The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-09-17

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tana senators uttered word in its behalf)
passed bill for free and unlimited coinage.
This was sent to the house for concurrence
and when it reached a vote in that body liz
democrats voted for it and 100 republicans
against it: Twenty three republicans voted
for the bill and twenty-five democrats
voted against it. Those are facts that can
not be denied, and yet the republicans of
Montana pretend that their party is the
friend of silver.
The most that was then done was to
strike the bullion redemption clause out of
the Window bill and it passed both houses.
The republicans in the senate who were ad-
vocates of free coinage justified their course
by the cowardly excuse that Mr.. Harrison
would have vetoed bill for free coinage,
and yet this great man has the unqualified
endorsement Of the republican party IN a
of its greatest products in value.
One of the features of the Window bill
provides that all contracts may be stipu-
lated to be payable in gold, which is an UNI
just discrimination, and already they have
commenced, as in some recent correspond
ing some bonds to be issued on q Montana
enterprise he requested that they be made
payable in gold of the present weight and
fneness and stated that otherwise they
would not sell.
Had the aemooratio free coinage bill
Ud660O VudV uloVdA WOOAO Oo VO-Ndy 4SOsGO
per ounce, maintaining its ratio of sixteen
to one with gold, instead of fuctuating at
the mercy Of the spectators between
ia and 118 and the people Of this
state should hold the Republican
party responsible for the loss
"need only republican majority in the
next congress to secure free coinage" For
unmitigated gall this takes the cake. Talk
about republican majority with Reed in the
speakers chair. That fellow is ready
reckoner of majorities when required on
had it in their power to approve the senate
bill but they we're driven BY the lash of Reed
and Harrison and Montana's representa-
tives in both houses fell into line and be-
trayed the interests of the people of the
state.
hardships in hunting mines in these old
mountains; you who have invested your
hundreds of thousands Of dollars in mills
and reduction works; you who have in
vested your fortunes in building homes and
cities, railroads and manufactures; you
soil and producers of flocks and herds, all
relying in good measure on the silver
industry of the state, can hope
for little aid or encouragement from repub-
lican supremacy but must rely on that
grand old democratio party, which is in di-
IoCG sympathy WIFI duu pIOJuOGlv0 OF al
your mutual interests.
Their platform processes to encourage a
free ballot and fair count, and this after
the contamination by the leaders and tools
of that party ofithe most stupendous politi-
cal fraud, except one, ever perpetrated in
the annals of American history. This was
demonstrated in judicial investigation of
all the facts in the case. and not one of the
allegations of fraud that were charged by
them against our party could be estab-
lished, and yet the suffrages of ia free, in
telllgent American citizens were trampled
ruthlessly in the dust, and, not content with
the. great crime of depriving citizens of
their most sacred rights, the venerable
chairman of the senate committee on privi-
leges and elections must heap cOntumely
and insult upon them by characterizing
them as Bohemians and Turks, and as be-
ing only railroad laborers.
Ye great army OF men who toll for your
bread in building the great railways of the
nation, this is the consideration you re-
ceive at the hands of the republican party.
They give unqualified endorsement to the
Mckinley bill, whose passage is about to
create panic in the finances of the land.
The president and secretary have called in
to council the leading bankers of the coun-
try to see if the disaster cannot be averted.
For two weeks past money has been loan
ing at 25 to 1876 per cent. per annum.
| They point to the tariff On wool, but do
not explain how under the benefcent feat
ures of the law wool, which was selling last
Mills bill at "a and rs cents, cannot be sold
| to-day at any price, and under forced sale
would not probably bring 15 cents. They
| will leave that explanation to Mr.. Carter,
who last year promised the wool growers
that if he were elected wool would 60 right
Mr.. Carter would better come back az
| quickly as possible and set himself right
with the men whose SURFACES he obtained
under false promises and false pretenses:
Ifancy that Tommy wont have prim-
rose journey IN the sheep counties or in the
Yellowstone valley where the people relied
upon him to get the Crow reservation
opened up, or in Park county where HI
promised right of way to Cooke City
Is it any wonder that MI. Carter got som,
one to secure clerkship for him to afore
him an excuse to decline denomination.
of the duty on Mexican lead as promoting
lar gely the welfare of our state, wnicl
produces at most only few
million pounds of lead and
whose lead smelters are unfortunately
standing idle for lack of supplies, but the!
the tariff on ingot copper from four cent
to one and one quarter cents per pound
when one county of the state alone pro
duces over LII. 600 900 pounds of copper, an,
all her furnaces in full blast.
In one sentence, they denounce tn
Northern Pacific railroad for attempting t.
steal the mineral lands of the state, and il
the next one they recognize the abilit
and fidelity of Hon. Wilbur F. Sanders,
while this same would-be statesman wa
speaking in opposition to that great consti
tutional lawyer, statesman and scholar
Senator Morgan, of Alabama, who ha
espoused the cause of our people il
demanding forfeiture of land Rra nts wher
| there has been Noncompliance with tn
law, and reservation of all mineral claim
in grants where the provisions of the la,
have been respected. These are only fe,
of the absurdities and deceptions to
found in the republican platform. Durin
the discussions of the campaiG
they will be pointed ont.
will not allude to the eminen
platform adopted by the democratic con
vention except to say that it presents
clear, candid and intelligent statement @
democratic principles and purposes who
will appeal to the reason and intelligence @
the people and cannot fail to convinc<
TIE endorsement and ratification of thes
principles is one of the objects Of thi
meeting tonight. but the principal caua
for congratulation and rejoicing u 70 b
found in the selection of that honoIabl
and able gent leman into whose hands yo
have placed the banner of the party, I'll
Hon. W. W. Dixon. With perfect unanim
named him to lad the Aght and Ei9k
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