The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1891-12-19
HOW THEY STAND.

r stood upon silver coinage where the lat
ex-Prcsident Arthur stood, where tn,
= Inter Mountain stood, and where nearl.
/ all the republican leaders Of their part.
now stand -squarely against the free
S coinage of the metal. Mr.. Arthur in {
( message to congress recommended thC
suspension Of silver coinage. The Inter
- Mountain indorscd Mr.. Arthur's rec
o~mmendation. The present secretary of
, the treasury has. by the authority vested
; in him by the gold-bug silver law OF last
!, winter. suspended the coinage of stand.
ard silver dollars and zone has been
coined since the first Of last July. Mr.,
Mckinley, one Of the Inter Mountains
idols, stands squarcly against silver coin
age. Mr.. Blaine. whom the same paper
regards AS the greatest man on earth,
stands in with Mckinley on the silver
question. John Sherman, the republican
leader on all questions Of national
finance, is the king gold bug Of his party,
while President Harrison is the obedient
servant of Wall street goldites and will
veto any free silver coinage bill congress
may pass.
The Inter Mountain and the rcpubli-
can party generally may possibly pardon
all these gentlemen for their hostility to
the white metal in consideration of their
services in building up great trusts and
m~onopolies, through their robbcr tariff,
to which trusts and %monopolics they all
look for fat to carry elections, but
what can or will the Butte paper and its
party in this state do with their little
god, Tom Power, who is holding a fraud
ulently obtained seat in the United
States senate. He is supposed to rep
resent the sentiment Of the people of
Montana especially the 'brainy" men
of the state upon the question of free
coinage. He is from a silver producing
state and republicans at Washington
will quite naturally regard him as the
mouthpiece of their party in Montana,
and as naturally adjust their actions in
line with his sentiments upon the ques-
ton. Mr.. Power does not think free
silver coinage the proper thing and has
so expressed himself. He also declares
that the "brainy" men of Montana arc
opposed to it. And more recently he
wrote a letter to the New York Press in
which he voiced the opinion that mem
bers of congress from silver states
should not place themselves on record on
the silver question.
Hereafter, when the Inter Mountain
feelsa desire to single out a private citi-
zen-as Mr.. Cleveland is-belonging to
the democratic party and quote opinions
he expressed upon the silver question
seven or eight years ago it may be we'll
for it to recall its own position and that
of Mr.. Arthur and Sherman, and Blaine
and Mckinley and Mr.. Harrison and
Secretary Foster and every other repub-
lican secretary Of the treasury since 1878,
upon the same question. The memories
the past and the %certainties of the
present should destroy it's appetite for
quoting Mr.. Cleveland's cast off opinions
free silver coinage. The leaders of
the Inter Mountains party are gold bugs.
NEw York will tackle the worlds fair
with a purse filed with 100000; that is
a bill will be introduced in the Legislative
assembly Of that state TO appropriate
amount for the purpose. The
probabilities favor its passage. Montana
well, Montana has a few dollars left TO
al exhibition. but has nothing
10 maintain it and her dignity at Chicago
unless more shckcls are forthcoming.
From whence are they to coluc: Echo
answers; From whence:
Tom Power will not make Il blooming
SUCCESS AS chairman Of the committee
to examine the several branches Of the
civil service. What he doesn't know
about that service would fill a mighty
big book. lie should have been made
Of the committee on the i'm
provement Of the Mississippi. There is
where he would shine. The Commodore
would make it appear that the Mississ-
Ippi flows by the doors OF his Fort Ben
ton house.
SPEAKER CRISP is still wrestling with
committee question. There are so
many new members that IN the face of
traditions of the house which oppose
such members prominence on
committees the speaker finds his task a
very embarrassing one. A complete as
signment of committeeman may not be
expected before the holidays.
AND still Mr.. Blaine preserves a
provoking silence in regard to his candi-
dacy or non-candidacy for the presidency
next year. Washington gossips have had
writing a withdrawal letter for
days but it appears the great
secretary Of state hasn't yet reached the