The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-06-11
H" PARTICULARLY IMPRESSED.

sanders and Power received from
Butte a dispatch which read quite like
the message that IA addressed by
prominent gentlemen in that city to
Mr.. Carter.
The STANDARD asks its readers not
to forget the circumstances under
which these dispatches happened to be
sent. The suggestion that prompted
their sending came from the members
Of the national silver committee who
wired a vigorous message to the Ore
In order that the case may be frankly
stated, our best course is to reprint the
dispatch just as il was received in salt
Lake and repeated to Butte. II reads
like this:
Communicate with republican state and
county committees and prominent citizens
Of Montana, Colorado and Utah. 10 re-
quest the senators from Nevada, Colo
RADIO and Montana and Senator Mitchell,
Of Oregon, To hold mp the tariff bill until a salts
factory silver hill Is passed. Six votes only are re-
quired To tie up. Have the newspapers write
against bullion redemption. II this is done ef-
fcctiSely and quickly, a satisfactory silver bill
viii he passed. Use telegraph freely and send
bill "a silver committee. Montana senators should
bc particularly impressed with importance OF
this" Signed,
NATIONAL SILVER COMMITTEE.
This is the dispatch to which the
salt Lake senders added i'm parenthesis,
Garter lodged the question yester-
day"
Nobody i'm Montana is finding any
particular amount of fault with Mr..
Carter because the republicans in the
house of representatives went almost
solidly against silver on Saturdays
final vote. The situation is well de-
fined in what he said to the STAN
DARD's Washington correspondent at
ten minutes after 4 o'clock on the after
noon of that day. 1t was then that he
remarked:
My influence is not greater than that Of the
entire republican side, led by Speaker Reed, and
I can only hope that the senate will move care
fully and consider the interests ~ my c~onstitu-
ents.
But what is the matter with Mon
tana's so-called senators that they
should need to be particularly i'm
pressed?" BE il remembered that the
need of impressing these men was
never suggested by any of their critics
or opponents in Montana. ON the con-
trary. attention was called to the mat
ter by men in the East who gave active
personal attention to the debate as il
progressed in Washington who in their
zeal for the exhorted the men of
the West To be alert. and who warned
their friends that the Montana sena-
tors should be particularly impressed"
How does il happen that the men who
Of all others should be foremost in the
fight were discovered TO be in need of
special exhortation to duty
Responding to the request of the
national silver committee. several gen
tlemen in Butte sent a dispatch to
sanders and Power. The STANDARD
would not have joined i'm this under
any condition. because it believes
Sanders to be a state stealer and Power
a political robber. The time win never
come when this newspaper would
recognize their right to he i'm Washing
ton by asking them to favor with
voice or vote any man however worthy
or any however urgent.
But, we repeat, the wonder is that
the active members of the silver COM
mittee should have discovered that, of
all men on the American continent,
Sanders and Power should need to be
particularly impressed" with the i'm
portance Of separating themselves
from republican domination on the
silver question.