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THE MADISONIAN, VIRGINIA CITY, MONT., ' OCT. 23 1914. WITH HIS FELLOW CANDIDATE PRESENT at the meet- ing we can scarcely imagine what Amos Hall would say to the ueople of norther . ) MadiRoescounty to prevail upon them to knife 3. A. McAllister. And we can imagine quite readily what young Mr. Selway would not say to northern Madison county voters. WARREN H. .THOMAS PROBABLY could have related how the Virginia gity gang met one night previous to the pri- maries, picked out a ticket which afterwards went through com- plete, of the scheme to knife Charlie Kyle—only northern Madison county candidate—and how mirth ran high and joy prevailed at each jovial quip made at the expense of \those suckers on the north 'side.\ HON. JOHN DAUTERMAN DOUBTLESS TOLD of a dream he once had—how he built a gravel road all by himself, anit was so skillful in his generosity that although he had men and teams on the entire job for over two weeks the road overseer in utiarge_of the work never_found hinvout. And, given much to streaming ; the -Hon, -John-must also have-~ that other one—when he carried an election against good 'schools, _with - Cbe inableottittit naabisonianpubitsbin ' fit i 11 17erdiniaCitlan$0lit s • . , - • `Oyffo • aoboo t o ipubttebtb Sp . tbe • dency to do its own thinking; that northern Madison county, did 0 0. not deserve any candidates on his ticket because it had been unfaithful to the dynasty in the past; that Charlie Kyle was im- possible because he \got too goldarned independent\ that ............. \Hon. John is the stuff because he stands hitched;\ that north- ern Madison county people should vote against northern Mad- ison county candidates and the ticket upon which they ran, \because we have a legislative ticket and a candidate for com- missioner,\ and when \we\ tell them what to do they will lis- ten to \us\ and \We\ know what is better foryou fellews than Ira Cole Editor II. M. Colwell . • Rates of Subscription - One Year $9 .50' Six Months - $1.25 Three Months $ .75 Admitted to•United - States Mail as Se cond Class Mail, Virginia City, „ Maybe They Explained It All. Mont. You do yourselves. He could explain that he brought his hand- picked combination with him in a bunch so they could watch each other, and so there would be plenty of help in case any of them went back of a haystack and pulled snickersnees and raz\; zers upon each other. THE HAND-PIC - KED REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES, accom- panied by imported music, and an imported spell binder from Missoula, invaded the Madison valley, the Willow Creek and Meadow Creek districts, and the Waterloo section this week. As an attraction they held out \a dance after the show,\ barely evading the corrupt practices act by a \nominal\ charge to men dancers. No doubt they were accorded a courteous wel- come and a respectful hearing—for nothing else could be ex- pected from so refined and intelligent a class of people as those in northern Madison county --although the gansters who rule the so-called republican party did not, at the time of the pri- maries, see fit to give their auditors there representation on their ticket. IT IS A WELL KNOWN FACT that in every precinct of Madison county republicans of life long standing will not sup - have now been cleared away in the minds of nothern county AND THERE CAN BE LITTLE DOUBT THAT THE MISTS port the so-called repmblican ticket on November 3rd. It is true voters. From such a galaxy of would-be office holders some re - that in most instances these indignant voters have marked for slaughter only those most closely allied to the Virginia City ring —so far as the present brand of Madison county republicanism fulgent ray must have cast its beams into a land now desolate which hand-picked the ticket, and will prove ther allegiance is concerned. THE TRIP WAS A GREAT SUCCESS IN EVERY RESPECT, drew large and interested audiences, provided plenty of amuse- ment for the crowds, and gave the voters an intimate glimpse of gang politics played in the good old fashioned way—a way so adroit and intricate that it has left better republicans strand- ed high and dry, while the remnant in control of the Virginia City dictators is scarcely more substantial than \the shadow of a flame.\ Purging the Republican(?),Party. IT IS ALTOGETHER LIKELY THAT THIS BENIGHTED (?) people learned for the first lime from the imported orator that the administration of Woodrow Wilson was a failure, and that there was nothing so glorious in the history of their country as the balmy days of William H. Taft, Nelson B. Aldrich, Joe Cannon. Reed Smoot and the plundering trusts. into whose - bands these noble republicans played. It is altogether prob- to the old principles of their party by casting their ballots for those candidates known to be independent of the gang—can- didates given a place to lend strength to ring favorites who oth- erwise would have made an almost invisible showing. • THE CAMPAIGN HAS NOW SUFFICIENTLY ADVANCED to demonstrate to the most incredulous that the \organiza- tion\ is trying to save only a few of its favorites, at the expense of the rest of the ticket. The least informed repu.b- able that he -referred but slightlitheAlleft/A.assl-publ !lean .in Madison county will have no trouble in nomination at Chicago, and that he distorted the fact that Wil- Ifthe ticket and picking - out the three. - upen whom the son's administration has been instrumental in bringing to pass \organization\ is expending its strength. The others, regard - legislation for the benefit of the people, while his predecessor less, of location and fitness, must hustle for themselves. -So has left a record of being the supine plaything of corrupt bus- long as he gives the conibine such support he plays for their mess and domineering combines. favorites, keeps them in control of the county central commit- tee and its officers, encourages them to make a farce of the IT MUST HAVE BEEN NEWS TO HIS HEARERS to learn primaries, and ensures party defeat as long as present condi- for the first time that Madison county's favorite son had been a tions and those of the immediate past exist. failure as novernor of this state; that the state administration was inefficient and corrupt; and that only through the divine REPUBLICANS WHO ARE SUCH FROM PRINCIPLE real. wisdom of the republican state machine there could be hope ize the situation fully._ They understand well enough that a for redemption. In fact, the - people visited by the imported decisive and overwhelming defeat of the Virginia City ring spell binder learned Many things before unheard of and uncon- this year offers the only opportunity which their party has to ceived save by this apostle of gloom, disaster, calumny and ever again present a united front to Madison county democracy. calamity. \THAT DAMNED PONY BUNCH,\ as the county seat gang so fondly refers to the people of that locailty, were no doubt de- , lighted with the polemics of Hon. 0. H. Junod. If there is one THE VERY BEST MEN IN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY have thing Mr. Junod understands better than another it is the de- felt the sting of the \organization\ whip in times past and vious political ways of his business partner and political kilo gone. Not a few have been tricked in the old conventions, in the Baptist, Dr. 0. M. Lanstrum of Helena, executive chairman past elections. or even in the more recent primaries. And the and quadrant in the notorioilS Lanstrum-Martow-Dcmlan - -Sel- \organization\ this campaign is more ruthless, more dictator - way state machine. All questions as to the right of the Big ial and more arrogant than ever before. It elects to stand or fall Four to rule Montana must have been cleared away, and Mr. by repetition of old tactics, hoping to win for its chosen few be- Junod—in that persuasive way of his—must have shown \the fore the rank and file of fhe republican party 'rises in its wrath, damned Pony bunch\ the error of their ways and converted controls the primaries as it could and should, and makes boss - them to the beneficent government which would be theirs were ism in Madison county politics a dead and buried thing forever. he made a go-between for Madison county 'bearing homage lo the all-powerful quartette • They know that their party must be purged of its present \lead- ers,\ so-called and self-appointed, before it can again com- mand the respect of Madison county people. ROVVE can bp of real service to Madison county people. After the ringsters ,have gone down to deaft on November 3rd, tbc'n true republicans like the three men named can go into the noun - try precincts and rouse their party to participate 41) the primar- ies and effect a most wholesome purgation. BUT UNTIL THAT TIME POM68-therepublican party of Madison county will only serve as an instrument in the hands of a few whose sole purpose is to elect two or three picked men to office at the expense of the rest of the ticket. INDEPENDENT REPUBLICANS IN EVERY PRECINCT ap- preciate the situation, and it is altogether likely that Madison county democracy will face a different opposition two years hence, after the present \organization\ is carried out feet fore- most on election day, November 3rd, 1914. f Campaign Practically Closed. SO FAR AS THE WEEKLY NEWSPAPERS Are concerned out being caught in the act. s . the present campaign practically closes this week. Of course, THE'C s OuNTY SUPERI1TE1MENT MIGHT HAVE said - Mai theee-will-be one more publication of the weeklies before-elec- while the gang organ did not believe in perpetual candidates for 'ion, but under the progresSive ideas of latter days these will office, the rule applied only to democrats, and while it was a sin be devoted mostly to rebattal and to renewing former claims for a democrat to hold office at all, it was a fine thing for a re. made in behalf of candidates. publican to hold office forever, if possible. No word was said THIS I S °RECOGNIZED -EVERYWHERE 410W as entirely pro - about the benefits of consolidated rural schools because it per, and is in direct contrait 'to the old tithe brand of newspaper xnight wake up the on. John and spoil same more of his ,politics --when it was oonceded that in the issue Os( before dreams. election charges would ,be made against opponents without* ED GOHN AND HENRY MAILEY evidently sat side.beside, giving them time and opportunity for defense. Nowadayssuch it being hoped that Ed's smile would overshadow the iloom of methods only serve as a boomerang, and usually result in a Henry's countenance, and the vaudeville show came to a dote landslide against the candidate so unprincipled and so devoid attach place with a few parting remarks from the chairman of .. of common decency as to \spring something\ on his rival. The so-called republican committee. . THE MADISONIAN FULLY EXPECTS to go to4preis on ALTHOUGH THE STRINGS REACHING TO VIRGINIA were time „next Friday. It does not -expect to deviate from its past somewhat long, the puppet chairman must have danced when policy of fairness to the so-called republican candidates. It he felt the yank. He could sum up for the mourners by stating wouldn't pull a single democrat through by resorting to the that they were bringing the true gospel of gang politics into a ancient \roorback if it could. It is satisfied that the election part of Madison county which had always shown- a strong ten- is already -Won, and that gangism has been given a blow in Madison county from which it will never recover. THIS PAPER REALIZES HOWEVER that it must take no chances, insofar as democratic candidates are concerned, as the so-called republican \organization\ has resorted to most of the old time discredited methods in conducting its campaign. Sufficient pages of next week's issue of The Madisonian will be kept intact to get out an extra on short notice, which the Mer- genthaler typesetting machine will make possible, should any last minute campaign circular, newspaper or otherwise, be at-, tempted by the `organization.\ AND TO PREVENT the decency of the remaining days of the campaign, fair minded republicans and watchful democrats \are urged to send in forthwith any suspicious circular, letter or newspaper sheet sent them from any source between this date and the morning of election. VOTERS ARE WARNED OF THE CAMPAIGN ROORBACK, and are urged to get word speedily to this office, in case any such thing is attempted. The Governor's Dates. AS MANY VOTERS AS POSSIBLE WHO HEARD the Mis- soula calamity howler who toured this county for the so-called republican candidates should be in Pony the Saturday evening, before election, and in Sheridan the Monday night before elec- tion. On those dates the people of Madison county will have the honor and the opportunity to hear .Madison county's favor- ite son—Governor Sam V. Stewart—discuss political issue. • IT IS TO BE PRESUMED THAT THE GOVERNOR is better informed as to the whys and wherefores of state administration than the obscure spell binder imported into the governor's own. county for the purpose of discrediting his administration. It is also , to be presumed that the chief xecutive of Montana iv/ more enlightened as to national issues, and will have no trouble in making plain to the people that Woodrow Wilson and his policies are not the ridiculous things which the Missoula one . would have intelligent people believe. THE GOVERNOR IS SAID TO BE IN FINE FETTLE, having completed by the end of next week a speech making trip which took him over abgreater portion of the i state. Those who hear him at Pony and Sheridan will be all the More jiiirid - Pf* thelit democracy. YOU WILL BELIEVE THE GOVERNOR WHEN HE TELLS you why the American people do not care to return to the good old republican days of Aldrich, Cannon, Taft and stolen national conventions. Chas. C. Hill for State Senator. THE MADISONIAN HAS SEVERAL TIMES called attentioa to the general excellence of the democratic legislative ticket nominated at the recent primary, and desires to reiterate the statement that it is commonly believed in the county that the party never presented any stronger nominees as a whole to take part in the legislative deliberations at Helena. FOR STATE SENATOR THE DEMOCRATS have named Charles C. Hill, who has served the people of Madison county ire' the responsible positions of sheriff and commissioner, and who. thus serving, left an excellent record for fairness, faithfulness and efficiency. IN TRUtH. THE ONLY FAULT FOUND by his opponents is the fact that Mr. Hill has heretofore held office—a criticism which would apply with equal force to the so-called republicart nominees, in a measure, this year. No charge of Inefficiency has been brought against -Charlie Hill. There have been no critic- isms of his honesty or integrity. Noels 'has had the topeoltY tQf3b),A0 lee§orially er ackuse Min pf.entAngitng,Aplitical al- e WPM PPYVOI\.$ eno.haYetadP.rnuCh to 09 Witir n s m sgovernment in Me past. t i an opknowlorfg.0 fact that Charles C. Hill has made good as a public servant us the past, moths trial) !tote trusted in any place he maybe put. That the people so regard him is evidenced by votes 104011V - dance ,gixen him In floss gone by. CHARLES C. HILL IS ENDOWED WITH that valuable . thing called sound common sense in an unusual degree. When it is combined with a good conscience and a firm devotion to duty, it makes a good substiute for genius, and is often fa44 more desirable in a public servant. With Mr. Hill in the state senate, G.a.vernor Stewart will have a firm friend and supporter during the balance of his term of office, and Madison county or have a high grade man as its representative r in Ate upper branch of the legislature. HE MAY NOT OF SENSATIONAL OR SPECTACULAR, but Xe - Will be sure, and honest and trge to his pledges anti .ta the interests of his county. The MAdlionian ,can see no dishoner in having served his people well in the past, and confidently Oe - fleves he will in the next state swifter from Madison califtty. THE VOTER WHO PLACES HIS CON FIDEA/PE in Chitties P. Hill will have no reasons for regret. . Importing Their Musicians. PERHAPS THE SO-CALLED -REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES expect to get a big vote in Butte, as they certainly should, hav- ing in*Orted-muAtc tor.their -gabfests from the Smoky City. This is a high compliment to the half dozen or more orchestras of Madison county, whose services were not wanted apparently: WITH AN IMPORTED ORATOR TO PREACH calamity and an imported bunch of-musioians to furnish the music, home tal- ent seems lo .be at a discount in so-called republican circles its this county.
