, but he is no worse than the republican kaiser of Madison county whose domain no longer extends outside Virginia City precinct. Spain has offered to care for the wounded and the orphans of foreign nations, and King Alfonso has ten- dered his assistance to President Wilson when the time for mediation comes. This is a refreshing status between Uncle Sam and the Dons, compared with conditions 'under re- publican rule, when President McKin- ley was forced to .war by a hysteri- cal press and the domination of Big Business. The world's series remines us that democratic candidates are batting 1,- 000 in the\ Madiaon county political' league. The republican chairman is a kind-. ly man. He believes that he could 'elect the wiole so-called republican' ticket if he tried, but his candidat4 are performing so selfishly that ha isn't going to try. It is understood that J. Henry Mailey Will not ask for the return of that , money paid for printing his po- litical announcement. Henry never got so little advertising before for the sum of $5. ' The republican press claims to , glean some satisfaction out of the Maine election, a democrat being elected governor in - visit formerly standpat state. Our epublican fri- ends are not hard to please these days. \ 400 When you open a check, account at this bank you gain many business advantages. Southern Montana Bank, Ennis, Montana.--Adv. •
