The Anaconda standard., 1890-07-21
AS TO ISSUES.

They can be presented briefly and
clearly; there is no secret about them.
The Inter Mountain may as well be in
formed regarding them long in advance,
for II will need to put in all its time be-
tween now and the weeks of the can
vass i'm trying to frame some device by
which il will seek to break the force of
the democratic argument.
Questions relating to national legis-
lation will figure i'm the canvass. The
people know the facts, but these will be
constantly recited during the campaign.
IL will be shown from the records that
the republican white house. the repub-
lican cabinet, and the republican ma
jority i'm congress fought silver per-
sistently and bitterly that free coinage
would be an accomplished fact to-day
but for the unyielding hostility of
President Harrison, Secretary Win
dom, Speaker Reed and Senator Sher-
man-Wall street republicans, every
man of them: that when the free coin
age bill got chance to be voted on i'm
the house there were only trenfy-three
reJublioan members al foh in the
house of representatives who voted i'm
its favor, and these men incurred the
open condemnation of the republican
managers that the bill affords present
opportunity for money making to the
big silver producers and to Wall street,
but is not by any means the legislation
demanded by the people.
The people of Montana are in favor
of tariff revision and duty reduction al
most to man. There are i'm the Union
three states and Montana is one of
them where this tariff view is next To
unanimous, but there is not single
state of them all where popular opinion
is more nearly unanimous on the ques-
ton and more distinctly separated
from politics than here in Montana.
The man who says that the people OF
this state, or a majority of them, ap-
prove the details of the Mckinley
bill, either fails to comprehend popular
opinion or seeks deliberately to pervert
IL. In 1855 Montana heartily approved
the pledge made in the republican
platform that promised tariff revision.
That pledge has been grossly ignored.
Montana is opposed as il by instinct
to the force bill. That bit of tyranny
is utterly at variance with the political
sentiment of this intelligent and we'll
ordered commonwealth. So offensive
was last October's attempt to bring the
Montana election under the control of
federal marshals that decent republi-
cans denounced il and the coward hire
lings who were stationed at the polls
didn't dare even to lift finger They
would have been driven from the pre-
cincts by enraged citizens had they pre-
sumed 10 interfere.
Chief among the issues of the coming
campaign is the determination of the
democrats in Montana To vindicate the
states good name in the eyes of the
country and ayenge the fraud commit
ted at the llomestake precinct. That
will be the foremost question with
the people of this state next No
yember. II appeals to every mans pa
triotism, il involves every citizens
security in his civil and political rights,
il touches the sacredness of every elect
or's vote. II is as vital an issue as can
he brought before any constituency,
and the faction in the republican party
that still clings to fraud is afraid to
face il.
The personality incident TO every
political campaign will not be of spe-
cial significance in next autumn's con
test. The names of candidates will be
matter of relatively small account.
The republicans have sanders and
Power in the federal senate. Thank
God, the democrats of Montana are not
responsible for these two men, They
are the incarnation of fraud, their
presence in Washington is living testi.
mony of the power of the Northern
Pacific railroad and its land grabbing
adjunct, they are the symbols of its
strength and the creatures of its will.
In Washington, republican senators
despise them and democratic senators
spit upon them: in Montana, the re-
publican party is ashamed of them.
This state will elect eight members
of the local senate next November. Al
ready republicans who know anything
about the trend of events admit that
the democrats will elect the majority
of these and speedily crush the AFRO.
gance which, in Helena last winter.
made majorities farce and legislation
a burlesque. The state will also elect
a member of congress next November.
Mr.. Carter will be renominated in spite
of the fact that he supported silver's
arch enemy for the exalted Office of
speaker, in spite of the fact that at a
critical hour, under party pressure, he
lodged vote on the silver question.
Silver Bow county republicans will be
asked TO arge him although, In the only